The pen is mightier than the keyboard

I fancy myself a writer.  I'm aware of the fact that I'm being redundant as this is a post of a fairly well updated blog.  Granted, I do absolutely nothing to promote my blog but I write things and I put it here as part of my creative process.

Again, to obviously state, I'm not a stranger to technology.  I have a smartphone--Samsung Galaxy S3, to be exact and, which in case you can't tell, I do love having it though I don't use it as constantly as some may think.  As said in a previous post, I also have an Ipad2.  It is my second brain, and without it my productive levels would be near nil or feel close enough to it.  I also have a PC.  My current model is not one that I built myself.  Due to space constraints, I have a Toshiba All-in-1 touch screen desktop.  I have no use for it being a touch screen but the specs are standard and as I mostly type, read, research with the occasional Sims game, it does it's job very well.

With having all that established, I adore pen and paper.  A lot of my non-prose poetry, that no one is ever allowed to read, is still put into a blank book of sorts.  I collect interesting journals and I love new types of pens.  My favorite type of writing instruments are fountain pens and such.  I do even own a quill with a bottle of ink.  There is just something romantic to take fill an empty page with the written word.  For me, it feels like my hand knows what to put down before my thought process has even started.

The point is, though, that when it comes to sharing thoughts and ideas, do so in whatever way you feel comfortable and never feel limited to a single medium.  

productive

It seems like every single time I even remember that I have a blog floating somewhere in the infinite information space of the Internet, I make up my mind to start posting on it again and then promptly forget all about it.  Honestly, I'm disappointed in myself every single time this happens so you would think I would make more of an effort to post something, even if it would just be a sentence or 2, but real life tends to push all such personal endeavors into the black hole of being busy.

So, here we are again, but this time I have an ace in my sleeve--I thank my husband many times over for the insight to convince me to buy an Ipad.  I hate the extravagant cost of the thing but for me, it has become infinitely worth it.  I use it everyday and all day from the calendar to keep up my scheduling, the reminders with its many beeps to help me remember to do all that I need to do when it is due, to the note taking abilities for all of the information that I need to take down and keep at the tip of my hand.  I have even come across uses for it that I would have never expected such as the free eBooks of the classics, to using it to keep track of people by checking in on Facebook, even keeping track of my calories for the day, translating different languages, checking up on the real estate market and references for science and literature facts.  It has most definitely become my second brain and thanks to this miracle electronic I get more things done in a day faster than a beaver can fell a tree.  In fact, I have even put in a biweekly reminder that I need to update my blog, so expect those updates.  

To sum it up, I'm baaaaaaack!!  hee hee.