youthmystique

The Internet can be good and bad. Sure, perverts trying to hook up with minors hang out in chatrooms, trying to attract minors and of course there is identity theft over the Internet.

But in most cases, in my life, the Internet has been positive.

Using social networks like Facebook and MySpace have definitely helped me keep friendships or helped my friendships along. Working full time makes it harder to call my friends like I used to in high school. In college, I used instant messenger to talk to most of my friends.

When I come home from a long or bad day, I don’t feel like calling people.

The Internet helps keep me updated with my friends’ lives with no trouble at all. I can log onto Facebook and see who has a baby. Or see what my friends are doing at this exact moment with status updates. I can invite my friends to a party or a night out with www. Evite.com.

Don’t get me wrong. I still like to talk to my friends over the phone. It’s always nice to hear someone’s voice when you haven’t talked to them for a while.

Sick days aren’t fun like they used to be.

When I was in middle school or high school, staying home was a blast. It meant sleeping in, eating soup and watching TV all day. Sure there would be homework to catch up on, but that didn’t worry me. I was just thrilled that I wasn’t in school.

Now sick days are more worrisome. I have the kind of job that if you miss a day, it could potentially put you far behind. I work on deadlines so some of the time when I’m sick, I’ll work from home. Just like today.

Unfortunately, 99 percent of the information I need to do work is at my office. I was thinking about driving there this morning to get the information and then coming home. But why put that extra stress on me and put my coworkers at risk for getting my flu?

It would be nice to be able to freeze time so I wouldn’t fall behind in my work. No such luck though.

I don’t know where I picked this sickness up. I was at a mall and a restaurant on Saturday. I’m thinking I probably got it from one of those places.

I constantly wash my hands because I conscientious about germs. I even have antibacterial lotion at my desk. I don’t always get the right amount of sleep so I guess I have to work on that.

Need advice to stay healthy this winter? I found this article pretty useful: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/nov/24/healthy-habits.