FAVORITES PLACES

My favorites list is 526 items long.  I didn't add them all, some of them were automatically added by AOL, but I'm afraid to delete them because the last time I deleted something that AOL had loaded for me... I crashed my computer.  The Frankenputer is still out of commission, I cannot get it online.  About 70 of my favorites are journals, 20 of which are either deleted or inactive, I hate to delete them from my favorites, I am still hoping that one day they will be resurrected. Several have been made private and I have not been given the security clearance to access those sites.  Also on that list are several email accounts that I no longer have passwords to access.  At least I think thats why they are there.  I keep asking the sites to resend my password, but AOL's spam filters keep intercepting the emails and I have never received these top-secret emails. 

I have the kids' school websites, the local online newspaper, the cinema guide, several blackpower sites, recipe sites, and a gazillion graphic sites.  I collect them like a pack rat, I'm just glad they all compress into neat little one-line hyperlinks on my favorites list.  It makes me feel.... organized!

Most important on the list are the links to my family, my siblings and parents in Hawaii, and my sister in the South, all of whom would never know I was still alive if it weren't for the internet.  (Hi Mom, Hi Dad!  Thanks for the letters guys!)

Ah yes, who needs the phone or the mailman when there is the internet?  For that matter who needs to talk, lets just write!  No need to get dressed for that matter... do it naked!  You don't even have to brush your teeth if you don't want to... nobody will notice except maybe the Papa John's delivery man when he brings you the Gourmet Garlic Chicken pizza you ordered online.  This is the good life, and it can all be found on the right hand side of my AOL desktop between Jalepeno Jeans and the Acme Label Maker!