My Onlineness

I have an internet friend. Her name is Stephanie. I'm glad we met in the era of blogs and social networks, otherwise we would be listening to that AOL dial up tone and spending lots of minutes on IM and lots of our parents dollars on "internet time."

Stephanie just wrote a really fun post about what she does online - favorite sites, blogs, etc. I thought it was really fun, and my response was too long to put in her comments, so I'm writing my own. 

It would be really interesting (to me, at least) to compare lists of what I look at online from pre pregnancy, during pregnancy and post pregnancy. I know it would all be drastically different post pregnancy and will mostly be parenting blogs and how to not traumatize my child websites.

Pre Pregnancy: 

Dailymile: to log my workouts. It's like if everyone on facebook only wrote about working out, and then was really excited and motivating about everyone else's work out post. This is also where I met Stephanie!

Facebook: to check in on friends, but mostly to communicate with the students that work in my office

Gmail: obvious reasons

Google Reader: To check in on those people that refuse to use Blogger because it's not as good as fill in the blank

Blogger: to check in on friends and family

swimplan.com: To create unique swim workouts, because it is so tempting to just do the same, comfortable workouts every time.

trifind.com: An online database of distance races that can be organized by city, state and date.

National Geographic: to look at cool pictures and read articles I didn't know would interest me. 

Trip Advisor: Travel Forums. Nuf Said.

Pinterest: Mostly to waste time

Google Searches: triathlon advice, workouts for specific muscle groups, Adobe creative suite tutorials, fiction writing advice

During Pregnancy:

Facebook, Gmail, Blogger, Pinterest and ABC for TV show watching. Yes. It's a short list and if you're on it, well, then it's lonely at the top, my friends, it's lonely at the top.

Google searches: cankles, how to reduce swelling, how to get rid of heartburn, what medicine can I take?, baby names

My favorite way to waste time online is to do a random Google Image search, like for sharks, or cupcakes, or swimming animals or animated commercials. Try it, you might find something awesome.