The World...Every Day Smaller

I'm sure that if you're reading this blog entry you're basically just like me: spend a considerable amount of time on line, communicate with people in your life on a daily basis ...wait, what am I saying? You can do that even more often, with the help of the small device we all seem to love: our mobile phone, or simply via Internet, in an e-mail, on Facebook or Twitter and other social networks, and on top of that you can take the internet on the go, you don't just talk on that phone, you use it to stay on line. It's overwhelming how the world is getting smaller and smaller and we let ourselves carried away with it.

We take for granted our phones, our computers, the internet...we forget how it all started. We need it, I admit, and we went so far with it! Maybe too far?? Not so long  ago, in terms of history, a letter was the only way we could contact people that lived in another city, country, or even in our neighborhood. And when we sent a letter in another country, we'd have to wait for weeks for an answer. Today, we'd "freak out" if we had to wait for so long to hear from someone.

And to think it all started with the thin can telephone :) or "the lover's telephone", going through the electrical telegraph and finally to the telephone. I'm sure we all remember images like this :

or maybe this switchboard in an old movie:

And of course the old soon to be extinct all over the world pay phone:

Can you remember those times? Or do you need to ask your mother, father, grandmother or grandfather? I live still with pay phones around, but even those don't use coins like it used to be, they use cards. 

I'm excited to see where we're going with all this, split second communication... Are you? Should we jump into it head first? What do you think? 

SHE

I'm looking at her. She's beautiful, she's smart, confident and powerful. She wants something, she takes it and makes it her own. She can do anything, go anywhere, nothing and nobody can stop her. She feels her fears, she faces the terror. She wins, she loses... but even when she loses, she finds something to gain in her loss. So she always wins!

Can I be like her? Seems she's everything I'm not! But ...who is she?? Do I know her? Do I ?!  I should! She was born from my mind, I made her who she is. Every single thing about her comes from me: her strength, her beauty, her mind, her heart, her confidence and her boldness are all my gifts to her.

I watch her every move, she lives...through me! I guess...I know her, I see her in my mind, I feel her in my heart...she is me !! I'm all she is! 

I  AM  HER !!!

 

Being Locked Out of Twitter

Last night I had such a scare. It was late, I was logged in with HootSuite as usual. Suddenly, no more tweets coming. The strange thing is one of the columns was still refreshing, one of my Twitter lists. But the rest, just this: "The Twitter credentials are not valid" or something close. Also advice to update my password in HootSuite if I've recently changed my Twitter pass. But I hadn't done that. So...what the hell was happening? I try to login again, same result.

I got on Twitter's web page to login: username and password not valid. Suddenly I got scared! What had happened? Was my account hacked?? And who in the world would want to hack my account, for what?! I try with Echofon, same, I try with Twhirl, same. At this point I was imagining someone starting to tweet from my account, making sick jokes to my friends or sending spam.


Turned to Twitter's support, letting them know about the situation, and I was still scared. What if they answered too late??? Meanwhile I was checking and refreshing my Twitter page over and over. I was scared of seeing tweets that weren't mine. I know it happened before. A friend's account was hacked a while a go. The hacker tweeted as my friend's mother, supposedly letting us know that she had died in a car crash! SICK!!! Of course, it was just a joke, but such a cruel twisted one!

Checked my mail, and found the reply from Twitter, but surprise, not only that. It seems around the time they locked me out, they also sent me a warning to change my password:

"Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser" and the link followed. I did it and immediately I was back in!

I have to say this was one of the scariest hours on the web for me! Ha, ha, ha! And I have no idea how it could have happened, I'm very careful with the apps I allow access to my account. BTW, I revoked access to all of them, the smart thing to do after this. I'll let back in the ones I trust :p

In the morning I was so relieved to see I could still log in and that nobody had tweeted while I was sleeping! All I can say, you can never be too careful with this! Be careful people, the web is full of wonders, but also of crazy sick people that have nothing better to do that mess with your mind and your web identity!

Miracle cat?!

I last updated my blog when my beloved kitty, Mitzy, died. I was so sad, I still am, because I miss her. Some people will laugh at that, but honestly, I don't care!
Yesterday, the most amazing thing happened: Bobby, my first cat, returned home after 7 years! He ran away back then, I thought I'd never see him again. Even most amazing, he is Mitzy's dad! Yesterday was very emotional; he cuddled with us, he ate, he roamed the house like he had just left that day. He knew us, he answered when called, meawing and looking at us. I have no doubt that it is him! But then... he left again, and I so hope he'll come back to visit! It's less than two months since her death, it made me feel so good and strange at the same time. I imagine that somehow her sweet kitty soul went to haunt him and told him: "Daddy, go visit them, I'm gone and they're sad." And he answered: "I will, after I'm done with the ladies!" Ha, ha!

Now I find myself hoping, praying for him to come again! Please come again, Bobby!

So this is him yesterday:

And this is her:








Me, the crazy cat lady!! :D

I have a dark guardian angel: Mitzy

She was with me for 7 years. We found her roaming the garbage cans. She looked exactly like Bobby, my runaway tomcat. We remembered we saw her when she was just a little kitten, along with two others, Bobby's kids. We took her in, but but she wouldn't stay. She came only for food.
But then we noticed she was pregnant. A small cute ball of black fur. She was going to have her first babies. She wasn't yet a house cat, still came just for food and then left. But when the time came to have her babies, she came in. She gave birth to three little kittens, spotted in black and white. It happened under my eyes, on my bed. She stayed in for them since then. I fell in love with her so hard, she had the most beautiful, kindest, sweetest eyes I've ever seen in an animal. And she was loving, playful, cute, sometimes naughty and a little thief. But she was also a very good mom, very protective with her kittens. I remember one summer my mother took them all out, in the small garden behind our apartment building. A lady was walking her dog, and Mitzy started to hiss and grawl at the dog, even though it wasn't even looking towards her kittens. She looked so funny, being such a cute warrior mommy, she would have fought the dog to the death to protect her kittens.
About two years ago she was very sick, she was under treatment for one whole month, and I remember exactly her sweet eyes looking at us, begging to help, and we did. I was so happy when she got healthy again, and time passed, she living with us and two of her kids. Kids that have grown to be bigger and stronger than her, but every time she had something good to eat she'd call for them, as if they were still her little kittens, and not these big adult 7 year old cats. :)

And now... she's gone... It hurt so bad to see the life from those sweet big eyes fade away, her pupils wide open and fixed. I never thought the death of an animal could hurt like that. But it did, still does, and I think it will hurt for some time. The only thing left for me to do is to wait for the sadness to go away.
Good bye, my sweet little angel! I hope we will meet again when my time comes...