JUST ONE CALL AWAY

So I placed toothpicks in my eyes as I tried not to doze to sleep while waiting for cousin to come online so we could Skype. Okay, the truth is I plugged my guitar to my amp, as if that wasn't loud enough at 3am this morning and mucked around. I even recorded myself playing with the sound recorder on my laptop and it sounded better early this morning then when I woke up at midday to listen to it again. So my chances of being a rock star has just been shot and now I have to think of a different career path for when I grow up.

Redirecting to what I was getting at in the first place. I wondered what it would be to have everyone Skype online all together at the same time? Obviously you'll have to come to a compromise that suits every ones time zone difference, but that shouldn't be too difficult? Even if we all Skyped for just half an hour? It would be totally awesome. We would literally be sitting in the virtual lounge over a cup of virtual tea or virtual beer, take your pick and conversing through technology for 30 minutes of 1140 minutes in that day. I'm sure it's possible (Lillias' face screws up in uncertainty), but even if we couldn't Skype - chatting online would be fun?

The other day I tried to picture how it will be in ten years time. Would we still be contact with each other? Would we recognise each other if we passed each other on a street in twenty years time? Will our children meet? How close will we be?

I don't want to loose contact. I love that we have Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, Xbox360 (for the die hard Halo freaks who use talking for free online to family as an excuse to play games - lol jokes), telephone/mobiles and skype. It's the only thing that's constantly rejuvenating our non-human contact relationship with each other. Personally I'm more of a face to face type person. I love to see and enjoy what's around me and share it immediately with others.

I wish we could all be together again. Not just that one night we had at Grandma's birthday, but really be together in one place and talk. If I knew then what I know and feel now, I would of spent that night differently. But that was then and this is now, so I'll just have to learn how I'll make it different in the future. To the family far and wide (that's even to my brother who I only see once every two weeks now). I do miss you all!