Less chatter is so, so, so much more…

I don’t know what is coming over me these last few weeks (months) but…I see the change and the change is GOOD.

I’m feeling the need to just CUT out the excessive chatter in the world. I just went through and deleted a bunch of Facebook friends from my personal account because I realize, I don’t want all the *noise* all the links all the games all the everything.

Ok, this isn’t completely true, I want the noise, but I want it from the people I’m closer with, the people I interact with more, the people I love, the people I have history with. A light bulb went off! DING! If I’m hiding your news feed, why am I connected with you in the first place—-correction, connected on FACEBOOK with you in the first place. I’m well-connected. I have my blog, I have email, I have Twitter, I have LinkedIn, I have my phone (for texting, hate talking on the phone.) I know how to get in touch with the people I want to get in touch with.

People I don’t KNOW, KNOW (in real life) who know me from the blogging community can still know me at the All Things Jennifer Facebook Page. Networking peeps, can find me on LinkedIn. Twitter is lots of fun and I want to use that platform more for immediate status updates (which also can be seen here on the blog…) I recently disconnected Facebook from my cell phone, the chatter was becoming too much. And well, people I once knew before somewhere along the way…um…well…

I’ll just leave that one hanging.

Since being in a relationship with He Who Makes Me Smile I realized I’ve been a lot less chatty in general about the day to day moments of dating, falling in love etc…WHY? Because I’m in the moment and the moment is HAPPY. I don’t have the need to do a play-by-play because, it just is.

Strange new feeling coming from a blogger of 8 years, eh?

Even crazier? I’ve learned to sort of LIKE (not just accept) that my cell phone sucks and will basically never get reception 95% of the time when I’m out in the country with He Who Makes Me Smile. I’m still addicted to my phone, I love taking photos and filing in the to-blog folder, but I don’t need to be in constant contact with everyone.

One night on the way home from a good time with friends I was texting away to the BFF and who knows how many other people when He Who Makes Me Smile just took the phone away from me and told me no more texting. And I didn’t go ballistic on him!

Yeah, must be love eh?

Tonight my brother gave me his old phone wondering if it would get better reception than the one I have now and He Who Makes Me Smile said something along the lines of “don’t give it to her, she is relaxed without her phone on the weekend!”

And all I could do was smile…because he makes me smile, of course. And agree.

Less chatter. More living in the present.

Life is good.