After months — actually years — of claiming I’d regain my equilibrium by purchasing an apple computer, I’m proud to say, these blog posts are now being produced on an iMac! My new machine is streamlined and sexy in only a way a Mac can be, and oh so fast.

The minor glitches are that I’ve not purchased PhotoShop Elements for Mac yet (or any other great and EXPENSIVE Adobe products) so my favorite programs are on hold. At least til hubby can download the Microsoft platform for me to switch over to my Microsoft programs for a few Web design programs. For instance, Michael Rosenberg’s site needs a gazillion more glowing reviews of praise that I didn’t get a chance to update before the great computer switch. (So I’m scheming to set up the old computer in hubby’s office while he’s watching baseball this week.)

Usually my mother-in-law is a few steps ahead of me in the technology department, but I will now be able to tell her, “You ought to get a mac.” Though as a computer programmer her PC may be the better fit. They just need a speedy computer, as well as my parents who for some reason cannot even get an Internet connection. When my father called I told him there wasn’t much I could do on the phone, especially since he believes the virus protection programs were keeping him off the web. I told my father that he might want to call an actual computer tech person. I guess I could give them my old computer, even if it is a PC.

Okay, if you’ve noticed I’ve been very remiss in updating this site. I am not holding out that any media outlet will be paying me anytime soon to write for them. But I have my new friends on facebook and twitter and I just joined twittermoms today. (It’s a new social network for moms who use twitter, that program that has you answer just one question in 140 characters - “What are you doing today?” And I think they want to know what I’m doing besides the dishes and the laundry. Their tagline is: Moms who tweet: find, follow, lead, learn, love and share) I think I’m in that follow category.

And yesterday I got an iPhone as an early birthday present. Sorry, Verizon dude and your great network. I am breaking free of my PC background and embracing Mac (and at&t)! (There was a time when I swore by the Mac and then I married my PC-lovin’ husband and I started getting his hand-me-down computers. But I have been doing a little design work and I need the apple logic on my side. I need to be able to find files for heaven’s sakes.)

Yes, part of me wonders if I can justify having a phone with all the bells and whistles when I like don’t really go to meetings or have many pressing deadlines as a stay-at-home mom. But the other part of me, that geeky, want-to-be-in-the-know, Star Wars lovin’, Mac aspiring, not-yet-discovered writer, dapplin’ designer, twitterin’ mom and gadget girl wanna-be thinks, “Wow, this phone rocks! Who cares if I really don’t get a darn think done anymore I will always know what time it is in Jerusalem and can so effortlessly click my friends’ names and have the phone dial any one of their two or three numbers so I can tell them I’ll be 15 minutes late (although they already know that).

So once I’ve set up my voice mail or my “visual voicemail” whatever that is, I’ll return to write more frequently.