Conquering My Fear Of The Big Bad Computer

When I began college you had tickets to get the classes you wanted. Each quarter (note I said quarters not semesters) you took your tickets for your classes and stood in long lines praying you would get the class you wanted and needed. Now you do it all on that wonderful fast thing that I call the BIG BAD COMPUTER which is great if you know how to use it. I have used in my past life a specific program on the computer in my husband’s business that allowed me to print out bills, log in patients’ information, look up records but if anything went slightly wrong I’d yell for my husband to fix that darn computer thing. My minute knowledge of computers was fine until my husband passed away and my children thought I should graduate into the 2lst century and open my very own email account. The problem with this great idea is that my children are busy with their own lives and want me to know how to do it after showing me how in one or two sittings. Now I thought that by having 6 children that surely I had a guarantee that they would be there to fix the VCR to record, burn CD’s for me, and look up my email when I wanted them to but those kids of mine that I had taught multiplication tables, reading, writing and arithmetic wanted me to do it by myself. Suddenly it dawned on me that my children were just like me and it was time for me to take out my big girl panties, pull them on and conquer that dreadful machine called the computer. My computer teacher Mr. Sullivan is legally blind and he told us that he has taught blind people how to successfully use the computer so if he can teach blind people surely he can teach a half deaf, half dumb person like me the computer. I will have to say after the first night of class I came home and cried. I decided I would just quit and take something else, but I realized I couldn’t let my children down and most of all I couldn’t let myself down. So here I am writing in my blog for the third time. Yes, I manage to lose the one. I am beginning to conquer my fear of the BIG BAD COMPUTER and hopefully I won’t press the wrong key and lose everything again. I guess the moral of this blog is practice makes you a little less dumb, oh wait a minute isn’t that suppose to be perfect. I guess that will come.

This is a short version of my adult life.

My name is Jackie Reynolds and I am 55 years old. I graduated from Auburn in 1976 with a degree in elementary education. I taught 2nd and 3rd grade for 6 years while my husband went to veterinary school. We moved back to Mobile where we opened Reynolds' Veterinary Hospital. I helped my husband run the hospital for 26 years and gave up my teaching career to raise our 6 children. We had 5 girls and our last child was our only boy. It was a great life working in the hospital which was behind our home and having the children right there to share in all those great life experiences which come with helping animals and their owners. My husband and I thought our work was our ministry to mankind then suddenly that life ended when my husband passed away. I had to sell the business and decide what to do with the next 50 years of my life. After taking some time off while babysitting grandchildren I decided to renew my teaching certificate and go back to my first love of teaching.

welcome to my blog.

I FINALLY GOT INTO MY ACCOUNT AND ITS WORKING.