Skype meh up

letters and postcards, write emails, texts, Calls, Skype

If its one thing that is blatantly apparant here .. is that I'm far away from home... no kidding. Tell me something I don't know.  It's been an interesting battle so far to keep in contact with family, friends, foes and the farm back home. But its entirely an up hill battle.
The main culprit - the Time Difference.

Right now I am 6 hours ahead of the social life (because let's me honest with ourselves... I ain't gots one here) so that means that when everyone is alive and kicking  ... at around 8 am .. its 2pm here .. and when the social life becomes a buzz .. around 3 pm its 9pm and I'm fighting to stay awake.

In order to keep in touch with the mother, I've had to set a time to talk with her ... since .. she has a more bubbling social life than I do right now. It's set at 6am her time....it was the only time I could get an appointment apparantly! My dad .. ditto... its more like 4 am in the morning for him since he runs a hotel back in Tobago.
I talk to my best friend any time after 4 pm my time.  That one is quite difficult ... but managable, since by that time the hubz is home and one has to be a good housewifey!
The Thing that I use is Skype. This is by far the best tool.  Even when it was not as great quality as it is now back in 2004 and 5 when I religiously used it for my LDRs (yea .. unfortunately that was an 's'!)
If you have loved ones abroad and a computer, this is something that is VITAL.  As long a telephone call takes, a skype video call is 20 times the quality for the time.  You get to see the person, see their facial expressions and it just feels like you are right there! I highly recommend it. 
On top of that Skype keeps improving itself over the years.. constantly.  You can share your screen, play games with the person, and even talk to as many as 23 other persons at the same time... yes 24 people jabbering in your head.  That's a wedding people!

!!! Take dat in yuh put ung put ung pung TSTT!

 ON top of all that, Skype computer to skype Computer is FREE .. ABSOLUTELY free.  There are things you have to pay for .. like calling a cell phone, a land line, sending txt msgs etc.
It really is an amazing little tool.
Facebook of course is there when you want to keep in touch or maco really, then for the ones who like to have more tangible memories, there are letters and postcards. 
But if its ONE thing that I want you to get from this is SKYPE.... no I'm not advertising for them... they did not pay me .... but SKYPE! .. its an AWESOME tool ... Why don't all my friends just sign up? ITS freeeeeeeee.....
ok .... Whey yuh say? Give it a try? and hail me out :) skype id - jaemie.c  :)