So I go a new phone. It is extremely fabulous, much like myself. But unlike myself, it is technologically advanced. Very. In fact, I started this post on the phone, while half-listening to Kid 4’s piano lesson. However, I didn’t finish it there. Because I couldn’t figure out how to navigate from one little section to the next.
Let’s be honest: It’s too much phone for me.
But I’ve decided to love it anyway.
I even got a cool, easy-to-remember phone number, which was an unexpected bonus.
So here’s what I can do on my phone: Check my email. Check my Kids’ email. Answer email. Text message. (This is my new favorite thing. My old phone had text capacity, but I never used it because it was Terrible. Like texts with a 24-hour lag time. Not kidding. But now? Texting makes my life one big delight.) Read blogs. But it’s impossible for me to comment on blogs when I read on my phone (for the most part) because my phone doesn’t recognize those word-verification thingies. But I can read. Also read books. But I have the eyesight of a seventy-year-old cave-dweller, so that hasn’t happened yet. But it can.
Also on my phone, I can find out things. Like the nearest, cheapest gas station. The weather in Puerta Vallarta (just in case). Who played opposite Laurence Olivier in Hitchcock’s 1940 classic “Rebecca” (it was Joan Fontaine). What was the funniest thing said on late night television last night (hours after I went to bed). How to find a friend’s house. How many times the word “forsake” is used in the book of Lamentations. What’s happening in the lives of my Friends on Facebook, if I ever dreamed of getting on there more than once a month. How many miles to the nearest Cafe Rio restaurant (16.61). How to say “Chinese takeout” in Afrikaans (“Sjinese meenemen”). What’s in my Netflix queue (except I’d need to use a password, and I make it a point never to remember my passwords).
I can look at pictures. I can play games. I can learn to play drums. I can explore the internet. I can take video. I can talk to the phone, and it will a) hear and understand me, and b) remember what I say. I can write lists. I can find myself. I can study for the drivers’ test. I can doodle pictures.
Oh – And I can make and receive telephone calls.
And that’s what really matters.
(But all the rest of it? I’m getting used to that, too.)
(12) Comments for this blog
hahahaha! Love it! I decided a long time ago that I wasn’t going to even try to figure out a phone like that…but maybe when this one dies, I’ll change my mind! Have fun with your new toy!
hahahaha! Love it! I decided a long time ago that I wasn’t going to even try to figure out a phone like that…but maybe when this one dies, I’ll change my mind! Have fun with your new toy!
A phone like that would suffocate me. I’m sticking with my pay-as-you-go phone. But good luck with that anyway.
A phone like that would suffocate me. I’m sticking with my pay-as-you-go phone. But good luck with that anyway.
Wow, I don’t have a cell phone at all and look at you being all swish and savvy! =D
Wow, I don’t have a cell phone at all and look at you being all swish and savvy! =D
LOL! Awesome phone! Mine only does the calls and the texts. My one-year-old kept getting onto the internet and doing things with my phone that cost me an arm and a leg. So I canceled that part of it. =)
LOL! Awesome phone! Mine only does the calls and the texts. My one-year-old kept getting onto the internet and doing things with my phone that cost me an arm and a leg. So I canceled that part of it. =)
Don’t ya love it?
This magic phone can also entertain a close-to-2-year old during long violin lessons or recitals, transfer money in your bank accounts, play endless varieties of time-sucking games, and buy you movie tickets.
And yes, love the texting.
But just in case you’re wondering, these magic phones don’t mix with toilet water. Just in case you’re thinking of trying it. And yes, I know this from sad, sad experience.
Don’t ya love it?
This magic phone can also entertain a close-to-2-year old during long violin lessons or recitals, transfer money in your bank accounts, play endless varieties of time-sucking games, and buy you movie tickets.
And yes, love the texting.
But just in case you’re wondering, these magic phones don’t mix with toilet water. Just in case you’re thinking of trying it. And yes, I know this from sad, sad experience.
I love tech stuff, and my phone is so important to me staying in touch with everyone and everything that matters!
Texting is the best thing ever!
I love tech stuff, and my phone is so important to me staying in touch with everyone and everything that matters!
Texting is the best thing ever!