Summertime

I love summertime. My boys love being outside when this hot weather permits playing. They love helping their daddy cut the grass.




Bored with cutting grass and looking for something else to get into.

Found it.

Electronic Disaster

I am an electronics disaster. It has taken me over 30 years to realize what my dad and Christian have been telling me. I am an electronics disaster.

I can't remember when my first electronic disaster happened, but I am sure it happened well before I hit double digits in years. The freshest memory in my mind is last weekend. As mentioned in a previous post, we went to the Angola Prison Rodeo and had a fun time. After the rodeo and before snowballs and ice cream, I stopped in the restroom, and put my phone down. I never picked it up. We left a short 10 minutes later, and I realized my phone was gone. My conversation with my husband went a little something like this...

"No, I don't know where my phone is. No I don't think I should go back and look for it. I would have no idea where to look. I know, I can't believe I lost it. I don't know how I lose things except I am juggling 2 kids, a stroller, bags, and no pocket to put my phone in (never mind the 2 bags that I carry around). I know you are helping me. I just lose things. When you hang up the phone, you drop it in your pocket. When I hang up the phone, I have to stop to open a bag and put it in. (Hard right?)"

Thankfully I had an old phone that my brother gave me when I lost another phone (oops) a year ago. This phone is awful and I mean really awful, but I wasn't ready to pony up $100 to replace my precious lost one. Finally after a whole 24 hours with this awful thing my brother kindly gave me (which I am sure he laughed quite a while when he did), I gave in. New phone in hand and taken great care of. Until I lose it again which really is inevitable.



Which now leads me to story 2 that sealed the deal for me realizing I am an electronics disaster. I went to the gym this morning to run and work out. I have my faithful friend, the iPod Shuffle clipped on my shorts as I left the house. Before I left I charged my shuffle for an hour and clipped it on my shorts as I was walking out the door. I would have taken the time to stop, open my bag, put the shuffle in the case, but, frankly, that just takes too much time. So off I go with it clipped to my shorts. I have to use the restroom before I go, so I pull down my shorts (no more detail needed) and the shuffle goes flying. Where?



All I can think is Christian is going to say, "I am not surprised." That's not what I want to hear because I do not think I am an electronics disaster (yet). I decide I am going to just leave it and go tell an employee. As I continue to stare at it, I see



Crap. I can't just leave it there. I need to get it out and at least give it a half attempted effort to see if it works. I run to the cafe and grab a plastic shopping bag. Germ-phobic and all, I reach into this public toilet with the bag wrapped around my hand (this also reminds me of a time I reached into a Dillard's toilet to pull out my expensive sunglasses a couple of years ago), and grabbed the shuffle. I quickly went to the sink and rinsed it under very hot water. I don't care if it would have worked before hot water, germs are germs. I dry it off, and IT WORKS!!! I can run!

So people out there, please do not loan me any of your electronics. I now recognize that I am an electronics disaster. And evidently a sunglasses disaster too. (We won't discuss that all of these disasters are due to the fact that I am always rushing.) Loan them to my husband who has the market cornered as a competent electronic user.