I Miss You

It has now been an entire week since you exited my life.  I am not sure why you decided to do that.   You were with me up until 3am-ish, watching the tennis.  I turned off my alarm.  I definitely needed the sleep in and when Hubby woke me up in the morning I realised you had gone.  

These last 7 days has shown me just how reliant and dependant I was on you.  It is very difficult for me to comprehend the time when you and your ancestors did not exist.  And I functioned fine without your species.  Every morning you woke me up, gently, with a soft musical tune and if I needed a little sleep-in, all I had to do was give you a light touch and you would grant me an extra 10 minutes.  Once I was up, I recorded my temperature and checked my chart, you then told me what the weather was going to be for the day so I could dress and prepare accordingly.

On the way to work you would play any music I desired and when inspiration struck would take down a note with just the sound of my voice.  Whilst at work I was able to send messages to everyone I knew as you held all my contact information for every single person in my life.  When I was waiting on hold or walking down the road you would show me my emails, update me with the latest gossip and give me a few games to play to pass the time.  On the way home from work you would connect me to Hubby so we could keep each other company on the drive home and then at home I would leave you in the bedroom and instruct you on when I would like to be woken up.

I relied on you for so much, for information, entertainment, storage, note taking, photo capturing, music playing, shopping list creation, email, blogging and about 100 other things.  And now you are gone, and I sit and wait, hoping today is the day when I get the call to tell me that you are fixed and all better now and once again we can be reunited.  Your temporary replacement isn't the same.  It is several years older, and with none of your functions.  It wakes me up with a noisy, obnoxious alarm and it doesn't snooze.  And the only contact on there is Hubby, I have no access to anyone else.  It has no apps, only a silly ball shooting game and I have given up on sending messages, the keyboard is too small for my fingers.  

Please come back home soon, I miss you.

Fashion

I have never been trendy, kinda comes with being a nerd.  I don't go along with everyone else, I like to keep it simple.  In fact this blog could be the trendiest thing I am doing.  I am not even on Facebook because frankly I feel if you want to catch up, pick up the telephone.

So for many years I refused to get an iPhone for the simple reason that everyone else has one and I was not going to succumb to this trend, but at the end of last year Hubby and I were complaining for the millionth time about our crappy non iPhone phones that were less than a year old.  So we gave in, we both had brand new iPhone 5s.  Of course, I couldn't be like everyone else, I had to get myself a really funky case to go with it.  So I got this.

The next day the girls at work were coming up to me oohing and ahhing over the CASE.  At the dentist the other day (Part 2 of root canal) I was sitting in the chair (for an hour) listening to music via my iPhone and the dental assistant stopped what she was doing and pointed to my case "Great case, I love it, where did you get that?"  No one actually cares about the fact I have an iPhone, it is all about the case.

And here is my problem.  The case is very chunky, I guess it has to be with all those crystals, which means my phone doesn't work at home, reception here isn't that great, but with all this extra protection on my phone I get nothing.  Hubby has no problems, but I have nothing.  So what do I do?  Leave the case on and bask in my 15 seconds of fashionable glory or ditch the case and go for practicality, which I always choose anyway.  I am leaning towards the fashion, being undisturbed on weekends while I am at home is not a bad thing, and while people continue to comment I will continue to smile and enjoy this fleeting fad.

Linking up with Jacana for Totally Thursday