Love and Electronics

While we were still in Corpus Christi, TX, we were already feeling some of the signs of getting older. Hubs usually fell asleep on the couch, mid-movie around 8pm and I was right behind him around 9 or 10. Unless a special occasion kept us up till midnight. I started to have trouble with new social networking sites like Pinterest (invitation only?! a waiting list?!), every time I thought I understood Facebook Timeline, I was wrong and when I tried to use Hubs MacBook, I could not, for the life of me figure out how to eject a disk. And, to top all that off, I started agreeing with my mom on some fashion items. When did this happen?

So, when we got our phone last Friday, we were excited and a little overconfident to say the least. Both of us had iPhones in the states, on which we did all of our business. E-mails, texts, conference calls, you name it. We were smarter than our smart phones. Masters of electronics. Up to speed on all the hippest apps that pretty much did our work for us while we played fruit ninja. (and broke every record, I might add...)

But then, the unthinkable happened. Who out there remembers the old Nokia phones we had in high school? The most identifiable thing about it (besides the awesome variety of color face covers!!) was that game snake. Everyone had that phone right?! (except me. I didn't have that phone. Mom...Dad...) Well. We have that phone now. My prayers have finally been answered! It's a little smaller and the snake game is a little more developed, but we have the Nokia phone. No camera, no apps, how hard can this be?

Let me tell you how hard it can be. Very hard. Our friend helped us change the language to english, but all of our notifications are in Russian, so we just ignore them. Let's just hope one day it doesn't say "run for your life! Aliens are here!!!" because we would probably a. get the message too late and b. open it only to make it stop saying "new message".

We had trouble putting in a new contact. Yeah. When did this happen?! I'm not supposed to need help with these things yet!! I was excited about turning 30 this year. Now, maybe not so much.

After spending way too much time with trying to put in one contact, then giving up, we tried to find the clock. For the last ten years, since having a cell phone, it's all I've used for a watch. Now, to not have a watch or a cell phone with the time in large numbers centered on my home screen had been driving me crazy. I gave up looking when it became apparent that I was going to have to give up or throw the phone out the window. And my mama taught me to never give up.

Just another thing we learn to live without. Between a phone I know how to use and our favorite fajita seasoning, it's gonna be tough, but it also gives us a good amount of laughs while we work on compensating for it. To be honest, I'm not sure we can blame to phone entirely, since eventually we did figure out how to put in a contact and now the time smiles at me from the top right corner. Just took a little patience and not throwing it out the window.

Cheers to the things we don't throw out the window.