I hate cell phones, have I told you that before?
I hate talking on the telephone. Like most people I value my time and I hate when someone calls and distracts me from whatever task I'm accomplishing. (Send me an email, but don't waste my time with a "Forward"!)
But on a couple occasions having the cell phone at hand saved me enough money to pay for the thing for years, and on another occasion, being able to call 911 may actually have saved a life.
For me then, the cell phone is a "necessary evil".
The first one I owned was one of those "bag phones". Roughly the size of a football, I hated the handset, but since it was the only thing available at the time, I didn't mind the size of the thing...
Actually, losing it, as I often do my present cell phone, was an impossibility because of its size...
The term "elephant in the room" comes to mind. The phone transmitted and received telephone calls... that's all. (Cell phones are not telephones at all, they're radio transmitters.)
Now cell phones can download music. They can be miniature computers. They can be used as alarm clocks. They can bake a loaf of bread. (Just kidding. But don't suggest you'd like that feature or we may be back to "bag phone" size with some models.)
For reasons stated above the stupid devices have become a necessity, so some years back I bought one for Sara Jean. She loves to talk on the phone, so she's talking on hers most of her waking hours. With her Blue Tooth device she can do her work while she's chatting away, and SHE DOES.
For a number of reasons, we have never had the same model phone at the same time. That's good in one way... I never mistake her phone for mine. But it's bad in several ways, not the least of which is that when we travel we both have to remember to carry our individual chargers for our dissimilar phones.
Yesterday I rectified that. I bought one of these for each of us... hers is the color shown, mine in basic black so we don't confuse them.
These phones have all sorts of features we'll probably never use, (I'll check to see if they bake bread), but I'm slowly but surely being dragged into the 21st Century and may need the ability to access my email on the road soon. This phone will allow me to do that.
I'm getting ready to retire. Can someone please explain to me why life continues to get more and more complicated as I/we get older?
Now, a challenge for you...
It's Friday "Vandy's Forum" time...
Tell us something that is irritating you, then tell us a something good in your life, IN THAT ORDER!
Me? I've got a leak in an upstairs bathroom soaking the floor in my office I have to chase down.
But next week I'll be chasing geese with the Dept. of Natural Resources biologists... always a hoot.
Now, it's your turn.
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What is really irritating me right now is my eyesight. The right eye got jealous of the attention the left eye was getting, and decided to do a detachment as well. It's been at least six weeks and things have only gotten worse. I think I'm going to find a trampoline and shake the rest of the vitreous loose from its moorings. Hey, maybe bungie jumping would work it loose. Wonder what the eye doc would say if I ended up with dual retinal detachments due to a bungie jump?
...and the something good in my life is of course, my family--including my two new granddaughters. Who needs to be wealthy in money when they're wealthy in love?
OK. SPEAKING OF CELL PHONES....whoda ever thought we would be carrying telephones all over the place with us? I have to admit people who use them in the grocery store; especially, kind of set my teeth on edge. I guess I'm disappointed when I hear someone say, "Hi"! because I think they are talking to ME....These folks carry their phone and talk to somebody all the time they are shopping....the WHOLE TIME. Now I hope I'm not insulting any VK's with this info....GB made me tell! I'm almost to the point of grabbing their darn cell phones and pitching it in the frozen pea and vegetable case.
Now, what was that second thing I'm asked to comment on?
Bo
Bo,
I think that second part was about the peace and tranquility that overtakes you right after you punch out the idiot in the store talking on their cell phone; but please, don't let me interrupt the serenity of the moment. Go ahead and tell us about the good stuff!
dj
Bo,
You are too funny girl. I had actually responded to a woman one day that I was convinced was saying hello to me. And I said a big hello back. She was walking down the grocery aisle towards me and smiling. And I, having a senior moment was quickly trying to figure out where she knew me from.
Then she turned her head and I could see the apparatus.
It right about the time the ear pieces came out and I hadn't seen one as yet.
Never made that error again.
Thank goodness being over 60 gives us a bye.
GH,
Don't those people look silly going around talking to themselves? HAH!! I've had to apologize to people because I think they are talking to me because I respond to total strangers like you did. I'm catching on now though....we can't let "the age of technology" pass us by!
DJ,
I must say I LOVE your idea of calling the PODS people for the stuff you don't need, renting a storage unit and not paying so they will sell your stuff for you...VERY clever idea, kid. I would have never thought of that.
BO
Cissy, your situation has to be terryfying. I can't imagine what you must be going through. Talking about bungee jumping shows much about your character in the face of potential difficulties for you, and I'm praying for you gal.
GH...
The problem with the "over 60 and senile" defense is that none of us looks a day older than 39!
Cissy,
Seems like our eyesight is so much taken for granted. Bless your heart....I have another good friend who has gone through what you are...it's a bummer for sure. Hope you have a good doctor, my thoughts are with you.
Bo
Cissy,
I've had the right eye done, and then had a cataract with lens replacement followed by eye drops for several months to correct a warping of the retina and then had lazer "corrections" on the left one for the old mirror effect. That's the bad stuff. The good news is that if you follow the doctors orders and keep doing what they tell you to do it gets better. It for sure is not a quick process. But I have to stop and remind myself of the time when I couldn't see well enough to mow the grass (follow the mowed line) when I start to "b----" about having to mow the grass again. Hang in there, the doctors can do wonders compared to even a couple of years ago.
dj
Bo, you are so right, I have one, and don't even use it. I am so far behind on the new technology, that I will most likely catch up on the second time around. You know, the ole, history repeats it's self thingy.
GB,
Yeah, 39 and holding. I have been celebrating my 39th birthday for
several years now, and my kids are catching up. Guess I will have to move on.
Cissy, I had the same problem last year. Woke up one morning and the light show began, with huge floaters for added effect. Told me, under no condition to jar the body for a few weeks.
The Dr. said it does happen as we age, that hurt.
But it did get better, so the best to you.
Starting out with a good note. As I posted a week or so ago Shifty got a new job. Yeah !!! For the bad note he hated it. But it was a job and he had been off work since December 18,2008. The good news is the man who owns the company he went to work for owns (numerous) other companies. Last Thursday he asked Shifty to meet him and turned over a gravel pit to him to manage. This is his specialtiy and he is once more in the field he prefers. So now he doesn't hate going to work. I guess good things come to he who waits.
Now for our bad new. As I have mentioned before we had (6) beautiful Brittany Spanials. Kage, Wylee, Sophie, Lacy, Blaz and Little Corky.
On Thursday WE LOST LITTLE CORKY. When it is time to eat all I have to do is yell "kennel up" and they head for their kennels. I yelled and here they came (all except little Corky). Wylee came out from under the bushes by the deck and stopped and looked back at the bushes and then to me. I realized Corky wasn't heading for dinner. I looked over and she was still laying under (her bush). I just knew then that something was wrong. I scramed for Shifty and he found her under her bush. We had just seen her go across the deck not more than 15 minutes before that. She went quickly (thank God). Wylee (who was the mommy dog) was with her baby at the end.
So Fathers Day was a hard one for Shifty. He called her "Baby" from the day she was born. The others are lost and just seem to lay around waiting for her to come out of the house. We cleaned the kennels this week end and it was so hard to take her igloo out of the kennel. We miss her so much.
Echo
Oh Echo,
I'm so sorry to hear that little Corky died. Do you know why? It sounds like the others are mourning for her...how very sad. When our "Hoosier" died (Cairn Terrier), Clint couldn't even tell people wtihout chocking up. It's a terrible thing to go through...like losing a child.
Happy to hear the good news that Shifty got a job he likes; that's wonderful. Hope you are happy and well yourself.
Bo
Thanks BO,
I just can't believe how hard this is hitting both Larry and I.
Larry is always so strong. But when he knelt down to her and saw that she was gone he just collapsed on her and went to pieces.
She would have been 9 years old the next day. She was the tiny one of the litter and Larry immediatly called her "Baby" and that was her nick name from then on. She was always the wirey one and we always figured she would be the last one we would lose.
She had started carring her back legs oddly and wasn't eating like she should. But the others haven't been eating a lot lately either. I just mentioned to Larry a few days before that I thought she didn't look good in her eyes. They were kind of glassy. But then she would seem OK.
It was very sudden so we are thinking that her little heart just gave out. As I said she would have been 9 years old the next day. You expect to lose them and 9 years is getting up there. But we were so (not prepared) to lose her.
the others are mourning her that's for sure. Kage & Wylee are the mom & dad, and the others were all pups from the same litter. I think since we took her igloo bed out they are understainding she isn't coming home.
Echo
When we lost our lab Max, he was 17 years old. We cried for 2 weeks. It is like loosing part of your family.
Bad news is I've been down for the past few days with my sciatic nerve. If you have never had problems with this, trust me, its worse then having a baby.
Good news is we are having family come in this week end from Tennessee and we are going to spend 2 days going around all the family that lives here in Indiana to visit. I've warned them all so hopefully they will bake some goodies for our visit. LOL
Hope everyone is having a good summer.
Carol
Hey GB...I'm not terrified--just aggravated. And I must admit to "thumping" my eyeballs in the hope of knocking these "lace curtains" loose. Thumping my eyeballs really kind of hurts anyway and didn't do a thing for these stupid blobs in my eyes. I'm grateful I've lived long enough to have vision problems, actually. Just wish it'd waited until I turned 90 or so.
Echo, so sorry about the loss of Corky. I know how close a person can get to these sweet animals. I'm not so sure I'll be able to stand it when it's Rudy's time. That little dog makes us laugh constantly. It took me four years after losing our Maggie to cancer to feel up to getting another companion.
Carol, hope you have been to the doc for the sciatic nerve problem. My son's chiropractor finally told him that he couldn't help him and he needed an MRI. So he went to an orthopedic doc, who tried therapy for a couple of months. That didn't work, so FINALLY they did an MRI. He had two herniated disks that were almost completely crushing the sciatic nerve. They did surgery and the pain was gone--then four days into our Italy trip it came back. It was more therapy and steroids, but finally he had to have another MRI. The disks that had been operated on looked fine at the point of operation, but one of them ruptured in another spot and crushed the sciatic again. He's having another surgery next month. I've got a feeling he's always going to have trouble with this.
Echo - So sorry to hear about "baby" passing. But happy about your good medical news and Shifty's job that he likes. The bitter with the sweet.
We are adjusting to retirement. Seems we have all kinds of projects keeping us very busy. Now getting ready to paint 3 bedrooms in our house and helping our son to put in a huge deck.
Our grandchildren continue to be the joy of our life, Mary (6 yrs.) and William (2 months).
Mrs. Hawkeye
Thanks to all of you for your kind words and thoughts about "Baby" (Little Corky).
Her real name was LaKar's Little Corker. That's becuase you could just see the unlimited energy in her. It has been a tough adjustment but we are coping better as the time goes by.
It is amazing how attached you can get to an animal. They offer you unconditional love. I know when I had my by-pass surgeries all of the pups would lay with me and be such a comfort. Almost like they knew my pain.
Again thanks and be sure to give your pets a hug and a pat every day. You just never know when it will be the last.
Echo
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