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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Shut up. I said, almost.
I'm hoping that by admitting it, I will come to terms with the reality that I am no longer 17 and therefore have no reason to text constantly (Seriously, have you ever stood behind a group of high schoolers at a basketball game? They are all staring at their phones.) Colin added a text package to our phones, so now I can text guilt free. I mean, why call someone when texting is so much more impersonal? I find myself texting pointless things like, "I just ate an entire piece of Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake. By myself." (Sorry Jess. But really, is that pointless?)
Texting used to make me feel old. I felt like the fad had totally passed me by. I was like one of those grumpy people who say, "Why in the blazes would anyone need a cell phone? Or for that matter an answering machine? If it's important, they'll call back!" Once my brother texted me and I texted him back and said, "quit texting me. you owe me 50 cents now."
True story: One of Colin's students and our former babysitter set the national record for texts in one month: 6,000.
In college, we all had laptops. Me and my bff (Hi Lindsay!) would be having a converstation with someone, and we would be IMing back and forth things about that person. While we were talking with them. Things like:
turtlespeed81: what is going through her head.
mle6181: i dont' know know. she is redonkulous.
turtlespeed81: I wish she would leave
mle6181: seriously. go away.
See, we were so nice. All of that to say, I haven't figured out how to text someone about a person I am currently having a conversation with. I suppose I could quit talking about people in general. But I'm among friends here so let's face it, that's probably not going to happen.
5 comments:
Oh, the days of college IMing. I think it's funny to look back at how we all had the last two digits of our birth year as the last two digits of our screen name.
Nathan and I fell in love over
gr8smile79 and nateblaze81. Not really, but kinda. He goes for older women. (sigh)
I'm a texting virgin. People text me all the time and sometimes I can figure out how to read them and sometimes I can't. I like to kick it old school with my 7 year old phone.
I, personally, love texting. It's probably gone too far when I start SPEAKING in text terms.
And I love your random messages, keep them coming. My cousin and I spend Saturdays texting back-and-forth things about OU:
"Boomer"
"Sooner"
"Special teams suck"
"we scored!"
"I hope that guy breaks his leg"
And so on...
Also, in meetings at work, I text my friends back at the office and say things about the presenter!
Hahaha...first I'm so glad to see the name turtlespeed--I miss IM'ing. I loved it when people were in the same room and you'd all be im'ing back and forth. That's how brian and I first met. Aww young love.
I barely manage typing on my laptop.
I'm from the typing class in High School generation. which I was kicked, Ummm, I mean asked to leave.
My addiction is talking on the cell/house phone. Yup, talking about everything, anything or nothing of importance.
I must comment about a previous post. The hubby not scrubbing down the counters and sink. Ignoring the caked on gunk spatters,as if the counters were shinny from soap not grease. This is sooo puzzling. Just as much as..why they can't find anything,then yell for you to pull it out from right in front of their face. I just gave up on the cleaning the "WHOLE" sink, counter dilemma! Now the housekeeper does it.Sigh....
Thanks for visiting my lil' blog.
Sweet Witches,
Sara <[;o
so is it really sad that I feel super cool when i text my 15 year old babysitter when I need her to keep the kids. I'm all "that's right, i'm with it, i'm cool". Too bad she probably puts me in the same category as her 45ish parents. sadness.
btw...colin's finger is disgusting...can't believe you made me look at that. Make sure he doesn't sit near me at church. j/k ;)
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