After much debate my husband and I decided to let our nearly 12 year old daughter have a phone.  After the initial excitement of receiving the phone on Christmas day she really hasn't used it much.  In fact, I'm not sure she has talked to anyone on it, but she does enjoy texting.

Hubby and I upgraded our phones in November.  He went from the free flip phone that his friends often made fun of to the Iphone 4 which in and of itself is somewhat funny and I went from the Pantech Matrix to the Pantech Pursuit


I really like it but I'm still not sure exactly how to work all of the functions.  I learn from doing and not from reading how to do it.  It's gonna take me a little while to figure it all out.

This is the phone oldest G ended up with (my old phone) and so far she has been very responsible with it.  She loves taking radom photos of random things and texting them to me.  I may have to up our texts to unlimited.  LOL


I must say that so far I have been pleasantly surprised by the level of responsibility my oldest has shown with her new technology.

Here's hoping she continues to be responsible.

I told you yesterday that I went out on Friday with some other moms to paint some pottery.  There were six of us and three of us couldn't stop playing with our phones.

Today, inspired by the fact that my friends couldn't be bothered to talk to me while we were out, I decided to post a few things that annoy me about cell phones.

1. Cell phones make people think they are important.  I have a phone, but I can leave it in the car and not be bothered by that at all.  I can go all weekend without even looking at it.  I don't have Internet access on it and I don't care if I ever do.
2. Checking your Facebook status at dinner is rude.  Why do you think you need to tell all 365 of your "friends" that you are at dinner while you are at dinner.  Can't you tell them where you went when you get home?
3. Texting.  I like to send a text, but how many is too many and why do you have to text other people when you are out?  Isn't that like saying, "the person texting me is far more important than you."
4. TWDIS.  That stands for Texting while driving is stupid.
5. Your kids.  Do you text and play with you phone while you are at your kids soccer game?  At your kids swim meet?  At you kids dance recital?  Do you think they are noticing?  If you said they aren't you are mistaken.
6. Abstain.  Can you go an entire day without touching your phone?  If not, do you think you have a problem?  The answer is yes.
7. Internet access.  Just because you have access to the web on your phone doesn't mean that anyone else cares to see it, or surf it or hear what the weather is expected to be next week when you are on vacation.

In short, put down your phone and live in the moment.  You can text, twitter and facebook about it later.  Your friends will appreciate it.

Let's post some pet peeves. Please note: these are not in any particular order.

1. Bloggers who do not update their blog for weeks at a time. Hey--we are all busy. Stop pretending you have a life or something and get back to blogging.

2. The sound of someone cutting their fingernails or worse yet biting them. It should be noted that I'm not bothered by the sound of myself doing either of these things...just others.

3. People, mostly those I live with, who are unable to turn off the light when they leave the room. Electricity isn't free people. Oh great...now I sound like my dad.

4. People who sound like their dad.

5. Anyone driving slower than me.

6. Anyone driving faster than me. Like you, I always drive the perfect speed.

7. Unmatchable socks. I really should post an entire blog entry about this. I mean for the life of me I cannot fathom what happens to all the socks in our house. Do they disintegrate? Is there a sock fairy who takes only the left sock in order to void the world of matching pairs?

8. People too important to stop talking on their cell phone while they are a) ordering food at a restaurant; b) checking out at Target; and c) dropping or picking up their kids at preschool.

9. Bullies. Big ones, little ones, old ones and new ones. You know who you are. Once a bully, always a bully; and

10. Bloggers who create random lists of items like their pet peeves to overcome their writer's block. I mean, seriously, can't you come up with one original thought?

Hope you had a marvelous Saturday and that you liked this post so much you decided to become a follower. Link is on the right. (hint, hint)