Thursday, March 19, 2015

Off The Grid


Say hello to my little friend.

So, funny story. The other night, I was half asleep when I set my alarm on my old iphone... and instead of setting the phone back on the nightstand, I (accidentally) placed it in my mug of WATER. I didn't even realize it until two hours later, when I went to take a sip of water, and my phone literally hit me in the face. Let's just say it was too late to be salvaged. At least I had it a while..

So I proceeded through the next few days "off the grid" without my cell phone. I guess I wasn't really.. I had my work cell phone, and of course the computer at home. To be honest, I even had our home phone! But I have to say, without facebook to fall back on as a mode of communication to mass groups of people (since I deactivated my account in January), I really felt disconnected. Since our phones are holders of so much information now, I felt a little lost with out it. I felt so unreachable. Hardly anyone knows my home phone number, and so many of us text now, I imagined people texting me and thinking I just wasn't responding. Obviously, I'm not that popular, and I'm sure that didn't even happen, but I thought it was an interesting reflection. 

Anyway, the next order of business: finding a suitable new case to fit the my new phone: 


So far, I'm digging this gold on gold! What do you think? 
How would you do without your personal  phone for 3 or 4 days?