Chapter 186: Reset

Okay, I’m not going to lie. I am super-distracted from writing this blog tonight. I was really distracted all day long, as a matter of fact. There is a very simple reason for this – I have fallen in love again and have been completely pre-occupied with that. No, it’s not Barbra again. It’s not any other musician. It’s not some pop star or Disney or Nickelodeon kid. It’s definitely not a man. It is with my brand new Palm Pixi! I am not a huge tech nerd, by any means, but I am kind of obsessive about cell phones. I don’t know what it is exactly but I just love the technology of them. I love the whole idea that I can have a phone and a mini-computer in one small, stylish package. This phone, in particular, is absolutely adorable and can do so many different things. It is awesome. I mean, I have only had it for 6 hours now but I have spent all evening experimenting with all of it’s different functions and setting up my contacts and such. It is awesome. I was really surprised with some of the things that this phone did, like when I downloaded the Facebook app and found that all of sudden everybody from my Facebook account was suddenly in my contacts. That’s kind of weird, right? It saved me a lot of typing, though. I still had to add most of the numbers and such, although it did add a lot of people’s numbers that actually had them shared on Facebook. I have never fully understood the concept of sharing your phone number on Facebook, honestly, because there have always been a lot of people on my Facebook or Myspace or whatever who are people that I know and who I can keep in touch with that way but not necessarily people I would want to give my phone number to, per se. It’s a little odd. In any sense, it also pre-loaded all of their Facebook pics as what shows up when they call. It’s kind of cool. Like I said, if nothing else, it saved me a lot of typing. The phone is also really small and is a really comfortable fit in my hand. The user interface on it is amazing – it is so much better than most of the phones I have had in the past, as far as the way it moves between applications and such and the screen clarity. I am in love with this thing.

I woke up this morning at 7am and kind of lounged around for an hour until 8am. I stayed up at that time because I was hoping to get an early start on the workout this morning but that didn’t wind up happening for a few different reasons. We did work out but started late, as usual. I did really enjoy having the extra time first thing in the morning, though, and have actually decided that I think I am going to start setting my alarm for 7am every morning, instead of 7:30am. Despite the fact that we didn’t get an early start on the workout this morning, I talked to my Mom about it and she agreed that she thought it would be a good idea to start working out earlier, as well. I am just sick of being rushed every morning and this could be a good way to help prevent that. Fortunately, the rushing wasn’t too bad this morning because I somehow managed to do my hair and makeup pretty quickly. I did do the Raquel Welch look that I mentioned last night although I’m not sure how well it came out. I mean, I was pretty happy with it but I also kind of felt like it looked a little more “thrown together” than I had initially hoped. I guess that’s what happens when you rush through getting ready in the morning. I also checked my Sprint order for the phone, which stated it was on the truck for delivery here in Sarasota as of 5:30am this morning. I pretty well spent the entire day obsessing over it. I managed to write my two songs at work today, though, so that is good. Since my Mom had the day off, due to her new schedule, she came and picked me up for my lunch break and we went to Wendy’s and picked up some lunch, and just sat in the car listening to my iPod for a while. She told me that she had wound up reading last night’s blog, which is pretty unusual because she doesn’t normally read the blog. I’m sure seeing the Facebook link, which mentioned that the blog discussed Mother’s Day, prompted it a little. She was very moved by the whole thing and said that it made her cry. I wasn’t entirely sure how to respond to that except to tell her that everything I said was true. Still, I am kind of glad that she read it because I don’t know that I show it well enough or often enough how much I appreciate everything that she does for me.

Once I got home, I cracked open the Palm Pixi and started programming it and customizing it and such, and suddenly it was 10pm. I didn’t do my singing video. I didn’t practice piano. I didn’t do much of anything except play with my phone. I will have to make sure to do double the piano practice tomorrow, at this point. In fact, I am hoping to spend a good hour or two practicing piano tomorrow evening just to make sure that I am extra spruced up for Wednesday. I pretty much wasted the entire day focusing on this phone, which isn’t actually a waste at all but definitely not the most productive I could have been. It is now 12:27am and I am exhausted, though, so I am going to cut tonight’s blog short and go to sleep. After all, my alarm is officially set for 7am weekdays, starting tomorrow. More precisely, starting 6.5 hours from now. So, I’d better get to bed. Goodnight.