This week my beloved phone had a little meltdown. It’s not been acting very well up until this point, but I’ve been too busy to deal with it. Now the earpiece speaker stopped working and I knew it was time to do something. I took my phone and laptop to the Apple store with a genius appointment. The Apple guy said that the fact my phone has refused to sync for months (over a year) was obviously an issue. He got it to sync, but the backup process was taking forever. I sat there for 2 hours, felt like I was watching paint dry, and then I left. I left the phone connected and backing up and was without it all night.

And that’s when I realized how dependent I am. I wanted to call Josh to tell him I didn’t have a working phone. Or text…no phone. Then I went to check the traffic to see which way I should drive home…no phone. The radio was awful, I wanted to play Pandora in my car…no phone. I could see text messages coming in, but couldn’t respond. When I was bored in the Apple store, I thought “I’ll read some articles…on my…phone. Oh bummer.

By the way, the speaker problem was solved thanks to Google: I had listened to Pandora with headphones that morning, and I put the headphones back in, then took them out, and the speaker worked again. If only the phone update process could be that easy!