Bad Week for Cell Phones

It's been a bit of a tough week for cell phones in our house.  On Tuesday night, I plugged my phone in to charge it up and set it on the counter like usual.  Unfortunately our dish drainer leaked some water that night and it left my phone in a puddle of standing water on the counter.  The next morning it wouldn't turn on at all.  I took the battery out and left it all morning to try and dry.  Later in the morning I put the battery back in and nothing happened for about an hour.  All of the sudden, my phone started making this terrible noise and vibrating non-stop for about 3 minutes.  Then it stopped.  It happened again later in the afternoon.  After it stopped that time, nothing.  Just silence.  I figure those must be the death-throes of of a cell phone.  I lost all of my contacts and previous text messages, but I was able to get the phone replaced on Thursday.

Then Friday night, Dayna was sending a text message and her phone basically disintegrated in her hands.  It basically broke in half at the hinge.  The worst part about it is that her phone is not dead yet.  The display is toast, but the part with the keypad still emits noises once in a while, even receiving text messages that we cannot read nor reply to.  We're hoping that the Verizon people can get her contacts and other stuff off the phone and put it on her new one whenever we get it.

Funny to how all of this cell phone drama has prompted Emma to assert that many of her 9 year old friends have their own cell phones and that she thinks it would be a splendid idea, if not downright necessary, for her to get one as well.  It's not going to happen.

Well, we saw this commercial online earlier this week.  It was shown during the Superbowl today.  We laugh out loud each time we see it because it reminds us of all our kids and Isaac in particular.  After we watched it, Dayna told me that our kids have been pretending to use the "Force" to open the automatic doors at the grocery store lately and even our automatic sliding doors on our van.  Too much Lego Star Wars on the Wii I guess.