BREAKIN' BALLS

You've inspired me honey. To write a blog post. It's been a while.

Sure, there may be some ball breakage going on in the post, but don't worry, I'll give you a chance to get back at me. Or you can take it out on me in the sack. Either is fine with me.

So my husband got an iPhone this past weekend. He's been wanting a new phone fo-evah. He hates the one he had. The guy is a total IT junkie. It's what he does for a living. His work phones have always been the best.

Then, when we decided to get him a cell phone strictly for personal use, we went with a simpler model. It looked cute to begin with. (Which is always a plus for manly men, lemme tell ya) He even got a yoda "skin" for it. It suited his needs. For a while. Then he started having trouble texting.

I guess when you go from having a keyboard on your phone to type messages to having to navigate T9, it's not real pretty. Or easy. He recently sent me this just to give you an idea of how good he was at T9.

So we decide we are going to get him an iPhone for Xmas. It's hard but he thinks he can wait til December.

Then on Friday I decide, because he is a wonderful man and I love him very much, I decide to see if I can get him an upgrade now. Turns out he's not eligible until January. But with a little finesse and a really good customer service rep (after the third time I called) I find out that I can give him my phone's upgrade eligibility now. So I do.

I text him, "Wanna get an iPhone tonight?" and he texts back, "Your the best!"

We go in to get him his new toy and he already knows all about it. Knows everything it can do and then some. Has apps all lined up in his head ready to be downloaded to his phone. Or is it uploaded? Fuck if I know, I'm not the IT person in this family.

So I start to tease him. I tell the kids we're gonna start taking bets on how many apps daddy is going to have on his phone by the end of the night. The guy can't stop playing with his phone. He's tossing fake crumpled up pieces of paper into a fake waste basket on his phone. We're falling asleep to a soothing white noise app on his phone. He's downloading ITunes to his phone. XM radio apps, police scanner apps, drunken text apps, some shit called Yelp. Crazy man, crazy.

Just so you know though...I immediately started noticing how bad my phone sucks now. How it shuts itself off mid-text and mid-phone call.

I can't wait until January when I get to steal his upgrade.....iPhone, here I come...now what apps should I get?

It's good to be back. I missed you.

Now on a serious note...

Tomorrow is the Marine Corps birthday. And the day after that is Veteran's Day. Two holidays which are proudly celebrated and respected, in this household.

We all should take a moment, a long moment, to think about and thank, all the men and women who have served our country. They are the reason we have the freedoms that we do. They are the reason why America is such a great country to live in. I think we all forget that sometimes. We take it for granted sometimes.

...and we should not.