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She Knows it ALL

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Last night, sometime after 10pm, TW was trying to herd the children to their rooms or at least into some more quiet activities. This rarely works. Or to be accurate, it rarely works quickly. This type of round up tends to bring all of the children into MY errr OUR bedroom where they are louder than if they’d stayed where they were making their generic loud noises. This round up tends to frustrate me after about 15 minutes of loud in MY errr OUR bedroom – I’m done.

So the Prince and Elly had been in the bedroom, loudly, for quite some time when RJ barreled through, heading for the bathroom. As she barreled through, TW said, “When you come out I’d like to talk to you about some Rebecca issues.” RJ ignored that and continued into the bathroom where she brushed her teeth (loudly) while the other two pondered what the “Rebecca issues” might be. TW told them to leave because it was BEDTIME. They didn’t leave, which is normal. RJ barreled out of the bathroom and tried to barrel past her siblings when TW said, “Wait Rebecca, I’d like to talk to you….” At which point, RJ turned around with that defiant teenage girl look and said….

“Yes, I’ve done my homework. Yes, I know where my cell phone is. No, I don’t need more therapy. Yes, I’m sure I have done ALL of my homework. Yes, I’ll use a condom. No, I don’t feel like committing suicide. No, I don’t think you’re a failure as a mother. No, I don’t have any problems I’d like to talk about. Yes, I know what my vagina should smell like”

And with that, any thought of having a serious discussion with RJ about anything was out the window.

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Wrap Up Your iPhone

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Remember when the iPhone 4 came out and I was all whiney because my iPhone 3gs was really unhappy and I wasn’t eligible for a new phone until next year? Yea. I remember it too. I’m still not eligible and I still have my iPhone 3gs. I’m babying it like crazy though and so far – so good.

While I was in the depths of misery over my poor sad iPhone, I was offered a free wrapsol ultra for my iPhone and I thought – what the heck. I really need a new case and I really need to take care of this iPhone because I could not afford to buy a new phone before I was eligible.  (See even way back then I knew TW was going to quit her job and I knew we’d be even more broke.) TW has used several different types of screen protectors and I’ve never liked any of the ones she tried. The one with the mirror… oy, that thing blinded me while I was driving, every time she played with her phone in the car! The wrpasol says it’s so strong that it even helps prevent drop damage. Huh. I could have used that with my first iPhone…

So I got the wrapsol. I read the directions. I slipped it on. It went on pretty smoothly, more smoothly than the other ones TW had tried seemed to go on. It comes with a nifty little squeegee thingy to help you errr squeegee it on. I had a couple of bubbles but the instructions indicate bubbles will disappear in a day or so.

Sure enough, the bubble that was really bugging me was right above the Home button disappeared the next day. However, there was a tiny little bubble way at the top right corner. It wasn’t even really touching more than the battery icon – but it bugged me. And I could not make it go away. While I was sitting in an airport, trying to stay awake to board my flight, I thought I’d just peel it up a bit and replace the film. Hahahaha. I touched it and then there were fingerprints in that top right corner of the screen. #USERERROR!

I spent the next 24 hours cursing myself and those fingerprints and finally lifted the film off and tossed it out. That will teach me to NOT follow directions and to think I can “just fix it”. Sheesh.

One other thing I should mention – I’ve had an iPhone since 2007 and I’ve never used a screen film cover thingy. It was very hard for me to get used to how the iPhone feels with the film covering it. Right about the time I got used to it – that’s when I screwed up and got fingerprints on the film.

I’ll know better when I put another wrapsol on my iPhone. Won’t I?

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Generation Gap

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Elly: I like cornhole

TW: No you don’t, that’s a bad word. You do not say that.

Elly: What!?! No it’s not, it’s a game! I like that game.

TW: NO it’s a horrible horrible word and you must stop saying it.

Elly: Huh. It’s just a fun game. You throw bean bags or cob of corn into a hole in a piece of plywood!

TW: It’s beanbag toss with a DIRTY NAME.

Elly: What’s so dirty about it? ….. OH. I get it. Never mind.

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