Txt Msging for Dummies

Um the title, I would be the dummy in it. So once you read this you will realize the depths to which my lack of techno-knownothingness goes...

Last week I sent my first text message.

Yep, I said it... FIRST. And I do know what year it is.

I never really understood the point of them, I mean, if I call your cell, and you don't answer, I leave a message, where I talk... that is less work than typing a text message.

But, then my Micah tells me we have like 200 TMs a month we never use...

Well, I am not going to let something I am already paying for go to waste!!

So, now I think of all the texts I can send...

to Beth: I am looking at thickers and thought of you.

to Vee: I think Michael Phelps IS in Baltimore!

to my pastor: Your boy Brett just signed his soul over to the devil, I mean, the JETS

to Sarah: Sale on skittles at Target

to Michelle: Vegas is great, I am killing at the craps table.

So... I start to think I can use these to my sarcastic advantage...

And I get out the ol' cell phone... and try to figure this one out.

Considering I still cannot figure out how to download cool ring tones, change my voice mail message, etc. I figured I would end up texting a stranger in Alaska and accidentally selling them one of my organs...

BUT I did it!

I found all the appropriate buttons for beginning said TM, select the contact, etc. etc...

Then we run into a problem...

I go to type "Hello" to Micah...

Every time I type "H" then "e" I get "Hi"...

Um, no, no I am typing "He"... I look down, I am clearly hitting the H and the e, so why is it going "Hi"???

I delete it like 8 times before I just say, forget it... "Hi" is okay. Well, then there was the whole which button makes a space issue, and since THAT was like finding Noah's Ark, I gave up and sent Micah a quote from the list... "Good Morning" ... how lame!

I was all thinking I would be able to use the little abbreviations I knew...

TTYL

BRB

IDK

ILU

YTMO... oh, that last one is my own. It stands for "You Tick Me Off".

After all this, the 30 minute text lesson was over, Micah got the lame-o text, and then he comes in from his office, and I ask about my apparently broken keypad. He laughs at me, and says, it is "t-9" typing.

Huh? Um, in English please! (man, his next text was totally going to be YTMO!)

He then tells me what I am guessing all of creation, save me, my grandmother, and children from a remote village in Siberia apparently all know...

You type the first few letters and it offers you word choices.

What? That makes no sense.

That is like me walking into a restaurant and having this happen...

Me: "I'll have the gri-

Waiter: No! Let me guess, the grilled fish!"

Me: " Um, no the gri-"

Waiter: " The grilled chicken sandwich!"

Me: "no, if you will just let me finish, I want the gri-"

Waiter: "I know! The grilled chicken pasta"

See, see how in real life this guessing game is annoying, well I find it annoying in the cell world as well. Needless to say, if you get a text from me I want to warn you...

"fndjnfjdnjifherink" could mean, "I liked your shoes today" or "My hair is on fire, call 911"

"hidnwrtios" could be, " I am stuck in traffic" or "I just ate a bug"

So, yeah, me and text messaging, we got alot of bugs to work out... but I will prevail, I must use them, or what a waste!! Plus, what a time saver...

spending 30 minutes to send Micah a text that says "Dinner is ready" in his office 20 feet away...

I love technology.

Onto the scrapnewness...

I have some LOs here that I made for my pal Dawn!! She and I swapped photos and made each other LOS. I was a little nervous, I mean her daughter Jayla, is so adorable, but you know I am used to scrapping about things like the loudest burp at the dinner table! But, Dawn liked them, so here they are. The ones she made me are AMAZING and she has them posted on her blog.

Next up are a few for Memorable Seasons:

I would like to the note the bright colors and non use of blue and green Ronda and Jessi!

And one for Unpubbed:

The end... I will try not to take so long between posts, but I may be busy, ya' know... texting...