Damn Phones

Do you ever want to throw away your phone????  

I am forever getting calls and texts I don't want. Too many and its overwhelming!!  And today I discovered there's an entire file of "spam" text messages .... something else clogging up our real life, and adding to the Google storage limits!!!!

FFS when does it stop???????

At least in "the old days", it was only stored on your desktop, and you didn't have to see/read it until you turned that PC on.

Now its one thing after another. 

Some days I just want to toss the phone. We have become acclimated to always being available. And we are cursed with so much information at our fingertips, that we are overloaded.  What started as "fun information" about friends and family has become a way to worm more advertising into our lives.

Way back in "the old days", I had cable TV as you could watch shows without advertising. Once advertising was inserted, I opted out of cable and haven’t had it since.  That's when owning movies on VCR then on DVD was great! 

Then when streaming apps started, I was willing to pay the few extra $$ a month for no ads.  If they take away that option, and corporations being what they are, it could happen. I'll opt out.

Wish I had opted out of FB when adverts started, but I liked being connected to friends and family far away.  Although I don't post there any more. 

We are so busy trying to "keep up" that they call it doom-scrolling.  I try hard to keep tech from intruding, but I still get sucked in from time to time 

Read a book, take a walk, create art. 

Too Small

My little house is too small for a lot of stuff.  Much of mom's stuff (a bookshelf and some miscellany with memories) has moved to my house because I don't know what to do with some of it.

My latest dilemma is a queen bed. Do I move the mattress and frame from her spare room into my spare room? It means I would have to get rid of the full mattress and underbed storage frame. 

Am I making too many compromises?  

Having a queen in the spare room would mean a place for my daughter and her husband to stay when they come up.  But is it worth it for once or twice a year? 

It was the same deciding to put a treadmill in the other spare room vs leaving it as a bedroom in case my granddaughter visits. The treadmill won last time.

So after some heavy thought, I opted to move the dresser in the spare bedroom into the closet, leaving enough wall space to move the bookshelves into that room, and making my living room feel less crowded and more like me.  

Its a bit of work, but I'm happy with the decision! 

And after another day..... I've completed the move, and arranged the tchotskies. I still have some cleaning out to do, and another trip to Goodwill, but I'm getting there! 

And its a very large feeling of relief having my living room back to normal. Its amazing how the weight of a room weighs a person down!