Kinda funny

So yesterday our phones pooped out.
Mind you, we do NOT have iphones. We don't believe in them. HAHAHA! If I didn't have a computer, I'd have an iphone, but very slowly but surely, we're watching iphones cause all kinds of issues around us. Wives get upset because the husband can't put it down. Husbands and wives are in the same house, not connecting, but playing on their phones. Extra curricular and maybe not all that appropriate relationships and conversations are being had all freakin day and night long. God forbid we put the phones down!
I don't feel as strongly about it as Cullen does. He thinks that technology will be the end of us, and do you know what? He's probably not completely wrong. We'll get too far ahead of ourselves. We're still so barbaric as we are, and nimrods who create things that are smarter than they are are asking for trouble. Hopefully I'll be far gone by time we get to THAT place though.
Anyway- so yesterday, our ANCIENT phones that ONLY text and call people were out. There's always a slight panic about that because of his mom, but it just feels WEIRD to not be able to reach out to anyone at any time, or to be reached. So after realizing that they were not going to work until today---we put them away and GEE, it felt nice. It felt like we were hiding from the world. No one could get a hold of us. We could do whatever we wanted and not have to take anyone else into consideration! It was actually RELAXING. That was so funny to me that even though we have these stupid pathetic phones (it's really tempting to go back to not having a cell phone!), we still rely on them so much and they still add another dimension to life. And it was nice to be one dimension down and have one less thing to think about during the day and night. Isn't that silly?!
I was thinking about this because a few weeks ago A mentioned that she turned her phone off for a night and she and the hubby actually hung out with their kids and played games and how much FUN it was. That's ONE family, and you KNOW that thousands of kids all across the *great* USA know far too much about the phones their parents are addicted to. They get ignored or have to learn how to play what we're playing so that they aren't blown off. We're such a silly people. It's in this aspect that I am with Cullen. Less is more. Get's the focus back where it should be. There's a fine line between the kids learning about technology and having no option to because it's always in our hand. Give me 5 more minutes and I'll talk myself out of the phone, puter and TV.

OHHHH that's my ultimate goal, TV less! I dream of it. Maybe this summer Cullen will let us go completely TV less for the summer?