This week I learned that cell phones don’t last forever.
I was at the grocery store. M happened to be looking especially cute, so I tried to take a picture of him. And my cell phone screen went black.
And it never recovered.
My Samsung Restore served me well for 2 1/2 years.
I had already picked out my new cell phone. Which seems to be the pattern in my life that quickly leads to my old phone dying.
I am now the proud owner of a Kyocera Rise. I love my sliders. And it has a touchscreen, so it will be like my training wheels for the day when the industry no longer makes slider style phones. And now I can have APPS!
The learning curve was steep. The first night I had trouble sleeping because I had so much anxiety over trying to work my new phone.
It’s an “Anxie-TEE”–Get it? I KILL me!
Surprisingly, I am adapting to the touchscreen quite well. I was freaking out that I had no enter key. (Until I found it, that is…)
Now my biggest hurdle is probably trying to figure out how to maximize my battery life. I used to charge my previous phone once every 2-3 days. This phone needs a charge about every 24hrs. Oy! I guess that is the price that comes with more functions.
My new celly
I also learned we have too darn many charging cords in our house (and some with removable USB cords as well):
1. The digital camera
2. My old cell phone
3. My new cell phone
4. Husband’s cell old phone
5. Husband’s cell new phone
6. Husband’s indoor model helicopter
7. My laptop
8. Husband’s laptop
This is mildly driving me crazy. And you might say that we no longer need the cords to our old phones. But, they all have the same input. In a pinch, we could use those on our new phones as well.
So, I took all but a few of my husband’s cords and labeled them with permanent marker and electrical tape so that I will know which cord was intended for each device. Oh, how I love electrical tape.
Hopefully, this will bring a little organization into a tech-obsessed world.
I'm not stalking you. 
Keep the cords! You have a friend whose husband is forever taking cell phone chargers to work and leaving them there and some day she may get desperate. 😉
We hoard our old cords too! Surprisingly that is the one thing I don’t forget what goes to what (my memory is terrible for everything else in my life!) And organization? One of my fave things ever! Not that I am completely organized, but I get so excited about new ways to keep things organized. If only I were single and had no other people to be responsible for, my life would be a perfectly organized little world. But alas, I love my people too much to trade them for a little bit of sanity.