Computers, blackberries, zip drive, iPad, iPhone, I just don't know! Call me old fashioned but with how quickly electronic gadgets keep evolving with the latest and greatest, I kinda miss the old days when people used home phones. Try and find one...chances are you're more likely to win the lottery than find a land line in someones house. I'm a little slow on keeping up with Electronic Jones' but at least I'm trying.
I fought for a long time, a close friend and past roommate can attest, she had to talk me into getting a cell phone. Eventually she won and my first baby step was with her old Nokia which eventually got passed along to my mother. What can I say, we are a recycling family. Long story short, as time went on and I stored numbers of people in my contacts list, I got creative with the naming function. For example, I mark some of good friends: Lady, Hot Sharon, My Nick!, Quiet Riot, Ra R. is Creepy, Trent the PT, etc. It personalizes a special funny memory or recognition of how they are part of my life. For the men....I always marked them appropriately: Travis POF, Original Craig, Kevin the Runner, No Commitment Rob...things that would remind me of which guy he was. Let me drop this nugget of information on you before we move on, I don't juggle men. Its normally either one guy I'm dating (or just go on 1 date) then nothing...so onward to the next one.
Now that I have a fancy iPhone, I decided that the same contact list that transferred over is the same one I've had for the past 3 years and I couldn't even remember who "Dave the Sailor" was...its time for a spring cleaning! I went through my entire phone list...good grief! There was someone to delete in almost every letter in my directory alphabet! 17 in total got trashed! It felt so good to kick that baggage out! Of course, I ran through the list of "Do not answer #1, Do not answer #2...." theres about 11 of them unfortunately because they are crazy men or heart breakers that well...I had to keep them so I know its them and don't fall into that trap anymore by answering a number I don't recognize. No such thing as blocking these ones...if its taken me until 2011 to get email on my phone....well any more than that is just too advanced for me lol. Plus I figure if I ever run into a real douche bag I could always give them one of these guy's numbers instead of mine right? nah that's horrible! Even I wouldn't really do that but...I'd think about it. :)
So here I am, 17 guys from the past 3 years, gone from my life. Its like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders, very liberating! Yes, I do recognize that that's a big number but as a friend pointed out, its roughly only 5.5 men a year. For a single gal...that's probably about right. Moral of the story, you can't move forward if you can't let go of the past, even if you didn't realize you were still wandering around with it in your back pocket!
So, who's got some early spring cleaning to do? :)
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