I remember the days when I used to be able to function without a cell phone, an iPod, digital camera or a laptop computer.  Now if I leave the house without any of these things I feel like I should be hunting for a dinosaur for dinner or something.  Perfect example of what my day was like today.

6:30 am - (I know early) I left my house to go babysit for my girlfriends baby. 

6:32 am- Realized I left  my home without iPod.

6:33 am- Back in my car.

6:35 am- Realize I have no cell phone.

6:45 am- Finally have every little electronic gizmo I need, actually make that own.

2:15 pm - Cell phone dies because I forgot to charge it and I don’t have the charger for it in my car.

2:27 pm - Same thing happens to iPod.  Weep uncontrollably for the next 10 minutes because I killed my knee going back up three flights of stairs to retrieve both of these items at roughly 6:00 this morning and now they have both managed to fail me less than 12 hours later.

3:13 pm - Decide to end my day early because I’m out of gas and don’t have my bank card with me to put gas in the car.

I don’t remember how to function now without any of these little distractions that I use on a daily basis.  What really kills me is how when I got both of them (not at the same time or anything) I would routinely forget them when I left home and it wouldn’t bother me at all.  When people would ask me why I have a cell phone if I’m not even going to carry it, I would laugh at them!  I would find it amusing that they thought I needed these things so badly.  Before my iPod I would randomly flip through radio stations searching for something, anything to listen to for my five minute ride home.  Now if I forget it I start thinking that my life must be over. 

This all happend to me in a matter of less than 10 years.  That’s all it took for me to rely so heavily on technology that I find myself turning my car around to go home to retrieve these items, when I am more than half way to my destination.   What kind of person does that?  Ok, I actually know the answer to that question.  A crazy person, like me, who no longer knows how to function without things she didn’t need 10 years ago, that’s who.