Obsessed

you may not know this about me but i'm an obsessive person. it's true, it runs in my family. i get easily obsessed with things: neighbors, boys, dentists. it's a bad habit but it's part of my nature genitically and hormonally.

right now my newest obsession is my advancement in, or shall i say, my catching up of technology. recently we got ourselves a laptop, which just opens up so much freedom that I never really expected and as of yesterday jay and i are the proud owners of the newest blackberry curve. i'm not boasting- this was a huge step for us. jay is almost technoligically challenged, and i can't ever stand the thought of spending money on upgrading and advancements. but, alas, we did.

so here i am a full 24 hours after i received the phone and i have been ignoring children, animals, laundry, mothers and husbands for the sake of checking on the newest red dot (msg recv'd). it's insane. i have not left the side of this laptop nor let the bb slip from my palm for more than a few min. at a time.

And then it happened. in the morning the husband, with smirk on face, read aloud from the daily news. the story was about teenagers and their over-usage of smartphones, texting and laptops and i realized in that moment while staring at said smirk that it really did sound like me!

the article describes 13 year old, Samantha, who is obsessed with facebook, texting and her laptop. sometimes falling asleep in her clothes clutching her phone. When her texts exceeded 2000 a day her parents shut off her phone functions from 9pm to 6 am which drove Samantha "nuts". WOW. that could very well be me. 13 to 35? what drives us?