This morning I woke up (at 5 am, but that’s another post) and checked my phone (as always). Now, I don’t know about you, but I check apps and pages in a certain order. I’m not obsessive about it, but I do think my days go differently depending on the order of the morning app-check. Just kidding.
Sort of.
Anyway, before I go any further, I need to explain that my phone is now 2 generations old, and will be 3 down in March when the newest ones are released. Over the past few months, each update has made the phone worse and more unstable. There was the update that temporarily wiped out my entire photo gallery, and the one that caused social media apps to open and close at random times. Somewhere along the way, my notifications got turned off, and no matter how many times I manually reset it, they don’t appear. (Sorry if any text or e-mail responses have been delayed, I don’t get the “you’ve got a message, dummy” pop up bubble anymore). The next to last update caused random system pop ups, such as telling me an app had stopped working and needed to close…even though it had been disabled and/or never activated. THAT one has been really annoying.
But this morning? This one beat all. I checked my text messages, and all of my contacts had disappeared. Well, not exactly disappeared; the contacts are still listed, but they’re blank and not associated with the numbers anymore. The only people who remained were my husband and my son. And I don’t even text them the most, so it’s not a matter of usage.
Now I have messages that are from strings of numbers. And the group messages? Forget about it; those are like a trigonometry nightmare. I decided that since I had all of the time in the world before our morning commitments, I would set in to update people. Have you ever tried to remember who you were having what conversation with, while working on 3 hours of sleep and no coffee?
So, yeah. If you hear from me over the next few days and I am referencing a topic you’ve never heard of, it’s because I don’t know who you are and I’m still trying to sort it all. (Those of you who don’t share the same area code as me are in the clear; you guys I can figure out). I know I could just text everyone and say “okay, who are you?” But I’m one of those people who is bad about clearing out old text messages, so I literally have text conversations going back 2 years. That could get awkward really fast.
Remember when we just used phones to make phone calls, and didn’t have to worry about any of this? Ahhhhh, good times….
