Sometimes I get lost in my own little world…
My cell phone’s been acting up lately. Sometimes it rings. Sometimes it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if I have full bars… it may still choose not to ring. If someone leaves a message, I may get the message alert tone right away… or I may get it three hours later… or eight hours later… or whenever I check my messages. If someone doesn’t leave a message, I have no way of knowing they called. Occasionally it will still ring… and occasionally I’ll see a missed call number… but ya never know when that will happen…
So last night, my cell phone was quiet… I honestly didn’t even think about it. I watched America’s Next Top Model… (one of my guilty pleasures)… and then I spent some quality time with my computer, a microphone, and some karaoke tracks… Why, you ask? I met this country music producer when I was in Florida, and he told me to send him a demo… he didn’t hear me sing. He has no idea if I can. But he was willing to listen to my demo… so that’s what I’m attempting to do. Create a demo. On a limited budget. With limited equipment. And absolutely zero experience… It’s a lot harder than you’d think! And I got lost in my own little world for a while, wondering why I sound so awful and how the hell can I tweak this so I sound better than I think I do…
Anyway, as I was singing away, it never occurred to me that I might get a distress call from TAR (a rather drunk TAR, I must say) saying, “Why aren’t you answering when I NEED you!!” (Voice dripping with alcohol, and drunk whimpering, and an “I need to rail” tone, not a “serious emergency” tone)… Alas… I would have answered if my stupid phone had bothered to ring… but by the time I got the message, it was two hours later, and a quick text message revealed she no longer needed my advice…
There was also a message from another good friend of mine saying we must set a date for lunch…
And then there was a text message from one of my cousins… ah yes… this text, I had been waiting for… it was a phone number…
I’ll call it tonight… when I once again lose myself in my own little world (assuming my phone cooperates and doesn’t ring for a couple hours)…
Ok, I realized I haven’t been commenting on you lately- my stupid google reader didn’t notice when you updated! Most likely, I added you wrong or something, but I know I did.
That night… getting lost just sounds great. Don’t you feel super popular when you finally do check your phone?
p.s. mine has been majorly effed up as well. i’m about ready to die.
De-ja vu! This same thing was happening to me about 6-8 weeks ago. So, when I was back in WI in mid February for the weekend, I stopped at US CELL and sent my old phone (I had it for 3 years!) out to the retirement farm for old, sick phones, and got myself a slick, shiny red honey of a folding, picture-taking razor from Motorola, which works just the way a cell phone is supposed to!