The Phone Look-Down

It's been really hard to keep up with the blog and I think I have figured out why... FACEBOOK. It's so much easier to take one minute to upload a photo and a tagline than it is to sit at the computer and think of something more to say. From what I can tell, people are on facebook allll daaay looong. At work I'll walk into the breakroom and 6 people are sitting in front of a television show, looking down at their phones, not talking or acknowledging anyone around them. I walk outside to eat my lunch and there are 13 tables, each with one person at them, all of them looking at their phone. People stream out of the fitness center next door and they all leave while looking down at their phones, most of them with earbuds stuck in the sides of their heads. And don't even get me started on drivers looking down at their phones. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE HUMAN RACE???!!!! I don't like it. Not one bit.

This wasn't the direction I was planning on taking this post. It just evolved with each key stroke, and in direct correlation with an escalated heart rate. I had only planned on posting some halloween pictures, which I'll get to later. Anyway, technology is awesome but so is human interaction. I am guilty of the phone look-down too, but I want that to be something different about me and something non-existent in my life. . . And this post just keeps evolving. I think I'm gearing up to make set myself a lifelong goal at this very moment in time. . . definitely not what I was planning on while blogging. But it is also 4am and I can't sleep so it seems like the perfect time to make some big decisions. After reading a book on habits I have discovered that habits don't go away, they can only change. So here I am deciding to make a change. The goal I set will have to be small enough to be attainable, yet large enough to make a difference.

From here on out:  I will not walk while looking at my phone.

Seems simple enough, right? But I seriously think it would be difficult for anyone else from my generation or younger to make the change. I know it will take a conscious effort on my part. Are you up for the challenge? Let me know how you do and I'll give a personal update the next time I blog.

Now here are the promised Halloween pics. We hardly ever dress up for Halloween so it was a lot of fun. Jake was a "dressed up cowboy" with leather chaps and all! He found an enormous denim cowboy hat at a thrift shop that he just couldn't resist. He always likes to point out a Canadian Tuxedo when he sees one. What, you've never heard of a Canadian Tuxedo before? It's when a man wears blue jeans with a blue denim shirt. LOL that's pretty rude, right? But I think my Canadian friends would still find it amusing and very funny. And no-- that is not Jake's real hair. I've had a hard enough time accepting the beard that there is no way I would put up with a mullet. I dressed up as "the bride" with blood splatters and all! Or you can just call me kiddo. I was ready to make a fake sword out of tin foil but Jake convinced me to go all the way with the outfit. We were able to find an authentic katana on craigslist for less than the price of a plastic prop. I painted my asics yellow and globbed some fake blood on my face. It's all in the details! If people were born with mottos I think mine would be:

no regrets 
it's all in the details
have dessert first 
communicate
live and let live