{"id":472,"date":"2007-07-09T20:54:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=472"},"modified":"2008-04-07T02:01:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:01:22","slug":"they-all-float-down-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"They ALL float down here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning:<\/strong> Ewwee, gross content below.<\/p>\n

I’ve been living with the shame all weekend – and thus avoiding my computer and the urge to blog. I was gardening again this weekend. Umm…ok…that’s not the really shameful part.<\/p>\n

I dropped my cell phone in water.<\/p>\n

Yeah, umm *sigh* well, it’s truth by omission…<\/p>\n

When I was a kid I was a huge fan of Stephen King and IT<\/a> was the creepiest book I’d ever read. Perhaps it was because I already suffered from coulrophobia<\/a> (and linking to this wiki entry with a picture of Pennywise<\/a> was a struggle). During my teen watch every slasher and horror flick<\/em> I could get my hands on<\/em> phase, I caught the film version of IT. Since then, I’ve never forgotten the sound of Tim Curry<\/a>‘s voice uttering the line They ALL float down here. When you’re down here with us, you’ll float too! <\/em><\/p>\n

Cell phones don’t float. And they don’t work once their circuit boards have been fried by water.<\/p>\n

I know – I’m getting a little ahead of myself here.<\/p>\n

I bought these great shorts with huge side pockets and velcro closures. They’re comfy and I can wear them at work. The downside to them is that the pockets at the front are super shallow. My cell was in them when I had to run to the little girls room. You can fill-in-the-blanks on the rest.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, my cell was fried and I was NOT in the mood to go rescue it. Sunday found me wandering aimlessly amongst the cell phone vendors attempting to pick out a new phone that I could afford and had some (if not all) of the features of my old phone. While the mission was accomplished, my new phone doesn’t have expandable memory or a speaker phone (I miss them already) and I no longer have the blackmail <\/em>photo of the hubby singing karaoke as my wallpaper.<\/p>\n

I do have a fast type keyboard on the number pad for the massive numbers of text messages I tend to send. Of course, before I can send texts, I need to rebuild my contact list.<\/p>\n

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