Amy Lu's View

I broke my blog streak* yesterday and did not blog about any holiday. 

I didn’t blog because I was too busy “celebrating” a holiday–unfortunately, that holiday was Desperation Day**. 

Why was I so desperate? I lost my cell phone–which was bad enough–but this was the SECOND time that I had lost my phone in two years. And once again, I lost it because of my carelessness. I think it fell out of my bag–as it has done several times recently. Clearly, I had reason to think that putting my cell phone in this bag was NOT a good idea, but I kept on doing it. 

I know we all make mistakes, but I hate the feeling of making a “totally-preventable-I-could-have seen-that-coming-in fact-I’ve-done-this-before” mistake. I should at least get some new material. 

But today, I get to celebrate Valentine’s Day with feeling all sorts of warm fuzzy lovey dovey feelings for my awesome husband who rescued my phone! (as in picked it up from the very wonderful person who found it and eventually called him). Chad also handled all the details of locking my phone and setting the message to call him. I’m also filled with love for the person who returned it and the universe who reunited me with my phone, thus sparing me from more hours of self-recrimination and the expense and hassle of having to buy and learn a new phone. 

And yes, I have learned my lesson: I vow to be careful about my phone whereabouts and to NOT lose it again. I even left it at home when we went to Acme tonight. 

I hope I can at least make it to two years before I lose it again. 

*I feel bad about not meeting my challenge but if blogging 30 days in a row was easy to do, it wouldn’t be a challenge, right? So I’ll be back on the metaphorical horse (I don’t think I’ve ever been on a real horse) and onward and upward!

**Desperation Day actually has something to do with the television show “How I Met Your Mother” which I have never watched, but I reserve the right to interpret the “holidays” I blog about in whatever way inspires me, as long as it’s not too culturally inappropriate.