C if u no wat i meen:

The other day I was talking to someone at work and in mid-sentence they said stop, I have a text. WHAT? On my myspace page, I have already vented about this, but I feel the need to vent about texting again. Why was it invented? I mean, I know to make money of course, but isn¡*t a missed call or voice mail enough? What if you were in an important business meeting, and your child needed to reach you, without your phone ringing, just a text. I can understand that, myself being a parent. What I can¡*t understand is all of these kids, meaning age 8 to 18 or even older, texting while eating a meal with their family, riding home from ball practice, not speaking to their parents, just smoke coming off their thumbs from so much texting. I hope to practice what I preach by saying that I want to wait as long as possible to consider purchasing my two year old a phone, but it¡*s 2009(almost) and we need to wake up and smell the, not coffee, maybe iPod Nanos, USB ports, MP3 players? I don¡*t know what this world is coming to. Maybe I¡*m just out of touch and old fashioned. My friend at work called me the other day to tell me he was going to be late because his son left his ¡§jumpdrive¡¨ at home and desperately needed it for a class group project. What happened to the poster boards with Styrofoam balls stuck on it for a solar system? That¡*s something you could forget at home, twenty years ago, but now it¡*s a jumpdrive. Geesh.

Which brings me to my next question. What age is too young for a cell phone? Six, seven, thirteen, or am I way out in left field? Obviously, it¡*s pretty young because at my 11 year old cousin¡*s birthday party, all of them had their phones out taking pictures of each other. Talon is so used to it, even he knows how to take a picture with my phone! I think well, what if there was an emergency and Talon needed to get in touch with me? On the other hand, I didn¡*t have a cell phone until I was about 16 and I turned out fine. (Insert ¡*yeah right¡*). Lol. See? I just text talked and didn¡*t even realize it. I¡*m sure you could go through this blog and find tons of grammatical errors, especially Jetta Skillern, Barbara Lewallen, and Lenora Richardson, all my English teachers, are saying I taught her better than that! Well imagine if our children start talking the way they text? In case you¡*re in the dark, ¡§I will see you tonight. Goodbye for now¡¨ translates into text as ¡§Ill c u 2nite ttfn¡¨.

So if you already have a phone underneath the tree, charged, so Christmas morning you can call your kid¡*s present before they open it (good idea, huh?), don¡*t worry too much about my opinion. I¡*m sure you made the right decision. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Oh, and TTFN!

P.S. Talon is NOT getting a phone for Christmas and I really don¡*t think they even use ¡§ttfn¡¨ anymore. I think I¡*m out of the loop on that one, too! I mean 2! ƒº