Jadens Journey

Jaden has been consistently happier (much!!) since the surgery than he was before the surgery. I can only imagine what kind of pain he must have been in, and who knows for how long. I feel bad that it took us this long to take care of it (for many reasons, most of which we could not control). I’m convinced the pain was what caused him to be moody (and close to monstrous on a few occasions) before. Imagine needing two teeth pulled and three root canals, and not knowing how to describe to anyone what’s wrong?

I, on the other hand, have not been so happy this week. Anyone who is my ‘friend’ on Facebook already knows my cell phone decided to take a dive into the toilet bowl yesterday. The bowl was empty, for those of you who have that type of morbid curiosity– but yes, it’s still gross. Thankfully it was at home and not at some slimy public restroom. No offense intended to all of the clean public restrooms who may be reading this. And if I do offend you, there’s no need to come back.

The pitiful thing about losing the phone to the bowl is that I was trying to AVOID having it leap into the bowl. Let me explain… the problem begins with the fact that they make the iPhone so damn slippery. It’s nice to look at with its sleek design and touch screen, but the truth is it is impossible to hold onto. The thing is like a jumping bean, literally, and that’s without vibrate on. Two weeks after I first purchased the phone it nearly went into my parents’ pool. I was pulling it out of my pocket to show my new prize to my siblings when the phone leapt out of my hands and onto the pool deck, dangerously close to the edge. I should have been happy that it didn’t drown, but instead I was just pissed at myself for dropping it and getting two scratches on it.

To make matters worse, I’m no stranger to losing phones to water damage. I lost two other phones to bodies of water – one previously to the toilet bowl and the other to a gigantic cat bowl with enough water in it for nineteen cats (not mine– don’t ask). After suffering these two losses, I became very skittish about having my phone near anything even remotely damp. This is where the pitiful part comes in. I was headed for the bathroom and didn’t want to chance losing yet another phone to the bowl, so before I even entered the room, I started to take my phone out of my pants pocket, to put down far, far away from the water.

The damned thing managed to jump out of my pocket, slip through my hand, fly through the air toward the bowl, bounce off of the rim, and dunk right into the water. How on earth!!??

I grabbed it immediately and tried to shut it off. Probably a stupid thing, I know, but I get a million texts and a few calls a day, so I was afraid if of continuing to operate, shooting electric currents through itself while soaking wet. That, I thought, would not be a good thing. However, every time I shut it off, the darn thing turned itself back on. I tried three times then gave up.

After spending a good twenty minutes online trying to figure out my best course of action, I have stuffed it in a bag full of rice and I’m letting it bake on the windowsill for a couple of days. Supposedly the rice will absorb the moisture from within the phone, and then I can turn it on (or off?) again to see if it works.

A lot of people suggested taking the battery out, but those if you with an iPhone know that is not possible unless you want to pry open the case, and I’m no electronics genius so the rice is as complex as I’m going to get.

Now, believe it or not, until I started searching online for ways to salvage my phone, I had no idea the new iPhone 4 was announced and is being released in 2 weeks (Yes, I must live on another planet). So although I was ready to shoot (KILL!) myself for the potential destruction of my phone BEFORE I went online, afterwards I have to admit I thought to myself “hmmm… maybe this won’t be such a bad deal after all”.

Time will determine the outcome. I have to wait a few days and pray my phone dries out successfully. My decision in the interim is whether or not to spend 30 bucks on a pre-paid go phone or just to take my chances driving around without a cell phone until this one decides to work again (or until I get a new phone). Maybe I should just hold onto the $30 and put it toward the new phone when (yes, I said “when”) I get it.

By the way, the phone isn’t the only electronic object that is went kaput on me this week – my printer just decided to stop working today too. I’m only mentioning it so you don’t think I’m shallow enough to let my day be ruined by the destruction of my beloved iPhone (even though I really am that shallow).

Here’s a few pictures of Jaden being a ham at the dinner table tonight…. click on each image to enlarge then use the “back” button on your browser to return to this post.