Okay all you Moms: I have a confession to share with you today on “Hott Flashes”. I’m not too sure if I should tell you this story or not. I’ll let you decide. Here’s what happened:
Dan and the kids got me coolest surprise for Mother’s Day this year. I love to call it my “phablet” – it’s actually a Samsung Galaxy Note – my first ever “smart” phone. The cute twenty-something guy at the AT&T store called it a “phablet”; so, with it’s new pink and white case, it is the best math equation ever:
Phone + Tablet = “PHABLET”
Get it?
This doo-hicky of a phone can do everything but cook dinner and fold laundry! Seriously, it’s a phone that hooks me up with email, texts, pictures, videos, and Facebook. Also, I can go online and look up anything on “Google”. It promises never to find me lost with it’s awesome GPS. Streaming movies, music, and TV shows are also an option (although, I’m told that this will utilize up all my data…whatever that means).
Here’s the icing on the cake. This phone is also a Kindle! Woo Hoo! Now this 46 year old gray haired mama of four can read books online. Always the book nerd, I must admit that I have found myself envious of both Caity and Violet’s Kindle Fires they received as Christmas gifts. Aren’t they just about the coolest things next to sliced bread?
Still learning the ins and outs of my “phablet”, I was recently a chaperone with the sixth grade class on their field trip to Hershey Park. Equipped with my new never before used Kindle app on my fabulous “phablet”, I decided to give this technology a try.
So. The first dilemma. What should I download to read? Sharing books between other moms and my daughters happen here on a regular bases, I found myself at a complete loss for what to try out first on my “phablet”. Having recently heard the Today’s show review of national best sellers, I thought that maybe I would try something new. I normally like to listen to the news in the morning after the kids are off to school. This happens while I am flying through the house doing dishes, throwing in loads of laundry, and picking up hundreds of dirty socks. Where do they come from?
Since I managed to hear part of a report on up and coming books, I sorta knew of a new book to try. All I could remember from the report was that it had “fifty” and “gray” in the title. Approaching the fabulous fifty mark and blessed with early gray hair, I searched for the book with “fifty” and “gray” in the title.
Immediately, up popped a book on the best seller list. Hummmmmm…. This looks interesting. TEN DOLLARS???? You’ve got to be kidding me! Is that how much it costs? Wait… there is a sample thingy. Cool! Twenty-seven pages for free! I’ll try that first. And I was off on my way to Hershey Park with my first ever book on my new phablet.
About 45 minutes in to the trip and barely to the Pennsylvania border, I managed to compete my sample. Welllll, this looks like a good story. Shall I do it? Oh yes! I’m going to buy my first book with my new Kindle app on my new “phablet”! Wooo Hoooo! (Alright. I heard that! And I already know I’m a techno geek)
Continuing on our journey, I am delighted to find that I am reading a somewhat entertaining book while the sixth graders are busy with iPods and their own gossip. Upon arriving at Hershey, I was pleased with my purchase. Standing to stretch, I turned to share with the chaperone mom behind me that I was tickled to purchase my first ever Kindle book on my new “phablet”.
“Oh really?” was her reply. “So, what are you reading?”
As I demonstrated my new pink phablet, I proceeded to share with her that, well, it’s this interesting love story about this couple in Seattle with this über rich guy. I am just about to tell her about their first date on a helicopter when, suddenly, her eyes enlarge the size of tennis balls and her jaw hits the bus seat between us!
‘Oh.my.gosh! I’m reading that too! I took it to baseball practice though and read in the bleachers. Some other moms told me to be careful.”
Hugh? Wonder what that’s all about. Oh well. We headed out the park for an afternoon of roller coasters, sunshine and chocolate. Needless to say, I was a bit perplexed by her response to my cool accomplishment. So, on the way back, I fired up my app once again to see how the first date went.
Ooooooooooh! Three hours later, our bus rolls back in to town. Now I get it. A bit of an “education” to say the least, I hurry home to have Dan explain some of the new “terms” to me from this book.
“What are you reading?” asks Dan. “Oh. It’s just the first book I loaded to my ‘phablet’ called Fifty Shades of Grey. I want you to read it too. I’m not sure if I should finish it though. It’s turning my hair more gray and my face fifty shades of red!”
Have any of you read this series? And if you have, will you admit it? LOL!
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. – Ephesians 5:22
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Hi Cmj,
I completely understand your conflict too. And, I always need to be reading something as well. Here’s a suggestion that a friend told me. Try reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This story is presented in a different way and I found myself engaged, laughing, and crying soon! It was a little hard to get the rhythm, but once in to it, I couldn’t wait to meet more characters. Also, I was super blessed by Heaven is for Real! When I run out of new books, I always go back and reread my all time favorite final book of the Chronicles of Narnia. The 7th book is my absolute favorite of ALL times!
love, a