The clock on our VCR is still blinking 12:00, how about yours? I’m old enough to remember when I said to my husband, and I’m totally serious, “We are not buying this new fangled CD thingy thing. I like my cassette tapes and I’m tired of ‘things’ always changing just to make us buy new ‘things’! (I don’t even think I knew the word technology at this point. Ok, maybe I knew it, just never used it in a complete sentence.) Well, we now have prob 1000+ CDs (give or take a million, not sure) and listen to maybe the same 20 throughout the year. Yes, that 20 includes Christmas CDs, too.
- When cameras went digital and Mystic Color Lab closed, I think I cried. Wahhhh. Never again will I get that thrill of seeing the thick yellow envelope stuffed into the mailbox, nor the laughter when you looked at the yes, developed photo of the ceiling or up someone’s nose. Wasn’t postage free on those envelopes? Amazon Prime, you copycats, you!
Did you, too, save all 18 trillion negatives in its cute little negative pocket just in case you might want to make a copy?!! “Don’t mix them up, we’ll never find the right negative again!”
Just so you know, somewhere in my kitchen there’s a ziplock baggie (Yes, it’s labeled. Nurse Kate here labels everything, just ask my kids and husband! I drive them nuts, but love saying, “you’re welcome!!” when that annoying “mom label” helps!!) ok, where was I, yeah, in my kitchen, somewhere, I have a ziplock baggie with I think 3 little thingies, what are they called, memory stick? memory card? I don’t know…I’ll just call them, My Lost Memory cards!! Well, I have them tucked away somewhere, somewhere, where I won’t forget where they are!! Oh, you’re catching on, right? Right. I have no ideaR where they are! But should they ever be found and the “technology” to “develop” them hasn’t changed, then my kids can actually see their lives in photos from age 12on up! See, I was a good mom, I did take photos, I just never “developed” them. “MmmmmOmmmm, nobody DEVELOPS pictures anymore!!” Oh yeah? Well I’m not gonna “develop” any more kids either! So you two are stuck with me!
Computers, internet and laptops, OH, MY! Cellphones, IPads and Facebook, DONT CRY! I have this strange urge to first find the right clicker, turn on my Smart TV(are they mocking me?!) , and ask it, yes, I can talk into my clicker, can you? (oh, don’t we know who came up with this little talking into the clicker trick, a baby boomer! I just wish I could figure out if I need to hold it and talk, or just push it and talk, you know like when we talk to our new best friend, Siri?!) Any who, I have this urge to find the 1985 movie (I looked it up ON the Google) “Cocoon” …..we thought they were so weird and stupid, living in a cocoon. Hah! So stupid…….wahhhhhhhh, I want my own Cocoon! Who’s coming with me? Just make sure you pack the baggie with my Lost Memory Cards!
Xo, Kate
11/15/17
Kate’s Flight of Ideas 