Currently: Tech-Less

 Current Book

WW2 historical fiction? Anyone surprised?

Current Song

Jason Derulo Colors - a jazzercise lunge routine that is SO hard!

But the song is so awesome!

Current TV Show

I need to finish season 3 before season 4 starts in a few weeks!

Current Podcast/Audiobook

Just started this, and it's so interesting!

Current Drink

Brent and I just finished a 24 hour fast, so I'm having coffee, yum!

Current Food

Well, I haven't eaten in 24 hours, but I am already thinking about Halloween candy!

Current Outfit

It's cold in Texas! I added a sweater to my workout uniform. {grin}

[Photo courtesy of Drew's iPad]

Current Celebrity Crush

I am SO excited for the Saved by the Bell reboot!

Current Mood

I am SO frustrated about my phone situation. It is still not resolved. Sigh.

Current Anticipation

We have some fun plans for Halloween. We aren't trick or treating, but we've made plans with our neighborhood crew for some fun activities!

Current Wishlist

I've started working on Christmas lists! I have usually started buying by this point, so I feel behind, but I've put together some good lists for the kids.

Don't ask me what I want...I just got scolded to slow down my own buying haha.

Current Film

I'm intrigued by this! Allison, want to come over?

Current Picture

The Time I Destroyed my iPhone

 In February, I dropped my phone and cracked the screen. Not fun but not the end of the world. My phone is a company phone, and you can get 1 replacement a year, so I was able to go into the office and get a phone from the used inventory of phones. Easy peasy.

Then in March {during the early days of quarantine}, Trent dropped my phone on a Pokemon Go walk...and REALLY broke the screen. I was super annoyed, but I couldn't really be mad at him, since I'd just replaced it because I broke it. BUT it also meant I wasn't eligible for a replacement for another year.

For the last 7 months, I have just used my busted phone. I said as long as I could read, which I could...with just a little difficulty, I would be ok. Then my brother-in-law told me how he was able to change his phone screen himself when he accidentally drove over it with a golf cart. I thought it sounded a lot better to spend $20 on a screen and replace it myself than either a) continuing to use a broken phone or b) spending hundreds of dollars to pay someone else.

I ordered the replacement screen, and on Sunday, my sister and I very slowly took apart my phone. We watched a YouTube video and followed it step-by-step. It was relatively easy to take it apart, except for some screws that would NOT come out. Some screws took us 30 minutes to get out. After 2.5 hours, when it was time to go home, we had my phone apart and were about halfway through putting it back together.

At home, I continued working on it for another hour and finally got it all put back together! I felt so proud of myself...until it wouldn't turn on. Womp, womp. Brent found a video about this exact situation, but none of the fixes they offered worked, and I was NOT about to take it apart again.

Monday I took it to a repair place and found out...it wasn't salvageable. NOOOOO! I was so upset. I now have to buy a new phone {with my own money, instead of getting it from my company} when I could have waited just 3 more months to get a new one. 

Moral of the story: don't listen to your brother-in-law!

Now I'm off to shop for a new iPhone.