Phone Tales

One day last week I was working at my desk as usual with my phone nearby and my middle son who's in 9th grade calls, which is unusual since he only calls or texts at the end of the day when he needs a ride home from sports.

He say, "Mom, I'm calling to let you know that someone had their phone stolen at school and my backpack got searched and of course there was nothing in it, so I will see you later, OK?"

Me: "OK, bye".  Thinking: Well, I will pump him for all those details later.

So the minute he got home I got the scoop.  He was in math class and there were about 20 minutes left and the students sit in single desks all facing the front.  a couple rows behind him and toward the left a girl announces that her phone is missing.  She had put her iphone on her desk during a quiz .......and suddenly realized it was gone.  The teacher then said he needed to call Administration and when the assistant principal got there (he is known to the students as "Sherlock Holmes" as he is the one involved in these kinds of investigational/law breaking issue) he asked for everyone around Stolen Phone Girl's radius to stay and everyone else to go on to their next class which was starting soon.

Then of the remaining students, three at a time they had to go into the AP's office and have their backpack searched.  One girl student who was to the Stolen Phone Girl's left and behind, was very vocal in denial and she was known to have frequent in-school suspensions for stealing these, etc.

My son was the last to be called in for a search and in the meantime he missed Spanish class and was starving and had to use the restroom he said more terribly than known to humankind.  Afterwards is when he was told to call his parent and state what he said when he called me.  He never heard the results of the Stolen Phone, but these were my/Hubs' thoughts:

--Did anyone call the phone to find it (yes, but it was on silent)
--Why was her phone OUT of her backpack to begin with (our son said this same question to himself and the girl was asked and she said she had no pockets but not sure why it wasn't kept in backpack.  If you knew that Reputation of Thief Girl was sitting nearby, why have it out??)
--Was there a test or something going on in Spanish class that you missed (No).
--Is someone at school allowed to search your backpack? (Hubs asked this.  Apparently they are).

BTW, in the fall this son had just gotten his new cross country sweatshirt and set it down for 5 mins and it was ripped off.  I asked him the other night if a teacher was able to make everyone freeze and find it but it was afterschool.  Also this same son left his (non-running) shows in the building one day when he was waiting for us to pick him up and they were never to be seen again and being the toughie I am, I am not replacing them.

Onto the next phone tale....

Hubs and I have had the iPhone 3 for almost two years.  We are behind the times.  I don't care about phones too much as I am on the phone and computer all day for work and frankly don't have the time to think about my phone much.  But Hubs had a fit the other day when Pandora acted up so we went to the AT&T store and walked out with the iPhone 4 for $ .99 each and an appt at the Apple store for two nights later.

Friday night we had a technology date at the Apple store in the mall.  I felt old and awkward that we brought in new iPhone 4's but our young tech rep got us all fixed up with some info and transferred my phone photos onto our laptop that we brought in.  He showed me some photo tips and in the process he took a picture of me (with my permission) and showed me how it was then sent to the laptop.  

I am still in shock over the photo.

What The Hell Happened to me?

Why is it that occasionally I can put on make-up, fix my hair, wear jeans into some great boots I found, think I look not bad at all for 50...and then see a photo?  I did get some good genes that did their thing previously but these same genes are the culprit of a neck that is horrid and a face that has fallen.  Sure I have some good things left for my age.  People exclaim positively over my fingernails.  I have long legs, particularly the thighs.

My sedentary and stressful months have maybe added to the downfall and although I have heard that a few extra pounds my be good for the face maybe that isn't true for me.  

You know I cook all the time for these 4 guys, right?  And that includes desserts--these guys have no body fat.  But I have stopped eating dessert cold turkey.  I am saying that I won't have dessert stuff for 30 days.  I also went out and bought new running shoes and spent 30 mins doing the walk/run/walk/run all around the n'hood using the timer on my New iPhone 4.

I guess it took that photo on my phone to motivate me.