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| The original. My was red. |
Ok, so there are not many things in my life, (other than people) that have stayed constant since I started college. I've moved from Victorville to the OC. I moved three times in college- each time gathering and throwing away what I would need in my next living space. Then the BIG move came and I stuffed everything I owned in my little Honda Accord and drove it to Indiana. In the two years I was in grad school I moved 5 times, in and out of residence halls, in and out of temporary living spaces, and finally back to So Cal- only this time I moved across country with a fiancée, our cars stuffed full and my Honda towing a trailer. (Yeah!)
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| Got me through college. |
Then came more res life living where Joe and I moved 2 more times in 3 years (well I guess 3 times because we did not stay in our Colorado apartment long.) And now FINALLY almost 3 years ago... we have settled. Bought a house, got a yard, garage, private laundry room (only res life people will understand the NEED for this.), and its our to paint, decorate, and enjoy!
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| First flip phone. |
I digress....back to my original statement (I just had to, for myself, list my history of moving) not many items, possessions, or places have stayed the same in the last 10+ years for me.... except for one thing. My cell phone number. Yes, that's right people, I, in all of my adventures, have had the same cell phone number since I started college and pretty much since the beginning of owning a cell phone. See, cell phone use got really popular when I moved to college and by the time I was done 4 years later, I didn't own a land line. And so because of the fact that it has been with me so long I'm a little attached. Actually ALOT.
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| My first Motorola Phone. Made me a motorola lover! |
Here is why... the phone has been my main source of communication throughout all changes. Its was my facebook before facebook. It's how I learned about lives of others. It's how I stayed connected to family when I was in the middle of nowhere. Living far away never seemed as far when I could pick up the phone and here a voice almost instantly. And let's face it. I like to talk :-) And even now, its where I get messages and pictures about friends lives all across the country.
Joe laughs at me because there are a few things in my life I get attached to and when they are said and done I get a little emotional. Like my first credit card. It was an Anaheim Mighty Ducks credit card, I got on my own, at the only Ducks hockey game I have ever been to. I learned to manage finances on that card and it was mine. All mine. So when Joe and I combined our lives financially there was no need for the card anymore. And I cried when we cut it up.
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| Razr! |
And now we are back to the cell phone number. I'm getting a work phone and no longer have a need for a personal cell phone which means for the first time in 10+ years my phone number will change. Now, I believe that I am pretty adaptable when it comes to change and in most of my life, I embrace it.
HOWEVER, THIS. IS. NOT. ONE. OF. THOSE. TIMES.
Joe constantly shares with me all of my technology options for keeping a 714 area code, or making a cool number up through Google Voice, and that Google Voice has visual voice mail and cool text messaging features. BLAH. It's not the same. It never will be.
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| LOVED this phone! I spilled water on it and it never recovered. |
And so I have to say goodbye to what feels like an old friend, a companion, and accept a very hard change. This is the quote I say to my students "the only thing constant in change." Why did I ever think my cell number would be any different? I probably will cry as I hit send on the text message and emails that will go out with my new number and in a few years it won't matter to me as much. But in this day in life, where moving has been more constant than staying put, and life has open, written, and closed chapters, I think you have to find something to stay the same. Little did I know that the number I was assigned in 2000 would last this long and mean so much.
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| Had to get because of the water spill. Did not like. |
UPDATE!!!
Google Voice is amazing! You can actually port your cell phone numbers to a Google Voice number and then the number is yours now and forever more!!!! So this is what I have done. No need to say goodbye to what feels like an old friend! At last is MINE!
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| I went to a crackberry for awhile... but secretly I always wanted an iphone. |
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And then I found my Droid X.... iphone, what Iphone?
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Hope you enjoyed the history of my cell phones through pictures. There was one at the end of college that I could not find a picture of. It's crazy how much cell phones have changed!! For fun, in your free time, try to think about all the cell phones you may have owned. Can you find pictures of them?
