Rough week for my phone

My phone has seen better days. I should have known it was gonna be a rough week, when my phone decided to dive into the toilet. I know, people reading this will think I’m joking about it ‘diving.’ Seriously though, I was getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth, in the bathroom. My phone was next to the sink (granted, not the best place for it) I hear a splash, and bam look in the toilet, there is my phone. Somehow it fell off the edge. I choose to believe it was somehow pushed by ghosts, or just has a death wish. Anyway, it was dead. It spent the next 1.5 days in a baggie filled with rice. What do you know, that stuff actually works. My phone was revived.

Just chillin' in some rice

Fast forward two days. I was getting out of the car and my phone slipped from my fingers, landing face first on the pavement. Keep in mind, I’ve dropped my phone probably 50 or 60 times, never done anything but scratched it or chipped. This must have been the perfect storm of height, angle, pressure, face area hit, etc. Because the below image is what I am left with.

It will works, so I’m plowing through with the phone. Besides it looking a little white-trash, it works. I can hold off awhile.

Just wanted to point out, it’s been a rough week for my phone.

‘I Choose Us’

I was in the cardio cinema the other day at Gold's Gym. The Family Man with Nicholas Cage was playing. This is a movie I have seen many times and even though i'm not a Cage fan, I think the movie is great and has a really good storyline and message.

In one of the final scenes the two main characters, Jack and Kate (Tea' Leoni and Nicholas Cage are having a discussion. I won't go into all the details, but at the end Kate just tell's Jack, 'I choose us... i'm willing to move our kids to the city, uproot them from a home we became a family in, and do whatever it is you need to do, because I love you and I choose us Jack.'

Let's be honest, i'm a single person. I've never been married, so i'm not going to wax philosophical about being married, or pretend to know how hard it is to make a marriage work. I will say this though, I love this line. For some reason even though i have seen the show many times, it really struck me hard as I was running on the treadmill in that darkened cinema, and really made me think. What a great sentiment--'I choose us.'

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I think that is what needs to happen. In a marriage all other selfishness needs to fall to the wayside. You need to care about your spouse enough to 'choose us' fight for what it is you fell in love with in the first place. Don't choose yourself, choose them.

That's it... hope all you married people out there 'choose us.'