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So, while I do the normal parental monitoring, make my kids get exercise and technology-less life experiences, I kind of feel like a hypocrite. Like my mouth is saying, ‘Put down that tablet/phone/video game and go play outside!” but my mind is saying, “Oooh, I can’t wait to see what my DVR has in store tonight!” Or "Play a board game together!" says the mouth but “Damn you Words With Friends, I need better letters!” chimes in my mind.
Right now, I’m only one or two Apple products away from having half a bushel. Okay, I’m exaggerating. I’d need at least everything other than the phone and tablet to make an entire bushel. Although….I am eyeing the watch, which, let’s face it, is completely stupid for a working mother of four with introvert tendencies who enjoys sitting in pajama pants at home with a book or the aforementioned bestie, DVR, most of the time.
Yet I still want it.
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| Because what I really need is another gadget hooked up to my iTunes account, right? |
Come on, tell me you haven’t seen the commercials and thought, ‘Wow, that’s one cool little gadget. I really want one.” Oh, you haven’t? Hmm, maybe you aren’t as connected to your inner child as I seem to be. My inner child downs marshmallow cereal, chocolate milk, and screams, “I want it” on every toy commercial that comes on between my Saturday morning cartoons. Well, at least if those toys are cool electronic gadgets that I feel that I MUST own. And the cartoons are actually prime time dramadies or sitcoms. And the marshmallow cereal is uh, something more grown up and sophisticated like candy corn or mint cookie ice cream or something.
Sadly, it’s not even limited to just Apple products either.
Take the Vivofit wrist thingy. I first saw it used on The Biggest Loser. Then I started to see the commercials. Since I constantly struggle with my weight (Read: I love eating a lot more than I love exercising) I figured that this thing would be an amazing thing for me. Get me moving! Get me motivated…..wait, what? Ninety nine freaking dollars? Ok, maybe I can motivate myself since that costs me zero dollars. Now, of course, as is the way with all things technological, there are plenty of other similar type products on the market. (I don’t have any of them, but I DO have an amazing collection of pins on Pinterest that tell me about awesome workouts designed to get into shape that I never again look at after I pin them, so I feel like it all washes itself out in the end.)
So we have the “grown up” tech that I adore, like the tablets, DVR genie, GPS and satellite radio. But there's also the “kid tech” which not only do my kids want, sometimes I want too. Case in point: The PS4. Now, we have the PS3, so really, this isn’t a big leap for us. The marketing a-holes know that if they only make the cool games for the PS4, it'll it’s kinda forcing our hand to upgrade. Which wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t like a gajillion dollars for a PS4. Alright, alright, it’s only like $400. But still. Damn. That’s a lot of moola. Needless to say, we’re still in the “Let’s hope the PS4 fairy really exists and one day we will wake up to find one in our living room.” phase of buying right now. Or the “Maybe Santa will give his elves a huge Christmas bonus this year and they will feel extra jolly and start raining down awesome game systems of joy upon the little people" phase. Hey... maybe those marketing, uh, geniuses, will lower the price so that all of us techies who are jonesing for their next upgrade fix can afford their electronics habit.
Until then, visions of sugarplums, Vivofit bands, and Apple watches will dance in my head.
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