Back to the Future

Words that come from my kids mouths, that would never have come from mine at their age.......


"I didn't hear you my Ipod is on"

"Can I check who's calling?"

"Give me your phone and I'll call Dad and see if he is almost home"

"I'll just Google it"

"Can we rent a game for the Wii?"

"Did you feed my Webkinz?"

"Did a new movie come in the mail today?"

"Let's watch something that's Tivoed"

"Mom, did you burn the pictures to a disc yet?"

And the list goes on and on. Weird how much has changed in what seems like an incredibly short period of time. While my children ride in our car they can watch a DVD, talk on the phone, chat with each other over the wireless connection between their Nintendo's (this I can't even understand), listen to music on the Ipod which isn't any bigger than their pointer finger and it has all the music they need already on it or play with any number of small electronic devices.

Hmmm, let's see when I was a kid I once got carsick because I rode all the way to San Antonio on the floor of our suburban laying on a sleeping bag. I thought it was pretty cool. I had no games, entertainment systems or connection to the outside world. I did have my super cool yellow Sony sport Walkman. That thing was awesome, well it is awesome. I still have it. I don't use it now. I have a 30 GB Ipod I listen to now. When I remember to charge it. Ugh, the hassles of technology.

I also thought my green Canon 35 mm camera was awesome. Someone in New York now thinks of it as awesome. Probably a cab driver as that's where the love of my life left it. He brought me a green Polo sweater home from that trip. I wanted my camera. Now, I have a Canon Digital Rebel XT. I love it. It's amazing. I want a bigger, badder Canon camera, though. Maybe another guilt trip about my lost camera from 12 years ago would help speed that process along? My green Canon camera took film. Film that would hold 24 pictures at a time. My children have no concept of what any of the last two sentences mean. They speak "memory card".

Back in the day if you had a "car phone" you were loaded. I am pretty sure I saw a three year old with her own phone this week. My ten year is pretty convinced she's being neglected since we haven't yet purchased her her very own cell phone. Big news Miss Prissy Pants- ain't happenin'.

Once when I was home sick from school I was watching Wheel of Fortune with my grandmother and that was back when instead of just getting the money, when you won a round you "shopped" a specific room with your winnings. Well, this lady used her money to buy a VCR. This was when no one had a VCR. So, I believed that it was a machine that you hooked to your TV, typed in what you wanted to watch, and that appeared on your TV. I believed that I could get one of those and watch Facts of Life to my hearts content. That would have made a very, very happy girl. See, I sort-of invented Tivo. I love Tivo. I believe that Tivo may be the greatest invention of our generation. I do not ever want to watch television again without Tivo. Tivo is awesome, always awesome.