Text messages.

As if we haven't made our world convenient enough, we add txting. It really is quite intriguing-being able to communicate via text messages. You don't even have to call people anymore. You can arrange your plans, find out when to meet, say you're running late, save me a seat all without TALKING! You can send pic messages of what you're wearing to see if it looks okay. Definitely Makes life a lot easier; a little more impersonal though. Relationships nowadays are based on txt messages. There are pros & cons to this. First off, as a girl, you're like, "Um, excuse me, you can't even CALL me!?" Secondly, you think, "Phew. It's so much easier not really having to talk to him." I consider the ability of being able to text, kind of like a savior. Having OCD and anxiety (Thanks, Dad & Grandma Peg!), I get nervous being early or waiting on people to arrive. I don't even like for people to see me waiting in my car because I feel like it's awkward when I see someone just sitting in their car. Naturally, I expect them to react the same way. Txt messages take my mind off being nervous because I look like I'm doing something. I'm not the only one; my cousin is a freshman in college, and she txts me all the time on her way to class. Seeing the homestretch of my college career, you'd think I wouldn't care what these little 'kids' thought about me. Oops. I haven't jumped that hurdle yet.

You know, even my Grandma Dora and I txt (the Hispanic one), so we communicate using my second language-Spanish. I'm not really sure how old she is because she's been 65 for about 8 years now. Ha. She is in her 70s, working 40+ hrs a week in the hospital. She's transferred from her scrub nurse position to central sterile (where the autoclaves are to clean instruments). To this day, she is getting phone calls every week with job offers as an interpreter. AMAZING- the one word I use to describe her. I do joke a lot about the Mexican thing and us always eating tortillas and papas, but she sincerely is the best woman I know. A little bit of an enabler, but she means well. She made her way through nursing school in TX with six children and a husband who was a no call, no show a lot of the time. Working keeps her sane. She's feisty, no doubt. I remember doing rotations during school at the hospital in the OR and spending time with her. One of the doctors commented on how she used to be the most beautiful woman around (HELLO, a señorita!) She fires back with, "I still am!!"

I helped some Hispanics translate in line at Wal-Mart today. It wasn't much, but still made me excited. Actually, no, the cashier was just being lazy. They were buying a big bag of limes, in which the cashier could have easily opened the bag to look. Instead, she tries to speak English to this couple who obviously does not comprehend. After the 5 semesters of Spanish, I only get to say ¿Limones, no?...As expected, there were limes in the bag. So, I didn't save the world or anything, but I'm working on it:)