Post-it Maniac

Yes, I do use all these Post-its. Do you like Post-it notes?

Easy Lock

   The power at my house goes out all the time. Mostly because people don't know how to drive. There is a very poorly planned intersection right outside my neighborhood, and people don't seem to understand the signs that say DO NOT TURN ON RED in big letters, or the fact that lanes with yellow lines going across are not their own personal turning lanes. If you can see where I'm going with this, people get in accidents a lot. Usually, while they are in the process of crashing they seem to think, hey there's a lovely pole over their with wires attached to it, let me crash into that. So, then my neighborhood loses power, and no body is happy.

   Anyway, what I'm getting at here is that I can't use my wonderful garage door opener when the power is out, so I'm stuck pulling out a key. I'm horrible at using keys, absolutely horrible. Nine times out of ten, I don't even have my key with me, because I've either forgot the chain it's on, or I lost it. So, I'm stuck trying to find a key wherever my mother might have hidden one. Once I finally find the key, I fumble with the bags in my hand and can't put the key in the hole. I'm uncoordinated. 

   When I found this wonderful invention, I sat in amazement for a few seconds. No really, I did. This door lock creates a funnel for the key to go down. It allows you to simply guide the key to the lock, and making it much easier to open the door. Especially if you are me.

   Needless to say, I will be buying a door lock like this whenever I have my own house. My dad might make fun of me, but at least I'll be able to get into my house without swearing and cussing.

   Do you have problems opening doors or am I just alone here?

Who doesn't have a cellphone?

   It’s hard to imagine a time where we didn't have the choice of simply picking up the phone and calling our best friend, our mothers, or customer service when something goes wrong. This is especially true for those of us known as Generation X or Y. Even my mother, a baby boomer sometimes says, “What did we do before telephones were invented?” Let's face it, once upon a time people didn't have land lines, or cellphones, or smartphones. They simply wrote a letter, put a stamp on it, and sent it via the mail.

   Telephones have drastically changed our day to day lives. They make our lives so much easier because we can call anyone we want, anytime, anywhere. Phones make it possible to call our friend to just talk about the weather, to contact a loved one visiting another country, to call in sick from work.

   From where they started, telephones have definitely evolved and possibly even consumed our lives. Land lines have been updated and evolved into cellphones. Once cellphones looked like bricks and now they have been transformed into sleek touch phones that have so many gadgets and gizmos that people rarely even use their phones to call people.

   Phones now contain apps, internet, email, cameras, facebook, twitter, tumblr, games, anything you can think of. Above all things, people now use their phones to text more than anything else. Be honest, haven’t you ever seen those teenagers walking through the store, face glued to their phone about to run into something? Heck, my own mother was texting at the dinner table last night even after yelling at my sister and me so many times. After all, why call people when you can just send a text?