OH REALLY, APPLE!?

I bought a new iTouch back in April.  I started downloading some music and using iMessage to text for free with all my iPhone friends.  It was great.  I was perfectly happy.  Then one day, I went to plug it in and I noticed it was quite difficult to get the charger in.  But it went in, charged up fine, life went on.  The next time I went to plug it in the little black bar thingy broke right off and it wouldn't connect to the charger.  I couldn't charge it at all.  Bummer.  It's less than 6 mos old.

So I call up Apple support, and Corey hooked me up.  It "sounded" like something that is "probably" still under warranty.  He sent me an overnight shipping box to ship my broken iTouch to the repair center.  Yay, my iTouch is going to be fixed!  Could it really be this easy?  Of course not.  Apple repair center sent me an email that their technician had inspected the unit and "determined" the damage to be from "misuse".  They will be shipping my iTouch back to me unrepaired with further information.  OH REALLY, APPLE!?  Plugging in your iTouch is now considered "misuse"?  Another addition to my electronics graveyard.

I've never been a big Apple fan.  I've always been on the fence with their products.  I've never understood how to use iTunes.  I've always hated how they just have to put their close button(s) on the LEFT side of all their computer applications. But I have definitely fallen off the fence on the side of GO SCREW YOURSELF AND YOUR STUPID ASS PRODUCTS APPLE!  You just lost a customer that didn't even like you in the first place.  Your loss.

The pumpkin patch

Jill had this homework the other night where she had to write a story about a pumpkin.  Her teacher had given the kids some examples of what to write about.  "How to carve a pumpkin" or "Picking a pumpkin from a pumpkin patch".  Jill comes home and tells me, "I asked my teacher 'what else can I write about?  I've never been to a pumpkin patch'".  I said, Jillian, of course you've been to a pumpkin patch, child!  She said, no I haven't.  So I thought about it and I realized MY KIDS HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A PUMPKIN PATCH!  OMG, am I the worst mother ever?  What kind of childhood have I been giving my children?  Yes, I'm exaggerating.  But pumpkin patches are just not that big around South Florida.  Once in a while you'll see one on the side of the road.  Usually as part of a church or something.  And they're like $30 a pumpkin.  Uh, no thanks.

I can't remember the last time we carved a pumpkin for Halloween.  Not a big fan of Halloween.

But my goodness, I cannot let my kids grow up and never remember going to a pumpkin patch.  Although, I don't EVER remember going to a pumpkin patch as a kid.  Needless to say, we'll be stopping at one of those roadside pumpkin patches in our very near future, but I am NOT buying a $30 pumpkin!!  But I WILL post a cute pic of Jill in a pumpkin patch.

Single parenting

So I've been thinking a lot about this term lately.  I have referred to myself as a "single mom" a few times recently, but really, I feel like it's insulting to the real single Moms out there.  The Moms who don't have a husband/partner at all to "tag team" with.  The Moms who have no family near to babysit to have a night out with their girlfriends (or alone) to get away from the kids.  The Moms who don't have a trustworthy neighbor to leave their kids with when they just want to run to the grocery store for 10 min.  I have all of these things.  How dare I refer to myself as a "single Mom".  I'm not doing this by myself.

There should be a new term, individual parenting.  Because there is a BIG difference between single parenting and individual parenting.