Texts from Me to Me

On the bus, on my way home from work, I started looking for some “important information” that I had stored on my phone.   How was it stored, you ask?  Well, as text messages, of course!   So who was texting me this "important information"?  Me!  Yes, that’s right.  I texted the information to myself!   Am I the only one who texts information to themselves?   Why do people (by people, I mean family and friends!) look at me like I’m crazy when I say “just wait, I texted it to myself” or "just wait, I need to text something to myself"?  What I discovered, the other day on the bus, was that the only thing crazy about texting to myself is the content of those texts!  Settle down, it's not that kind of text!  It was rather amusing and most some of it made little sense to me.  I know, I know…something doesn’t make sense to me…that’s shocking!  :)

I thought it might be fun to share my texts from Me to Me with You and You.  Doesn’t that sound like fun?  Keep reading, you’ll enjoy it!  If you don’t, well, you’ve only wasted a few minutes of your time (like you haven’t already wasted hours reading my blog so what’s a few more minutes?).

Here's a screen shot of my iPhone as proof of the conversations that occur between Me and Me:

These are some random texts I’ve sent from Me to Me for your reading pleasure along with my crude remarks commentary (FYI - the typos are in the text messages not in this blog!):

• Level 1 A-E  (I can never remember where I park so I send myself a text)
• Mill Street Lemon Tea Beer (I must have forgotten that I texted this to myself because I still haven’t tried it!)
• Journey from zanskar (???)
• TVO Sunday 8pm – Stephen Hawking (I probably didn't watch it because I forgot!)
• Natur Wednesday 8pm – Bear Island (I probably meant Nature Channel…I hate it when I find typos in my texts from Me to Me!)
• Door code 562 (If I didn’t text the code to myself, I’d never know how to get in my office!  P.S.  The code has since changed.)
• Level 1 J1 (I’d never find my parked car if it wasn’t for my texts from Me to Me!)
• I want to say hey, I don’t want this geeling to end, anything can happen on a night like this lyrics (I was probably in the car – sorry but I used to text and drive but not anymore – and was listening to a song on the radio that I wanted to download so I texted the lyrics to myself)
• Shawn Desmond night like this (Well what d'ya know....the DJ came on at the end of the song and gave me the name of the song and artist.  Go figure!)
• Eaarth by bill mcgibbon (I believe this is a book that Nan recommended…still haven’t read it!)
• Level 1 A-E  (Duh!)
• Peaches, bananas, berries, hot dog buns, yellow beans, cilantro (grocery list!)
• Book – The art of devotion (bought it but never read it…my life story!)
• Purple ribbon, proactiv and satellite (if I remember correctly, this is a list of things I needed to bring to BFF’s before the wedding – satelitte?)
• Her hatred of doing dishes (a definite reference to BFF!)
• Sweater or shawl in case you get gold (a reminder for BFF at the rehearsal dinner or for the wedding…not sure...in case she gets gold?)
• Appreciate gg and glee (a definite reference to BFF’s honey)
• Andy was practically in diapers (I’m starting to think that these were my thoughts for my Maid of Honor speech at BFF’s wedding)
• Grace before dinner? (question to ask BFF about her wedding)
• Stories of motherhood – our daughters have grown up together (yup, definitely notes for my speech…I think I’m going to start crying!)
• We cried and we laughed together (I’m starting to tear up….)
• May the force be with you (oh the memories!)
• Live long and prosper (I seriously needed to text these last two texts to myself because I'm not a Star Trekkie nor a Star Warsie so when these funny tidbits for my speech came to me - possibly in a dream! - I didn't want to forget them)

I think I’ll need to skip the next few texts because they are all notes from my speech, and I will seriously start to cry if I piece the speech together again.  Moving on...

• Parking P1 section 3E (I think when BFF makes her speech at my wedding, she’s definitely going to have to read through my texts from Me to Me for some good “make fun of me” material.  Speaking of making fun of me, she's probably laughing at me right now thinking "Tracey talking about getting married" now that's something to laugh about!)
• D4 miss tight winkles across from escalators (okay, sadly this is another reference to help me find my parked car but I obviously had a few typos…how the heck did I manage to find my car near miss tight winkles?)
• Jeggings size 2 regular tinted medium wash and dark indigo wash $59.50 (Size 2…obviously not for me!)
• Sri chinmoy (bless you!)
• Questions regarding iMac: hard drive – same specs as old one? Install new OS? Still compatible with Microsoft Office software (my list of items to discuss at the Apple Store when our iMac needed some TLC)
• D2 peoples (another parking reference…this cracks me up!  Yes, I realize I’m probably the only one laughing.  I can’t believe you’re still reading!)
• Beres tokji Hungarian wine (interesting selection but why bother when nothing beats my favourite…Yellow Label Shiraz!)
• Savare or foreigh affair winery (what the hell?)
• Ripesso (???)
• Shiraz fielding (was I reading a wine magazine?)
• Michael Helm (was he my blind date?)
• Door code 314 (can I remember anything?)
• Digital mammogram, ultrasound, breast tomosynthesis (am I now a med student?)
• Do media lead or reflect what exists? (interesting thought…stolen or original?  Who knows???)
• The Thin Place, Refresh, The Happiness Project, Panini cookbook (book wish list? I’ve read 1 out of 4 but own 2 out of 4)
• When things fall apart by pema chodron (???)
• P215/60R16 (I think this has something to do with tires but I’m not sure if it’s tires on my bike or my car)
• Fat32 (what?)
• Mayah vet 3:40 Wednesday (I’m now sending myself reminder texts for appointments? Why not just add it to the calendar on my phone?  That’s too smart for an idiot-savant genius!)
• Harpervartitac (???)
• Buttersop (???)
• Book – Song of Solomon (on my to be read list!)
• Wifi work – 0101010101010101010101010101010101010 (there were different numbers but again, it seems my texts have turned into data storage)
• 134/80 blood pressure (am I dying?)
• Echo design iPhone gloves (very cool but I never bought them…I’d love to use my iPhone in the winter without freezing my fingers!)
• “Nailed it” (not only is this a bizarre statement but it’s also in quotation marks…I’m weird!)
• Fiscally conservative and socially progressive (that’s my ideal political party…besides communism!)
• Puffy and pife (???)
• Patrick White (riders) book (never read it!)
• What up? (I’m getting scared…am I sending myself a text asking me “what up?”)
• Awesomeness (wow…now I’m sending myself texts that describe me!)
• It’s going to be – wait for it – legen…dary (my favourite quote from “How I Met Your Mother”)
• Relationship ectomy (another med school term?)
• CBC geek logic and bad decision (possibly a radio program that I was listening to and wanted to remember?)
• Coallest (making up words?)

At this point, I start texting myself ideas for my blog so I’ll skip over these texts because you’ve probably already read it in my blog since you’ve read EVERY blog post (right?). 

• Me wearing skinny jeans – oxymoron? (this is the funniest text message from Me to Me.  An insulting text to myself…I love it!)
• Those clothes are pre-worn…ewwwwwwwwww (no clue why I texted this to myself but it obviously meant something to me at some point)
• Possimpeble (either I’m trying to make up new words or it’s from “How I Met Your Mother”)
• Banana bread vs banana loaf (I believe this was an ingenious idea for a blog post but it never happened or they are names of wrestlers…definitely an intriguing topic for a future blog post!)
• Or banana bread loaf (now I’m on to something…I can’t believe I never blogged about this!!!)
• You have to find a way to connect to the story.  Advice to Sarah re: King Lear (I can’t even remember the advice I want to give to my own daughter so I have to text it to myself?  Motherly advice regarding Shakespeare…I think I’ll start a parenting blog!)
• When you consider the possibiilituwa ie hypothesis quantum physics.  Einstein. Then should is okay.  (What the hell was I thinking?  A physicist must have taken over my body and sent "herself", aka ME, a text.)
• Is math real or discovered?  (wow…the thoughts that run through this crazy head of mine!)
• Pa Pa tree fruit are good for you.  To encourage fruit you need cross pollination you need another tree (strange…sex ed for trees?)
• My pathology – if you don’t want me then I don’t want to be wanting you (must have been right after my therapy session!)
• Petrie dish (hmmmm…I wonder what this means? Was I preparing for a new science experiment? Maybe I was going to try to cross pollinate seeds from the Pa Pa tree?)
• Vicksburg vapo rub (I think I meant to type Vicks but the phone auto-corrected…this was the product I was looking for at the pharmacy for my shoulder.  I believe I blogged about it.)
• Book to re-read: The Chrysalids (never re-read it…actually, I don’t even remember reading it!)
• 1714  (probably my lover’s my hotel room number…yes, I’d probably forget that too!)
• Chai Chiller = organic chai, coconut milk, banana, soy milk, nutmeg, cinnamon (yummy drink I tried at Refresh…need to make it!)
• Mango salad roll, spring roll, dumplings, won ton soup, fried vermicelli with bean sprouts and soya sauce (man, now I’m hungry!)
• Annabel Lyon – The Golden Mean (bought it…didn’t read it YET! I said “yet”, okay?)
• Virseum (Geez…I hope it’s not something dirty because I have no idea.  Another word that I made up?)

I’m embarrassed to tell you this but there have been many more parking references which I have chosen to ignore but I thought I’d let you know that there are many more…my memory hasn’t improved over time (just in case you were wondering!). 

• Room 1213  (no comment! just kidding!!!)

There are many references to our trip to Vancouver but since I still intend on writing a blog post about our trip to the West Coast, I’ll skip those texts. 

• Cheese, hummus, Havarti, tortillas (Costco list!)
• Books – indigo, women of the way, rebel buddha (I didn’t buy any of them!  Proud of me?)
• Maltesers 165g ($3.99) Whoppers 113g ($1.49) (I was collecting data for an upcoming blog post!)
• Endless dock syndrome (if you read my blog posts, you’ll understand this text…I didn’t want to forget what Sarah named it! Yes, she has the brains in our family.)
• Figure out what you want and learn to ask for it (sounds like advice someone gave me but who?)
• Nnnnblohg laughter (I was listening to CBC Radio and decided I wanted to write a blog post about laughter so I asked my brother to send me a text…from my phone to me but his fingers kept hitting the “n” instead of the “b”.)
• Lollygag perNitious (to be incorporated into an upcoming blog post, right bro?)

So what have I discovered about myself?  Or better yet…what have you discovered about me?  What do my texts from Me to Me reveal about Me?  I'm a dork.  I’m weird.  I’m strange.  I have zero memory capacity left in my brain.  I love books (to buy, not read!).  I’d forget what I need at the grocery store if I couldn’t text myself a list.  I wouldn’t remember what books I wanted to buy (and not read!) if I couldn’t text the name of the books to myself.  I probably wouldn’t have written a speech for BFF’s wedding if it wasn’t for piecing together all of my text messages from Me to Me.  My car would be in parking garage purgatory if it wasn’t for the texts I sent myself!

What did I ever do before I had my iPhone?  Did I manage to pick up everything I needed at the store?  Was I ever able to find my car?  The scary thing is that I don’t remember sending these texts to myself so I can’t help but wonder “what kind of texts do I send to other people?”  Settle down, I'm not talking about the texts I send when I'm drunk-texting :P

I’m curious…do you ever send texts from You to You?  If yes, what was the strangest text you ever sent yourself?  Go ahead, look at your phone and then share your text(s) with us.  Come on, I can’t be the only dork who sends texts to herself!  Also, if you can make sense of the texts that I put question marks next to, feel free to educate me :)

Happy texting (to yourself, of course!)

P.S.  Is it wrong that I get excited when my phone rings to alert me that I have a new text message?   Even if that new text is from Me :)