Always and Forever

I can come up with a song that fits any theme and any occasion.  So this might become a regular occurrence in my posts that I reference lyrics, and tonight, I would just like to join in Kip's refrain of "I love technology, but not as much as you, you see.  Always and forever.  Always and forever" (from the funniest movie of all time - Napoleon Dynamite -for those of you who didn't stay after the credits rolled and watched the bonus/additional ending).  

The connection between the song and my life currently is that I feel like I am going to DIE without my technology as I head off to Europe!  I am scared, because I can already feel the withdrawals coming on.  I've been told that missionaries that have been out over a year still hallucinate that their cell phone is ringing sometimes.  They should do psychological studies on this, because obviously we have all been classically conditioned to need our technology.  The stimulus is the technology, giving us positive outcomes, in the form of contact with someone that we like,  whenever we pay attention to the inanimate objects.  I personally check my email at least seven times a day.  I am completely addicted!  And lets not even begin to discuss my attachment to my phone.  It is my clock for pity's sake, and I wake up to it and check the time approximately thirty times a day without including all the times I flip it open to text or talk to someone.

I need a 12 step recovery program, but as of tomorrow, this whole going out of the country thing is forcing me to go cold turkey.  And its going to be painful.  But on a happier note, I am pretty sure that the bliss of traveling will definitely soften the blow.  Now if you will excuse me, I need to go find an alarm clock that functions only as an alarm clock, and dig my watch out of moth balls :)