So it’s been almost a full work week since I lost my phone and so far, I haven’t broken into tears. I did go through a few hours of detox symptoms and admittedly, I have missed being able to call friends and family at will but all told, I think I’m doing alright. I’m learning to unplug at night, albeit by force, but sometimes that’s exactly what breaking an addiction takes. The day before yesterday I actually sat out on my deck and enjoyed the weather and canine company for about 20 minutes before guests arrived. Any normal day I would have been Tweeting, Facebooking, and Whrrling until I had to scramble to get the grill fired up and cooking. I actually relaxed for a minute.

What’s the hardest part? My personal challenge has been the weather. With a soft top jeep in top-down mode, its typically a good idea to stay abreast of the weather from day to day. With my phone, this wasn’t a problem. Pop up Weather Underground on the way through the garage and bam – the top stays down today but I will have to have it up before tomorrow morning. Plans made. Now, I guess I’m just lucky the weather has been nice. The windows have been out for a week and so far, no rain. I do however keep them in the back just in case.

In writing this I just checked my beloved Weather Underground and it looks like we’re top-down until Sunday morning. It’s going to be a good weekend.

What’s the plan now? Since I’m up for upgrade in August, I’m not going to drop a pile of cash on a new iPhone. with any luck the new one will be available then and it will definitely be back on. Until then, sadly I do need a phone so I think I’ll go old school. @TheMrsThornton and I have a pile of old phones in a drawer in the kitchen… hmmm, I wonder if my old clam shell is still in there. That would be the throw-back of the decade.

Have any pointers on breaking the digital addiction? I’d love to hear them. Cold turkey seems to be working but it’s by no means ideal.