A brief moment of non-zen

I woke up today with a rain cloud over my house. No...seriously, this isn't a metaphor. It was a cloudy and kind of drizzly day. So this only meant that outside play time was going to be drastically lowered today. Alex and Abby have become so used to being outside during almost every waking moment, that it is nearly impossible for them to enjoy the days without it. Not a problem for the most part. But today it was only about 60 degrees in the morning and I didn't feel like breaking the pants back out. So they got to stay inside and enjoy the boredom that is our house. I was actually hoping that it would do good for Alex's allergies. They have been in a full blown uproar these past weeks. Poor kid. Claritin and Xopenex nearly every day. It's a curse, I swear that it is. I always find myself wishing that it would be me with the issues. At least, as an adult, I could understand why it was happening to me. But alas, this isn't how it panned out. So on to my moment of non-zen.

In his attempt to make as much mischief as he can so as to rebel against his outside ban, Alex decided to climb up to where I was charging my new cell phone. Before I go on, let me say that I love my new cell phone. It is merely a Net10 phone but could have fun ringtones on it. I had a Star Wars one and a Transformers background. It was my own little personal phone. (Can you see where this is leading?) So he unplugged it from the wall and before I could get to him, he snapped the charger from the phone and pulled the guts out of it, making it forever unchargable. Nice, right? Well, at least I had a nice full battery of charge left on it until I could get a new phone to replace it, right? Yeah...not in a moment of non-zen. Josh got home and took it upon himself to attempt to restuff the pieces back into the phone. One cuss word, a bloody finger, and one dead phone later, my moment of non-zen was complete. Dead...gone...my happy little phone is no more than a fun new toy for the kids. Seriously people, as petty as it sounds, this really sucks. Well, Josh didn't like the idea of me gallavanting all over with two kiddos and no emergeny phone to call 911. So I got a new phone from the same stupid store I got this last one in hopes of it being the same and guess what? It isn't. It doesn't even have different ringtones as an option! What the fart!?! What kind of stupid phone these days doesn't have at least a list of 20 cheezy ringtones to choose from. Take it back to the store, right? No...I stupidly called Net10 to switch my minutes to it already before realizing the phone totally sucks. *sigh* Zen doesn't like me very much.