They Paved Paradise...

Do you remember that old Joni Mitchell (also done by Amy Grant) song "Big Yellow Taxi"? I must confess that when I was younger, I thought the lyrics said "a pink paradise and put up a parking lot". Totally doesn't make sense, but I didn't think about that when I was young. I also didn't know that it was originally done by Joni Mitchell. I always thought it was an Amy Grant song. Since I'm confessing... until I just double-checked my information for this post, I thought the line was "they paint paradise...". So, it wasn't until a few minutes ago, that I realized that the line actually reads "they PAVED paradise..."

Now that I have a clear conscience about that whole deal, I can get on with the real point of my post. I have been thinking of that song a lot today, because of a line in the song... a completely different line than I just spent a paragraph discussing. I've actually been thinking a lot about the line which states "that you don't know what you've got til its gone". Really, this is silly. But, I have been missing my bluetooth, of all things! When I was pregnant, my hubby told me he was going to get me a bluetooth, because he thought it would be safer for me to be talking with a bluetooth on my ear than trying to hold a phone and drive or hold a phone and change a diaper, etc. I debated with him for weeks, telling him that I didn't need one and that we didn't need to spend the money on a "convenience item". Shortly thereafter, he got a bonus at work. What did he do with it? He bought me a bluetooth. I reluctantly agreed to just use it since he had already purchased it for me.

Well, wouldn't you know that I grew rather accustomed to that little piece of plastic heaven. And, when that precious "convenience item" went berzerk on me and stopped working, I was annoyed. It was just so inconvenient to have to actually hold a phone again. (sarcastic violin music here).

The good news is that we keep documentation of just about everything. (Thanks, mom, for teaching me the importance of that). So, we looked and realized that I hadn't even had the bluetooth for a year. My sweet hubby called Motorola and explained the problem and how my bt wasn't working any longer. After following the "return goods process", I received my new bluetooth in the mail last week! Free of charge! And it is wonderful! I didn't know I'd miss it until I no longer had it available to me. Yes, I could live without it. But, as my husband says, "But isn't it nice to have it?" Sure is!