the jetsons

do you ever imagine what it would be like to be yourself at age ten, looking over your shoulder into your life today? maybe i'm the only one, but i think i would be AMAZED. and no, not at the fact that i was married, living in a great house with two dogs and a beautiful son. nope, because those are things i was definitely dreaming of doing someday when i was ten years old. (although admittedly, it would be pretty trippy! but that's a lot deeper than i was thinking...) :)

at the risk of sounding old, here's where i am going with this thought...

what would amaze me are little things, things we take for granted now. like cell phones. the cell phones i remember were in a few of my friends parents' cars, mounted in the front console and were roughly the size of a microwave oven (something our parents would have never have envisioned as kids, btw - a microwave or a phone in their cars!). but now, we have these tiny, thin, phones. and for a lot of us, the phone portion of the phone isn't even the part we use most! haha. jay and i were talking about the fact that our first few years of dating were also about the time we both first started texting. and not many of our friends were texting yet because their phones WEREN'T CAPABLE. i mean, now we text videos, pics, and everyone is participating (even the grandparents!), just a few years later. what will what will happen in the next ten?!?

and this morning, i was driving to the gym. link was in the backseat, and a really fun song came on the radio. link's eyes lit up, he started clapping and head bobbing, so i did what any mom would do, i pulled out my phone (at a stoplight, of course :)), pulled up my shazam app, found the song, and downloaded it from itunes. SERIOUSLY. think about your ten-year-old-self seeing that! BAM! age-ten-katy used to sit for hours with a blank tape loaded, listening to Y95 (radio station) waiting for THE song to come on so i could tape it. and really, REALLY, that was just twenty years ago?

there are clearly SO many more examples, but the above is what had me laughing. in the span of about 20 seconds, an unknown song came on the radio, was discovered by my phone, purchased and downloaded, all at a stoplight.

what will they come up with next??