happy birthday mom

today is my mom's bday. there was a short span of time (of about 2 years) that i would forget her bday. but now i am the perfect daughter. i sent a gift bought while i was in ireland, a christmas ornament from ireland that was requested by her, and a card separate from the gift (cuz i'm not together enough to have the card when i sent the gift). and i called her. woo me!

but otherwise i've been a bit off recently. i can't remember anything past 30 minutes. and things just slip through my fingers. including my cell phone, which i lost this weekend. i rushed home and hoped that someone was online that could call my cell phone. i was in luck; of all people my brother was online. i had him call my cell phone, and when there was no answer i had him call my dad so he could inform the cell phone company.

i tried later that night to call my cell with my friend's phone, but it gave me a message that the phone i was calling was disconnected (my dad's doing).

in order to contact the bus service about your missing item, you have to look up which bus you were on and what its terminal is. then you have to call that specific terminal. i was on two different buses that day. so i have to deal with two different bus terminals' lost and founds. also i knew calling before the bus driver's shift was over was pointless. they wouldn't place the phone in the lost and found til they were done. and also that calling on sunday would be a bust.

so this morning i decided to deal with the bus service. first i had to figure out a way to call them. with no phone and no idea where i could get one, i decided to sign up for skype. my boyfriend uses their service to call internationally, but i knew that you could call anywhere from anywhere using your internet connection. woo hoo! phone service! it worked wonderfully.

first i called the division bus. no luck. though the guy on the phone was nice. then i called the broadway bus. the woman was not listening at all. she kept having me repeat my information, and put me on hold numerous times. but she came back on the line and said she had my phone!!! i still didn't want to get my hopes up. i've seen my phone all over the place. it could just be someone else's or a completely different model that looks like mine.

but in order to even look at the phone i had to trek all the way to that bus depot. it took an hour and 30 minutes there and back. 3 hours to look at a phone. but it was mine!!! who knew that you could actually retrieve lost cell phones!