mystery solved...

I know, two posts in one day is a little crazy for me, but I just had to share with you that I solved the mystery of the missing cell phone (as I know you are all beside yourselves wondering what ever happened to my phone?!).

Well, the news isn't great.  It was stolen.  What, stolen?  How did that happen?!  My thoughts exactly.  I guess I did take it on my stroller ride, but did not put it in its nice secure pocket that I normally do, and it slid off an into the grass (I'm assuming that if it would've hit the sidewalk, I would have noticed the loud noise).  Then some unfriendly, no nice deed doer in our neighborhood came along and decided it was their lucky day, pocketing my phone.

Yea, I know... your second thought is how it took me so long to figure that out.  I'm not sure either.  It all just didn't make sense to me and I didn't think there was any way I lost it on the walk, so I wasn't really investigating the 'stolen' option.  Plus, we activated the 'lost your iphone' feature, so I figured that if someone was using it we would find out (we later learned that if someone logs out of your itunes or whatever connects you to that app, the app doesn't work, which we are assuming is what happened.... and why my phone registered as "offline" on the find my iphone app even though it was being used).  But when I suddenly decided to call it and it rang, I realized that it had to be charged and that someone had it.  Then we had the brilliant idea to check the activity report online and obviously saw someone else's activity.  Just typing this is bring back the negative emotions I have been trying to get over the past couple hours.

Then I panicked and realized that they had access to our personal information through my email, and that our identities are going to be stolen and our lives are over (my mind never goes to the extreme ;)).  Chad calmly talked me out of that, but it hasn't left me 100% yet....

I was telling Chad the hardest part about all this for me is the break down in my thought process.  I hate  it when I realize that I haven't been making smart, logical decisions and tell myself "why in the world didn't I think to do that."  It's just weird to me when my brain doesn't work like I think it should and I really don't like it... like I don't know how to fix it and it might not work right again.

Sooo... now that I need a new phone, if anyone has an old iphone laying around that isn't being used, I'll buy it from you.  Seriously.  I learned that a used iphone 4 is $400 to replace... although amazon has them cheaper.  Not fun.  Now I'm just hoping I don't have to get a new number...

And there you have it.  Case closed.