22.8 days

i spend a lot of the time in the car these days. about an hour and a half each day just coming from and home from work. for so-cal residents and even seattleies, this may seem like no big thang, but oh my goodness sometimes i go a little crazy.

one can only listen to taylor swift so many times before you need a change.

needless to say, I have been listening to the radio lots. i like the morning shows where they talk about random things.

i learned something VERY alarming last week on my drive to the good ole office.

we spend an average of 22.8 days PER YEAR ON OUR CELL PHONES!

not necessarily talking, but emailing, texting, web browsingt, pinterest-ing, tweeting, facebooking, instagramming etc.

they compared that to the month of February.

WE ALMOST SPEND THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY ON OUR CELL PHONES each year.

they took that out to a lifetime average, and it was almost EIGHT YEARS of our entire life we spend on our little cell phones. 

Yes, who knows where this statistic came from but it really hit me.

ONE MONTH A YEAR looking at a stupid little screen and feeling bad about myself because so and so is on a beach in Jamaica and I am stuck in the rain?

maybe i'm not on quite that much. maybe i am. (drew would say yes i am) but from when I wakeup from when I go to bed, I can admit that i log some serious minutes on my iphone.

i mean, really. i'm not going to stop instagramming or checking my facebook but I want to make a conscience decision each time I decide to use my phone. Is it just a bored habit?

cuz at least if I'm going to spend 8 years of my life looking at something, it's not going to be making comparisons of my life to everyone else's.

:)