allison, unplugged.

So, I took an unintentional hiatus from the world last week. I say "hiatus" lightly because I was still online and emailing and Facebooking (like what I did there?) but I didn't TALK to anyone. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was phoneless from Tuesday up until last Friday and while I originally thought that I was going to die with no outside communication to the world (no really, iPhone withdrawl is a mean bitch)... I didn't. I did however find that as the days went on, I just got used to it. The "desire" I thought I had to talk to people just sort of dissipated as the week went on, surprisingly enough.

It really made me consider how "connected" I am all the time. My job requires me to be on the phone all day, and most of my work is done on the computer and it's just a lot. Not that I'm complaining but I was just made very aware of how much I rely on my phone. But without it, I just unplugged. Disconnected for awhile, and it was so nice. Well, it was nice once I got over the fact that OMGIHAVENOPHONERIGHTNOWWHATAMIGOINGTODO phase passed. I cleaned, caught up on shows I'd been missing, FINALLY STARTED READING AGAIN (sorry, that's a big one for me), had game night with my roommates, sewed a tear in one of my sweaters (again, big one for me) and just, got stuff done. Sure, I was still online and doing all the stuff that I usually do but I wasn't in such a PANIC all the time. If someone needed me, they could email me and eventually I wasn't frantic about it. I just LET STUFF HAPPEN, and that was weird. I'm usually so in control of EVERYTHING it was hard giving that up. But I did, and the world didn't end...imagine that. Even the day  I got it back, I put off getting "reconnected" because...I just didn't really care. I knew I'd be okay, until my mom google-searched my work and came up with the number AND CALLED TO CHECK ON ME. Yeah, I was at lunch. Imagine my surprise when they said "oh hey, your Mom called for you" and I'm just all "UM WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE CALLED FOR ME? HOW DOES SHE KNOW THIS NUMBER?"  Not that I hide it from her, it was just surprising.

ANYWAYS. Long story short, I am now reconnected with the world and that is that. I'm getting myself back into the swing of things and it's like a whole new world, to be honest.  My unintentional break was just that - unintentional but quite needed I think. And I didn't even know it.