Eye Pad

My money jar is empty now.

But I've got an iPad!!  

It's so crazy...it's like a giant iPhone.  Or a flat computer.  Or a magazine.  Or an iPod.  Or something crazy.  It's, like, sweet. 

I think back to keyboarding class in middle school, when we went to the computer lab to use the special computers.  The Macs.  With color screens.  Just like the ones the teachers got to use in their classrooms.

In the classrooms, the only computers the students were allowed to use were the big ol' beasts with the black screen and green print.  We played Oregon Trail.  My wagon wheel always broke, I could never float the river, and without fail, I always died of typhoid.  Haven't they ever heard of vaccines????  Geesh.

I would've rocked the Oregon Trail if I had an iPad in my covered wagon.  Everyone would be my friend and give me food for 5 minutes of iPad time.  And I could have googled "how to float a river on the Oregon Trail" on my iPad...and I would have been able to float the river without sinking!!  Or I could have found an app to float the river!  An iPad would definitely have made Oregon Trail life waaaaay easier. 

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The night we bought the iPad, a friend called... 

Friend: What have you been up to Amanda?

Me: I GOT AN IPAD!

Friend: Oh no, why?

Me: Umm...because I'm an impulsive buyer??

Friend: OH, an iPad!  I thought you meant you had to get an eye pad, for your eye.  I thought when you said eye pad - hmm, most people call it an eye patch, but maybe eye pad is an Iowa thing.  I'm so glad you didn't have to get an eye pad!  So how's the new iPad?

Me: *still hysterically laughing*

Good stuff.