At 6:45AM this morning, my cellphone went off. I can usually fall right back to sleep after reading a text message, and although, the sound my phone made today didn't sound like an incoming text, I checked it anyway. Instead, it was a reminder from my calendar. Not surprising that it was set for today since it is both my Godson's birthday and at midnight, it will send a text or email to Raegan & Kyle Sonnenberg to get as close to both their birthday's as possible (hers is today, his is tomorrow).
However, my cellphone was not reminding me of either event. Instead it said, "Mom's military id expires."
WHAT?! I had zero recollection of adding that information, and I had no idea why it was set so early in the morning. I was not even quite sure why it was on my calendar, much less set in my phone.
After processing the information a few moments, I sent Madre a text: "Does your military id expire today? Or sumptin? For some reason, I had a note about that on my phone for today."
A couple minutes later, I got her reply: "Omg yes u r right I will take of it on monday thank u thank u."
At this point, I suspect that we had a conversation when my cellphone was new and I was bragging about how far in advance I could set a reminder, promising to remind her when the time comes. I got my cellphone in April of last year, so maybe it was a year ago, maybe it was a few months before then.
Regardless how it was originally set as a reminder, it worked. And it was just a bizarre start to a very weird day overall. Maybe I'll have time to tell that story later. Maybe there's nothing to tell.
