Forced In With the New

Forced In With the New

I haven’t posted in a few days. A lot of new things have come into my life, some wanted and some unwanted. I am dealing with it.

First, I got a new car! Insert HAPPY DANCE! I love it. This was planned, researched, and shopped for. Additionally, what I am most excited about is  “all the bells and whistles”it has.  Leather seats, sunroof, GPS, and Bluetooth. Stop right there at Bluetooth. This is where the “Out with the Old and In with the New” was forced.

The Bluetooth won’t work with my iPhone.

Granted my phone was not old, but apparently not all new technology works on all other new technology. Wink, wink!? I did get some great help from my friendly cell phone service when they told me that I could qualify for a new phone under my plan in 8 days.

Jump forward a few days. I decide to download the contents of my old phone in preparation for my new purchase. Wait just a minute, in the middle of the operation my old phone decides to crap out. I mean dead, not even the cell phone people could help me out. I was purchasing a new cell phone and was not able to take any of my contacts, music, or photos with me. So they said.

Thanks to a few techie friends of mine and a little time on my part. I now am the proud owner of a new cell phone, that includes my contacts (music will be downloaded later – maybe I’ll ask for that for Mother’s Day), my email, and of course BLUETOOTH, the reason this whole thing started. It works! LOVE IT.

But wait! Not done. I am on a mission to load the apps that I used (and lost) from my old phone now. The first one is PayPal. Here again, no success. I learn from my lovely PayPal rep that it doesn’t work on my new phone. OK, I give up. I won’t fight it and just go back to the old way I did things until I can find another way.

And so I saga continues. Sometimes we love the change in our lives and sometimes not so much. I working through it and know that soon everything will be fine. D

How do you deal when Forced In With the New?