Like phones and photographs, these are the next 30 days of my life

So I made it through a month of no gossip mags by using knitting to entertain myself and have discovered two things:

1) I've no idea why I cherish knowing about celebrities lives, I think I just like knowing there's someone out there far, far crazier than me
2) My mother lied...I'm not a total failure when it comes to creative pursuits.

This month I've decided to take the "smart" out of "smart phone" and go back to using it for essentially what it is: a phone to call and talk to the people I love / miss / need to yell at.

To make it a teensy bit more tricky, I've decided to take on the "Photo A Day" challenge which will rely on me remembering to have my handy camera at the ready.

Giving-up: Texting / Smart Phone applications
Yep, you heard correctly, unless it's work and/or sporting related (not that it matters since I'm the coach of a team whose game got washed out on Saturday and I had no-one's numbers to tell them it was off!) I shall avoid using text messages to communicate with my nearest and dearest.

Not only that, I've also decided to give up all those other applications that apparently make my phone "smart:" calendar, camera, news feeds, email, Facebook, music player, C25K app...the list goes on.

I spent part of yesterday preparing myself for this one, digging out my old iPod shuffle and updating the music list so that when I go for my exercise session tomorrow I take it and not my phone. This also means I'm going to have to use my own willpower to actually jog for some part of said session, instead of relying on the faithful 'beep' C25K gives me remidning me to get my butt in gear.

The only thing I'm not sure on giving up completely is the alarm function: I don't trust hubby to keep his alarm set to the time I need, and yes I could go out a buy a cheapo alarm clock but I simply don't trust them either.... perhaps I should take up "trusting" next month??

Taking-up: A Photo a Day
This is a concept that has been doing the rounds of my Facebook friends for the last 12  months or so now and there has been some pretty remarkable piccies taken it must be said, so I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and document the next 30 days of my life photographically.

Courtesy of one Emunchkin, I don't have to look for inspiration myself as I will be following this handy guide below and uploading my efforts so far each Wednesday: feel free to join in and compare!