Thirty Seconds of Happy

Internet in China sucks. Plain sucks.

If you are brave enough, double it up with Indo/Sydney's "borderline-disorder-maniac internet" then you will understand why I screamed "THISSSSS SUCCCCKSSSSS!!!! YOU SUCCCCCCK" to my iPhone repeatedly. Every. Single. Day.

Followed by curling up in foetal position while mumbling slowly .... I gave up you stupid internet.

I feel bad for my iPhone. I am sure Steve Jobs will smack me from the grave if he can.

We develop this new habit of saying everything you wanna say before the phone died. On a bad day, we get around 30 seconds before the line dropped (and the screaming cycle began).

So we just crammed everything we want to say in that 30 seconds.

Here are some of the stuff we have said:

I LOVE YOU (yelling it out)
Enjoy dinner!
I hate internet!
I'm thinking about you 31/7 (inside joke, sorry)
You are the hottest thing I have ever seen (yep)
Drive safe!
Try again tomorrow.
I MISS YOU
I FREAKIN' LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!

The funny thing is, after all the iPhone-screaming and foetal-position-weeping I almost always have a smile on my face.

30 seconds of kindness.
of encouragement.
and so much missing and loving crammed into such a little space of time

I love our "30 seconds" because it reminds me of the important things. If you only have so little time, you rarely fill it with nonsense or fights or unkind words.

Those 30 seconds reminded me of all things that ring true and lovely about the person that I hold so dearly close to my heart.