R.I.P. CASIO DIGITAL NERD WATCH, R.I.P.

time of death: 10:30AM saturday, june 2nd

cause of death: patient appears to have expired due to a dried-out-wristband. 

in lieu of flowers, please send your nerdiest well wishes.

and now, a eulogy.

our dear casio f-91w nerdy plastic watch, born in pullman washington on a monday afternoon, which went off on the hour every hour with all the other nerd watches at that one engineering firm i worked at that one time in one glorious, ringing "beep-beep!" throughout the office, how we will miss you.

and how we appreciated that dear watch, looking mildy cute but mostly nerdy, telling the date and time, sometimes in military time by accident, sometimes in daylight savings time, and sometimes not.

how that watch served us well as we timed contractions, and how that day-glow light lit our midnight feedings, and oh how that little watch got spit up on, so, so, so many times.  

dear casio, you were loved. you were only twenty-three dollars, you were six and a half years old, and your little day-glow light stopped working many months ago. there were so many layers of hairspray and perfume built up on your plastic band, like the rings of a redwood, so many layers of our life together.

you will be missed dearly.

p.p.s. 

i've been reading fifty shades of gray,

(not shades of gray. i mean, yes i did read that first on accident, and yes, that was garbage too)

and, you guys,

HO-LY WHAT.