How much time do you think you’ve lost perusing apps? Playing games, scrolling social media, reliving moments with pictures and videos, shopping, email…shall I go on?

Personally, I look forward to my kids’ bedtime (anyone else?). Ideally, I use the next hour or so to relax, enjoy a little downtime, and then hit the hay. Reality? I grab my phone and tap an app, and dang it, I’ve lost track of time. How I didn’t notice my eyelids dropping is beyond me, but here we are! Well past my bedtime. Don’t laugh…you have a bedtime too.

It’s just so easy for time to slip away. These game companies know what they are doing making you wait to build up more lives. I toggle between games while my fake lives regenerate; from planting crops and feeding animals to word puzzles and back again. When I’ve exhausted my brain power I close out those apps and start anew with others, AKA social media. The crap that pulls me in…I should be embarrassed. Worse, I’ll reference things I’ve seen; “Yeah, I saw this reel or short or whatever they are called, and there were these…yada, yada, yada.”

But, I did see Kermit the Frog on this all-white bed and it cracked me up. His stick-thin legs with his feet crossed, and his head behind his arms, just lying back relaxing. It was a meme about…Wait, I’ll just show you. I’m going to go find it.

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Welp, I couldn’t find it.

And I just lost more time and now it’s past my bedtime. Tell me I’m not the only one to experience this madness.