iPeriod??!!

So.. was plugged to my ipod as I was trying to get some rest whilst being horizontal.. .. sleep wouldnt come so I browsed through the app store.. and believe it or not.. I came across.. ze great 'iPeriod'.. and when I clicked on 'info'.. the words Period Calendar were displayed in a neat bracket.. followed with the following tagline:

"Are you a busy woman? Let iPeriod keep track! A must have for all menstruating women!"

Seriously.. I found it extremely shocking and hilarious.. My immediate thought was 'you have to be joking???!!!!'..

Just last week, in preparation for our seminar, David and I came across the iLimb, a company that makes bionic limbs, and David went on to say how the "i" has been popular culturalised..

Years and years ago.. when some Miss or Mrs, probably from Kotex or Laurier or wherever were invited to give talks in our (all girls) school to increase the awareness of ze period and to prepare us girls for puberty, alongside the sanitary towels that were distributed, we were given these calendars with monthly sections for us to record the dates of 'our time of the month'.. I never bothered, and in fact, I think I disposed them calendars.. Bout the only advice I keep is 'just remember when you first got yours.. even if you cant remember the date or month, remember the year'.. and this advice didnt even come from the useless yearly talks. anyway, the significance is not that it should be particularly memorable.. just for medical reasons more than anything else..

One would think that women do keep track of these things. Not this woman, not me.. I should. Keep telling myself that I should. but I dont. I have tried though. But well consistency in this particular department is not my forte. Fortunately or unfortunately, I get warning signs.. in the form of pain.. pure abnominal torture; and having lived with 2 girls for 2 years, somehow, our 'time of the month' became somewhat synchronised.. eventhough we're now 200+miles apart.. so I get phone reminders too..

So.. iPeriod.. no thank you.. even if you only cost gbp 2.39..