Life Matters: IT'S MORE THAN A MATTER OF TIME!

Apple does a great job on packaging. I'm sure it wins awards.

My gold watch face with the plum sport band

I recently joined the ranks (probably millions) of people who own an Apple watch! I had no idea what I've been missing! This watch does way more than tell time. One of the cool new features it has is a Handwashing Timer to help you make sure you wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. And, of course it does tell actual time. You get to choose how you see this time! I have created five faces for my watch, but the possibilities are endless. I find it funny that they call the choices of what things you can display, "complications." Depending on what face you choose, these "complications" change.

I have taken an ECG, my blood oxygen, and my heart rate. I'm good to go! And go I do, except now I have a more accurate account of how many calories I'm burning while walking, or dancing, or swimming, or doing a Downward Dog!

One of the most intriguing features is an app I downloaded called SleepWatch. It tells me what I already knew- I sleep crappy! I'm tossing and turning about 7 times a night.

Beyond sleep insights, I also get to set activity goals. I'm happy to report I have "closed my rings!" This means I met my stand goal, my move goal, and my exercise goal. I could also use the watch to tell me to breathe, but that was annoying, so I turned that feature off. Hopefully, I'm breathing ok.

The watch also has a feature called Walkie-Talkie that lets you play the old fashioned game of broken conversation. I'm not sure why you would really want to do this. You have to hold down your finger to talk and then wait for the other person to do the same. You can just talk to your watch during a regular phone call. I think I probably won't use the Walkie-Talkie feature. All this technology amazes me. It makes me think of Get Smart and Agent 99. We've come a long way from the "Shoe Phone!"

I'm sure I have just discovered a small fraction of what this watch can do. I look forward to learning more about it. In the meantime, I have to go. But, before I do, I need to start my workout app so I get credit for all my steps.

What did we do before we tried for 10,000 steps? What did we do before we could track our blood oxygen? What did we do before we had an app to help us breathe, or tell us to stand?

This watch is quite the revolution, and innovation. It really is more than a matter of time!