Driving to my apartment from the grocery store the other day, my boyfriend asked me if I knew how to cut up a whole chicken. I shook my head no, and jokingly suggested that "maybe there's an app for that?" He, completely serious, nodded and said he hoped so.And that's how it seems to go a lot of the time these days. I use my iPhone for everything.I needed a new recipe for a drink last weekend, so I downloaded a Mixologist app to run me through every single alcoholic beverage ever created.I was looking for some good thigh exercises to try at the gym, so I downloaded an exercise app.I wanted to find out the name of a song on the radio, so I downloaded the Shazam app and made the app tell me.When he needed to learn how to tie a tie for a formal affair in Saskatoon, he downloaded an app and we spent half an hour trying to get it right.Where would we be without our cellphones and the answer to all life's questions literally at the touch of our fingers?I use my phone as a GPS in my car, despite already having a GPS in my car. This doesn't make a lot of sense, since my Garmin is currently set to "Australian male voice," and that's way better than the chirpy woman who's always "UPDATING" on my phone.Imagine if I had to try to read a map while driving down the streets of Regina trying to get to a shoot? And you all think texting and driving is dangerous.Another way that cellphones are taking over the world: taking pictures. I can take a pretty different photo with my phone camera. Pretty decent video too. And the way things are going, fairly soon cameras will be a thing of the past among non-photography industry people. I know I never use my digital camera. PLUS pictures taken from my phone can be directly uploaded to the Internet and shared with people who probably don't care that I saw a hilarious personalized licence plate today.And the best part of all: I often write this column from my iPhone, especially on days when it's suddenly 1 a.m. and I haven't written a thing and am nowhere near a computer that's hooked up to the Internet.I love you, cellphone. You are probably the most important part of my life. I can always count on you, and you only let me down when your battery dies. And thus I predict the next step for smart phones: relationship substitutes. We're pretty much already there. I mean, isn't there an app for that?Tonaya Marr does spend a lot of time on her cellphone, but she does socialize and maintain relationships with other people. If you'd like to be one of those people, send her an e-mail at tonaya.marr@gmail.com or send her a tweet @TonayaMarr. Conveniently, she can access both these methods of communication from her cellphone!
