Ever since classes ended in December, I've heard this odd buzzing sound in our apartment. At first I just thought that I was crazy.

Then I thought that it was something coming from a neighbor's apartment that I was hearing because I was at home more during the day. The week that Kevin was off from work, I didn't hear the buzzing, so I assumed that because it was very quiet when I was hear alone, I was hearing something from upstairs.

But then I started hearing it again. It sounded a lot like a cell phone set to vibrate. I started to think that maybe someone lost their cell phone in our apartment. Kevin's parents and my brother stayed over over Thanksgiving weekend, but none of them reported missing their phones, and we otherwise haven't had any visitors recently.

The buzzing wasn't constant. It seemed almost random and periodic, only during the afternoon. I started going back to the theory that I was crazy and I wasn't really hear anything at all.

A couple of days ago, I heard the buzzing in the bathroom and it seemed louder than when I was in the bedroom or living room and heard it. I tried to follow the buzzing and ended up in our second bedroom/computer room, but then it stopped. This bolstered theory three because that's the room guests sleep in, but again since no one said that they were missing their phone, I was unsure.

Today, I found it! I heard the buzzing and ran into the room. It was coming from the closet, so I threw open the store. Something was glowing in a plastic bag... the plastic bag full of old, (presumably dead) cell phones!

Yes folks, I'm an idiot. It was my old cell phone's alarm going off. I set the alarms to go off at the end of my classes so I wouldn't have to check the time every few minutes. So every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday the alarm was going off at 12:09, 1:14, and 6:04. Because the phone was deactivated, I never thought that the alarms would still be stored and active. Because the phone is deactivated and doesn't have a SIM card, I can't get it to start, yet it has alarms stored and battery power to keep buzzing. So I took the battery out.

I think it is time to recycle all of these old phones!!!