Like many other folks, I watched the recent Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) Keynote address with a great deal of anticipation. History (and pretty much every pundit out there) told us that there would be one or more hardware announcements. Maybe it was a refresh of the MacBook Pro line. Maybe a new MacBook. Maybe the Apple Watch 2, or at the very least the Apple Watch S.

That last one had me rabid with anticipation. I’ve wanted an Apple Watch since the day they were announced. Sure, I knew it was a first generation product. I’ve had my share of those…heck, I’ve got boxes full of them in my basement. Great ideas, half-baked implementations. The kind of thing that was supplanted with an iteration of the product as it should have been at launch.

Yet, I wanted one.

I’ll freely admit that I didn’t need an Apple Watch. I had a perfectly functional Armitron sport watch from Wal-Mart. It was the third iteration of this same model, and it cost me all of $16. I could tell time on the watch and it has a stopwatch feature. Those are the two things that I need a watch to do. Oh, and it has the day and date displayed in a large enough size that I could actually read them. Even with my glasses off. That’s a big deal to me. So I had everything that I need in a watch.

Yet, I wanted an Apple Watch.

Fortunately, they weren’t shipping the day they were originally announced, so I was able to convince myself to wait. Then as the months dragged on, I kept trying to convince myself that I didn’t want one. But I knew I was lying to myself. Even as reports came in that it was slow, clunky, and not so great, I wanted an Apple Watch. Then the rumors started to arise that a new watch would be announced in 2016, maybe in March at the Apple event. So I bided my time. Then the event day came…and all we heard about were new watch bands. What the heck good were watch bands to somebody who didn’t have an Apple Watch? Not much good at all! But new rumors started immediately. The Apple Watch 2 was coming later in the year. Probably at WWDC. That was just a few months away, so I held off buying an Apple Watch. I read everything I could about the impending announcement. Like so many others, I was convinced that WWDC would be it…the new watch would be announced. I had slowly been scraping together my pennies and nickels and I had enough to buy one. At least I hoped I had enough…since we never really know how much a new Apple device is going to cost until the day it’s announced.

As the keynote began, I was giddy. I was so ready to hear about the Apple Watch 2. I just knew that I was going to hear about the most amazing new piece of technology. And I was ready to place my order.

But this was the Worldwide DEVELOPER Conference. And it figures that Apple picked 2016 as the year to get back to their roots and not announce new hardware at this event. They talked about the new watchOS…and I was practically salivating. So amazing and wonderful. What I read on Twitter from folks who had a watch, this was like the second coming. The hardware was OK, but the new watchOS was going to make that hardware shine. And the keynote droned on…with no hardware announcements. No MacBook Pros. No new MacBook. No new Apple Watch.

So I had to make a decision: Should I wait until a possible announcement of a new watch in September? What if it took months before they were shipping. It was the right thing to do. Don’t buy generation 1 when the next generation couldn’t be that far off. So I resigned myself to waiting.

And honestly, I felt like crap about it.

I messaged with a couple of my kids and said they’d have to find something else to get me for Father’s Day…half-joking, half-honest. And I moped.

Then I made a decision. I decided that I was going to order an Apple Watch Sport. So I did. Right then. I didn’t pay for next-day shipping, although I seriously considered it. Was the purchase indulgent…yup. While I can use all sorts of different methods to justify it (heck, I’m a diabetic so the health tracking benefits alone are potentially worth it), this is a luxury purchase. But I decided that, for once, I was going to do this sort of thing for myself.

So I’m now the proud owner of an Apple Watch Sport. I’ve had it for all of 24 hours and already I’m loving it. While I’m going to save that for a future blog post, suffice it to say that this thing has already been life-changing for me. I know that’s a big statement, and I’m kind of leaving you with a cliffhanger…but that’s where I’m leaving things.

In short, my Apple Watch has already been a life changer in just 24 hours!

Stay tuned for more info…