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Four Phones in Four Days

Posted on May 7, 2012 by auburnchick

On Friday, I posted about buying myself a new iPhone.

Well, Chicky came home Friday afternoon, and it was time to upgrade her phone as well.

She’d been drooling over the iPhone ever since our extended family members got theirs last Christmas.

She, Rooster, and I drove to Best Buy, and wouldn’t you know it, but the same associates were there.  It was slightly embarrassing to be there again, but they laughed it off.  Processing my order went a lot quicker.

While we were waiting for the phone to be activated, Rooster started taking a look at the phones on display.

I could see the wheels in his head turning, but there was no way I was paying for another iPhone that day.

Insert Daddy…

As in Rooster talking to Daddy the next day…

About Daddy paying for a new phone…

And us driving to Best Buy straight from the movie theater.

Yes, Saturday found us BACK at Best Buy, with the same associates, buying another iPhone 4s.

While the three of us were talking about and playing with our new phones, the Mr. was sitting by…stewing a bit.

Enter Sunday afternoon, after church…during lunch.

The Mr. started asking questions about the iPhone…can it do such-and-such and such-and-such.

We could all see the wheels in HIS head turning…

Which is why…

We found ourselves driving…

To Best Buy later that day…

And finding the SAME associates on duty…

Chuckling as we walked in…

To purchase our fourth iPhone.

One could have accused us of stalking the Best Buy employees.

That couldn’t be further from the truth.

It was the technology we were after.

We are now the proud owners of four iPhones.

Call us crazy, if you will.

I’d like to think that we have a new family motto:  “The family that plays on their iPhones together is the family that stays together.”

Lame, eh?

But still fun.

We ‘re having a blast sharing the apps we’re finding, how to make our own ringtones (I figured out that one), and how to take screenshots of our phones.

Fun times indeed!!

The phones in order from left to right: The Mr.’s, Chicky’s, Mine, and Rooster’s.  Don’t you think our wallpaper says a lot about who we are as individuals???

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Derailed

Posted on May 4, 2012 by auburnchick

Oh, I had grand plans for last night.

They were going to be so exciting…

An evening spent with my Reading Endorsement notebook and assignment.

I’d finished the reading during the independent reading time that my students did at the beginning of class.

Yes, I was going to be a good girl and turn in my assignment a few days early.

And then…

I ran an errand…

And got a wee bit sidetracked…

By this sign…

I just had to get out of the car, don’t you know…

And check out something that Chicky had put a bug in my ear about…

And then the justifying began.

My current phone was constantly running low on memory no matter how many apps I uninstalled.

Calls were getting dropped.

Yada, yada, yada.

I liked the 32gb because I believe in going big or going home.

Uh huh.

There was only one left.

It must have been a sign from God.

That’s what I told myself…

As I said “Yes” to the iPhone 4s (see how that rhymes).

Uh huh.

I was in and out of Best Buy lickety-split, new phone in hand, heart pounding at the thought of going home and trying to explain myself.

And that’s when the fun…errrr derailment…really got underway.

I did, after all, have to learn how to use the thing…transfer contacts (which Best Buy couldn’t do)…set up my email…learn how to print wirelessly (cough, cough).  Important stuff, mind you.

Thanks to my googling prowess, I found the answers to all of my questions.

I found this app to create my own ringtones from the songs I already have in iTunes.

I’m smart like that.

I set up my immediate family’s names to ring through uniquely (can you say Hips Don’t Lie, Time of Your Life, and Blessed in the respective order of The Mr., Chicky, and Rooster).

I’m cool like that.

Oh, and my generic ringtone is This is the Time of Your Life by Michael W. Smith.

I do like my Christian music (don’t think Shakira fits into that genre though).

heehee

So, that assignment I was going to do.

Um, yeah.

I think I’ll be busy during my planning period today.

Gotta get it done in a timely manner because another, more important, female distraction is headed my way.

One hint:  Think “soccer player.”

:::happy dance:::

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