Yeah, I got it! It came last Friday, and I opened it around 4pm and then played with it until 4am Saturday morning. Then I slept until 7:45 and started playing with it again! My cousin was absolutely correct when she said to activate it on a day off because I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands off of it.
I love the phone, but the app market is absolutely awesome. If you can think of something you want to do with your phone, there’s an app for that. Like, umm, would you like to use your phone as a guitar? App for that! Would you like to have a sex dictionary at your fingertips? App for that! Would you like to do stuff like send texts and read emails? Apps for those, better than the pre-installed ones.
At this point, my three screens are full of icons, and the only things I haven’t been able to find are a different smiley pack (the ones with it are unappealing to me) and a way to make the battery last through a full day. Of course, I imagine that once I find all the stuff I want and quit living on the app market, my battery life will be sufficient. All those people who complain about it really need to learn that a smart phone is a power hungry beast, and you have to plug it in every night. If you have a problem with that, get yourself a basic phone and just be jealous of the rest of us who know how to work a power cord.
Yesterday, I went button shopping as I said I was going to do. This set of leaves is from a company called Favorite Findings. They have a lot of cute button sets, and run around $2.50 for 8 or 12 buttons. Not bad at all! This one came from JoAnn, and if you have a crafty bone in your body, your life will be incomplete until you visit one of these stores. They have a little bit of everything there, and it’s a idea generator just to walk around. In fact, I thought of an amazing Christmas gift for a friend of mine while I was in there yesterday, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the buttons I bought. Hopefully, I can still remember it when it gets closer to Christmas!
I’m thinking here that I have been leaving out a very important shopping category here on this blog. We all love cute stuff, right? How about cute crafty stuff? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Right now, I am shopping for buttons for a baby sweater, and I am trying to remember the sites I used to buy them from a couple of computers ago. Unfortunately, I didn’t import my bookmarks and so I am in trouble in that regard.
Still, I’ll have fun looking, and I might just share some goodies with you. Ergo, a new category is born.
Today, I want to show you a camera or two. You know I love a fancy gadget. Right now, I am shooting with a GE 9.1 megapixel A950. I like it quite well, and I haven’t even explored all the bells and whistles. It zooms nicely and I can catch almost anything with it. So, I look at cameras, but I am really not interested in upgrading until I have the time to devote to photography as a serious hobby. I’ll probably want to get an SLR at that time. I’ve never had one of those and all the different effects you can get with the lenses intrigue me. Of course, all those add-ons are real budget busters, LOL!
Of course, you know that my favorite color is pink, right? So how could I resist a pink digital camera? My current one is black. Hmmmm, I bet I could find a cover for it, though. I could *disguise* it as a camera suitable for Barbie, see.
This store is one of the best kept secrets ever. I was in it the other day, and bought three pieces of clothing for less than 60 bucks, and they are pieces I will wear over and over and over for years to come. Yes, they have some trendy piecies, but they also have some nice classics as well. You can pick up a shirt for about 18, a skirt or pants for 20 and dresses run 25-30. Can’t beat that with a stick. I wish they had online shopping, but you actually have to go to a brick and mortar store to buy clothes from Cato. OTOH, it’s fun to play dressup and make sure something looks good on you before you lay out the dough, and the fitting rooms have been large enough to actually move around in in every store I’ve visited. They have shoes and underthings, too, just so you know.
Ok, if you are reading this blog, you like to shop. And if you like to shop, you will absolutely LOVE The Clearance Chick. Visit her blog, and like her on facebook. She’s rockin’ the free and on sale bidness, peeps!
Let’s just jump on in here with the next thing on my wish list. This, darlings, is the Samsung Moment, and I want it. It’s a droid based phone and it thrills me so much I call it the “fluffer phone”, because it runs second string to the new Evo, which is a “porn phone” and way more phone that I need. I hope to have this baby in my hot little hands sometime this month, and I’ve already been warned not to open it until I have a full day off, because it will take most of that day to quit drooling all over it.
You will, of course, hear more about it then.
So, hi. Eighteen months and two days later, Barbie is back. I’ve still got that passel of real-haired kids, but Ken is gone, gone, gone. And I am so ok with that. It’s been so long since I’ve blogged here that I am not quite sure how to start. I’m still collecting shoes, I’m still drooling over tech gadgets and I’m still middle-aged. I’m still also most of the other stuff on that category list over there, except for the bedroom part. Not much happening in that area at all. Just sayin’
Will you look at this? I truly can’t decide whether the shirt or the model is most appealing!! The model kinda reminds me of my cousin, so I guess I better let that one go, heh??
The shirt, however, is a different matter entirely. The weather here has turned bitterly cold, as it has most everywhere, and we are piling on the layers! I’ve been wearing silk underthings, but these icebreaker merino tees come in so many colors and they are so much cuter than my tie-dyed silks. Even if I did do the dyeing by hand. Ok, it’s more flexible, cause my silks are pretty darn cute.
I’d like the get one in the coral and another in a bright limey green for layering. The ultra thin wool means it can be worn in summer and you’ll be cool and in winter for warmth.
Surely I am not the only woman who buys at least two of almost everything she purchases? You know you all do it, too!
Btw, sorry for my absence. Again. Every time I think I have a schedule in place, my life just refuses to cooperate and something blows up. This time it was a quick trip to the emergency room with Ken and a 3 and a half day hospital stay. Woohoo! At least I was wearing cute shoes! And I also found a new shampoo I have to tell you about eventually! But not tonight. I think it’s time for bed at 1:35 in the morning, don’t you?
So, I’m finally back. And I am going to talk about this shoe, and then I am going to tell you another little something.
I bought this shoe the other day at my local target. It’s called Violet and it’s by Mossimo. This is so cute in person, and so comfortable! Looks great with jeans and dresses. And the price was only 14.98. How could I leave it there? They had they same show in shades of black and grey, but not in my size, or it would have come home with me, too.
And did you know that Mossimo pads the footbed where the ball of your foot rests? That’s enough to keep me coming back for more, right there!
Now for the thing I want to tell you. Since I started this blog, I have been trying to keep my post counts relatively even in the different categories. And some days, that has sucked the joy right out of blogging here on this blog that is supposed to be only about stuff I like. I happen to be a major grrrrrrl, and there is nothing wrong with that. So, from now on, I’ll be blogging about whatever catches my eye, post counts be damned.
Have a good day, ya’ll.
Yeah, I got it! It came last Friday, and I opened it around 4pm and then played with it until 4am Saturday morning. Then I slept until 7:45 and started playing with it again! My cousin was absolutely correct when she said to activate it on a day off because I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands off of it.
