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Happy Weekend

I’m rebelling and staying in the bed this morning.  Yes, I will pay as when I get up I’ll have to go ninety to nothing to be out of the house and getting the girls to their practices, but I couldn’t sleep last night so I’m tired.  I’m not sure what was wrong but I was wide awake – it was sort of that feeling you get when you take diet pills and your brain and body just go on and on and you can’t settle except I didn’t take any medication of any kind to wire me up.

Today I’m going phone shopping after the girls have softball and play practice. I’m excited. I’ve been looking at my provder’s website at phones and drooling.  The real question will be what kind of discount they’ll give me because I can’t afford much, but I don’t want a “cheap phone” either.  I have become really spoiled with my current phone and couldn’t imagine going back.  What are my criteria? I want a touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard.  I currenty have a Palm Treo, but all of a sudden it doesn’t have a signal most of the time.  I’m not sure what happened, but about a week ago I was in the middle of a conversation during my conference period and all of a sudden it just cut out – no signal.  I always have full bars at work.  Then that evening I didn’t have ANY signal at home. Ok, that signal comes and goes a lot, but not totally. Even at my worst points, I usually have one bar – enough to talk.  Now occasionally a signal blows in and I’ll get like 20 text messages at a time, but then the signal is gone just as fast and so I can’t reply to anyone.  So basically my phone is useless.

I’m with a smaller cell phone provider and don’t have a lot of options for phones.  I’d love an iPhone or the VUE, but neither are options for me. I think I have my heart set on a HTC TYTN2.  It looks like the most awesome of my choices.  Wish me luck on finding one in stock and hoping I’ve had my current phone long enough to get a discount on it.

Have a good Saturday!

Win a Nokia E71

This is such a great contest, I’m almost leery to share it with you.  After all if you enter, that decreases my odds. But my goodness won out and I’m going to share with you the opportunity to win this $500 phone from MomDot.  Now since the contest ends on my birthday (December 16), I personally feel that fate says this phone should be mine!!

Check out this phone:

Got your attention? Well head over and enter this contest by voting for Trisha in the Walmart contest, blogging about the contest, and stumbling the post.

What Gifts Did You Give for Mother’s Day?

This past weekend was a big weekend for us – my dad turned 50 and we celebrated Mother’s Day. This took lots of planning on my part to make sure we bought perfect gifts for each occasion. Both of my grandmothers are still alive, and they were the hardest to buy for. Ultimately I decided on a pretty unique gift for one of my grandmother’s that I’m quite proud of so I thought I would share it with you guys – a new cell phone. This was not just any cell phone though, it was a very special phone designed for our older citizens.

My grandmother has been using a prepaid cell phone for the longest, but even after having the same phone for a year, she has learned to do nothing on it. When she first purchased the phone, I took a long time and programmed all of our family’s phone numbers in it, and do you think she knows how to use it? No she doesn’t. She still just dials the numbers like we do our house phones. Last week, she wanted to call my Dad, but couldn’t remember his cell phone number (which by the way is programmed into his phone) so what did she do? She pulled over, dug out a piece of paper and a pen, and called me to find out what his number was. After reviewing this company on another blog, I realized that it would make a great gift for my grandmother. After this phone call last week, I decided yes, she needed a Jitterbug phone.

What’s so great about this phone? Well first off the entire company’s focus is phone for the elderly. The best feature is that instead of programming people’s numbers into the phone, you program them with the company and then the user (my grandmother) can just call the operator (who is available 24 hours a day) and tell them who she wants to talk to. The operator will connect her to that person. She doesn’t have to use the phone or try to memorize new phone numbers.  If she does choose to use the phone more like a regular phone, the buttons are larger and the screen display is in a larger font.

Did you come up with any great/unique gifts? I’d love to hear about them.

This is the one I bought her: