A Phoney Dilemma…. January 9, 2009

If you know the tune to the Beach Boys “Help Me Rhonda”, sing it with me now….”Help Verizon, help, help Verizon…Help Verizon, help, help Verizon, help Verizon yeah, help get a new phone” OK, here’s what’s happened….I have lost my cellie. My little LG, that Ii should taken in over the holidays because the camera wasn’t working, is now MIA. Since Tuesday. Not good. I innocently traveled to the Verizon store in Towson yesterday, to check on getting a new one. After explaining my situation, the  phone I want will cost $450!! I stared at him open mouthed, he stared back somewhat sympathetically…”Yeah, I know…you might want to check around to see if you can find a used phone onEbay, or maybe someone has a Verizon phone they’re not using you can buy from them.” (OH, and he also wanted the last 4 digits to my social security number to get into my account….no way baby…and he was able to get in without that, just so you know…)

Here are my phone requirements….not too much really. It has to work well, and have at least a 2 mega-pixel camera…..I use it all the time for this blog. And I need a larger screen, like the LG had or the Dare does,(all the better to see it with)…and well…that’s about it. My big mistake, and I realize this now…is that I didn’t buy insurance on my phone. That’s $3.99 a month seems pretty cheap…now that I need it. But I’m so lost without my cell phone….something has to give. Today.  Any ideas????

One good thing….my brilliant daughter backed up my contact list at Verizon online, so I won’t have to recreate it now….one big plus…so I owe her!!

HOLIDAY HANGOVER…. December 29, 2008

I figure I’m not the only one suffering the holiday hangover….not really the alcohol kind(thought there’s no doubt plenty of that going around too)…the hangover around your house. I’d show you pictures of what I see here at home, but my LG camera phone has given up the ghost, a little over a year into ownership. Our honeymoon is so over.

But what you’d see if I did have pics,  is a Christmas tree still decorated, but not lit…I think the cats have knocked the plug out of the wall. And yes, there are needles on the floor. All the presents are gone, so sad that, but many of the boxes remain, some waiting for recycling(a long week away), and others wait to be taken downstairs where they will wait a year for their special recycling in the form of reuse. Neiman Marcus was offering free shipping and free wrapping this year….that is a siren song calling my name…so I’ll save the silver boxes and pretty red ribbons with a little ornament attached, and put something new in them next year. But it might not be from Neiman Marcus. The laundry has kinda backed up over the holidays…piles of that around. And the frig is stuffed with something…leftovers from holiday feasts past. A little pork roast, a little bowl of roasted peppers, what looks like a whole ham…didn’t eat much of that….small bits of all kinds of cheeses and olives. We really need a leftover night . And I feel, kind of…I don’t know…hungover may not be the right word, but it’s the best that I can do right now. A feeling like I forgot something important but I’m not sure what it is. Know what I mean?

And the last thing I feel like doing is going to the Verizon store to try and coax a new phone out of them. Even though they should give me one. But to  Verizon I will trek, because when I publish a blog without pictures, it looks a little naked somehow. (I know, you’re thinking…hey relax, your photography is not that great…) Tomorrow, when I hopefully have a new phone, I’ll show you my favorite xmas gifts….they’re pretty neat…peace out.