April 24th, 2009
I’m a rambling man oh yeahhhh
Last Saturday we shoved the boys and the dog and a great many of our belongings into my tiny toaster of a car and drove to Texas. The original plan was yay! Let’s go wander in the beautiful mountains and islands of the carolinas, but then we wrote four thousand dollars worth of checks to the IRS and suddenly a wandering vacation — even a low-key one — sounded nauseatingly expensive. So! Guess what! My parents have a room we can sleep in for free and lots of food and a television we can look at and people we can talk to.
So here we are in Texas, doing most of the same things we’d be doing at home. Running errands, buying packing materials at Office Depot, making block prints, getting to the post office in the last possible seconds before they close. But it’s a change of scenery and we like hanging out with my parents.
Oh and. Yesterday something awful happened. My parents got me an iPhone.
You don’t know how awful this is. I resisted it. I hate iphones. I don’t like people who have iPhones. It’s exactly the kind of douchey technological gadget that symbolizes everything that’s wrong with our materialistic western plastic society and OH MY GOD HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THIS FUCKING PHONE?
My friend Alana called me a swear word when I told her, which is both understandable and fine. Call me anything you want. Throw actual poop at me if you want to. I will download an app that makes my phone into a giant rubberized shit shield.
We’re heading back tomorrow. My butt hurts thinking about the 14 hour drive ahead… my xB’s only real flaw (other than being hideous, obviously) is seats that are zero percent squishy. Is there an app that will let the iPhone work as an inflatable cushion?
April 24th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
My husband’s road to the iPhone was paved with the exact same sentiments. He didn’t want to be one of “those people”, but is now so stinkin’ happy with this fancy ass talking device that, “actually recognises when I am finishing a conversation! It knows when I move the phone away from my ear and brings up the end call function! OMFG”.
If that phone has a getting-the-laundry-folded app, I think I might be kicked out.
April 24th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I know that the iPhone is totally the trendy thing to have, but I can’t help it, I love mine so dearly. It is SO wonderful. Love that damn machine.
April 24th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
That sucks about the taxes, but it’s cool that you saw your folks. And! they felt so sorry for you that they bought you an iPhone. I bet the boys think it’s cool.
April 24th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
You get me! I feel the same way. I am intrigued by the iPhone despite myself. I’m so sick of the “gimme gimme gimme” attitude of people that are so hell-bent on showing off all the latest and greatest whatevers in the world, yet after playing with a few friends’ iPhones these past few months I fall asleep thinking, “Oh, please gimme one, gimme one, gimme one.”
April 24th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
i have no such ambivalence towards the iPhone. i want one quite badly. unfortunately, if i switched to AT&T at this point i’d have to pay Verizon a lot of money. so instead i have a phone and an iPod touch. ah, middle-class woes…
April 24th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Now that you have the iPhone you can let the boys make their own radio station with http://www.yiqyaq.com and the iPhone version which is great! And in a few days look for the Soundbite app – once our 5 year old let’s dad upload it to the app store. It’ll be free and let’s you capture those moments you didn’t know you wanted until after they’ve happened. Also, I want to order your alphabet cards for school but would you be offended if I hung them on the walls in the bathroom? Our 2’s and 3’s spend SO much time there -
They need some cool décor.
Celeste
PS there’s also wurdle for the iPhone, but don’t blame me for the time wasted
April 25th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I was so annoyed at my husband for getting himself an iPhone (because he is an alpha consumer in hiding), until I realized, hey! Why don’t I get an iPhone? I deserve an iPhone. They’re coooooool.
Alas, I do not, at this point, have one. Sigh.
(Have you tried Urban Spoon? It’s like the one-armed bandit, but with restaurants instead of cherries and lemons. Oh, and the “pour yourself a beer” app? Have fun.)
April 25th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I soooo wish I had an iPhone. The service for them is prohibitively expensive up here in Toronto, though.
April 25th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
What happened to savemouse.com?
April 25th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Mouse retired. I took the site down because I miss the booger and it was making me sad. He’s living a sweet life with my friend amy, far away from the seizure-inducing excitement of life with toddlers. But! You can probably find a cached version out on 1 gud innernit. :)
April 25th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I always wondered why people would want to read a blog. Then I found this one yesterday afternoon after finding the Nerdy Baby flash cards on Uncommon Goods and I’ve already read back to about Thanksgiving! I don’t think I can go back to work on Monday…or if I do, I think everyone in my office will be spending quite a bit of time reading blog posts out loud to each other and giggling away :)
April 27th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I had no interest in getting an iPhone – until a couple of weeks ago when I read about some apps for travel, including one that helps you find the nearest public bathroom. Where was that when I had a potty-trainer? But it would still come in extremely handy.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Question/comment: Was it you who alerted us to your friend at “Cancer and Chemo Journal”? http://freemanscancer.blogspot.com/ I had begun following the blog but he hasn’t updated since January. Is he okay?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
We do a lengthy drive twice a year and discovered the simple joy of 1″ thick, cheap chair cushions for the car seats. (They also help me see over the steering wheel better because I’m short.) AND you can bring them in with you when you go to see a performance featuring seating on rock-hard folding chairs.