Pulled screaming into the 21st century...

My cell phone died this weekend. It was a good phone - you could make and receive calls with it - what more could one want?? While I always carry my phone with me, not many people have the number and I rarely use it. I want it so that if anyone I've given the number to as an emergency contact, like Thomas' school, can reach me when they need me. We have a pathetic plan with 100 minutes per month (that's for both mine AND Gary's phones together!) and I don't think we've ever gone above our allotted minutes!lol

Anyhow, I go in and I want the most basic flip phone I can find. It just so happens that our contract with the cell phone company had expired and if I renew it, I can get a free phone, up to a value of $250. Well, not seeing any reason why I'd leave money on the table for Megalocorp, I pick the $249 flip phone. If I can figure it out, I think this phone might cook breakfast for us!lol Really, what the heck is one supposed to do with a phone that's a camera and an MP3 player amongst other things...it has Bluetooth as well... not the slightest clue what that is except that I know our laptop has one and a car we looked at this weekend had it too!!

So, I spent a good part of my day today redoing my cell phone book and such. And you know what, picking the right song for your ringer is really quite a stressful process!!!lol Thankfully, I don't really know how to download anything other than the ringtones already on the phone so I picked from that. Being the nerd I am, when the songs I picked come on, I'm more likely to just sing along than answer the call - I'm really that dumb that it'll take a few seconds for me to realize it's my phone ringing!!lol So, what great tidbits did I pick. Well, when Gary calls me, the ever so fabulous 70s hit "Daddy Cool" will play...anyone remember that? I picked it for no other reason than I remember liking it as a kid... probably haven't heard it for 30 years until today!!lol A regular call will give you "I walk the line" in honour of my father forcing me to listen to Johnny Cash incessantly as a kid and C3PO will kindly remind me to pick up my messages... can't find anything else that appeals at the moment. I will figure out how to download songs so I can pick anything... oh, the pressure... so, what do ya'll have as a ring tone if you have a song? BTW, I'm gonna have a friend show me how to text - yeah, I've never once sent a text message to anyone...if you have my cell phone number and know how to text - send me a message!!lol Oh, one annoying thing though. Why can't these companies ever use the same type of plug/battery, etc. for more than one model? My old phone was a Samsung, so is the new one, but I had to buy a new car charger. When I bought my Nikon D80 camera, the charger wasn't compatible with my other 2 Nikon chargers...c'mon, give us folks a break, how many chargers are we supposed to keep around and figure out what to do with!!lol Yeah, kicking and screaming, I'm being pulled into this century!