And now for something I *really* love...

Today's post is about a material posession that truly does fall pretty close to the category of if-you-love-it-so much-why-don't-you-marry-it: It's my "new," used Nokia 6230 phone. I bought it on ebay and it arrived last weekend. I am SO happy with it! My old and trusty 6010 (the plain and uncool kind of Nokia which no one has anymore but that I had much love and loyalty toward) was finally starting to break, and it took me forever to find the exact phone I wanted - I knew there was a phone out there that would be perfect, because my ex had owned it, but I forgot which model number it was, lost the paper where I'd written it down, and didn't feel like contacting him for it, and let me tell you - if you don't know the model number, it's a nightmare to sift/search through the discontinued cell phone world!

But after a couple weeks of browsing websites, ebay, craigslist, and many reviews, desperately trying to find it, I found my perfect phone! I bid on a couple of them on ebay, and this one came with the headset (which I needed, to use my favorite function, the FM radio) and another charger (which one can always use two of) so it was, I think, a good bargain at $60... and without signing a new AT&T contract.

Oh how I love it so.

I've already synced it with my computer and have all my contacts backed up, and as you can maybe tell in the pics, it has a (low-quality, but still!) camera, so Lois is always with me! And, after a very late night of way too much internet use, I downloaded 20+ supercool ringtones and I am totally sporting Desmond Dekker's "007" as my incoming call ring at this moment. It makes me so inordinately happy, it's actually ridiculous.

I can even wake up to the radio as the alarm. And it has a really good speakerphone, the kind where the other person can't tell you have it on. Seriously, I am in cell phone heaven. Best of all, it uses the same charger I had before, so my car and home ones work, and it feels (weight and ear-to-mouth ratio is so important for me) and functions like the awesome 6010, which was a solid brick phone that I dropped a million times and still worked and had the best reception anywhere. No flip phones for me; I love the shape, weight and feel of this thing. I am so geeked over it, it's scary. Of course, in the "things I love" theme, I had to tell you about it.

7 pushups tonight, 7 pushups yesterday. Swam today, rode my bike a lot both days - even in the snow last night to the Assyrian nightclub. Plus, talked to a stranger guy there, while dancing with him. More on that later.

xo