We had a lot of rain here the last couple of days, and yesterday morning when I woke up, the back forty was half under water.
I’m not complaining, though, because you know what? Could be SNOW!
(Click on any of those pictures to see a bigger version at Flickr, along with notes about what exactly you’re lookin’ at.)
Remember how the other day I was all peeved about the fact that I wanted the LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile and every 45 times a day I went to the site to check, they had the damn thing “temporarily out of stock”? Well, someone mentioned that they had them (for cheaper than the Virgin Mobile site) at Best Buy. So I went to check it out, and for some reason Best Buy had them listed as available, but they wouldn’t ship them.
Then I thought to myself, “Well DUH, dumbass, howzabout you look around online and see if you can’t find it somewhere ELSE?” Because honestly, that just had not occurred to me, how sad is that?
So I searched, and I found them available at ecrater.com for $50 less than on the Virgin Mobile site. I was all excited, and I placed the order, and then less than an hour later, the seller canceled the order.
I was all “What the fuck?” and I told myself to calm the hell down and just BE PATIENT, because SOME DAY Virgin Mobile will have them back in stock. Then in bed Tuesday night, I was laying there all propped up with my netbook (LOVE MY NETBOOK) on my stomach, catching up on my blog-reading, and I got sidetracked into searching for the LG Optimus V on eBay, and good lord. What a RACKET. I was all excited to find a phone for $50 until I looked closer and saw that they were charging $135 for shipping. I wonder how many people aren’t paying attention and get caught by surprise by the exorbitant shipping and handling fees?
Yesterday, after Susan C. commented that she’d found the phone at ecrater.com and that it said they’d just gotten a shipment on the 8th and she placed the order, I went back and tried placing the order again, and this time it was accepted and started processing.
Which is my way of saying y’all rock for pointing out the obvious to me (since the obvious sadly very often escapes me), and EEEEEEEEEEEE! New phone on the way!
I can’t wait to start downloading ringtones!
I sure am wanting one of those new iPads coming out this Friday, too. Not that I NEED one, but there are often times when I’m laying in bed surfing the internet on my iPod Touch because I’m too lazy to get my ass out of bed and go alllllll the way across the room to get my netbook, and I think “Gee, I wish this iPod Touch had a bigger screen!”
I mean, basically, isn’t that all an iPad is, a bigger iPod Touch?
I could get an iPad and it would replace my iPod Touch and my Kindle, after all. The only thing it wouldn’t replace would be my phone, but give it another year or two. I’m sure by the time the iPad 4 comes out, you’ll be able to make phone calls on it.
I’m not going to run right out and buy the iPad or anything – even though I’m sure Fred would fully agree that what I need is more SHINY STUFF in my life (NOT) – but maybe in a year or so I’ll get me one o’ them.
We’ll see.
Last night, because wearing that goddamn head garment 23.75 hours a day was starting to really get to me, I called my plastic surgeon’s office and talked to his nurse to see when I could stop wearing it and also when I could stop wrapping my arms. She said that I could stop wrapping my arms now (but that I could still occasionally wrap them if I felt the need to, for comfort) and could also stop wearing the head garment, too.
So I took the head garment off last night and I wore Ace bandages on my arms when I slept last night, then took them off when I showered this morning.
Honestly, it feels weird not to be wearing any of that stuff. My arms do feel a little bit swollen, and if it bugs me I’ll wrap them back up later, but for now I’m kind of enjoying the freedom.
I still don’t know about my neck. I really think there’s more sagging skin under there than there oughta be, but Fred keeps repeating “WAIT AND SEE HOW IT DOES OMG STOP OBSESSING” and I’m trying to do that. I SWEAR. But it’s hard not to obsess, y’know?
I am completely off the narcotics, I think I mentioned that earlier this week, and what’s funny is that I’m actually sleeping better now than I did when I was taking them at night to help me sleep. I’m able to sleep for short stretches of time on my sides (but most of the night is still spent on my back), and while it’s happening ever so slowly (still not lifting very much), life is getting back to normal.
THANK GOD.
Here are some links I’ve been meaning to share with y’all for just about forever now.
Human ventriloquist without a dummy. Hilarious, and VERY well done:
Tricks of the Body. Very neat.
You remember Surprised Kitty, of course:
Here’s a send-up of it in the form of Surprised Dog:
The Amazing World Clock is very neat.
Now THAT’s a proposal!
I would like a Pirate Ship Bedroom, please.
::tromptromptromp:: “Oh, hey, look. A leaf!”
“Wait, what the -?”
“I’m – I don’t – what – I SWEAR, my paws almost feel WET. What on earth?”
“What is going ON?”
Poor Elwood. He’s not the brightest bulb, he was SERIOUSLY confused as to why he’d be feeling all WET, there standing in that puddle, and he stood there and pondered for the longest time before he finally trudged OUT of the big puddle and shook his legs and paws dry.
Bless his heart. (That’s Southern Speak for “What an idiot.”)
Sweet snoozing Sugarbutt.
Have I ever told you guys that the vet’s staff adamantly refuses to list him as “Sugarbutt”? True story. They call him “Sugar.” Cracks me up every time.
Previously
2010: “Please tell this strange man to stop SMELLING ME, if you please.”
2009: I felt SO OLD then, but 28 sounds impossibly young to me now.
2008: We had a little weirdness on Friday in the form of a super-mega-mutant egg.
2007: No entry.
2006: Today’s the 10th anniversary of the day Fred and I met.
2005: I met Fred nine years ago today.
2004: Eight years ago today, I entered the IRC Undernet channel #!Fredsplace and met the geek who owned and ran the channel, who would eventually become the love of my life. (Complete with mush!)
2003: Sick Poo.
2002: No entry.
2001: Five years ago today, I was on IRC and I wandered into the Undernet channel #!Fredsplace, and I met the love of my life. (More mush!)
2000: Four years ago today, I wandered into the IRC Undernet channel #!Fredsplace, thus setting into motion a chain of events which would echo down through the years.
Oh, Robyn. Guess what I found in my e-mail this morning? A cancellation for my Optimus V order from ecrater.com. ARGH! And it out of stock an my local Best Buys.
I’m starting to think this phone is part of an elaborate psychological experiment on buying behavior or something. But I’m STUBBORN and I will keep looking until I find it. And if I do, I’ll let you know first.
I just got my cancellation too! And when you go the page, it claims they still have 9 left. WTF??
I’m with you, they’re toying with us. 🙂
If I find ’em, I’ll let you know, too!
Since you’ve been talking about the LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile, you’ve got me interested. Can you tell me what’s great about this particular phone and using Virgin mobile? We have Sprint. I mainly use my phone for emergencies and hardly ever make calls. I like the fact that Virgin offers unlimited text, data, etc with little talk minutes. I currently pay $15/mo for my basic no text phone (yep that old). But my husband got it at a great deal years and years ago. I’m ready to upgrade, I think!
Joy, what mostly put me over the edge about the phone was looking at the reviews on the Virgin Mobile website – you can check them out here. It’s rated much higher by users than any of their other phones, and the reviews are pretty much glowing. I’m a little iffy about the fact that it doesn’t have a pull-out QWERTY keyboard (which is my favorite feature about the phone I have now), but I’m certainly willing to give it a try. Since I’ve been dying for a smartphone since the iPhone came out, but have always balked at the monthly fees for those things, I am VERY excited at the idea of having one. You know – if I can ever actually GET one! 🙂
I wish we had that rain here in Phx, supposed to be 86 today. Shit, here comes the heat. Ah well, c’est la vie in the desert.
We have a cat whose name is The Lizard. She is a big, black, fluffy cat ala Mr. Fancypants, but her name is The Lizard aka Thunder Lizard aka Tyrannosaurus Rex. Yes, Liz has always had nice sharp claws and fangs, why do you ask? TBH, we call her Lizzie and find it easier to tell the vet that is her name. When we adopted our two boys (love of our sad, lonely lives) we immediately took them to the vet and said their names were Jones Cat One and Jones Cat Two. The vets were not amused. We explained we had just picked them up two days before and they had not yet revealed their names to us. The vets didn’t get it or like it. Tough shit. The boys eventually informed us that they are, in reality, Nudhz (Nudge, it’s Yiddish) and Rupert aka Ruperto aka Rootie Tootie He’s Fresh! And Fruity! (yeah, you’re not the only ones with crazy-ass nicknames). I say vets need to get over it already.
Rock on Sugarbutt!
The funny thing is that at the other vet’s office we’ve taken him to (we prefer the vet’s office that refuses to call him Sugarbutt, but it’s a 1/2 hour drive, whereas there’s a vet 5 minutes up the road and sometimes we just don’t want to make the drive), after Fred made the appointment for Sugarbutt, I showed up and they asked how he got his name. When I told them why (story here), they told me that’s what they figured – and they thought it was hilarious!
Okay, you do not EVEN need to be a cat lover to squee over that commercial. HOW. FRICKIN. CUTE.
Poor Elwood… At least he’s pretty. 😉
Hi Robyn,
Great links! I especially liked the Tricks of the Body one. Here’s another one you might like — cat-related. Cracked me up. 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYe1d5_LS0s
Hilarious! 🙂
Cats with Opposable Thumbs
The one with the emery board looks like our Alex (Alex De Large, Nickolas Nudgleby, Irving Q. Pickle [the Q stands for Quahog], Burly Bastard Boy, Herbito, L’Herbertois, Bud, Buddy, Budrow, Mudbutt, Muddy, Thuddy, Cruddy, and Little Man, so far).
If you’ve already got an iPod touch and you’re thinking of getting an iPad and you need a smartphone, why not just get an iPhone? You can’t carry an iPad around in your pocket wearing headphones to listen to tunes, but you can with an iPhone. You can’t make calls on the iPad yet, but you can with an iPhone. You can blog (although I hate the WordPress app) and read your Kindle stuff, which will save your sanity in waiting rooms, take photos (Amazon Remembers is pretty cool, and it reads barcodes), keep a calendar, and take notes, like your grocery list, right on the phone.
And there are some pretty cool apps out there, like the one you can point at the night sky and read constellations using your specific location.
As it was expressed to me when I was persuaded to get one, ‘it’s a computer that takes phone calls.’ So far I like it, and I’m a bit of a Luddite when it comes to cell phones.
’cause I can’t justify the monthly fees that come with owning an iPhone when I’m so very rarely more than half an hour from home. Believe me, I’d LOVE to have an iPhone. And in 10 years when I can have an iPhone that only costs $25 a month, I’ll be on it! 🙂
PS: I am stealing some of your cat nicknames to add to my list of future foster names. Irving Q. Pickle is ABSOLUTELY going to be used. LOL!
I love Irving Q. Pickle too!!!
My little Yenta (another Yiddish kitteh) is also known as Crabby Crabcakes and Stinky McStinkerson of Stinkerville. Stinky seems to be the nick that has stuck.
CRABBY CRABCAKES! LOL! Man, you guys are cracking me up today!
Yay! for not having to wear uncomfortable support garments. I bet you’ll sleep better. And, being a smart girl, you know better than to overdo it and harm yourself.
Elwood…not exactly the lemon yellow crayon, but very cute. 🙂
Years ago, my husband and I went to see a ventriloquist in Laughlin, Nevada and he got my husband onstage to be his human dummy for awhile. It was hilarious and they gave us a videotape of that part of the performance when we left.
Gee, you think your vet’s office is perhaps a BIT uptight? I mean, I could see if his name was Buttfucker or Cocksucker or something like that. But, Sugarbutt? Sheesh!
Annnnd now I have some new names for future fosters! (LOL – if I ever get a set of fosters near April Fool’s Day, I’m going to email the shelter manager and tell her we’ve decided to name them Buttfucker and Cocksucker!)
Oh my. Thanks. Just inhaled my crunchy granola bar. *snicker*
Yeah, this serves as a good warning to not eat lunch & surf Robyn’s site at the same time. 😉
Are you taking progress pictures along the way? areyouareyouareyou?
I’m kinda not, actually, I intended to but I slacked. Though I did make a mental note to make Fred take my one-month pictures tonight when he gets home. 🙂
I love the kitty proposal, Mum! I hope if a guy ever proposes to me its with a new house :]
And one for your mother! 🙂
I have an Ipad (granted an older one) as well as a Kindle, Itouch, netbook and other assorted gadgets. And the Ipad replaces none of that. I like reading on my Kindle much better, my itouch has better sound and much easier to carry on walks/gym time (ha, as if I go to the gym), the little keyboard on the ipad is worse then my netbook (though I did just get a new cover with an attached keyboard, which may change my thoughts on that. So it is a basically a big screen DS for me. It is easier to watch movies, tv on the ipad (lighter then the netbook), but I am kinda eh about the whole thing (but no, I don’t want to give it away). And I read a study that said people either think their ipad is the greatest or they are like me and remain unimpressed. It was a tax write off for me, so that is my main reason for the purchase, and last month I did bring it on a trip instead of my laptop – but only because the boy brought his netbook and I knew I had a fallback computer. So I would suggest borrowing someone’s for a week before you buy, it may not be the gem you think.
Thanks, Suzy, you’ve given me some things to think about! I actually don’t use my iPod Touch to listen to podcasts and music (even though they’re ON the iPod just in case), because most of the time when I listen to that stuff, it’s when I’m doing housework or working in the garden. Given how expensive the iPod was, I’m terrified that I’ll drop and break it, so I listen to podcasts on a Sansa SanDisk (I stocked up last time Woot had them, so I have two extras). I almost never use my Kindle – it bugs me to pay to download a book that I might or might not be allowed to lend to others (given that you can always lend real books) – except when I travel. Mostly, I *think* I’d use the iPad for movie-watching, game-playing, and to check my email when we’re watching movies or TV and I don’t want to go alllllllll the way to my computer (heh). I’m really not thinking of it as any more than an oversized iPod, it’d never replace my netbook. I adore my netbook. 🙂
Happy Virtual Anniversary (this would be year 15, right?)
and THANK YOU for the wonderful Miz Poo birthday cuddles!
All I could think of when seeing these pictures was, ” Do chickens swim?”
They don’t swim, but they wade. 🙂
You could also get a B&N Color Nook – it’s basically a full-functioning tablet and cheaper than the iPad. It’s an Android platform but the overlay is similar to iPod Touch. I think it may even have bluetooth.
The iPad is basically an oversized iPod Touch. In fact, we refer to our touches as iPad Nanos 😉