iphone vs. blackberry

So, my Blackberry has been acting up for quite some time now and is constantly freezing and driving me insane. Yesterday it started making this awful high pitched noise - coming from my purse in the back seat of my car...not pleasant when you are driving. I have to repeatedly take the battery out and restart the whole phone to get it to unfreeze or work again. Super annoying. I guess I could call ATT and ask them to send me a replacement phone, but then they would send me what they already have 4 times - a refurbished one. For which I still would have to pay my 50 dollar insurance fee. My other option is to use my eligible upgrade and get a new one. Ahhh, herein lies my dilemma. Do I just stick to what I know and upgrade to the Blackberry Bold...take my QWERTY keyboard and actual push buttons and be happy that I am still able to BBM?? Or do I join the entire rest of the world and cave and get the iphone?? I am really on the fence here. Also, I have a feeling if I just wait it out a month or two, they will introduce a new Blackberry, possibly even a new iphone, for the upcoming Holiday season. They do every year. My iphone pros and cons are almost equal though. The iphone is awesome - we all know this. It has amazing quality and ability to look at the Internet, plus all the super fun apps...and the fact that its an ipod. I had the ipod touch so I know how amazing it actually is. Then there are the downsides - I had that it is touch screen keyboard. I dont mind the touch screen for the scrolling and tapping and all of that, but I feel like sending a text or writing an email would be a pain. With my buttons on my BB, I can get an email or a text out in record time. I think I would definitely miss the buttons. Plus, the iphone does not yet have the capability to received MMS messages. You can't receive picture messages!? You can GPS me and tell me the traffic, but I can't get a simple picture text?? That is just unreal. According to their website, ATT promises MMS abilities in September, which would probably be around the time I would actually be getting a phone anyway. I guess just something to think about. I have been dying for a new ipod touch and I thought with the iphone, I could just knock out two birds with one stone. We shall see...pretty important major life decisions going on in my world.

Hilarious.

This is amazing. So so amazing.

New Bike!! (Finally)

The day has finally arrived...I bought a new bike!! After talking about it for months and going to bike shops and getting fitted and doing research and reading reviews...I have finally committed and purchased a bicycle. Oh happy day!! And I LOVE it. It has pink on it, its so stinking light...its amazing basically. Thanks to a little help from my mom, I was able to go get it this past weekend. I went and picked it up and Saturday and then spent the rest of the day just staring at it. Hahahahaha. Its almost too hot to ride, but that did not stop me. I am really looking forward to the weather cooling off in the next couple of months so I can do as much riding as I can instead of driving. At this point, 105 degrees is a little rough to ride in. Not even that I mind riding in the heat as much as I mind showing up dripping in sweat to wherever my destination might be.

I am now going to go get a helmet this week - safety first and all. Then I will be good to go and ready to ride. We already have a ride planned for this weekend and I am super excited. I love to have something to do to get out of the house on my days off and be outside. Still waiting for Milo to be old enough to go to the dog park, so until then, bike rides will take precedence.

Besides the bike purchase, I did absolutely nothing all weekend. It was an extremely lazy weekend and I loved it. Its too hot to want to go outside. The pool at my apartment isn't even really refreshing because its lukewarm like bath water. I did some studying and cleaned my apartment, but that was all the energy I could muster to do anything besides lay on the couch or sleep. Sometimes you just need to veg out. I had a long week - lots of work and overtime and lots of family drama with Keaton...blah. I needed a weekend of nothingness for sure.

The Milo!!

Well, still heartbroken over the loss of Lexi (still haven't given up with the flyers and ads and whatnot), but its been almost a month and there has not been one word or lead or anything on her. So...in comes Milo!! I know many people judge or form their own opinions about Milo becing a replacement dog or whatnot, but that is really nothing even close to the situation. I live alone and I really missed having a dog. They aren't just pets, it is really a nice companion to have around. I would wake up in the morning ready to see a dog and take one out and feed her, and there was no dog. It made me sad every single day. I had wanted to get a Morkie about 2 years ago as a friend for Lexi, but had just moved to Austin and it seemed like a lot to take on at the time. So I decided to get one now. I am hoping Lexi comes home soon so she can meet her new brother, although I am sure she won't be happy about not being the only one around getting spoiled anymore.

Anyway, enough sad stuff. So here is Milo the Morkie. A mix between a Maltese and a Yorkie. He is all fluff and energy and I just love him to death. I am completely enamored by him and stare at him all the time. I don't mind when he wakes me up at 6am on my days off to go the bathroom because he is just so dang cute. He is bouncy and sassy and sweet...he makes me laugh all the time. He is super playful and really a great great little dog. I am so happy with him and I love having him around. You can see for yourself just how absolutely adorable he is...

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

 

So, we had Kathryn's Baby Shower last weekend in Dallas and I think it was a big success!! Kathryn and I are the lone two in Austin so I picked up her up on Friday afternoon and we hit the road for Dallas. I am all about 'making good time' on road trips and I don't think I had realized what having a 7 month pregnant woman as my passenger was going to do to that. We hadn't even made it out of Austin before the first bathroom/food stop. We had to make a couple of more along the way, but we made it to Dallas without hitting traffic and in time for dinner. Went to eat with Kathryn's mom and sister-in-law and then headed over to hang out with Lindsay.

My main incentive for going to Dallas early was to be able to spend a little time with Lindsay. I hadn't seen her since L.A. and I haven't been to Dallas to hang out with her in months. We had both read My Sisters Keeper and so we had plans to go see the movie that night. Knowing it was going to be a tear-jerker, we had decided the late show was the best option. The movie was good, but the ending was completely different than the book so were both disappointed in that. Nonetheless, we cried and then went back to her apartment to further discuss the change in ending and just to hang out and catch up.

Saturday we bummed around and then went to lunch and did a little shopping. We had seen a preview for the move The Time-Travelers Wife coming out in August and both thought it looked really interesting so we both went and bought the book. Then Lindsay had to head to Wichita Falls for a bridal shower so I was left to entertain myself and relax in her apartment all night!! I had a blast...enjoyed her Tivoed shows and her amazing bathtub. Read before bed and slept in the next day. A great Saturday night in my opinion.

Got up Sunday morning and made the 40 minute trek to Coppell for the shower. There is always a moment for me when I am tired or not in the mood for a shower or whatnot before I go and then I get there and see all the girls I love that I rarely get to see, and it is worth it. This group of girls has been getting together multiple times a year over the past 9 years for showers and weddings and they are always so much fun to be around. Its fun to see who is married/engaged/pregnant/has had babies...always good to catch up on everyone's lives.

Then unfortunately I had to drive all the way back to Austin because I had to work at 7am on Monday morning. Needless to say, the drive back alone went much quicker :)

All in all, it was a great weekend and a nice time hanging out with all the girls. It was also my mom's birthday so Happy Birthday to her!!