Brown thumb anyone?

Ok, this thing is sooooo COOL! I love plants and apparently I love torturing them as I have managed to kill more than I've kept alive (though I have 5 houseplants that have survived despite my care for YEARS now and my balcony does manage to look pretty in the summer). But this might help me figure out how to stop killing them! Basically, you stick this gadget into the soil and the output is soil quality, plant health and suggestions! How awesome is that?!?! I can now keep on killing the plants but at least I'll know WHY they're dying! :D

OMG! I WANT ONE!!! (Or admiting I have a problem is the first step, right?)

Chumby.

I want it...

I need it...

I must have it.....

A Chumby of my own....sigh...By my bedside, keeping me company during the long, lonely nights....Mmmmm...
Chumby...

I know I am a electronic gadget junkie. I want one of everything. If I can turn it on, it can turn me on (ok that sounded worse than what I intended - LOL)...Its a sickness...

Taken from the Chumby web site: "Chumby takes your favorite parts of the Internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. It's a window into your Internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets."

T-Mobile treats their customers like redheaded step children...

I have been a good T-Mobile customer for a number of years - which means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to T-Mobile....

I was all kinds of excited to preorder the G1 this morning - imagining the day when it arrives at my office, unwrapping the little box and caressing its shiny black sleekness...mmmmmm....GooglyGoodness....mmmmm....sigh..ok, I digress....

So I login to the T-Mobile web site, all ready to order when I add it to the cart its showing at a price of $299 - AFTER a $100 discount. Um...WTF?!?!?!? This is NOT the $179 that is being touted all over the web (though if everything on the web were true, I'd have a large penis (uh thanks but no thanks, spam), an MBA I didn't work for, several large lottery winnings, a compulsive gambling habit, no credit card debt, and be on my FREE cruise to the Bahamas).

Oh and did I mention that you also have to buy an extra monthly package that is either $25 or $35 PER MONTH. I almost don't mind the extra monthly fee for data services. But what really gets to me is that because I am an existing customer, I am being punished. Wow. Real nice T-Mobile.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention that with the upgrade to the phone I'd also be tacking on an additional 2 years to my contract with T-Mobile.

I'm suddenly not feeling like this is such a great thing any longer. I'm sure the phone is wonderful but their choice of provider seriously leaves something to be desired.

This is my second time with T-Mobile and after this - I'm starting to feel like it should be my last. In my old age, lol, I have started to be more discerning regarding the companies that get my business. I, frankly, don't like to be jerked around - it wastes my time and energy - things that are in limited supply these days.

Oh I am pissed.

I think I'd rather spend the $299+ to break my contract with T-Mobile.

Apparently, I'm not the only one. Found the accompanying image online - yet another disgruntled T-Mobile customer......

I think it's love....

Sigh.....Or maybe lust....Just as i found the wireless speaker system i've been dying to purchase, a certain someone (Oh what timing you have Sare - LMAO) alerts me to the fact that the GooglePhone is going to be released next month. Now, i realize that i just purchased a phone as my beloved k1 bit the dust about a month ago but this is kismet, i tell you, KISMET!!!! See, it combines my love of Google, with my love of cell phones AND is being offered through my mobile provider. As it stands, i'm roped into a contract with them for another two years so i might as well enjoy the ride, no? Seriously, to be able have Google in the palm of my hand...sigh...its almost....well, lets just say the idea is simply..uh..stirring.... :)

Though when compared to the iPhone it pales just a touch. But i never got on the iPhone bandwagon really so i'm ok with it....October 22nd is just around the corner too...YAY!

Now on to the other things i am coveting - Big Pimpin' (this is C's new handle) just got himself a new ride and i am oh so envious....The stalking will now become more fervent as there is nothing hotter than a sexy man with a sexy set of wheels! (And you say i don't blog about you...)

Anyway, i need to get back to it.

Peace.

Hate is a new cell phone...

I'm finally starting to feel a little better. I didn't go in to work again today - which is ok, for now. I've been up and about the house for a couple of hours and now just logging in to check email and such before getting back on the couch. I can't seem to get this out of my system. i have grown weary of bananas, rice, toast and applesauce, that's all the drs. are allowing me to eat until i'm completely better.

Though i have to say that at least there was no hospital this time, for which i am thankful.

So last week my beloved cell phone died. The krzr that i loved....in a panic (my cell phone is my lifeline) i ran to the T-Mobile store with a raging fever and threw myself upon the mercy of a 19 year old sales guy. All that mattered to me was that the phone would accept my sim card and i would walk out of there with a fully functional phone.

It seems that a techno-gadget loving junkie like me and a 19 y/o sales boy have very different ideas of the meaning of "fully functional". I am now in possession of a Nokia XpressMusic Slider Phone, like the picture, though mine is red. They do not offer shiny silver, like my krzr. Nor do they offer plain black.

My phone is silly and i do not like it. Normally i spend time researching and pricing my gadgets. But out of desperation, this is what i got...I believe i have two weeks in which to return it and i may very well do so next weekend. I do not have the capacity to understand all of my phone. And things like the phonebook do not make sense. For example, it lists three entries for my mother, home, work and cell. But they each just go by "Mom" - so I have to drill down a level to determine WHICH phone i'm calling...my beautiful krzr would list them all under "Mom" and i could scroll to pick the number i wanted.

i think i'm getting old....sigh...not as adaptable as i used to be....

Ok, back to couch shortly....