Whoa...

Yeah, I know that's what you said when you saw this. It looks really different and probably to most of you, it looks alot better (especially for my mom, haha). I finally switched to the new beta Blogger and I am happy with the changes to the admin side of this thing. It's alot easier to modify my blog now. Not sure I'm going to keep this look, but until I fix it, this is what it will be. For a beta with so many changes, I'm still disappointed in the lack of creativity in the template options.

Have You Seen My Phone?

I lost my phone today. It was only a couple years ago that I wondered why people even needed cell phones. Now I feel so lost without it. How will people get in contact with me at any random time anywhere? So this is how I lost it. I was driving up to my future new place since the future in-laws were all coming over to check out the new place. It was raining cats and dogs which was kind of unusual. Since our guests were using my parking space, I had to find one on the street. I made a quick call to J to let her know that I'm there, but I'm waiting for a lull in the downpour since I didn't bring my umbrella. (Who would have thought, right?) So as I was on the phone, the rain lulled a bit and abruptly ended my call and bolted for the apartment (which was 2 blocks away). There I discovered that all the streets were flooded so I had to take these bounding leaps from the sidewalk to the middle of the street to avoid the rushing river that used to be called a street.

My future brother-in-law met me near the end with an umbrella. We went inside briefly and then left for dinner. That's when I noticed that I didn't have my phone. I figured it was in the car. Later after the guests left, I went to go move my car to the garage and it wasn't in the car. Too bad I leave my phone on vibrate all the time (I'm really annoyed by cell phone ring tones. If it's in your pocket, why you need to hear it ring anyway? Ok that's just me maybe.) The vibrate is pretty loud so I should have heard it by calling it in the apartment or the car. Not in either place. That means I lost it on the run in between. So we looked in the dark for a bit and called and listened for a vibration sound but no luck. When I call it, my phone rings 5 times before the voice mail picks up which means that my phone is still on and working wherever it is. I'll take one more look in the daylight tomorrow, but I think it's gone for good. I must have lost it on one of those bounding leaps. I had 150 contacts in my phone. I had to do some housekeeping there anyway, but I didn't really want to start from scratch.

I didn't like my phone that much anyway. It was a Samsung and I've pretty much determined that the developers at Samsung are retarded for many reasons. The main one being they took the LCD display off the outside of the flip phone so you have to flip it open to see who is calling. It's especially dumb since the previous Samsung phone I had did have this feature. Also silent mode is not silent. Sure if it rings it is silent, but it still plays an annoying beep if someone leaves a voice mail. Hello! Silent means no noise!

3 Weeks To Go

It's hard to believe I only have 3 weeks of the single life left. It doesn't feel like it was that long ago I proposed to J. I wrote "November come quickly" at the top of this blog back then and it sure did. It's also hard to believe that we have two more weddings to go to before ours. Both of these couples got engaged after us and will be married before us. Crazy. I think 8 months is a good pace though. It hasn't been that stressful and even if the next couple weeks are really stressful, it's still worth it to do the 8 months. It also helps to have a fiancee that has it all together when it comes to planning.