iWant

I'm loving all these book recommendations - please, keep them coming! So far I haven't begun a new book - I'm weighing my options. I finally figured out how to borrow e-books from my library, but unfortunately, everything I looked up was already taken out. So I have 4 or 5 books requested for hold right now - I have a feeling that it will take a while to get them.

In other news, I think I may finally give in and buy myself an iPhone. I've been living with my non-data plan, bare bones/basic phone quite happily for a long time, and I've been reluctant to upgrade to a phone that will cost me an extra $30 a month. But M. got an iPhone a few months ago (he already had a Blackberry, which was no bueno - and I can attest to this, as I also have a Blackberry supplied by my job and it, too, is no bueno - so the only extra cost for his iPhone was the phone itself), and what can I say? I'm jealous. I want a cute phone case (I will get a super cute and probably not-at-all-practical one, I have already decided this. Just haven't decided on WHICH super cute case), and I want to amuse myself with the Internet and Pinterest and Facebook and Instagram and all kinds of other crap all. the time. I want it, I do.

I've usurped M.'s phone to a degree - I set up an Instagram account for myself on it. This is because M. does not "believe" in Instagram; he's all "why would you want to take a perfectly good photo and ruin it?" Jerk. Anyway, I knew he wouldn't want to set up his own account, so I went ahead and did it. But every time I want to take a photo, I'm not holding the damn phone. Because it's not mine, of course. And I want to take ALL THE PHOTOS. All the time. Capture the moments, what have you.

AND. And. My 10th anniversary is coming up. The "celebration" gift for 10 years is tin, and there is some tin in the iPhone (albeit apparently illegally mined), so this is totally legit, right? Plus, M. will be GONE on our 10th anniversary, and he won't be just anywhere, he will be in ALASKA. Because he gets to go to all the fun places. I get to drive back and forth to Northern Virginia.

I think I deserve two iPhones.

Marking One Year

In honor of my 1-year blog anniversary, I decided to present you all with a video clip for the first time ever. This demonstrates true blog dedication, as the time it took to upload the camcorder software and figure out how to use it seriously cut into my Veronica Mars viewing time last night. I'm still flying pretty blind here, and hope that it actually works. I apologize in advance if the file is too big - this is definitely an experiment for me!* Also, it's about 20 seconds longer than I would like, but I haven't gotten to the video editing portion of the help manual yet :-). Behold, Lucy's quiet little voice, taped on the 4th of July. She's very conversational (and smiley, as you'll see), but definitely in a low-key manner. Way different than the adorable, but much louder, yelping and yodeling her one month older cousin, Cameron, does.



*OK, it definitely was too big, as Blogger tried and tried, but could not successfully upload the video. Thanks to MommyEsq for the tip of publishing to YouTube (my debut!) and embedding it here.