if you haven't heard the story: my beautiful lime green and black Samsung Propel drowned in a tragic Dr. Pepper accident. :'( a large Del Taco cup of the sticky beverage got tipped over, landing directly on my phone and slowly dripped is syrupy goodness into the face of my phone for about an hour before i noticed it...yes, i dried it off. yes, i let it air out. yes, it still stopped working.
being in a long distance relationship (and being of the generation attached to our electronic devices), NOT having a phone wasn't an option. mom just so happened to have her old phone, this tiny little red thing, which i accepted graciously but grew to loathe. i had grown fond of my wide phone and my qwerty keyboard, downgrading to this older Samsung was hard.
CR offered her old BlackBerry Curve, and to my dismay, i found out it needed a new battery. online, the battery was selling for some $50...NOT worth it. to the at&t store i went with SR to purchase a battery for the Curve and/or check my upgrade options. first: upgrade - turns out i was only eligible for "early upgrade" which comes with a $75 fee on top of the price of a phone (should i not choose a free option). next: refurbished (used) phones - turns out at&t no longer carries refurbs in store, according to this salesman anyway. last: battery - turns out at&t not only doesn't carry refurbs, but they ALSO don't sell batteries except on a small number of phone models. i'm highly disappointed in you, at&t.
SR and i head to target to shop for, among other things, phone options. they had the new curve, all shiny and pretty, for $400. i turned to SR and said "thank goodness this is a WANT and not a NEED...at least i still have a phone". i thought this was the end of my journey...
CR tells me that she can get me a battery through her brother-in-law who works for corporate of one of at&t's rivals. this pleases me 1. because the possibility of using the Curve is back and 2. i desperately want to get back at at&t and i see no better way of doing that then purchasing from one of their competitors.
$25 and a couple days later...i have a crack-berry! it's addicting and frustrating all at the same time. i'm still getting used to it and figuring stuff out...but i defintely LOVE having my qwerty keyboard back, i love how wide it is, i love how much bigger and clearer the screen is...there's just the little problem of not being able to mass-delete CR's old contacts. i'm not looking forward to individually deleting all 300+ of them. =/
todayTODAYtoday...birthday luncheon for the March birthdays in my office. i usually really look forward to potluck luncheons, but i can't say that i'm anticipating this one. i'll report more on that topic post-party.
have a happy hump day!
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