Donna in Hollywoodland

Comfort Shopping ..and the Cat

I guess the entire thing with my finances is getting to me: having to get my tooth fixed, and needing new breaks for the car - as well as a tune-up because my registration is due next month, and I will need to get a smog check this time.
Ugh... it is all too much, and I have to many expenses, and its too much money. And I can't really afford any of it.
And so..... I went shopping and bought myself a Treat. Yeah, on something I couldn't really afford.

I went to Verizon bought a new Cell Phone. A Motorola V710 with 1.2 pixel pictures, video, the internet (yipee!) MP3 player, memory slot .. and all sorts of other stuff like Bluetooth, which I have no idea what that even is.. The instruction book was so thick, it looked like a little Bible.

The thing is .. my old cell phone I had had for around 8 years. I kid you not. It was one of the oldest ones Verizon has made. It was an ugly black phone with just black letters on the display panel - no pretty pictures whatsoever. It was so old, that the Verizon guy couldn't make any promises that they could transfer my phone directory over to my new phone. So I made sure I wrote all my phone numbers down before I headed over to Verizon on my lunch break. But - surprise, surprise - they loaded to my new phone fine.

I had been thinking about getting a new cell phone for a while, so I decided just to go do it. It took pretty much my entire one hour lunch break. And I have to tell you, the sales people at the Sunset and Vine Verizon store, are very nice. I looked up my phone on the internet when I got home, and the phone itself is going for around $275 most places. But I got my phone, a car charger, and a ear-piece for only $120 .
Of course, I have to make a 2 year commitment - but I have already been with Verizon for 8 years, and I really like them, so thats no problem.

And on top of that, they now sell the Messages in "bundles". I bought 50 messages (text, picture, or video) for $5 a month. But I have a feeling I am going to be raising that to the 100 messages for $10 plan - very soon. And what I really like is that the time on the Internet on the phone just applies against my cell phone minutes. Of course, the screen is so small you can really only read the news. But I plan to put it to good use. Next time I am stuck in line somewhere without a book - I can pull out my cellphone and catch up on Yahoo news.

Of course, none of this cool technology is keeping my Car's Breaks from squeaking. For that I need to go to the car repair place, not the cell phone store.
But this new gadget sure makes me feel a whole bunch better !

After I got home from work, I pulled out the thick little instruction book and was going over all the gizmos until I got a headache.
As I was buying the phone, everytime the guy mentioned "Games", I was like "Oh, no, I don't care about that".
Now, home with the instruction manual, I'm going "Oh, wow - how do I get the games ? I want Games !"

I find the Pix Place , the free website that I can upload my pictures to, instead of storing them on my phone. So I played around with that for a while.

Then I took about 20 pictures of my Cat, Cinnamon. She will eventually get her own webpage, maybe even her own Blog - once I get done figuring out this cell phone.
So here, you go .... the first online pictures of Cinnamon the Cat :

Click on the small pic, to see a larger pic:

This is the picture I have on my cell phone wallpaper

In the morning, Cinnamon likes to sit on my lap while I have my coffee. The polka-dots are my pajamas

A cute picture looking up

Cinnamon looking towards the window as the sunshine streams in. She loves the sunbeams