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Here, just take a look at a picture I took of Emily with my new phone.  My new iPhone.  My new iPhone 4.  Try not to be distracted by my Grandma Bonnie and her “deciding face”.  (Sorry, Gram!)

Yes, I am – not kind of – I AM a big deal.  You can tell because of my iPhone.  Only people who are “big deals” have one.

I have downloaded, like, 4 apps so far, one being Sudoku, obviously.  I’m an intellectual.  Yeah, so, 4 apps in 2 weeks isn’t bad.

I’m not that techy so I really haven’t cared about getting an iPhone or any other “smart” phone in the past.  But, Josh and I were looking for ways to save on our monthly expenses and thought it was about time to get rid of the home phone land line.  Except, that was mostly the phone I used.  I did have a cell phone, too, but I hated that thing.  And I don’t even hate things.  It was the cheapest garbage-clown disaster phone in the history of cellular telephones and I owned it.  I think it was $9.99, but then they gave a $30 rebate or something for buying it because they felt so sorry for you having the worst phone in the world.

I rarely used that phone because it was so awful; I’d lose it every single week because I didn’t care.  Not many people called that phone, and I never had a texting package because I’m cheap and texting would have required touching that terrible thing and pressing it’s buttons.  So, here is what a typical battery cycle of my phone was like: it would sit misplaced and collecting dust in a corner of the house or the car or the diaper bag until the low-battery beep drove Josh crazy enough for him to charge it for me.  Repeat.

So, my solution was to have the home phone number (land line) ported to a new cell phone for me.  When AT&T told me that we had an eligible upgrade to an iPhone 4 on our account and it would only cost $200, I decided to go for it.  To join the rest of the civilized world with their fancy phones and texting packages.

And I’m glad I did.

I also have wanted a point-and-shoot camera for awhile, just for the portability of it and for the unplanned little photo ops that come around every once in awhile when I don’t have access to my “nice” camera.  The camera of the new iPhones are pretty good (improved from the first version) and that was my deciding factor in going ahead and purchasing the phone.  It’ll also replace my Flip video camcorder because there is a sweet li’l viddy camera in it as well.

I have noticed that I’m on the laptop A LOT less since having my iPhone.  I like that, for sure.

And I haven’t lost it once since getting it!  (Not for more than five minutes, anyway.)

Also, I haven’t missed having a land-line phone like I thought I might.  So, that’ll save us about $25 a month now that we don’t have it.  So, after 8 months, this phone will have paid for itself!  Kind of?