BlackBerry Curve: Thanks to My Hubby!!

I have totally been want­ing a Black­Berry* since I did an inter­view with a woman who had one back last Fall. Hubby had been drool­ing over them for months.  So I had been hearing/seeing/talking Black­Ber­ries for a while via Hubby’s obsession.

Any­way, this woman seemed so orga­nized with it, the fea­tures looked amaz­ing, & to be hon­est I just thought it looked cute. I had been resist­ing the CrackBerry’s lure for years & now I was suck­ered in.  Since then I’ve been drool­ing over them too.

How­ever, in my defense I have needed a new cell phone for a while it doesn’t work some­times (e.g. won’t turn on, charge, ring etc…). It’s appar­ently also too old to fix.  I tend to keep my phones until the tech­nol­ogy is so ancient peo­ple exclaim with hor­ror “OH MY!! Is that a Zack Mor­ris phone?” (props for those who know who Zack Mor­ris even is).

AND I do need some­thing that allows for more fea­tures to stay organized.  The old phone also pretty bare bones as far as cell phones go, it worked as a phone & that was all I was look­ing for before.  Any­way, things have changed & I was want­ing some­thing that does more.  I was eli­gi­ble last year & just never choose some­thing else. I am hor­ri­bly cheap when it comes to buy­ing things for myself. I LOVE buy­ing things for oth­ers, but for myself I just can’t do it.

Hubby knows this about me & decided that for my birth­day he would sur­prise me with a Black­Berry Curve 8330.  The kids helped pick the color, it’s sort of a pink­ish pur­ple.   The smudges on the face of it are also com­pli­men­tary of my lovely chil­dren, who were very excited to have me open it yes­ter­day. As they handed me the pack­age Mr. G even exclaimed “Mommy, it’s a Blackberry!!”

Now I can have more fea­tures than I know what to do with.  The two big­gies that I’m lov­ing are the cal­en­dar so I can attempt orga­ni­za­tion & the abil­ity to eas­ily check email with­out hav­ing to get on my lap­top.  That email fea­ture alone is a huge bonus when deal­ing with overly stressed stu­dents email­ing me before a final exam to just make sure they are going to the right place.  Plus, I’m email neu­rotic. I admit it.  I have problems.

I’m sure before I know it I’ll have Crack­Berry addic­tion. But I don’t care.  Right now I’m just happy that Hubby picked up on some­thing that I wanted & got it for me.  We also had a very nice din­ner out, just the two of us.  It was nice to talk to each other.

*I don’t work for Black­Berry,  I wasn’t paid by them, & I didn’t get any free “swag” from them either for this post (although I’ll admit that would be cool).  I’m just very excited about my present.  My Hubby just rocks. He also hasn’t got­ten his yet because his phone isn’t up for renewal.  I’m think­ing he def­i­nitely needs one when the time comes.

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