Hard habit to make

Well. Looks like I already missed a day. I don't even have an excuse. I just plain ol' forgot. Ah, well, such is life. I remembered today, so here I am. Nothing very interesting going on here, except I did finally draft a pattern that will make the Hill Country socks look like I was picturing them. Don't know WTF I was thinking with that last design.

We got Becky's first pair of big girl shoes today -- lavender suede Pumas with pink suede trim. Very girly. She was so excited about them that she walked quite a ways downtown and then all the way back up past the train tracks. Our little baby's all grows up. Sniff.

Oh, and also, I got a new phone. I decided it was silly to be paying $40 a month when I use an average of 3 minutes of airtime -- essentially, I just want voice mail and something to have in case of emergency. So I've been checking around lately and Virgin Mobile has a plan where for $6.99/mo, you get all the normal bells and whistles of cell service, only you get no minutes so you pay 10 cents a minute whenever you make or receive a call. Even if I use 60 minutes every month (this has never happened in the 8 years I've had a cell phone), that's 13 bucks a month. Much better than $40. And Virgin's on the Sprint network, which is what I'm coming from (I had Nextel), and I've been very happy with their service. I also want to say that when I was calling Nextel to ask them things about cancelling, they were nothing but nice and helpful. No one tried to keep me from switching after I explained the situation to them...pretty much guaranteeing that if I ever do need a bigger plan, they're the ones I'll go with. Good job, Nextel. Virgin customer service has also been super helpful -- I ported my number, which was a huge pain when I switched from AT&T to Nextel...so much so that I ended up just getting a new number. Also, I was able to get my favorite ringtone (the Cantina song from Star Wars) downloaded, so I'm quite pleased with them so far.

posted by Laura Y. @ 5:21 PM