I'm
still exhausted from our trip this weekend. The morning came far too fast and
there's just not enough coffee to make me feel peppy and energetic today. I'm
going to have to pull myself up by the boot-straps when I get home though. I
have bags to unpack, laundry to do, and I desperately need to go grocery
shopping. I didn't bother to do it before leaving, because we weren't going to
be home anyways.
I've spent most of today's lunch break catching up with
everything I missed while being away. It's amazing how fast the reading list
can build up if you don't stay on top of it.
My first attempt at a link up appears to have been a bust (see: I'm So
Unreasonable). Not a single person posted to it, which I admit was a
little disappointing. However, that's not going to detour me from trying again.
I've already started keeping notes for this Friday's post. There are so many
moments with a pre-teen to be unreasonable, its hard to keep track of them all
if I don't.
In my excitement last night of being home and
wanting to share all the great photos, I left out the fact that Friday I scored
a major deal with Best Buy. I finally got
the iPhone 5! (Doing a little
happy chair dance). I'm a big advocate for email marketing and I always
check the specials that are sent to me. Most of the time I just end up deleting
them, but you never know when a true gem will end up in your inbox.
Thursday night, Best Buy announced the pre-order launch for
the 5S. Now, I'm an extremely frugal person. I do my homework, clip
coupons, and make sure that where I shop price matches. I just can't stand
parting with my hard earned money to save myself a few hours a week to not get
the best deal. I've wanted a new phone for ages now, but simply could not
justify upgrading when mine worked fine. I wanted a
better camera. I wanted more
memory. But these were not things that I needed and
therefore I went without. Part of this launch for the latest and greatest
upcoming version though was the markdown of the soon to be obsolete iPhone 5.
Obsolete to many it may be now, but to me, it's a beautiful grown up toy that
I've coveted for a very long time now. They were marked down to $100, but
when you trade in your old smart phone you got an instant $100 in-store credit.
All I paid for this brand new fancy fabulous piece of technology was $7 and some
change. If I was more flexible and coordinated, I very well may have
done a back flip right there in the store for everyone to see.
For
the past three days I've been patting myself on the back for this major score
and going camera crazy! I know that a lot of people are complaining about the
new operating system, but I have to say that I love it. The camera is great,
the functionality is perfect, and I just couldn't be happier. Slow and steady
wins the race and Friday I was certainly proud of being a tortoise!
This post is not sponsored by Best Buy in anyway. The opinions (and excitement) are my own.
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