my prezzie!
My very own iPhone – can you believe it? 
Yes I know that I was supposed to wait until I had well and truly overcome the cancer, but here’s what happened. A couple of weeks ago I received two text messages from my mobile phone provider. One said that I had received 22,000 points for ‘customer loyalty’ and could use them before the end of December to upgrade my phone, and the other said I was being given an extra 50,000 points to use towards the purchase of an iPhone (or Nokia 5800, or Samsung Omnia), again until the end of December. So the other day I went to the Telefónica store to see exactly what this meant, dinero-wise…
It turned out that these bonus points along with the points I’d already accumulated came to a grand total of 96,000 points, which I was told meant that I could get an 8GB iPhone for less than half price. Which was really good news for Nog because he had already decided that he wanted to get me an iPhone for Christmas (well, as a Christmas/birthday prezzie). 
The only thing is that I’m going to have to wait awhile before I can start playing with my new toy because the store is out of stock (plenty of 16GB models, but no 8GB ones) so in the meantime there is a cardboard cut-out iPhone under the tree…
I have to admit that after seeing this book display at Fnac last summer I wondered if I actually wanted to own a phone that apparently requires a huge thick book of instructions, especially as me and instructions manuals do not get along. But what the heck. At least my trial & error method should keep me busy for awhile.
And when in doubt I can always pester truce for help.
(since this is all her fault anyhow 
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What did Santa bring you this year?
I got the statue of Kuan Yin. I hear there is more to come but will have to wait until The Boyo comes back. I guess the big check from my Dad was a Christmas present, too.
That is one nifty present! I’m still waiting for the kids to wake to open our Christmas presents but I got a Heat Miser shirt last night for Chanukah last night and a Grinch bike shirt (need to post a pic of that) the night before!
A month home in L.A., housesitting for a friend who’s in Australia.
Great phone, I’m glad you got it!
Merry Christmas-type Hugs and Snibbles for all at Casa Az as needs ‘em.
On my wish list? To stop losing my sight so fast.
Welcome to the fold! You’ll be able to download the WordPress app, and tell us what you are doing all the time!
Oh have fun! Roger has had one for a while now, and is Inspector Gadget personified, so if you have any queries he’d be happy to answer them.
Happy Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Awesome present!! We both got laptops and DK had ‘water in his eyes’…lol! I think I was more excited for everyone to open their gifts more than anything. My plastic’s still smoking but it was soooo worth it!!
You will not need an instruction booklet for the iPhone. It is extremely intuitive and you are a smart, computer literate person and will have in wired sans destruction book in half a day. If you ask nicely I will send you an INTERESTING book on things to do with it!
Merry Christmas! What a great present! My mom, sister, son, and husband all have the 3G’s now and completely love them. I’m the only sad sack with my Blackberry from work. Next year ….
You’re going to be spending a lot of time here:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/
But never fear, most of the free ones are great!
I just checked out the WordPress app, Colm – woohoo!
Having the iPhone is actually going to be very useful over the next 5-6 months of chemo. It will help pass the time whilst waiting the usual hour or two to see the oncologist, and I’ll also be able watch ‘mini movies’ during the three hours I’m in the chemo chair.
I also got some DVDs this year: series 1 of Boston Legal from Puddock, and an Australian series called Love My Way from Pipocas (which nursemyra tells me is very good). The cover warns of Adult Themes, Sexual References and Strong Coarse Language … sounds good to me!
Everyone’s gifts here all sound great, especially the housesitting gig, SC.
What Beth said seems to be true. My sister in law and her husband got twin iPhones last year and she raved about how easy it was to figure out how to use it.
Here, we still don’t even carry the cell phone around with us on a regular basis. There would be some major adjustments to make to graduate to the iPhone. My niece has a Blackberry. The buttons are so small I can’t dial a number without making errors. very annoying.
You forgot to tell everyone here about your snazzy new camera, hmh.
This whole iPhone thing may end up falling through. They are still out of stock and the deal is that I have to get one before December 31st or I lose all the bonus points. Aaaargh.
Looking into the possibility of them letting Nog pay now, even if I have to wait a couple of weeks to get it, but I’m not sure if they’ll do this.