can i just say that i am unequivocally head over heels totally in love with my new phone. like i can't put it down. i can't stop touching it, showing it off, learning all the crazy things it does. all of this from a person who uses a phone merely as a texting device. anyone who knows me knows that i'm not so good with the talky-talky when it comes to the phone. i even sleep with it on the pillow next to mine. wow, when i type it all it it really gives you a sense of how empty my life truly is. i live in constant fear of dropping it and/or scratching it. i know that day will come, and cause me some grief, but i'm trying to postpone the inevitable for as long as possible. i've watched tv on it, checked the weather, looked for ringtones, loaded some songs onto it, sent one hundred texts, taken a serious of stupid pictures...but haven't actually made a call with it yet.

i got the unlimited text and picture plan for one reason only, my favorite person in the whole wide world. she has that as well, and so we spend our days texting one another and sending the dumbest most random pictures ever. and it's worth every penny spent.

today my mom and i met up with my aunt, who is in town from georgia. it's funny, when you're a little kid and you see everyone once a month or so you tend to take it for granted. but the older you get, and the less you see them, and the more people that you end up losing, you actually want to spend more time with them than you get a chance to. a visit once or twice a year just doesn't seem like enough. maybe that's why thanksgiving in michigan is always such a huge event. when we're not around one another on a daily basis we tend to try and cram a lot of things into a three or four day visit. it finally started getting cold here so i was able to bust out the new coat for the second time in the last month. sixty degree weather over thanksgiving just didn't seem right to me. true it was nice to be out shopping in, but a thanksgiving without six inches of snow just doesn't seem like thanksgiving to me. if we end up having a green christmas i'm going to be all shades of pissed.