T-mobile vs. Verizon

T-mobile national coverage map

Verizon national coverage map

First off, I have T-mobile, and I hate it. There are so many more holes on the T-mobile map, and obviously there's less service. As you can see on the Verizon map the midwest is pretty much solid with coverage.

Second, my friend's screen on her phone cracked on the inside twice for no reason, keep in mind that she doesn't have insurance and she has Verizon, anyways, the first time she took it in she paid $50.00 for a new phone, the second time she took it in which was about a week later, she got a free new phone.

The same thing happened to my phone when I had the dash, my screen cracked on the inside for no reason, and I took it into T-mobile and they asked me if I had insurance, and I said no, and then they said there was nothing they could do about it and if I wanted a new phone that I could buy a new one for over $300.00, and I asked if they could fix it, and they said they had no idea how to and they told me to go to a Verizon store to get help, which is complete bullshit, because they're referring me to another phone company. I have some tech-smart friends, and they told me I should just get a new screen online and so I did, and it was about $70.00 altogether, which isn't a big deal. I got it in the mail and one my my tech savvy friends fixed it, but after a month of so, the screen cracked again. HTC phones are what they're cracked up to be.

Lastly, for T-mobile you have to wait 2 years to get an upgrade, but for Verizon, you wait two years for when you first get your contract, and then just one year after that to get an upgrade.

So in conclusion, T-mobile sucks, and Verizon wins.
If only I could get out of this two year contract.

Camera, house, movie, beards

Bought a new camera, only $249.99 with a 4GB memory card for $12.99 at Best Buy. It's a pretty decent camera, I like the quality of the pictures, it's better then my last one, and there's more settings, I'm going to give my old one to my parents. It's a bit bulky, but not heavy or hard to handle.


House marathons have been on constantly, and that's one of the things that keeps me awake. I cried when I saw the episode where House has a heart attack and almost dies. For some reason I just think he's really attractive even though he's such an asshole!


I watched Into the Wild, although I've never read the book, I've heard the story behind the movie, and I think it's incredible. Emile Hirsch is an amazing actor, and he's adorable. I cried towards the end, it's just so sad, even though I had an idea of what was going to happen.

I think that all guys should grow beards/facial hair.
1. Keeps you warm
2. Saves time because you don't have to shave
3. Chicks dig it/looks good
4. Can cover up blemishes?

Bffs

I stumbled across these pictures, and thought they were so cute and I couldn't resist putting them up. White tiger and chimp best friends.

Pasta

All unfinished, I think, I need backgrounds. Suggestions?

Hello Kitty and super me!

While stumbling, I found this Hello Kitty themed hospital. Talk about cuteness overload. It's in Taiwan and has 30 rooms. So adorable, yet a little much, but I know Lauren would get a kick out of this!


I stumbled across makemesuper.com and found it so funny, it's kodak's way of advertising I guess, you can put a picture of yourself or someone else in a super hero body and create a short video. The video is the same every time, but I thought it was hilarious. I LOLed for a good 5 minutes.

Ever thought? Hey I want to smell like meat!?

Well, if those words have ever left your mouth, you are very lucky. Burger King came out with a cologne called "Flame" that is supposed to make you smell like cooked meat. Yummy, right? What girl could resist that? Hahaha. Who in their right mind would want to smell like cooked meat? I guess you really can have it your way? I suppose if you're really interested it's a pretty good 'value', $3.99! Full of puns the morning; lack of sleep.


The commercial:


The king is creepy enough! Ugh!

CNN's take:


So hilarious though! Apparently, it smells like gasoline!

I miss

my brother :(

Movie review

I would probably give Milk 4 1/2 stars out of 5, not only because I support homosexuality. This movie, of course was based on the true story of Harvey Milk, who became the first openly gay male elected to a public office. Although he ran three times and and failed, his fourth try prevailed. I laughed and cried. One of the best things about this movie is the amazing casting: Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin and so on. This is also a great time for this movie come out that can help open people's eyes to the controversy and horrific pass of Prop 8; I do not support taking away ANY human rights or discrimination. I think we need another movement. Watch this movie, it'll be a good way to spend 2 hours and 8 minutes of your time.

Expensive Wish list

1 -

Canon Rebel XSi Digital SLR camera, It's under $1,000.00.
Click here for a great review.

2-

Adobe photoshop + other components, probably over $699.00 for basic or $999.00 for extended. There are also a lot of choices.

3-

New Apple Macbook Pro - the 13" starting at $1,299.00.

Katy Perry + Batman

So I got tickets for Lauren, Brooke, and I to see Katy Perry on March 24th, in Minnesota. They are their X-Mas presents! I can't wait to go. Tickets were only $17.00, yet plus all the other charges they came to about $25.00 a piece which isn't very expensive at all.


I'm sure everyone knows that the Dark Knight came out on Tuesday in stores. I don't know many people that haven't seen it. I love it, still! I bought it for my dad for X-Mas.

Movies I Need to See

Milk-

The story of California's first openly gay elected official Harvey Milk.

It's in select theaters, expanding on December 5th, but I can't find any showtimes for it in Iowa...





Little Ashes-

The untold story of Salvador Dali and his romantic life.

It comes out in 2009.





The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-

A man ages backwards (he gets younger instead of older).

It comes out December 25.

Shane Mercado

Imitating the Single Ladies' moves:





He even does it on the Bonnie Hunt Show!
I LOVE HIM! I came across these videos while browsing dlisted.
AND he can do Saturday Night Fever:



HE IS SO ADORABLE.

Marc Jacobs, LV, Stephen Sprouse, Britney

So there is a book coming out about Stephen Sprouse, the designer that incorporated graffiti and punk into fashion, you can pre-order it on Amazon for about $40.95. It comes out January 13, 2009!

This is Stephen Sprouse. He died at the age of 50 in 2004 from lung cancer. Sad :(
But his inspiration definitely lives on!


This is Marc Jacobs he, Louis Vuitton and Stephen Sprouse all collaborated on graffiti logo bags in 2001, and to celebrate the new book coming out about Stephen, Louis Vuitton decided to revive the graffiti logos once again!

The carry all bag above is $1,500.00.
And this bag is adorable! and fabulous!

Look how fit Marc Jacobs has gotten!

The pareo is $380.00.

Bracelets are $1,200.00 each. I love the bracelets.

Charm is $250.00.


And this rose bag is $1,200.00.

And here are some others I found:


I thought these looked kinda cool.

Orange is cute!

Not really digging the hat there.

But I love all the stuff, if I was richer, I would definitely be splurging!



Britney's new CD Circus hit the stores today! It was leaked a long time ago on the internet, so I heard it. I'm not too impressed, I mean it's decent. It's got a few good songs, like: Womanizer, Circus, Kill the Lights.

I don't like the picture she chose for her CD cover though, one of her eyes looks weird, and it's just not that flattering, also it's a little too cheesy. I think I'll begin to like it more after a while, yet I still think Blackout was a lot better of an album.

She perfroms in Minnesota on April 3rd! Front row tickets are $125.00, which honestly isn't horrible! I've just always liked her. AND I hope her performances get better...

hey sexy man

Jesse Williams from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2!
His dreamy eyes.

Spray

Marc Jacobs splash in Gardenia smells sooo good
For 10 oz. it's $68.00 at Sephora.

cutest freakin thing

Seriously! A lion hugging a woman that saved him, so so so cute!!

boots and tee

Cute love distressed letter tee, Forever 21, $13.80.


Gathered emboss boot that's also in brown at Forever 21, $24.80.

Why can't we get a Forever 21 accessory store at Jordan Creek?
Also an Urban Outfitters, H & M, American Apparel and Anthropologie would be nice as well.

Camera!

I want this super cute, Sony cybershot t700, it's ONLY $369.99 on Amazon

• 10.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 8 x 10-inch prints
• Carl Zeiss 4x optical zoom lens; Optical SteadyShot image stabilization
• 3.5-inch Xtra Fine LCD touch-screen display; Face Detection and Smile Shutter technologies
• Intelligent Scene Recognition; Dynamic Range Optimizer Standard and Plus
• 15 MB internal memory; capture images to Memory Stick Duo/Pro Duo media

New phone

The screen of my T-mobile Dash has cracked from the inside two times in pretty much the same exact spot within a couple of months, of course ALWAYS before a road trip, the first time was right before Warped Tour, and now this time it's right before going to Detroit. Also this phone is slow and looks like a calculator. Total moment of misery.


So I bought a new sidekick 2008 on ebay for around $240.00, it sounds like a waste of money, but I trust that the sidekick will not break without me actually doing damage to it. My sidekick 3 never failed me, so I don't know why I even got a new phone, and I would be using that right now if my brother wouldn't have sold it. I'm really excited to get this new phone though and I'm hoping to keep it for a long time without damaging it. I would get the G1 phone, but I don't want to risk it. I'm sticking to this brand recognition. Also I just bought a clear screen protector AND a car charger. This phone better last me, I'm going to be extra extra extra EXTRA careful.

Phones and computers/laptops don't seem to mesh well with me.
I've gone through 5+ phones, for all I know this is my tenth, I either get bored, break, or damage them.
I've gone through 3 other computers/laptops, this is my fourth one, and I'm hoping it lasts long, although I do want to trade it for a laptop, because that would make more sense for college.

Prop 8 passes

And I'm pissed, so many good things happen at once and then something as stupid as this proposition gets passed and ruins so much progress. In the future, people are going to look back and wonder why this was such a big issue? Because it's not. Why can't people see this? It's bullshit.

Obama Wins, duh.

Democratic president!
Democratic majority in the House and Senate!

Definitely a milestone in history
Now hopefully Prop 8 DOES NOT pass and things will be good.

Touchscreen everything?!

Touch-screen coffee table in the works for Microsoft?
Click here for further details.

HP Pavilion Laptop

- priced around $1,200.00 on Amazon
- 12.1" touchscreen
- lightweight tablet
- AMD Turion 64 Dual Core Processor TL-64 at 2.2GHz
- 3 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive
- Wireless
- Fingerprint Reader
- 1.3mg built-in webcam
- Vista Premium



New T-Mobile G1 Android HTC Google Smartphone
Retailed at $599.99, but this website has it for $494.99, still quite expensive.

I want it more than I want the iPhone because of the keyboard.

- 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA (320 X 480 pixel) resolution
- Full 5-row QWERTY keyboard
- One-click Google Search
- Customizable Home screen with instant Email, text message and IM notifications
- Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Calendar)
- High-speed 3.5G network connection
- Wi-Fi technology with seamless transition to open networks.
- Android Market with access to variety of software and media downloads
- 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
- microSD™ (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slot for all your storage need


Why did I switch to apple? And when will apple come out with a touchscreen computer/laptop?