Organizing & Random Photos

Yesterday I spent most of the day cleaning around the house. Today was spent being productive, including laundry, homework, and even a bit of organizing. I'm pretty proud of myself. :)

Yesterday: My plant is stretching for some sunlight. Come on spring!!

Today, Arron took a two hour nap, during which I took a shower, washed my hair, and took a whole bunch of crazy pictures with my new iPhone. :)

 My friend Tessa introduced me to the Pop Photo Booth 

app, and I'm having tons of fun with it.
I particularly like this picture of my eye. :)

Then, today, as I was sitting down with Arron on the couch, I got the urge to organize one of the catch-all baskets in our living room. This particular basket was filled with all sorts of cords, from iPod/iPhone/iPad charging cords to hard drive cords, and everything in between. I was tired of trying to pull one cord out, and a whole tangled mess of them coming out.

So I pulled out a whole bunch of sandwich-size Ziplok bags, my roll of masking tape, a permanent marker, and a big heaping of patience.

I wish I had taken a "before" picture, but here are some afters: 

 As you can see, I labeled each individual cable as well, to help us find 

the right place the cord goes back into when we're finished with it. :)

I seriously used probably 15 Ziplok bags, but it is so much more organized in there. I wish I could find a way to more easily display them so we don't have to rifle through them each time we're looking for something, but this will have to do for now. At least any extra time we spend looking for something is offset by not having to untangle a thousand cords!

So I'm feeling pretty proud of myself for being so productive and organized today. :)

A New Phone :)

In December 2010, when I was home, Pops gave me his old iPhone 3G to have since he had recently upgraded to the new iPhone 4. This "new" (to me) iPhone 3G was worlds ahead of my little track phone I was using here, and I promptly had a friend jailbreak and unlock it for me.

However, since I had never had a jailbroken and unlocked phone, I didn't know that the friend did it wrong. There were glitches--I couldn't run more than one app at a time, and if I tried, the whole thing would have to restart. It was quite annoying but I got used to it.

However, about three weeks ago, I tried to restore the phone since the lock button wasn't working, and I couldn't turn it on or off.

And the phone died.

Like, it would not turn on, or respond, or anything.

Uh oh.

I gave it to a friend from work to try to fix, since she said her husband could probably fix it. Five days later, he had tried just about everything, and still couldn't get it to work. Bummer.

So she let me borrow an old track phone of hers until I could get a new phone and figure out what to do. I promptly sold my broken iPhone on the Aviano Classifieds page for $75 and Arron told me I could order the new iPhone 4S.

WHAAAAT!?!? Suh-weet!

So on Monday it finally came in the mail, and I am in heaven. Siri is hilarious, and very helpful... when she wants to be:

 Siri told me the best way to walk to Rome.

She also helped me with some of my summer curricula for work. 

It's also nice to have a camera always on hand to grab pictures of everyday things that happen...

 Imagining my ice cream is Blue Bell... the way it is in Texas.

My car hit 126K early this morning!

That's all for now, but be on the lookout for more pictures and now even some videos!!

Brittany