Ringtones, blizzards, and other April treats.

It's a blizzard outside, but, you know what? Even I'm sick of my bellyaching. So what? It's going to be nice soon. I know it is. I can just feel it in my bones. So, snow...whatever. Who cares that it took two hours to get to work this morning?

What I want to talk about is my awesome new cell phone. I got the Samsung Stripe. I secretly really wanted the Orange PEBL, but I draw the line at paying $200 for a phone. Isn't it totally cute, though?)

Anyway, my old phone was a free phone that was three years old and had a battery life of five seconds. It would also secretly turn itself off on occasion, which was a great feature, especially when you are completely oblivious to this secret power and no one can reach you for hours on end.

I do sometimes ponder how I survived college and all of my adult single life without a cell phone, or how Brendan and I would ever decide what we should do for dinner if the mobile hadn't been invented. No joke? I think we might starve.

However, I only have one problem with my new phone (outside of the fact that I can't hear my own voice when I'm talking into it, so I yell.)

The problem is...the ring tone. It only came with one, and it's not the one I've been trained to respond to.

Like Pavlov's doggies, I am now trained to respond to the T-mobile theme song (from the commercials)...mainly because I didn't see the point in "investing" in ringtones when my phone could only play songs created on a 1983 Casio.

But, the nice thing was, I knew it was mine. I could be asleep upstairs with my cell phone ringing downstairs, and I would wake up out of the deepest coma and hear it. (The only hazard was when the commercials would come on and I would lunge for my purse.)

But, this stupid fancy phone came with some sort of T-mobile remix that sort of involves the old tone, but it is souped up ala Timbaland or something It's NOT the same. So I decided to try to download the original. But I can't!

So I decided to make the best of it, and download a fancy ringtone that has words. So I paid $2.49 for Mims' "This is why I'm hot." which I thought was funny for ten seconds...until I realized that it goes off at about 300 decibels in places like...the grocery store...or say, a funeral luncheon. And, yes, it does have amazing sound quality, and you really can hear the words.

I need a new ringtone.