TRICIA'S TIDBITS

NO LONGER A PHONE NERD ... So my birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and I got a cool present - a new cell phone! Now it might not seem like much to you, but to me, who was carrying around a cell phone that had no camera, no video, no ability to download music, it's pretty huge! Darren said it was time to get me a cool phone when he saw my four and nine year old nieces making fun of me because they have cooler phones than their Auntie Titi!

It's a Blackberry and I can take pictures and video, download music, really keep my schedule together with a cool calendar, even text without having to hit a button four times to get to the letter I want! The good thing about the camera capabilities, of course, is being able to send stuff to Ryan in Iraq. He was laughing because I sent him some pictures from the night we celebrated my Mom's, my sisters, and my birthdays. My Mom and I were born on the same day, my sister a day before us. We were all at my other sister's house and I was taking pictures and sending them to Ryan.

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out why the pics were so cloudy, like they were being taken through a veil. Well, my eleven year old niece walked by just as I was complaining that this whole taking pictures with the phone thing wasn't all it was cracked up to be. She asked to see my phone and took the protective film off the back and handed it back to me without saying a word. Yeah, I'm a phone dork.

So now I've joined the cool kids with the cool phones, but I get the impression that they still won't let me sit with them at the cool kid table at lunch! Oh well........