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February 09, 2006
Pink Ladies Love Cool James
After three (or was it sixteen?) hours of the Grammy Awards last night, all I have to say is: why OH WHY was LL Cool J so covered up? Where is the love? Shouldn't there be a law he must be sans shirt at all times? (Look! There I go with the French words! and I have not even been hitting the sauce.)
Mariah didn't win on camera, I know she may not have a lot of time for reading knitting and cat and divorce blogs, but Mariah girl I was pulling for you. I've been through a bad break up and a meltdown myself, and We Belong Together.
If ya'll missed the Grammys, or even if you didn't but you're into celeb gossip, or let's face it... you're bored at work and thanking your stars for the T1 connection ... I suggest you do your catching up at Trent's site, Pink Is The New Blog. Personally, I have a limited amount of time in this world, and yes I could be catching up on my Henry James or learning a piano concerto or doing long division in my head, but ya'll I have my priorities. So I get all my celebrity gossip fresh each morning from Trent, who I love and want to marry (he's in line right after my hairdresser, Drew, and a shirtless LL Cool J.)
All afternoon I could see the limos lining up outside the Downtown standard, and traffic was CRAZY with the awards just down the block. But the blimp was out!

View from my window at work.

Now we do the non-segue-way in which I announce to you, the world, that I am finally unstuck from my techmology morass and amen, dig in, because I have feel I have finally re-entered the human race. And for this I thank the color pink.
(ALL embracing of new technology in my life has resulted from appealing design... by that I mean I AM A SUCKER FOR THE COLOR PINK. My first home computer purchase? A pink imac. My first cellphone? A pink Nokia thing. My first mp3 player? Pink ipod. My first personal battery operated device? Pink and sparkly. NEED I SAY MORE?)
See, when you get hitched to a guy who is a lot older than you are, and he has old-man habits (which are endearing when you're in love and stifling when you're not), you may find that you begin to stagnate. It starts small, it's infinitesimal really, little things like your husband is too tired after dinner for a movie, and you stay in. Watch TV. Or maybe it's just age, but eventually you stop listening to current music and one day you wake up and you realize your entire musical knowledge base halted at Raspberry Beret. Or George Jones. Or Ja Rule. And people talk about crazy newfangled things like "ringtones" and you're in the dark, you've never bluetoothed, and you find yourself calling things "newfangled."
It's sad, really. Because although part of you wants to listen to nothing but 80s music and Classic Country, you find yourself Not Yet Ready for the Sansabelt slacks and the 8 p.m. bedtime. You're young! You're smart enough to figure this out! Right? So why are you suddenly feeling like the world fast-forwarded and left you one betamax tape behind?
My little breakthrough started with my summer intern, who was literally NINETEEN YEARS OLD. (Gotta love my hiring tastes in summer interns. Really.) He offered to help me straighten out my ipod, which I had somehow messed up. Because if you need high-end technology fixed, ask a teenager. Ya'll know. Then recently I got this penpal who started sending me cool-kid music, so I was listening to something besides "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
Then there is the matter of my cell phone. I have had my low-tech cell phone for four years. Maybe five. And Mr. Ex has still been paying for it (!) since we had the family plan (Dear Mr. Ex, please define the word "family" and use it in a sentence...) and the worst part, the worst: my phone number was quite unfortunately the exact same as the Veteran's Administration appointment hotline. With one minor detail. They have a 1-800 number, and I had a 1-818 number. OH MY GOD the wrong calls I would get... EVERY DAY. In time, I started to avoid answering my phone and exasperated everyone I knew. "Why bother even having a cell phone?" they asked. "Because... I need one ... for emergencies?" It was Not. Good.
So. Fast forward to Tuesday night. I'm on the treadmill, watching Gilmore Girls when I see a commercial for a HOT PINK CELLPHONE. Hello! "For a limited time only... just in time for Valentine's Day... surprise her with a pink Motorola Razr phone.."
Ooooh, I can be my own Valentine! I want to show myself this Valentine's love! With a pink phone! Come to mama!
Yesterday morning I walked into work and announced, "I must have a pink razr phone or I will die. Where is the nearest cellphone store?" and my coworkers, SO TIRED from hearing me talk to misdialed veterans all day, said, "We will escort you, thank the technology gods!"
And I went home last night with a valentine to me me me:

I love it. I have already figured out how to take pictures, and enter phone book stuff, and I am now about to climb the ringtone mountain. Especially if ya'll will take pity on me and tell me how to add ringtones to this phone (I bought this cord that can hook your phone to your computer but I have no idea. And my next summer intern won't arrive until May ...)
But with my newfangled pink technology, I feel ten year younger! Like I am no longer in line for Sansabelt slacks and blueblockers. I have a Valentine, and it is pink, and says "Hello Moto!"
But the best part? When I emailed Mr. Ex to tell him I had gotten a new phone and he could cancel my line... I did NOT give him my new number. I did NOT put his number in my new pink phone. I said, au revoir old man!
Because pink is the future! Just ask Trent. He knows.
Posted by laurie at February 9, 2006 09:43 AM
Comments
I hear ya, girlie! I have an old man ex (twice my age - literally) and he was CLUELESS about anything past 1980. He bought me an xbox for Christmas and didn't know it was for video games. Serious. I too have developed a love for pink. I think it's something to do with youth and frivolity and is as anti-old-man as you can get :)
Posted by: Samantha at February 9, 2006 09:49 AM
As far as ringtones go, you usually order them online and then they... well, they just magically appear on your phone in the form of a text message, which you then save. No, really. They DO. I have no idea how, since I am convinced computers are run by angry gnomes and iPod's and cell phones by smaller, yet no less angry gnomes. I'm just saying.
Posted by: citycat at February 9, 2006 09:49 AM
I love pink! I don't care how old, mature or whatever, we happen to be. I think pink and sparkly is a definite sign of festivity, not to mention loving one's silly femmy self.
Posted by: Faith at February 9, 2006 09:49 AM
I love pink girly stuff as well!
I sooooooo wish my cellphone provider offered a pink phone. The closest I can come is a sparkly candy apple red - still love it, just wish it were pink.
Posted by: Vanessa at February 9, 2006 09:54 AM
Rock ON. you do NOT need his number and he will have to pine away dreaming of yours. and who cares if he does? you have a pretty pink phone that will empower you through st. v's day. well done.
Posted by: Jessica at February 9, 2006 09:55 AM
Oooh, so pretty and shiny! Can't wait to see you and ooh and aah over it!
Posted by: jen at February 9, 2006 09:57 AM
Giddy...this post made me positively giddy.
You realize, of course, that the influx of pink will now begin.
Woot!
Posted by: abby at February 9, 2006 09:58 AM
Sounds like the first ringtone you need to download is any song by Pink. Cheers!
Posted by: Silvia at February 9, 2006 10:00 AM
YAY YOU! Moving on with a pink Razr. It looks beautimous . . . congrats.
Posted by: melissa at February 9, 2006 10:11 AM
Oh, that it so very cool! Yay for you. I love the look of your new phone and I love that you didn't give your number (I didn't think you would since you have grown so far from that). BTW, that colorful blimp is called "Soaring Dreams". It was painted by children in various cities at their after school programs and represents the owning company's dedication to community service. The company that owns the blimp is Ameriquest Mortgage.
Posted by: sedie at February 9, 2006 10:11 AM
Hello Moto,
You are soooo pretty in pink.
Please be my Valentine.
Posted by: psychomom at February 9, 2006 10:12 AM
I'm pink with envy!! I have the black Razr and if I had not just bought it over xmas time I'd rush in for a pink girlie one. And it's a lovely shade of pink, not pukey at all.
As for ring tones, go to the cingular site (aren't they the only ones with Le Pink Razr?) anyway, go to ringtones, you can listen to them then buy it and it will send the ringtone to your phone. poof! I know there are companies that you can buy them from too but i just go to cingular.com
g'luck and again, pink with envy.
Posted by: Inky at February 9, 2006 10:13 AM
I'm also partial to the pink gadgetry. That is one sexy phone!
Posted by: Amy at February 9, 2006 10:19 AM
Very, very cool phone. Since I'm still spending all my time figuring out this blog thing (hate you, HTML) and knitting (of course), haven't quite been ready to deal with getting a new telephone to replace my dinosaur.
Course, that pretty pink is doing a lot to change my mind.
Posted by: Diane at February 9, 2006 10:21 AM
Congrats on the new phone! and number. Sounds like an excellent move. I bought my ringtone through my phone, but they're all different. I'm sure a Razr owner will help you out.
Posted by: ellie at February 9, 2006 10:21 AM
Pink! It's the new, uh, . . . pink!
Posted by: Helen at February 9, 2006 10:21 AM
A)You look awesome in today's picture. Healthy and glowing and no longer pasty. Maybe the coral-ish shirt works for you or maybe it's the relective pinkness from the phone.
2)I notice that you switched from "Techmology" to "Technology" halfway through todays post. Maybe you're so modern and up-to-date now from getting the new phone?
C)Feel ya on the older husband thing. Mine's 8 years older. However, we consciously try to work it the other way and let me keep him young.
Posted by: Lauren in Austin at February 9, 2006 10:23 AM
My husband and I are getting new phones this weekend and I'm secretly hoping for a pink one. Or a pink iPod. Unfortunately I think I'm getting a door mat for v-day, which he doesn't seem to realize is a horrible idea.
You probably already know this, but on your phone you can program certain pictures to come up when certain people call you. It's like they're inside the little pink phone talking to you.
Posted by: Stephanie at February 9, 2006 10:23 AM
So much color these days...between that pink phone and that mango shirt I'd say 2006 looks good on you!
And you are in line of who I want to marry too! ;)
Posted by: ~drew emborsky~ at February 9, 2006 10:25 AM
You look good in pink, dahling! Cute phone!!
Posted by: Jewel at February 9, 2006 10:27 AM
I am Green with envy. I love love love the Pink phone. It is like having a groovey girly spy camera. I saw the commercial last week, jaw hit floor, immediately started saving pennies.
Posted by: stacey at February 9, 2006 10:29 AM
I have that same phone! And I love, love, love it!
How can you not be young and sexy with the latest in cool techno?
Posted by: Leah at February 9, 2006 10:32 AM
I'm with you on LL - Ladies TRULY Love Cool James when he's shirtless! Did you see him last year on American Idol? He was so incredibly nice and kind to the ladies - he's definitely on my boyfriend list!
Posted by: Renee at February 9, 2006 10:36 AM
Yay pink!! And double yay for being your own Valentine, you SOOOO deserved a new pink phone! When I get ringtones I go to cingular.com (my phone carrier, if you have a different one you go to theirs, obviously) and click on stuff, then they send the ringtone to your phone and you tell it to save. You can also have different ringtones for different people who call you, which is pretty cool.
Posted by: Judy at February 9, 2006 10:41 AM
You go, Girl!!!!
Hey, that's the phone I'm buying!!! I just haven't decided yet between the silver, black or pink. I want one in each color so I can match the phone to my Mood For The Day!!! :)
Posted by: Kat at February 9, 2006 10:42 AM
Happy Valentine's Day to you! Love the pink, love the new outlook, go Laurie! :)
Posted by: Kim at February 9, 2006 10:43 AM
What a great post, you've made all your readers very happy today. Happy V-Day to us!!
Congratulations Laurie and Ayez de grandes vacances sans mari! (or something like that there...;-)
Posted by: MX at February 9, 2006 10:50 AM
OOH! I hope my BF has enough sense to get me that for Valentines. He bought me a "teach yourself to knit" book for Christmas, and I had been knitting for two years. Congrats on shedding your excess idiot.
Posted by: Jenny at February 9, 2006 10:50 AM
Love the phone! Love the pink! Love you! Happy Valentine's Day, girl... you rock.
Posted by: Noelle at February 9, 2006 10:50 AM
happyhappy PINKPINKPINK!
Hooray for you, the pink phone, not putting "his" number in, and especially for introducing me to Trent's blog. LUUUVVVV it! (trashy, but I embrace the smut)
Posted by: Meem at February 9, 2006 10:51 AM
Oh.My.GOD! I NEED that phone! I too am a girl CRAZY for pink...where do I go? Where where where!? (whiping drool away now).
Posted by: Jill at February 9, 2006 10:52 AM
I've been jonesing for a cameraphone, and if it says "hello Moto," I must have that one. I'll use it to freak out my tiny-brained dog...
Posted by: Becca at February 9, 2006 10:53 AM
You look so good today - pink cheeks, pink phone...
I'm with you on the older man thing - mine's 13.9 years older than I. Took me a long time to realize I was missing out on a LOT of current music, movies, literature, technology... But we've worked through it. Now he just sleeps! LOL
I'm so proud of you for not giving Mr. X(tremely stoopid to leave you) your new cell phone number. Of course, now you have to pay for cell phone service yourself, but at least you won't be getting the VA mis-dials :)
Posted by: Leslie at February 9, 2006 10:53 AM
Ooh! Pink! Also, that phone is AWESOME. Even Afsheen is jealous.
Posted by: Gwen at February 9, 2006 10:56 AM
YEAH for Laurie!!!!! I'm simply tickled pink for ya!!!!! And girl - I'm so in love with LL - have been for years.
And if you'd wanted to be just a little wicked, you could have just let Mr. Ex continue paying for your line even though you weren't using it anymore. I'm just saying.
Posted by: Beth at February 9, 2006 10:57 AM
Hi, a lurker here ... just want to say I like the best part best ... it's really the best. Congratulations ... on the new phone and on not giving you new phone number to someone who shouldn't have it.
Posted by: Agnes at February 9, 2006 11:00 AM
I'm with you on the pink. Although my new phone is white. My iPod, though, is pink and has a pretty pink leather case, too, so while it's bouncing around in my purse it doesn't injure itself.
I am very, very old, and have loved pink my whole life. It seems like there were entire decades when you couldn't buy anything pink. We are truly living in a pink-blessed time....
Posted by: janna at February 9, 2006 11:00 AM
Sexy phone! Pink is the new hotness.
Posted by: Heather at February 9, 2006 11:00 AM
For sleazy celeb gossip, have you checked out www.thesuperficial.com ? It always has all the dirt, and the commentary is hilarious. I'm addicted!
Posted by: Sarie at February 9, 2006 11:01 AM
What a perfect v-day present (the best presents are ALWAYS the ones we buy for ourselves)! I have been lurking around your blog for about a month and have thoroughly enjoyed reading about all of your adventures. Please promise that you will post from France-I can't wait to read about all of THE WINE DRINKING....
Posted by: Rachel at February 9, 2006 11:02 AM
I love the coral (or is it pink?) shirt on you. Looks good. I love buying pink things too!
Posted by: Coops at February 9, 2006 11:08 AM
I'm the "old" one in my marriage...mentally that is. Hubster is 17 years older, but is constantly bringing new (as in new to me anyway) music into our home.
Your phone is very pretty. I'm still using an ugly gray prepaid phone. See, I'm old.
Posted by: Nancy R. at February 9, 2006 11:12 AM
Congratulations on your new phone! Very sexy.
Posted by: Imbrium at February 9, 2006 11:13 AM
If you're looking for more hi-tech pink:
http://www.colorwarepc.com/products/default.aspx
Posted by: June at February 9, 2006 11:15 AM
Whoo hoo for newfangled technology! Ha, ha.
I think a semi-naked LL Cool J should be law. It just should.
Posted by: jessica~ at February 9, 2006 11:15 AM
I have that phone too, isn't it the prettiest thing ever!!
Posted by: tina at February 9, 2006 11:23 AM
Yeah! PINK RULZ! I live in the backwoods and came to LA for a U2 concert in November...I felt like such a bumpkin, y'all have loads more gadgets and use them way more than my kin. Love love love the shirt and pink phone together.
Posted by: Trixie at February 9, 2006 11:28 AM
OH YA'LL thank you, I went to my cell phone provider's site and downloaded "We Belong Together" as my ringtone (Hi! I am cheesy!) and then I downloaded "Pretty In Pink" for some of my friends and then my coworkers told me to shut up with the ringtones heh heh but this is so much fun! my phone sings to me!
Posted by: laurie at February 9, 2006 11:29 AM
Also - - you should check out this technology review blog:
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/
its geared towards women and has a lot of pink girly stuff.
Posted by: Vanessa at February 9, 2006 11:30 AM
Let us know how you like the new phone (aside from the color). My cellular plan expires in about a month and I want to switch carriers and get myself a snazzy new phone.
I have a love hate relationship with pink. I am a Valentine's baby and for the first 18 years of my life I never touched anything that wasn't pink, white or red and heart shaped. Then I had a mini rebellion and refused to let anyone buy me anything pink, red or with hearts on it. I think I may be over that.
Posted by: Debbie at February 9, 2006 11:34 AM
I find it totally amusing that your phone goes with your outfit.. hee.
The website you need to put new ringtones on your phone is http://www.cingular.com/media/ringtones_purchase
How do I know this? Because I know only cingular is having the Pink Razr for valentines day.
I hope that helps.. if you need more help you can email me and I'll help more! Yay helpie helperton!
.....I'd love to be your next summer intern : / Allthough I get the feeling that I'm the wrong gender for your intern. LOL.
Posted by: Kim at February 9, 2006 11:43 AM
Woot woot! You go, girl!
Posted by: Chris at February 9, 2006 11:47 AM
Congrats on the tech update! I'm no Motorola fan (I'm a very unbiased Nokia freak)...but well, as long as it not sooooo low-tech (I don't know which cellphone you had before this). But I sure will be jumping off the Empire State building if I had to answer zillion calls from misdialled veterans all day. :p
Posted by: Elemmaciltur at February 9, 2006 11:49 AM
YAY! Our phone number is one digit off the local grocery store. I get calls daily from old people who want to thank their baggers, companies wanting to schedule deliveries. people wanting to order cakes, etc.
Posted by: erin at February 9, 2006 11:50 AM
my son says you can download songs as ringtones for goddam free using your bluetooth. Don't ask me how....but if you need instructions I'm sure he'd be happy to oblige (he's 18 btw).
Posted by: zina at February 9, 2006 11:54 AM
I love, love, love it. I'm a sucker for pink too. I got the cutest new pink knitting bag (monogrammed of course!) the other day.
Posted by: Melissa at February 9, 2006 12:02 PM
Pink Rules!! pink yarn, pink cats, pink kitchenaid mixer! Life is better with pink!
(I suppose a pink cat might be pushing it!)
I'm not too familiar with LL Cool J(wrong generation) but wouldn't pass up a few moments with Bono (even though I am at least 6 inches taller!) pink on!
Posted by: robinv at February 9, 2006 12:04 PM
I love that phone and considered breaking my cellphone contract for that phone but I will have to live with my pink sprint phone for now. And bravo for not adding or offering phone numbers with the ex-power thy name is pink.
Posted by: aubyn at February 9, 2006 12:10 PM
Oh this was so refreshing and lovely to read!
I caught Madonna's performance last night and that's about it, and the only thing I could think was "Why can't I have her thighs?"
Congrats for taking one more "moving-on" step. Each successive one is getting easier, no?
Posted by: jaclyn at February 9, 2006 12:20 PM
you are so freaking cute :-) i delurk every once in a while to comment (but read you obsessively every day) and today, your uber-cuteness with the pink razr made me do it. you. so cute. love you. :-)
Posted by: Alice at February 9, 2006 12:38 PM
I bought that phone yesterday too! (Well, no actual store here in the DC area seems to have it, so I had to order it online... it's supposed to arrive Monday or Tuesday! I.cannot.wait.) There are a couple of ways to load ringtones onto the phone - either by purchasing them online (which will send a message to your phone with a link to the download) or through your phone's web browser. I can help you more if you still need it! :)
Posted by: Holly at February 9, 2006 12:48 PM
Dude. I hate pink, but after that blog entry, I might love it. I don't know shit about ringtones, but I know a lot about not deleting ex's from my life, and that feels damn good! You go, pink goddess!!
Posted by: Carla at February 9, 2006 12:54 PM
You are too kind. I wouldn't have even bothered to tell Mr. Ex. But love the pink!! :)
Posted by: Sharlene at February 9, 2006 12:55 PM
Purl,
You and I are kindred...I read trent, (but i do prefer Perez.... www.perezhilton.com), I'm slightly younger...but I am a grandma at heart, trapped in a 24 year old body. Embrace your old-ness :)
Anyway, I NEED that pink phone. I have wanted one for so long, but I'm in the middle of a contract and it will cost me like $400 to get it! I'm up in Northern California, and cingular just came out with a new bubble-gum pink phone (as opposed to magenta) I want that one. Or magenta. I will take what i can get!!
I'm SO jealous of you!
-Kim
Posted by: Kim at February 9, 2006 01:02 PM
You look fantastic. And so does your phone. I was anti-pink most of my life, until I had the wee Monkeygurl. Cain't escape it, and finally gave up trying. I guess it isn't so bad, this being-a-girl thing. I may one day get a handle on it.
Posted by: MonkeyGurrrrl at February 9, 2006 01:06 PM
You are hilarious! It's therapeutic just reading your blog, despite the fact it's been a few years since my latest breakup (well, only 3 actually) :). As a woman in my late 30s I am convinced that the technological accessories, while not necessary in abundance, should be used with confidence for that mature-yet-hip kinda persona. Rock on girl! By the way, whatcha working on as far as knitting projects right now?
Posted by: Robin at February 9, 2006 01:07 PM
Congrats on the phone!
What's up with pink? I used to hate pink and now, at almost 26, I can't get enough pink. I bought some pink polka-dot plants today (http://faculty.ucc.edu/biology-ombrello/POW/polka-dot_plant.htm)
Posted by: Tina at February 9, 2006 01:08 PM
Ooooooo...pink! The bestest color ever. The bestest celeb-gossip blog ever!
And a "You go, Girl!" (or whatever the kids are saying these days) for buying your own Valentine.
Posted by: Susannah at February 9, 2006 01:16 PM
Whoa. When you move on, you move on! Congratulations.
Posted by: k at February 9, 2006 01:27 PM
Cute, cute, cute phone! If only it were fuzzy and sparkly too...that would be my dream.
Posted by: aimee at February 9, 2006 01:28 PM
I posted this on the wrong entry, but I suggest the Pink Panther theme, available from Cingular. Sure it's Henry Mancini and like, 40 years old, but classics never go out of style.
Posted by: Laurie Ann at February 9, 2006 01:36 PM
delurking for the first time to say I love the phone! I have the silver razr and I figured out how to post pictures directly from the phone to the blog... bad idea. It always seems like such a good plan when I'm all wasted to post pictures of everything - including really bad, really drunk self-portraits.
You have a fantastic blog and thanks so much for making me laugh.
Posted by: Sourire11 at February 9, 2006 01:46 PM
just a heads up for your tivo - the Tyra Banks show is doing an interview with LL and if i recall correctly, there are some shirtless pictures shown...not sure if he removes the shirt on air or not...it's scheduled to air on tues the 28th (i can let you know if they change that though)
Posted by: jennifer at February 9, 2006 01:54 PM
First of all. Oh.My.Goodness!!! I loved your blog before... Now I ADORE it!!! You are a George Jones Fan!!! Shine On to Mem'ryville!!!
Secondly, we must have been separated at birth. My work phone number is 555-8000. The local water company is 555-6000 and they print the water bills with a dot matrix printer. IMAGINE the calls. "mmm yeah, is this the wahta cmpny? i gaht dis bill in da maihl..." and I say. "Ma'am, MA'AM. This is not the water company." they reply, "really? Well dis bill say.." "MA'am, I know what the bill says. It says, 555-*6*000, not 8." Then the ever coming, "I am so sahry, I bet you get dis all the time." I sigh and say, "yes ma'am... quite allright."
Glad to know there are others that suffer and know my pain. I am truly happy for you that your suffering has ended and that you have a new pink phone :)
Posted by: Rhett at February 9, 2006 02:10 PM
Kim... actually Verizon has them as well, it's different pink though.
Posted by: Pamela at February 9, 2006 02:10 PM
I saw that commercial as well and thought, "What a cute phone." But I can't do it. I have always been a Nokia kind of girl.
Good luck with the ringtones. If you go online to your wireless carrier, you can listen to samples of the tone before purchasing. (I point this out because as I have internet on my cellphone, I sometimes impulse buy while out. Sometimes the tones are not quite what I expected.)
Oh, and you should always buy yourself a gift for those special days.
Posted by: Dagny at February 9, 2006 02:15 PM
I too am so into the color pink! I have a room in my house that is PINK (it's the color pink you can only say in capital letters) and it is devoted to shoes and handbags. what's the fun in being a spinster if you can't have crazy colored rooms....
Posted by: stephanie at February 9, 2006 02:17 PM
purl! update - you inspired me to call cingular and find out when my contract is up - some lady there worked it out so i could upgrade! i just ordered my (light) pink phone! it should be here in 1 (tomorrow?) to 2 business days!!!!
hurray!
Posted by: Kim at February 9, 2006 02:32 PM
NOTHING says pink like Hello Kitty(Sanrio). She is queen of the pink. Sanrio knew there stuff when they SUCKED me in at the ripe ole' age of 7...
My cell phone is the free, plain, ugly "gov'ment" issue that HI teachers could get. I tried a few non-issue phone covers but they all broke apart far too quickly...so I bought a PINK! (and some black) Hello Kitty Phone holder thingy, oh yeah, stylin'. My iPod case is also Hello Kitty shades of pink. Of course my favorite Sanrio character is a black penguin(Badtz Maru), but you gotta rebel somewhere...and yes, this is a 30+ female spouting about Hello Kitty. It's PINK though :)
Posted by: Mary (in Tahoe) at February 9, 2006 02:34 PM
So jealous about the pink Razr! I just got a new cell phone a few months ago complete with new contract, so it is too early to get the new pink Razr! :(
Posted by: Jessica at February 9, 2006 02:38 PM
I too have a pink iPod! And I wanted a pink Razr, but they weren't out yet, so I got a boring old black one instead.
But! I did knit it a hot pink cozie thing so I can pretend! Muahahaha!
Posted by: Melanie at February 9, 2006 02:39 PM
My hubby is 12 years older than me. To make himself feel better, he likes to say things like "you know, it's all downhill from 36" and stuff like that (on my 36th B-day, natch)!
But mostly, he would rather be partying. But he can't. Too freaking old. Baah-haw-haw!!
Mariah blew the roof of the joint with her performance last night! If U2 would just take a Grammy break, that would be nice...let some OTHER people win something???
Posted by: Shelly at February 9, 2006 02:42 PM
How funny that not two minutes before I read your blog I had just made my first phone call on my very own pink Razr!! I feel like you are my soul knittin' sista! And go 'head wichya bad self, Honey. You don't need him. You got a new phone! Peace out Momma.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 9, 2006 02:44 PM
SO EXCELLENT. I do believe this is the real beginning. Thank goodness they make those things in pink!
Posted by: Daphne at February 9, 2006 02:51 PM
I actually have a pink kitchen. It has the most wonderful glow in the summer evenings and in the winter it keeps the blahs away (mostly).
Posted by: Nancy R. at February 9, 2006 02:52 PM
Yay!! Good for you!!! :)
Posted by: Erika at February 9, 2006 02:56 PM
Good on you girl for moving on, buying what you like for yourself and cutting the phone ties to Mr X.
But don't be ageist. My grandfather who was born in a village that didn't even have electricity was starting to learn how to use the internet shortly before he died at 93. He was never OLD in mind. While I went to scounts with a 16-year-old boy who I swear was born a middle-aged worrier.
Age is a state of mind that has nothing to do with physical age. I, for instance, have no plans of ever getting older than 14,. No matter what my body says.
Posted by: Maggie B at February 9, 2006 03:10 PM
You suck! I want that pink phone soooo much! But alas, the material things are beginning to get in the way of my true self (read: I'm dead broke!).
Posted by: Vicki at February 9, 2006 03:32 PM
That phone is hott.
Clearly, Mr. Ex is not(t).
And, my dad's cell phone is one number off from his local cable company's contest line number, as in, "the first ten callers after 8 p.m. will receive something really cheap and crappy for free!" Oh. My. God. It's irritating.
Posted by: Mary in Atlanta at February 9, 2006 03:54 PM
Oh my goodness, that sent four times. I am so, so sorry.
Posted by: Mary in Atlanta at February 9, 2006 03:56 PM
no prob Mary, I fixed it :)
Posted by: laurie at February 9, 2006 04:05 PM
I'm rather partial to purple, but pink still rocks my socks, too.
So what did you think about Rory moving in with Logan? Our little girl is growing up! I have a whole love/hate thing with Logan, so I'm torn.
Posted by: Erin at February 9, 2006 04:18 PM
I want to tell you, you look fantastic in that black/coral combination you were wearing today. Also, you rock. :)
Posted by: Julie at February 9, 2006 04:24 PM
nancy r., i have a pink kitchen too. :) well white walls with black appliances and countertops with pink accessories (kitchen aid mixer, blender, tea kettle, utensils, utensil holder, towels, pot holders, you name it!)
Posted by: Kim at February 9, 2006 04:46 PM
Although I have read recently that one should not comment unless one has something extremely substantive to add, let me just say: YAY LAURIE! You may or may not be out of the woods yet, but you are at the very least no longer mired in the Swamp of Marital Despond. RAH!
Pink doesn't usually do it for me. Purple, however, is another thing entire.
Posted by: Lucia at February 9, 2006 04:58 PM
Hey Laurie, you know that building the blimp is about to run into in that first photo? That's my building. Hi!!!
Posted by: rb at February 9, 2006 05:07 PM
P.S. I wish I could get a pink Blackberry. A Pinkberry, perhaps?
Posted by: rb at February 9, 2006 05:10 PM
nice phone... pink is definitely your colour - plus, although I'm sure it's been said already, you look fabulous today!
Posted by: Jacquie at February 9, 2006 05:30 PM
Good for you about not giving the ex your new number or adding his number to your NEW and HOT phone!
Posted by: Maschil at February 9, 2006 05:43 PM
A CAMERA?? in a PHONE?? Aren't you dangerous enough as it is??? This will morph in to photo blog....
Posted by: haji-o-matic at February 9, 2006 06:29 PM
i, too, love uncle l. i missed his performance, but i feel your disappointment.
Posted by: carrie m at February 9, 2006 08:12 PM
I covet the pink Razr. My cell phone company (that rhymes with Shmerizon) says I'll have to pony up $400 to change. Bastards are always trying to keep a good girl down.
As I watched the raw feed of the Grammy arrivals at work yesterday, I heard some stupid reporter or producer try to get the attention of an artist by yelling "Jay-Z! JAY-Z!!!"
He was yelling at LL Cool J. I KNOW.
Posted by: Catherine at February 9, 2006 08:56 PM
that blimp flies by my house all the time! i guess it got sick of orange county and decided to make its way up to the big city. we will miss it dearly!
Posted by: Penny at February 9, 2006 09:54 PM
Love the hot pink Razr. So single-girl foxy! ;)
Posted by: Samantha at February 10, 2006 02:48 AM
Kim: Your kitchen sounds pretty! The walls in mine are brick and were turquoise when we moved in. *eeewww* I immediately painted them white and hated it. Then, one spring break (I work at a college) I took the plunge and painted the room pink. Purdy! I am the only female in the house (1 hubby, 2 sons, 2 toms), so gollygoshgeewhizz, I *deserve* a pink kitchen.
Posted by: Nancy R. at February 10, 2006 06:05 AM
Gotta say I'm right there with you on the pink bandwagon! My accessories tend to be pink also, right down to my 1st personal "massager" being PINK also. Pink rocks.
Posted by: Bethi at February 10, 2006 06:33 AM
Oh my god, I saw that very pink, oh so Moto commercial last night, and I had the hardest time explaining to my hubbie why it was so funny! I love it! Here's to all the pink ladies! (This coming from the girl in the pink sweatshirt wearing pink fuzzy slippers and, yes, it has to be said, pink undies too!)
Posted by: Megan at February 10, 2006 07:41 AM
nancy i love it! i'm a single girl and i have my own condo, i might as well live it up with all the pink accessories. describing it, my friends thought i was nuts, and that my place would look like a pepto bismal bottle exploded, but i think its quite tasteful...back in my archives (august?) i have pictures of the kitchen, you could check it out if you like. i try to keep the pink contained to the kitchen (my bedroom is pink and green floral and french themed, living room is deep reds and greens kind of indian/asian)
Posted by: Kim at February 10, 2006 08:38 AM
a) You look absolutely radiant!
b) This was such a happy, happy post!
c) You've inspired me!
See, as a Double Engineering Major, (because one engineering degree is just not enough!) I am pretty good with the technology. I speak its language. What I am NOT so good is the...how can I put this...FLUFFY technology. And Fluffy does not equal Bad! I'm bad at using technology for what it's really designed for, which is to Make People Have Better Lives, because I take myself so seriously as a Technology Person that I am not allowed to have any fun. (My iPod is black. Need I say more?)
I am going out and getting RING TONES, baby! WOO!
Posted by: Aarwenn at February 10, 2006 08:42 AM
Also, dammit, I am wearing pink underwear. And no one has mentioned Aerosmith's song entitled Pink, but it's an excellent song!
Posted by: Aarwenn at February 10, 2006 08:51 AM
I used to revile pink as "too girly," because I was oh-so-tough and so very hard, but the past year or so has found me embracing pink little-by-little. I now find it sexy and fun and very very edgy (on me). Hooray for pinkness!
Posted by: KathyMarie at February 10, 2006 08:59 AM
Ok So not fair! I just told my husband the same night you saw your commercial, I WANT THAT PHONE! & then you Ms. Purl, go get one. Oh well, I can be a copy cat(flattery girl, flattery)! Enjoy your phone!!!!!
Posted by: Cristina at February 10, 2006 09:17 AM
Congrats to you Aunt Purl!!! Enjoy your new phone!
Posted by: Miss Mantoan at February 10, 2006 10:43 AM
Love the Razor - Love Pink Is the new Blog - I never miss a day of Trent. This is SO weird because my husband has been OUT now for 2 weeks and one of the things I did this week to take control of ME and my life is get a NEW shiny MOTO phone.. so I can cancel our JOINT account with the old company. it was just delivered today in the mail and it made me SMILE so big. My old phone was also about 4 years old and SO not HOT or Attractive like my new shiny flip camera phone! LOL, I am so excited about my new phone number and my new life coming up (after the next few months of crapola divorce etc stuff) I have been married to the wrong man who has cheated on me many times over the last 15 years and stayed for my kids.. well this month I finally decided life is too short for me to live pretending and acting. I am DONE! and moving up in the techmology world while I am at it!
Posted by: db at February 10, 2006 02:38 PM
I agree -- neither LL nor Usher should be allowed to wear anything that hides the abs. Why work so hard only to cover up? Senseless!
Posted by: Gina at February 10, 2006 07:50 PM
I have been seeing that pink phone on commercials and so coveting it. Unfortunatley, budget mousewife has had to wait to get a new phone, when I say new, I mean actually my Dad's old phone. I am queen sad of the sad people really, having second hand technology from a senior citizen. Who, btw, has better texting skills than me, and uses all the fancy schmancy abbreviations like L8R. But I, I am the one who can talk the battery flat, so I rule, don't I?
Posted by: irene at February 11, 2006 03:54 PM
I love that phone! I got a black razr, and I kid you not, 2 weeks later they offered the pink one up. I want to drop mine just so I can get a pink one. Is that wrong?
Enjoy it! ;D
Posted by: Kelly at February 12, 2006 07:34 AM
I really enjoyed this post. I guess it was the smooth transitions from subject to subject. No, I'm not an English teacher. Coulda been, though, I guess huh?
Anyway, I hate the Hello Moto song (my husband just recently bought that phone), yet I was strangely obliged to break into a goofy dance every time it rang.
Posted by: Krista at February 12, 2006 01:31 PM
Oh yeah, and a PS to the above, you had the Veterans' Administration; about 1990 I used to have one digit different from the national Aids helpline. A double digit, at the beginning, so all those nervous diallers would get me, trying not to scream at them for waking my very small child, because with Aids on their minds, surely they had worries enough? So I changed my number, and got a heavy breather with the new one, lucky me! Moved to a new place, and my phone number was very similar to Help The Aged, so I used to get the elderly bewildered phoning me for advice at all hours. And now I have a new number, and, praise the telephone gods, no one seems to have one like it. Downside is that it is extremely un-memorable, and I sound really dorky if I can't remember it. I am extremely dorky, but it's not something I care to advertise. And my cellphone number, I have no clue what my cellphone number is.
Posted by: irene at February 12, 2006 06:17 PM
OMG! I LOVE THAT PHONE! I saw the ad this weekend! I.NEED.ONE!
Posted by: lisa at February 13, 2006 08:12 AM
Ah, yes.... The old man ex is why I took up GOLF, fer chrissakes! As soon as I left him I learned to rock climb....
;-)
And BTW, I have no idea if you'll see this way down here in the basement of the comments, but my favorite thing to do in Paris, esp. with people who've never been before, is to go to the top of the Samaritaine department store, up to the observation deck, and you have a 360 degree view of the city. It's cool because there's a map on the rim with that shows landmarks and it's a good way to get your bearing. On a clear day you can see all the way to the Sacre Coeur. The last time I was up there the whole world smelled like brioche baking.... Gotta love a city that smells like butter!
Posted by: Lynn in Tucson at February 14, 2006 10:04 AM
OMG!!!!! i really really really want the bubblegum pink razr from cingular... but i cant get it because i have nextel. my plan doesnt expire until april 16, 2008... nextel has good service at times... but cingular is WWWWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY better!
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