First of all, I am back in Raleigh. For three entire weeks! Except when I go away for Thanksgiving.

And now, on Thanksgiving. I have been looking forward (for months now) to November 22. Because on November 22 I can get a new phone. Except that I just realized, that's the day before Thanksgiving. So I can't get a new phone. Because I want to have a phone that is working for travel. So I have to wait until that Saturday, after I get back.

I have decided that new phone will have Bluetooth, because the one thing I miss about having a landline is that I have lost the ability to walk around and complete other tasks (laundry, etc.) while talking on the phone. Because it is just not possible to cradle my cell phone in between my ear and my shoulder. So now talking on the phone is something that cannot be multi-tasked (Jasper: Yes it can! You can still pet me!), and that just doesn't work for me.