My Two New Toys!

I have two new toys!

Toy #1:

There's a small story to go with this one. :-)

About a month ago Mr. M wanted to go shopping for a new cell phone. His contract was up with his old service provider and he didn't really like that phone to much. So we went in to a local store and we're talkig to the service guy. Mr. M mentions that he works for "Company B" and the guy goes to the back to see if they offer a discount. They do - 8%. Pretty cool.

We leave and come back a few days later deciding he wanted to purchase the phone and open a new service. Our original service guy was not there so we had another great guy help us (turned out to be the Manager). Mr. M tells him the phone he wants, mentioned that he receives a discount with his company. Mr. Manager then turns to me and asks who I work for. I tell him I'm not interested in a new phone, my service is fine where I am and I have no intentions of leaving. He says he just wants to check, so I tell him "envelope stuffing company". He comes back and proclaims "WOW! The envelope stuffing company has the second best discount we offer" - the government is the only company better than ours - my discount is 24%!!

HOLY CRAP!! Why has noone told me this before? Do other companies offer discounts with my company?

Of course he asks again if I'm interested in a new phone.. mine is a little older and I could use one. I call my original carrier to see if I receive a discount with them. They are unable to pull up any discounts without some "number" they need from me. I ask them if they can just look it up by the company name - nope need this "number". Okay then I will probably be leaving you. And with that I left Cingular - I mean AT&T for Verizon! Just because they couldn't look up my discount! I did later find out my company offers a discount but not comparable to Verizon.


So here is my new phone. It is a little bigger than my older phone. I'm still able to put it in my front pocket which is what I like to do when I'm out so I can tell if its ringing (well really feel it vibrate because I don't think others want to hear my ring). I also got it mainly for the key pad. I do a bit of texting - not a lot - but when I do I hate having to press a key multiple times just for one letter. I'm still trying to get used to some of the features it offers.



Toy #2

Last Friday I got home after working a half day (Friday before the holiday) and Mr. M tells me there is a package coming and he was hoping it would have been there already. I figure its something for him - again - because he's been buying a lot of computer stuff or frisbees. Anywho, he's out with Z at the store when I hear the knock and dash of the UPS and find the package at the front door. I call Mr. M and ask "what have you purchased at Best Buy?" He tells me not to open it - I tease that I am - but I wait!

He gets home and has be get the package and open it. To my surprise its a new Nikon Coolpix S550! It's sweet!!!

I'm going out of town with my sister for a quick weekend trip and I just don't want to take our big Kodak camera with me. I've always wanted something small that will fit either in my purse easily or my pants pocket! And so he surprised me with it so I could get used to it before my trip!


Have I told you how great of a guy my man is? What a wonderful surprise! I've been playing with it almost every day. I need to get out the directions again so I can really figure out what all the different features are. Sweet!


So those are my two new toys! And they say only men like their electronic toys... ;-)


~ Wolf Lover Girl