We survived St Louis! It went swimmingly, actually.  Kate and Ingrid had a great time, we all got to go to the zoo, and 3 of 4 flights were flawless, and the 4th wasn’t even entirely flawed. I got bumped up on my rental car, the weather was great, and the food free and/or reimbursable. Note to self: when traveling with Ingrid, ALWAYS get a suite.

ANYWAY. On the trip, I was totally jonesing for a cameraphone. My sister has one (and I used to! Ingrid’s first photo was on a cameraphone, lost to the ether, now) and I was thinking of all of Molly’s (hi!) moblogged journeys with her own daughter, just 6 months older than Ingrid. Oh, how I’d have loved to zapped in a pic of Ingrid eating at CVG, secured in a waiting area chair by her wrap. Not to mention all of the awesome typos and amusing things one sees in a day, when the D70 just isn’t the tool of choice (or even a tool at hand) to capture it with. I’ve really, dug the whole moblog thing of Molly’s, so today when my cell company had an offer in the mail for existing customers, i went out to the retail store.

It wasn’t entirely no-strings-attached, but I was able to get myself a new Nokia 6085, move my old phone to a new number for Dave to use (something we’ve been meaning to do, anyway) and instead of having to buy a family plan, they now let you do two of the barebones plans, which is what I prefer, anyway. With Ingrid here, Dave has been wanting a cell phone beyond what he used to have, a prepaid kept in the glovebox, but he could care less about a camera feature. So now, he has my old phone (old=January) and a barebones plan, I have a barebones plan and a new phone, and the new phone was 80 bucks, and comes with a 50 dollar rebate. (Which Unicel has always been good on, so I was confident in that….)

ALL THAT to say that I’ve now converted my livejournal — used to post a handful of friends-only work related entries — to a public moblog, so when I take interesting cameraphone pics, I upload directly there, and it shows up in your friends list or an RSS reader. If you’re interested in that sort of thing.

http://gretchens.livejournal.com

I am so freakin’ excited to have a cameraphone that works as both a CAMERA and a PHONE. My last run of phones has been one or the other….plus, 2mp! Wheeee!