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Oh, it’s a phone, too?

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Yeah, so when J. told me two years ago that it was time to upgrade our phones and we “needed” iPhones, I scoffed at him and told him  “I don’t even like to talk on the phone, why do I need to spend money on a nerdy gadget like that?”

And then I got my hot, little hands on one and well, let’s just say I’ve been happy to hear J.’s “See I told you so’s” ever since.

I love having my updated calendar, contacts, email, and Scrabble always with me. Yes, I am kinda addicted to my stupid Scrabble game on there. But playing it does somehow make me feel s-m-a-r-t-e-r (hmm…only an eight point word, but if you could get it on a triple word score….).

Anyhow, J. is forever finding new apps and telling me I should download them. And I usually kind of half-heartedly say ok, and then wait until it is in very high rotation on his phone before I take the time to dump it on mine. The other night he told me that he had downloaded this Sleep Cycle app that figures out what your sleep cycle is and how much quality sleep you get, and so on.  YAWN, (no pun intended) right? I ask him, “Why do you need a nerdy app like that?”

(You see where this is going, right?) The morning after he used it for the first time he showed me his results and…then? I had to have it on my phone! Would it work if we were both using it? Would the data be corrupted? Who has a better sleep cycle? Who REALLY gets more sleep? I think I have become a nerd. I know. But I think it is kinda fascinating!

So I downloaded and ran the app last night. I’ve told at least three friends about the app today. And I cannot wait to get in bed and try it again. (Well, who am I kidding? I just can’t wait to sleep period.)

So check out my sleep chart from last night!

sleepgraph

Went to bed / woke up: 10:50 PM / 6:03 AM
Total time: 7h 12m

Check out how crazy hard I sleep! For hours straight! That peak at about midnight was because Addie’s alarm/cd player inexplicably turned on for no apparent reason. But you can see I didn’t quite wake up allll the way. Now compare that with J.’s. (He actually did wake up, went in to shut off the unexplained alarm, and then helped Addie get back to sleep.)

sleepgraph_j

Went to bed / woke up: 10:52 AM / 5:42 AM
Total time: 6h 50m

He just sent me his, and he is Miami now, so his phone has already shifted to EST. Just subtract 3 hours from his graph, and holy cow! No wonder the boy is so tired! He only gets little tiny bits of deep sleep – and never all at the same time!

The alarm part of the app uses a 30 minute window to wake you up when you are in the lightest sleep phase. Supposedly it is easier and more pleasant to wake up this way. I was wide awake at 5:30 this morning, so I didn’t even get to my alarm, but I’m sure that is only because I had some serious deeeep sleep!

I attribute all my  hard sleeping to day 1 of hard training and just an all-around long day yesterday. It will be even more interesting to see tonight’s since J. isn’t here (and I sleep horribly when he is not here) and compare it to J.’s when he isn’t worried about getting to the airport or being jolted awake by blaring cd-players and children.

Stay tuned…and we can supply you with all the nerdy-ness you need.

The greatest device ever?

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Finally.

Saturday J. got his hot little hands on his very own (working!) iPhone, so now I don’t have to be all hush-hush about how amazing mine is any more.

FINALLY!

If you recall, J. waited in line for the phones on the Friday they came out. He got mine without any problems, but had many (many, many) problems with his. He had “bought” a phone, but since they were out of stock he had to wait for it. And even though they were getting more in stock all week, his phone was actually being shipped to him, so the store wouldn’t just give him one of the incoming phones. When his phone finally arrived, it was DOA. The girls and I tried to take it back to the Apple store for him but were only given an appointment for Saturday to bring it back in.

The guys at work were taking bets on whether J. would actually show up on Monday with an iPhone or not. As you can see, they lost. I was the only one who bet that he would indeed have one. (So pay up, boys!)

Girls in concert - iPhone pic

So on to how much I {heart} this phone.

  • The photos above…taken with my iPhone! (Pretty good quality, for a phone, eh?)
  • Traffic check, and mapping of an alternate route home from the aquarium the other day…done with my iPhone.
  • My ever expanding to-do list, always with me…on the iPhone.
  • My iPod that always seems to be dead -now it isn’t needed…I have my iPhone.
  • Can’t remember the name of a song?…wait, I have my iPhone. (Wicked cool program, it’ll listen to a bit of the song, figure it out, and bring it up on iTunes, so sweet.)
  • Surfing, blog reading, shopping, even writing my blogs…can do it all on the iPhone.
  • Check my calendar while dropping off Em’s friend to plan the next date…yep, it is all there, on my iPhone.

We are merely scratching the surface here, my friends. It is really indescribably cool. J. said to me tonight, “How can you deny that it is the coolest device, maybe ever?”

I can’t.