I Finally Stepped Into The World of Connectivity

Sorry I didn't post on Friday. It was a pretty horrid day at work. I lost access to log into my computer and my badge lost all access, all on accident, but I literally just sat at my desk not being able to do anything but answer the phone.

But Saturday made up for it because I finally got a new phone. Hal talked me into it. My old phone was over 3 years old and was very frustrating to use. Hal used his accounting logic on me that we were paying every month for something that was very limited in it's use.

So we made a trip to the t-mobile store. When I pulled out my old phone the guy literally laughed at it.

I'm so glad we went in. They have this amazing no contract thing going on, and instead of paying $100 a month on our phones; with their new no contract plans, we can pay $80 total for the same unlimited plan we had before. Oh, and my with my work I got a 15% discount, so even with the additional $20 a month to pay for my phone, our cell phone bill is still less than before.

We were shocked.

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And I'm finally connected to the world. My old phone was too old to have the Play Store on it, so I couldn't download any apps.

But now I can.

Huzzah!

Since I'm a little out of touch in the app world....

What are your favorite apps?

So far you can find me on:

Snapchat - samnhal

Instagram - samnhalblog

Pinterest - samnhal

Twitter - samnhal

I'm still getting the hang of this fancy phone stuff.

How do you use your phone to stay connected?

This post was not sponsored by t-mobile in any way shape or form

Lend Me Your Thoughts

I feel like I ask for advice about my life a lot on this blog. I'm going to trust in the fact that, who doesn't like to give advice? And pretend you all love it.

But really, for this one I could use some different perspectives.

We just found out Hal was offered an internship, in Washington DC, for this fall. He figured out that he can rearrange some order of classes, do the internship and still graduate next spring. The internship is kind of a big deal, it's with a government run company who regulates all accounting firms to make sure that another Enron doesn't happen.

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Now here's where I need your advice. We have a lot of options with this one, so let me run through some ideas and you tell me what you think.

He'll be gone for like 4 1/2 months for the internship. We just did 3 weeks apart which was our longest, and it was pretty darn sucky.

I'll give up my job, that's ok. But I don't want to give up our apartment. We did the whole pack away your life and live very minimally thing already. And we love our apartment. It's only one of two like it in our complex, so it's unlikely we'd get it back. It just would suck to give up so much for only 4 months away.

So....

-I can go with him in August and we can find an apartment for the both of us, but apartments are really expensive. It would be cheaper for him to just live there and get an already furnished apartment with some guys.

-I can stay here and work for a bit to earn more money and join him later

     -Either like a month after he leaves

     -Or go out to visit once and join him after two months, perhaps in November.

-If I work for a month it would pay rent on our apartment for pretty much the entire time Hal would be gone. But that's a lot of money for an apartment we'd not be living in.

-Maybe we could find some friends to sublet our apartment. It's a stretch, but it would be amazing for us. But we'd have to fight the apartment manager to allow it.

So....

What do you think?