Everything's coming up Matt and Lise/iPhone fever
This past month has been a good one for us financially:
- I received my end-of-fiscal-year bonus at work ($1000, or ~$600 after tax)
- I received a raise (to the tune of ~$1400 more a year before tax)
- I pulled in another $600 from a freelance job
- Matt received a bonus for his work on the CDC stuff ($1500, or ~$1000 after tax)
I think October is a long enough month that we also get more paychecks than usual, but I'm not sure about that...
I guess we decided to celebrate our windfall by buying iPhones?
Not that it was going to be terribly expensive - we already had a data plan, so really the only expense was the phones themselves. But still--$400 is a neat bit of change.
Matt lined up at 7am at the Verizon store in Leominster to get the 4S this morning. I was not expecting to go along with this crazy plan--or rather, I was going to let him get my new phone for me--but I realized that as soon as he activated the new phone, the old phone would be non-functional. And the store is kind of on my way to work. So I met him there just in time to get my email account set up and my contacts synced on my new, black iPhone 4S.
So, uh. This is my first iPhone. I already have an iPad, granted--which I even get to use occasionally, when I can pry it away from Matt--but this is slightly different. Any tips for a new user? (Besides don't drop it in a glass of milk? *coughcoughnatbudincough*)
- I received my end-of-fiscal-year bonus at work ($1000, or ~$600 after tax)
- I received a raise (to the tune of ~$1400 more a year before tax)
- I pulled in another $600 from a freelance job
- Matt received a bonus for his work on the CDC stuff ($1500, or ~$1000 after tax)
I think October is a long enough month that we also get more paychecks than usual, but I'm not sure about that...
I guess we decided to celebrate our windfall by buying iPhones?
Not that it was going to be terribly expensive - we already had a data plan, so really the only expense was the phones themselves. But still--$400 is a neat bit of change.
Matt lined up at 7am at the Verizon store in Leominster to get the 4S this morning. I was not expecting to go along with this crazy plan--or rather, I was going to let him get my new phone for me--but I realized that as soon as he activated the new phone, the old phone would be non-functional. And the store is kind of on my way to work. So I met him there just in time to get my email account set up and my contacts synced on my new, black iPhone 4S.
So, uh. This is my first iPhone. I already have an iPad, granted--which I even get to use occasionally, when I can pry it away from Matt--but this is slightly different. Any tips for a new user? (Besides don't drop it in a glass of milk? *coughcoughnatbudincough*)