technical difficulties

Last night I was sitting around my apartment with not much to do.

Well, let me slightly rephrase. I was sitting around my apartment not doing much (avoiding cleaning, laundry, cooking, etc) and I started playing around with my new phone. One major problem I find with new cell phones is that all the ring tones they come with are annoying and crappy. I generally keep my phone to vibrate all the time except when I'm at home by myself. But when I have my ringer on, I prefer that it not make me bleed from the ears.

Which brings me to yesterday. I decided I would download myself a new ringer. I went and found the downloadable ringers and selected the "songs you know" category. Once there I chose Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" (they didn't have any Neil Diamond, sadly). I purchased it, expecting that now every time my phone rang I would get pumped. Only I tested it out and it was still the same crappy ring. Then I realized nothing actually downloaded to the phone, which is weird. I kept calling myself over and over (no, I'm not kidding. This was a very serious mystery) until finally, as the call connected from my apartment phone, the Sprint lady's voice came on and said, "please enjoy this music while we connect your call" and there it was. Apparently I had bought this song to play for OTHER people when they call me. I didn't know that was an option (and now I can't get it out of my head. I'm sitting at my desk doing my chair bounce dance - which is awesome - and "dooon't stop! belieeeevin!" is on a continual loop).

For the moment, I'm leaving this as is (because, you know, I paid for it) but if I start to hear that it's horribly obnoxious for people who call on a regular basis I'll turn it off once I feel I've gotten my $2.50 worth (though how could you get sick of Journey!? ha). Until then, if you feel the pressing need for some Journey in your life, give me a call. :)

I did end up figuring out what I needed to do in order to actually download a ringer to my phone, and now the tone is "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers. Which brings up images of Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze having a sexy pottery session every time, but I still love it!