Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Thank you Santa!

Wow, it's almost January - the beginning of whole new year, and indeed a whole new decade!  Don't you just love new beginnings?  I do.

2011 is promising to be a good year, I can tell that already.  My hubby has a new venture planned, I'm currently on holiday from EVERYTHING (except housework, worse luck) and really feeling positive about the year to come.  I can tell 2011 has big things in store for us all and I can't wait for them to reveal themselves :)

Even though January is not yet upon us, I just had to post about my latest NFT (New Favourite Thing) - my phone!! 

The last time I physically purchased a mobile phone was about 15yrs ago.  I kid you not.  When I left NZ to go to the UK, I left my mobile phone behind and started a new adventure without one (hey, it was the late 90's and I was hardly the corporate up-and-comer - and I was about to start touring about the world - so what did I want/need with a mobile phone?  For goodness sake, email was just becoming the "in thing" then!).  Then, when we came back to NZ 9 years ago, I didn't really need one.  18months ago, we changed home phone providers, and part of the package was a "free" mobile phone.  As it was what you might call "basic", my hubby kindly said I could have it.  What a guy.  It allowed me to text, make calls and take very bad photos.  But little else.

Now, look what Santa bought me this year!  *squeeeeeeeeee*

It's a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro - and I loooooove it!  OK, I'm still working out how to drive it, but I have Facebook loaded onto it, I can surf the net (free for this month, part of the package that came with the phone), I have a 5mp camera, and a great video camera, a touch screen plus the QWERTY keyboard (which, to a typist like me, is a Godsend!) and I can store a heap of my photos and music on it - and did I mention it has FM radio?!  I'm in heaven!  I'll never be bored again!  I know alot of you have probably had this for awhile, but this is all new to me and goshdarn it, I'm excited :D

If 2011 gets better than this, I'll be pretty chuffed, I can tell you.

~A

6 comments:

Bobbie Pene said...

Oooooh I love gadgets and your phone looks so cool!!!!!!! I hope you gave Santa a big thank you kiss ;) Happy New Year and may it be full of happiness, prosperity and all the other nice stuff that could possibly happen xo

O. Sebastian said...

Nice! I got a new phone from Santa too and am about as happy as can be! I am wishing you the very best New Year ever - 2011 is going to be awesome :)

MELANIE WADHAM said...

What a gorgeous phone, who needs a man when one can play with that all day!! LOL
Im a true technophobic unfortunately and tend to run a mile from all things too gadgety, Managing my sewing machine and overlocker is about it for me.
ENJOY and have a fantabulous new year girl.

Amanda said...

Bobbie - it is! So very cool! I've been tu-tuing with it for the past 3 days :D I did give Santa a big kiss (least I could do - what a treat!). Thank you so much for the new year wishes - right back at ya! xoxo

Karen - us and our synchronicity huh?! Of COURSE you would've gotten a new phone too :D All the very best for 2011 sweetie - it IS gonna be awesome! xoxo

Mel - I'm abit of a technophobe too, usually - and I did do an awful lot of swearing when I couldn't figure out how to make it go like I wanted it to (just the basics LOL!). But when I found my patience and had a play, it was MUCH easier :) So I'm having fun with it now - hehe! Happy New Year to you too hun xoxo

Mel @ Wildflower said...

Yippee Amanda - what a great gadget! You won't know yourself with all the new features and fun ;).
All the best for 2011 - I predict it's going to be a fabulous year!

Amanda said...

It's heaps of fun Mel :D Happy New Year to you too chickie - it's gonna be a goodie! x