It’s Valentine’s Day… again! Usually, I’ve had a sort of love/hate feeling about the day in general. Well, hate is a strong word— let’s just say dislike or even indifferent. But today, I’m going to shed my negative ideas and embrace the love. Yes, love: how corny is that?

Anyway, I have been listening to our wedding music all day. Before the wedding, Mark and I put together a compilation CD and gave these to our guests. These songs were chosen to appeal to everyone and were actually used during the ceremony and reception (as noted below). While I was planning our ‘joyous event’, I initially cringed at the idea of having gift CD’s. It’s usually a collection of overly sappy or clichéd music with no real meaning or reason. Mark and I decided that if we were going to do a CD, it would have to reflect ourselves, the music was too important. The entire wedding was pretty much planned the same way, and we get complimented on the mix to this day.
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In October 2007, I wanted to get an iPhone. However, the 8GB of storage seemed a little small for me for all of the music I listen to. So knowing that Apple usually updates products in January at the MacWorld conference, I decided to wait until then.

Thus, January rolls around and Steve Jobs offers only software updates for the iPhone. At this point, I was really tired of waiting and was not ready to sit around until June for Apple to launch a 16GB model. So on January 17, S.Rod and I bought ourselves iPhones as birthday gifts to each other (call it the Capricorn Infinity Gift Loop). We have enjoyed them a lot and it has helped us communicate more, since I hated carrying both my iPod and phone. Usually the phone ended up in my Freitag bag.

Anyway, the point of the story is that while we were buying the iPhones, I asked the salesman what happens if Apple releases the 16GB next week. He stated that we could return them within 14 days and only pay a $40 restocking fee. That return period ended on January 31.

On February 5th, Apple released the 16GB iPhone. Insert string of curse words here.

In the end, I would have been better off buying back in October when I originally wanted it, and I would have had the iPhone all this time. But in trying so hard to not get burned by inevitable technology upgrades, I ended up getting cremated.

Classic Sahm luck at its best. So it goes. Cheers.