A few things have happened since my last post, some exciting, some important, some not! I guess the most exciting thing for me is that I now have an iPhone 4G!
I've been playing with it pretty much nonstop since yesterday morning. I love it! There is an application that I downloaded called Hipstamatic which is pretty much an app for the camera, where it changes the look and quality of each picture. You'll see some of the different options as I continue posting. The only downside is that the battery life is not super long. I'll be okay as long as I can charge the phone every night, but if I forget to or don't get a chance to, it'll die on me. I bought a car charger, but the thing you plug it into isn't working. I guess it's a matter of finding if it's a fuse that's broken, which should be easy for someone to do. I don't know when I'll have the time to take my car in somewhere for that, but I wouldn't mind being able to charge the phone while driving.
The other big "purchase" is that I got a credit card! The Chase Freedom card, to be exact. I went to the bank to make a deposit and they told me I was pre-approved for that card. I was a little hesitant at first because of my last experience with a credit card, but I am definitely in a better, more responsible place in my life financially. The card has a $700 limit and the guy told me that if I want to build up good credit, I should spend only 25% of that $700 which comes out to be $175 a month. It's a small amount but I'm glad he told me that. Since I do have a pretty high interest rate, having that small number in the back of my head as a spending limit will help me be responsible.
The weather is finally nice summer weather here in Portland. I snapped this shot in an attempt to get the background view in the picture as well.
Yesterday I went on a hike/walk with a friend Steve at Mt. Tabor which is more of a park than a mountain. It is a very nice place to get to after having to drive through the city at the tail end of rush hour. After that we met a bunch of people at a bar in the NE called Prost! which is a German bar. Tim was there as well and we ended up leaving to go get some food at a place called Bar Bar.
The worlds best veggie burger. Seriously. I was in heaven while eating this!
Tim and I at Bar Bar. We were messing around with the Hipstamatic app, trying to take a picture of ourselves, but the only bad thing about the app is that you need to be really far away to fit everything on screen. Anyway, someone offered to take this picture for us, and it came out nice!
This morning we walked 20 blocks to have breakfast at this dog friendly placed called Tin Shed. It was pretty good food, nothing special, but it has a really cool atmosphere.
This is what we saw while eating.
This is Dean looking like an adorable little puppy.
Other than all of this, everything has been pretty normal. Dave and Margie (Cayden's grandparents) have been having a good time being able to spend time with Cayden. Dave is a handyman so he's doing a bunch of stuff around the house, including power washing and restaining both porches. They're also going to put down some dog training pads so get Scout to go to the bathroom on the porch in on area, so I don't have to worry about getting peed on if I'm using my porch downstairs.
I think I'm going to go for a long walk in the woods this afternoon, and possibly go out downtown tonight. I have no plans yet for the 4th, but hopefully something will come up!
More later!
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