technology makes us silly sometimes

the instagram version of my iphone

lets face it, we live in one heck of an iphone obsessed country. a group of my friends were out this last weekend and as we were sitting around the table i noticed that every single person had an iphone. if its not an iphone then its a droid, htc, or some other smart phone. our generation is obsessed with keeping "connected" at all times. however connected probably isn't the best word. we are more obsessed with appearing to be connected. We want our information to be out in the world, but more importantly we want to be able to find out whats going on in other peoples lives. Whats silly is that with all this technology we are partly a little more disconnected. We don't have to call someone and ask them how they are doing, and have that "in person" conversation. we just text them, facebook, or twitter them. its pretty much allows us all to be low level stockers to anyone we may be interested in. 

for 59.99 you can to get this "vintage" inspired phone

our iphones have also become our cameras, our camcorders, out personal assistants, computers, and can settle an dispute about random knowledge or answer to any random question we may have. along with keeping us connected we now have an obsession with making our high quality iphone cameras look like they are "vintage". with antique filters from instagram with fun borders so we apear almost more "simple". i for one am totally one of these instagram obsessed people. we also have "vintage" blue tooth cordless phones that we can buy to make it appear we are on an old school phone. we love our technology but i think we love the idea of how simple things used to be. I almost think that part of us wishes things weren't so connected ALL THE TIME and a little more mysterious. I'm not complaining at all about the amazing technology we use on a daily basis. i love technology. im obsessed with technology. but i do think part of us, part of me, misses how things used to be...just a little bit. not enough to ever give up our amazing other half we call an iphone, but just enough to feel nostalgic about all these different apps, and accessories we can get now. we are human. meaning we will probably always want something we don't have. whether thats a cool new gadget or a simpler way of living.

i know im not that techie of a girl but when i stumbled across these "vintage" inspired phones, that to me don't seem that "vintage" i just had to say something about this whole thing. 

random thoughts for a simply random techie tuesday. 

daydreaming...

Sometimes you just find yourself day dreaming or browsing the Internet looking at all the fun things that you wish you could have or want someday. And we all go through those phases of loving different things. So here are some of the things that I am loving right now. Some fancy, some simple, some silly.

Here is my omg, obsessed, totally me in a bag, must have, would have if i had an extra $700 laying around with nothing better to buy. This leather Coach bag would me mine. Sigh....

Now let me make one thing very clear. I do not like summer rain. However, I prefer it to winter rain..haha. but most of all I love that you can smell the rain coming. And i love the smell right after it has stopped raining. I know...a little silly but i do love it. And hey at least i don't have to water my plants today!

Can i say that if there were 5 great pairs of shoes in front of me and i had no idea how much they cost i would probably end up choosing the most expensive pair....anyone else do this? Just like this pair of Oscar de la Renta lace pumps....only 745..........will never be mine....but they sure are beautiful...

My latest food that ive been in love with...pineapple. Im obsessed! I used to never be that big of a fan but now its just so refreshing and delicious! My perfect summer food.

Now that I have an iPhone I have been slowly adding apps to it and seeing what is out there. I am not a huge fan of games but i must say that this Black Classic game is addicting. It reminds me of a game a i used to play as a kid and i spent way to much time on the couch last night beating my new high score of 700 and something.

I LOVE this headboard!!! I really have been wanting more of a classic upholstered headboard like the one below this beautiful ornaite one. I guess i'll just need to have two beds :)



So just a few of my silly things i'm dreaming about or loving right now.
Have a simply wonderful Tuesday.

Weekend Excitment :)

Not going to lie. This was a pretty awesome weekend for me :)

Low key put still amazing. Let me just start from the beginning.

Saturday Morning I headed to Portland for my Summer School class. The amazing Chelsea from Frolic was teaching the class and she had some great tips for flower arranging. And although I make my own arrangements quite often this really forced me outside my normal arranging style. And I loved what I ended up with! I'll post more about this later but here is what I ended up with!

Then I headed to lunch with miss april. Love her. We were in much need of a catch up session and decided on Henry's for lunch. Talk about an amazing deal too! I had Salmon for $9!!! Are you joking me? And it was delish :)

I spent the rest of the afternoon doing some errands and stopping at H&M. Love that place. Got a super cute skirt for $12 bucks. Great Deal! I headed back to Corvallis and had dinner with my roomie at Big River. Amazing Dinner.

Then Sunday I headed to Salem for some family time. We took a little outing to the Verizon store and we all got iPhones! Sigh...I am finally apart of the real world now...haha. It was long over due but I am so happy to finally have an iPhone. I spent about 3 hours showing the parentals how to use their phone so hopefully I have time today to get mine all customized and set up. It will be fun being able to facebook and twitter anytime anywhere!

Sadly the weekend has come to an end. And it's back to work now.

Hope everyone has a simply wonderful Monday.