My New Obsession - iPhone & Old Obsession - Decorating

So for those of you who don't know I got my iPhone Saturday! I have the new 32 gig 3G S. It's literally the most amazing technological product ever probably. It's like every portable technology you could want in one. It's a phone, a laptop, an ipod, a kindle, a camera, a video camera, a video player, etc. Anything you want it to do, it basically does. Needless to say I have been spending the past 2 days downloading applications and such yet don't even know how to turn the volume up so I can hear people when talking (it seems so low). It has a really pretty pink and black cover (like Colleen's --> we're phone twins! =), actually we may not be mine is white, i'm not sure if her's is white or black).





My main complaints so far are...
1.) The covers for the screen SUCK! I could not get it on without air bubbles or without getting dust underneath them. This makes me nervous about getting the screen dirty or scratched. I don't like being paranoid about it all the time. (However, this I do not blame on the iPhone but the company who made the screen covers.)
2.) The battery life has been disappointing. I need to figure out if there are things I need to set differently to gain battery life.
3.) I can't hear when I'm on it, where can I fix this? If you have an iphone and know, let me know! =) Thanks!!
However, other than that, pure amazingness!

Amazing things:
1.) Voice control --> so convenient for dialing numbers quickly! I just say "Call Dad" and it replies "calling dad mobile" in a british voice. LOVE it! And it actually understands, too (though google voice search understands less so, as far as I have seen so far, but ummm still, I can search for things on google by talking to my phone, who cares if it misunderstands sometimes?).
2.) The applications! I have downloaded A LOT of applications, after all, I have this space I need to use it. Applications I have decided to keep so far (haven't used them all yet) include:
- Google: with voice activated searching and such.
- Facebook: a little different than the regular fb, but still good!
- Twitterfon: Twitter! yay! Now I can update twitter more regularly. WONDERFUL!
- TwitPict: Now I can post pictures I take on my phone on twitter! YAY!
- Text Plus: Free texting, I feel I will use this more once school begins.
- Fandango: movie times nearby. It uses gps to locate me and tell me the closest theaters, though I can also favorite some theaters!
- Urbanspoon: the thing you shake and it tells you what restaurants are nearby.
- AroundMe: gets your location and tells you tons of things nearby including restaurants, banks, bars, coffee, gas stations, hotels, parking, supermarkets, etc.
- iWant: Kind of the same thing as aroundme. I need to compare, you know?
- Cheap Gas!: Tells me where the cheapest gas around is! WOW! What a great idea!
- Craigsphone: Craigslist for the iphone
- Chase: you know to see how much is in my account and all.
- Shazam: tells you what a song playing is! I always need this!
- Pandora: radio on the iphone
- College Fb: I am hoping this app will prove useful once the season starts!
- ESPN Scorecenter: All scores for all sports all the time.
- The Weather Channel: weather forecasts! The iphone comes with an app for weather, but I couldn't figure out how to change the location (LAME!), but luckily this app was available!
- NYTimes: News...
- Variety: Entertainment News
- Myhomework: organizes all assignments! Can't wait to test this out.
- Scramble: Like Boggle. I waste a lot of time on this!
- Living Social: Rating entertainment stuff. Might get rid of it... can't decide.
- Skype: Talk to others with skype for free. Let me know if you have skype and how to use it! I haven't used this app yet.
- Read it Later: haven't used this yet, but you can save internet stuff on the phone so you can read it w/o internet access later. Sounds useful!
- Grocery: Organizes grocery lists! It said it organizes by aisle and stuff! How exciting! I can't wait to use this!
- BetterLists: An app that organizes lots of different lists.
- To Do's: A to do list app where you can prioritize stuff. (may get rid of this or betterlists)
- Evernote: A note system that does more special stuff than the note app given to you on the iphone, but I forget what at the moment.
- Party Planner: Doesn't this just sound perfect for me?? Cannot wait to use it!
- Flickr Search: I haven't been on flickr ever, and I'm not sure why not! So I have joined and will begin putting pics on!
- Flickr sendr: add pics taken with phone to flickr!
- Cartoonizer: An app that makes cartooney pics out of the pics I take! Sounds fun!
- Mosaica: Another app that does fun stuff with pics! Cannot wait!!
- Touch Goal: Put goals and they do something with it, not sure why or how. Haven't used it yet.
- Sleeptracker: Determines stuff about sleep habits. Should be useful for me!
- 999 Reasons: Gives you ideas on how to do things better or something... we'll see.
- Target: I'm not sure exactly what it does, but I'm sure it's as amazing as target.
- Converter: Converts measurements! Useful for cooking and such!
- Documents: Create and transfer documents I believe.
- iQuotations: quotes!
- ArtCam: Turns pictures into different forms of art, such as degas and monet and other awesome things! Wow! AMAZING!
- Artnear: Tells you about nearby art galleries, shows, museums, etc. Perfect!
- NPR Finder: Finds the npr station closest to your location.
- Trapster: Tells you about speed traps near you.
- B&N eReader: an electronic book reader that gave me free books! yay!
- Kindle: the kindle on my iphone for other books!
- BookShelf: Another ereader that gave me free books!
- Wattpad: Another ereader that gave me free books!
- Children's classics: Classic children's books
- Classics2Go: More free books!
- Audiobooks: free audiobooks that can then be played through the iphone... OMG I LOVE it!
- Shakespeare: Works of Shakespeare.
- Grimm's Tales: Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
- Wuthering Heights: the book
- Treasure Island: the audiobook
- A Tale of Two Cities: the book
- The Time Machine: the book
- Jane Eyre: the book
- What Would You Do With This Room?: A book about decorating!
3.) All of my e-mail accounts are hooked up to it and I can check them whenever I want!
4.) All of my songs are on there now, and I won't have to delete one to add another b/c I have so much space!
5.) All of my bookmarks from my laptop are synced with the iphone.
6.) I can leave myself voice memos.
7.) The user-friendliness of the phone.
8.) A Calendar that I can add stuff to!
9.) Internet I can go on whenever!
10.) 3G, as long as I am in a semi-populated area I can go on the internet anywhere for free (well... $30/month).
11.) ...but I can also use my own wireless (and Dan said I could use my wireless when I call people and it won't go into my monthly minutes! How crazy is that?!?!?).

Well, I've run out of things for now but I'm sure I'll think of more. But basically, it's fabulous! I can do almost anything I need to whenever I need to do it. And while the battery life might be bad right now, I have a wall charger, a computer charger, and a car charger, so I think I'll be alright! And also in normal life I probably won't use it quite as much as I am now!

Anywho, anyone with an iphone and suggestions for me, please share!! =)

Onto decorating. Things are going well with the townhouse!



My new spacesaver bathroom storage in my new favorite color, white!



Our new rug in our extra room. This room is nowhere near done yet, but I love the rug and color combination of teal and brown! Going to get pillows tomorrow, yay!

Before...
My shabby chic project. Goal was to replace purple flowers with pink flowers.

After...
BEAUTIFUL! All thanks to my dad! It was actually really easy b/c there were spots to place the flowers in! SO perfect!

Something to match them...

Wonderful shabby chicness!

And more wonderful white shabby chicness:



And more wonderful shabby chicness, this time in green:

matches the white frame above!!

And another before...



and after...

what a little bit of sheer curtains can do to add color to a space! And with a light green paint on the walls, oh my! SO excited!

Also in the works is white mirrors for my vanity area. I also plan on getting white curtains (probably sheers). I'm also working on finding a green rug for the foot of the bed. Also working on painting the room green, too. Not sure how I'm going to arrange anything aside from my bed, and probably my dresser which I angled against the corner so I can see my tv.

I'm getting teal and brown pillows for the extra room tomorrow. I also got 3 rectangular mirrors of different sizes to paint dark brown and arrange creatively. We may paint the wall behind the futon a teal color. I want funky wall art and perhaps a clock for the wall since there isn't another in the room... Kim has a dark brown coffee table for in there, too. That room is going to be rearranged also.

The reading nook is in the works. Did I post the pic of our chair yet? Well, if not, here it is:

yay!!!

In addition to this chair in the reading nook we're planning on putting a dark brown table Kim painted and is putting rust orange tiles on top. The rust orange rug and pillows I bought previously for the extra room are being moved to the reading nook. Kim got an antiquey lamp and we need to find a lamp shade for it. We're also planning on attempting to paint my old bookshelf dark brown. If this fails, however, I will buy a cheap espresso-colored one from Target. We also plan on painting the walls around the area rust orange.

We're going to paint the reading nook, our rooms, the extra room (probably just an accent wall) and the living and dining room. Possibly the 1/2 bath, too. Since I hope to stay at this place for 6 years, the paint will be well worth it! 1 1/2 weeks until official move! CANNOT wait!!! =)