The lastest info on the home front is that Verizon has sneakily released the enV Touch .... TODAY!!

This has caused me to expend valuable time and energy trying to determine if I want to commit to the enV Touch over the enV3 or stick with what I "know." After several hours of digging around, I'm still not sure. The enV Touch would probably impress the Left Coast/iPhone guys with it's h.u.g.e. touch screen, but I'm still leaning towards the enV3 -- as I know this line so well already, it comes in blue, and it's now on sale for $79. (Phew... good thing I didn't buy it yesterday!) I'm going to stop at the Verizon store after work and pick it up -- and, hopefully, finagle a way to upgrade my son's phone too so he won't get all pouty on me like he did yesterday. Oh, well... at least he's obsessed with cell phones and not cars.

Oh, and two funnies that I must share about my Verizon store experience yesterday:

1) When I was approached by the first salesman, I replied to his "how can I help you today" question with a momentary fiddling in my purse to pull out my waterlogged phone. "Here's the deal," I said, presenting him with a viewscreen entirely filled with moisture. "Oh.... that's some deal, Ma'am."

2) I was hooked up with a very knowledgeable salesperson who also did a double-take when she saw the fog spreading across my battered phone. She said she was surprised that I didn't have the phone in a protective case. Seeing as how it was grasped in my hot little fist, I replied "Who needs a protective case when it never leaves your hand?!" The very best protective cases are made from human flesh!!

In other news, I was up until 1AM working on a creative writing project for my gal pal, Karen. She has plans for a little adventure for the kids on this trip and I had to "get into character" for Captain Jack Sparrow -- which is best done with a bottle of rum in-hand. At one point, I wrote a joke so crass, so adolescent, so PERFECT that I seriously had to jam my hand into my mouth to keep from waking my son, who's room is right next to my office, with my riotous laughter. I simply had to call Karen and get her to read the whole thing aloud to me so I could hear her giggles and final shout of laughter.

Ahhhhh... it's good to make people laugh!

Woooo... heeee... ho... heh... huhhn... Yeah... love it. Love making people laugh like that.

So, the current state of this trip is as follows:

* Jill is already in Disney
* Karen leaves this evening for her redeye to MCO
* Sharon has suddenly gone into radio silence
* I still have four full days to live through til I get to join the fun.

Send pixies for my patience -- and send a few extra that my darling Hubster has a safe and productive trip to install his latest ride at a science center in Alabama. (Not only because I love him dearly, but also because I need him to be home so I can dash to Florida and not have to worry about the care of my kid.)

The Mother of the Year trophy has once again slipped from my grasp.