Zannee’s Blog at BargainsLA.com

OM Gosh! Hubby gave me a new mobile phone for Christmas. I didn’t just get any phone, I got a Blackberry Curve. I am so emotionally technology challenged that I didn’t immediately bounce up and down with gleeful enthusiasm.

But since I am down with a cough or cold or some viral menace keeping me off the roads, I decided to get on track with my brand new Blackberry Curve.

The Blackberry is really a mini computer right in the palm of your hand…. I can text, I can surf the internet, I can get Google map directions, I can take pictures, I can look up any or all of my bargain sources (that’s hundreds of sources), I can leave voice messages, I can plan my day using their calendar, I can receive e-mail… I can! I can! I can!

That is, when I learn how.

I am technology challenged, but I don’t give up easily either. I need this Blackberry to keep me connected and organized. It’s better than lugging around a day runner, Thomas map guide, laptop computer and a phone.

I won’t tell you how many computers I have permanently killed or data bases I have lost when I first starting goofing around with computers and technology. Back in the mid 1990’s my mother… I repeat, my mother fired me ‘cause I messed her data base up so badly. You know you’ve screwed up when your mother fires you.

Since I learn better by doing, (don’t ask me to read a manual till after I have played with my new toy), I am going through the Blackberry 101 website taking tutorials. So concise and simple even a technology moron (like me) can figure it out. I’ll be a wiz at it very soon.