My New And Improved Alarm Clock

If you are one of my long time followers, and has been looking at my website ever since April 2008, you have read my post called 'The Mystery Of The Timex Clock'. That was the story of my awkward alarm clock. Click here to read it. A couple of weeks ago, it was my birthday. Yaaay! A week later, my dad took me to Willow Books, my favorite book store. I was planning to buy the 5th book of the incredible series called Maximum Ride, by James Patterson. So I got it. $20.00... kind of a rip off for one book.. usually they are around 7 bucks. Yes, It was new, and sure you can raise the price a little for that reason, but not by $13. It was worth the book anyway. Read about the Maximum Ride books here.

We went to FYE later on after we had some lunch at Willow Books, and I started my brand-new, shiny book. You know that smell of a book that's brand new, and no one has even touched the pages? I love that smell. I call it the new-book smell. The name makes sense. Anyway, FYE was just down the road. How convenient. You could just drop by Willow Books, grab a book and a coffee, not to mention the cookie, and head out the door. You can just drive down to FYE and get yourself that CD you've always wanted. Two of my favorite stores on the same road. I love it!

So I had 3 gift cards to FYE. Wow. 2 of them I got this year, and the other one was left over from last year- it still had about $10 on it. So all together I had $50 to spend at FYE. :-) For a long time, I had NO clue what to buy. Normally, I'd flip through the posters and get one or two, but I don't really like posters anymore. I don't really use CD's, since I got my iPod, and there wasn't any Wii games that I was interested in. I was going to get Get Smart, but turned out that was like $30. Never mind then. I figured I wanted to get something for my brand new iPod. (It's the new ipod nano 4th generation. Green. 8 gigs.)
No, I do not need 16 gigs. I'm not that crazy for music.) I saw this cool pink thing- it was like a speaker cube. Sadly, they only had it in pink. Which, if you have read my Crocs post, you would know that I am through with pink, and practically hate it.

My dad saw this really cool clock radio thing and showed it to me. It was like an iHome only not! It charges your iPod, and it has 2 alarms, you can wake up to either the buzzer (which is NEVER going to happen- I hate waking up to the buzzer. It freaks me out. One time, I woke up to the buzzer, and I was so scared- I though it was the fire alarm. And another time, I had my first clock ever, I set it to the alarm. The only setting was buzzer. How brilliant. I woke up on early on purpose because I was scared to wake up to the buzzer. I realized that when it goes off, after a little while, it'll slowly get louder and louder until you can't really sleep through it. And it doesn't turn off unless you do it. Thankfully, I sold that clock at a yard sale for 75 cents.) So, you could wake up to either the buzzer, the radio, or your iPod. How cool is that? It works with pretty much every single ipod. Including the mini, the touch, and the iPhone. Don't worry, they didn't leave those iPods out.

Pretty sick piece of technology, huh? I was totally willing to buy it, because (1) I have had bad experienced with my previous alarm clock (2) I wanted to get rid of my old clock because the radio signal is really poor (3) This thing was so freaking cool!! Time for the moment of truth. Checking the price tag. It's....... it's...... $80!! Poor me, I only have 50. My sweet and loving dad chimed in and said he'd pay the part I couldn't afford. Aww... I love him. He does so many nice things for me. :-) He always trys to hold my hand in public, which to me is a bit embarassing, but not too much. So when we walked out, I held his hand. No wait- it was us putting our arms around each other. Yeah.. that was it. I love that guy. He said it was like a late additional birthday gift. :-)

So now you are probably wondering what the heck I'm going to do with my other alarm clock. I gave it to my mom, who's been really iritated with her alarm clock lately. About 5 days later, she tells me she doesn't like this one either- and says sorry. I don't blame her. I didn't like it either. I was a bit upset, but then again, I could always just sell it on eBay. Oh, eBay. What would we do without you?