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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2014

    Can you assign a different ring for calls from a certain number? I know that my text, email and incoming calls can have different sounds. Also call display would let you know if it was business, wouldn't it? Having said that, I did once have two cells phones! One that work paid for and my own. So for me, someone who isn't savvy on them, it was funny to see me with two! Did I tell you my 18 month old grandson (at the time) showed me how to look at pictures on my phone? I was trying to "arrow over" and he came over and swiped it for me! 

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited February 2014

    We've got a land line and cell phones. My married daughter has both also, but the single one just has her cell phone. I'm probably getting a mini iPad this summer, before our trip. Wondering if I will even need to carry my cell then. My DH carries his cell and iPhone everywhere, but I like to lighten up whenever I can.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited February 2014

    yorkiemom,

    An iPad,mini or otherwise, is not a phone so if you want phone service you'll still need your cell phone. 

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited February 2014

    Oh, I didn't know that. Thought I could talk on them too. Guess I will still carry the phone then.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited February 2014

    iPads can serve all your internet needs, including email, games, apps, music etc. It's also a good substitute for all e reading devices as you can ( apps are free) put Kindle, NOOK and iBooks on it. My library system does free e-lending too.  I won't even go in to the many things I use it for with my class. I love my iPad!

    Caryn

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2014

    #sigh

    Yorkie... I need that ostriche picture ...

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited February 2014

    Selena, here you go. I sense a story here. 

    image

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited February 2014

    i'm so happy! And so anxious!

    I will start a new (full time) job 3/10.

    A little over three years ago I was cut to part-time. The excuse was my aging boss wanted to work less, but in reality the people I work with can't learn to delegate so I never had enough to do. Just a couple of months after the cut in hours was when my belly blew up to nine-months pregnancy size and my ovarian cancer was diagnosed. I was off work for three months and was so sick. After surgery I had many many doctors appointments for a long time which pretty much ruled out looking for a new job that would put up with frequent absences.

    I'm now doing well with minuscule chance of recurrence. Our office is moving far from my house and would be an impossible commute for a part time job, so I finally got off my ass & started looking. I'm excited. I will also be very sad to leave my "family" of ten years. I love them all, plus I have also been doing work for my cousin who shares office space with us.

    An exciting but bittersweet transition. It was a lot easier in my twenties or thirties than it is at 52. I so hope my new boss is as nice as he seemed in our interview.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited February 2014

    Kay, I have a kindle and will probably be switching over to the iPad Mini this summer. I love my kindle, but it is kind of heavy and doesn't do email and internet as easily as the Apple products, JMHO.

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2014

    Melissa... Congratulations!!  What great news!!!

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited February 2014

    i much prefer my Kindle over my Ipad for reading in bed because of the light weight. So much nicer than wrestling a heavy book while lying on my side also.  Lets me plug in the Ipad to charge at night while I'm using the Kindle too.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited February 2014

    Kay, it's not possible! I'll still keep my kindle and use it at home a lot. Also my grandsons like to play games on it, so it's a keeper. I DO NOT want them on my new iPad Mini lol!

    Melissa, congrats on the job!!

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2014

    I love Beesie.  I wish I had her way with explaining detail.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited February 2014

    devices made specifically for reading do have better screen contrast, for sure. However, since the iPad is very so multifunctional, it does make a great traveling device.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    Melissa  - congratulations!  What an adventure.  ESPECIALLY congratulations on GETTING a new job.  Fantastic.  I think it can be more difficult to make changes as we get older, but the EFFORT usually turns out to be so worth it.

    Our PBS is airing a Frontline program tonight, on the Vatican, reasons for the retirement of the Pope, hope it isn't too scandalous. I'm not Catholic, but I really LIKE Pope Francis, seems to be such a warm, caring human being.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2014

    Forget who asked, I have various ring tones for different people. DH has the old car horn, ooooga. DD has a barking dog.  My default is Smoke on the water. 

    You can do FaceTime or Skype on the iPads. That's fun. 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2014

    Warning: I bought a Mini Kindle and one day when bored, read the small, tiny, wee print at the bottom of one of the inserts. You can't use them with a pacemaker!!! Who knew?? I called Meditronix (who make my pacemaker) and they said as long as I kept the Mini 6 inches away from my device I should be fine. Wouldn't you think that as us Boomers age they'd give us that info in BIG print?? So, ladies beware. (I also can't wear a name tag with a magnetic strip instead of a pin. At least those tell me so on the magnet - "Do NOT wear with a pacemaker." That kind of "outs" me with a new job, when I have to get them to switch my nametag to a pin...sigh.)

    Melissa, I am about to start a full-time job as well. I go in to sign my contract on Friday. It's tough. Gotta tell yah. Learning new stuff at this age (56 shortly) gets tough, but I do like to exercise my brain. Trying to "fit in" can be tougher as we've missed the loop - me for about 2 1/2 years. I've gone back to an industry that is my comfort zone (sales) just to make this transition easier. Good luck to you, keep us posted! (I actually have to quit a part-time seasonal job at H&R Block (tax time!). Why do I feel guilty doing so? It's about 1/3 per hour that I am used to making and I was expecting a regular work week of 40 hours. They're the ones that gave me 15-31 since I started.....) So why do I feel guilty? I have to do what pays the mortgage, right? 

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2014

    Barb... that is VERY GOOD to know.  My husband has been talking about getting my mother a kindle, but she just had a pacemaker put in last fall.

    Congratulations on the new job!

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited February 2014

    Spookie, for quite a while in junior high, dd had "Daddy Cool" as the ring tone for her dad. It was ironic, because dh is the opposite of cool ;)

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  • Breamom
    Breamom Member Posts: 5
    edited February 2014

    I'm so vain that I made my own video.  Granted, the original video is 11 years old.  It was made by my husband but it was recently, with the latest technology not available 11 years ago, revamped.  This is a video of my children cutting off my hair when it started to fall out after I began chemo.  Being bald was the biggest blow to the whole BC experience.  I can laugh about it now years later.  If you wait till the end of the video you can see what we all look like today.  For anyone who was recently diagnosed, I wish you well and I hope 10 years from now you look back at this whole experience with the memory of the many blessings it brought.  Hard to believe but if there haven't been yet, there certainly will be many blessings you will encounter through this whole process.  I encourage you to take lots of pictures and make many videos, something that I did not do.  This is the only memory I have and I would like to share it with you.   http://youtu.be/XyH11P0xtZ0

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2014

    My DH is still stuck in the early 20ith century, makes me crazy. 

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2014

    Hell, I'm stuck in the early 18th century... Happy  No cell phone, no iPad, no gadgets, just an iPod loaded with medieval and classical music that I charge once-a-year for my annual trip to the cottage in South Carolina.  Drives my honey bananas.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2014

    My last dogs registered name was Wolfgang Amadoggus. Call name Vulfie. Can you tell who my favorite classical musician is?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    From kayb  -   RFP, she means Request for Proposals, for those who haven't done much grant writing ;)

    18th century sounds good to me, tho I also LOVE the clothes of the early 19th, so as long as I have my leisure, paints, books, garden, I'll be there.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited February 2014

    i got an email from hystersisters yesterday that I found infuriating because of their huge audience & influence. It was saying how excited they were about the first non-hormonal rx for hot flashes - Brisdelle.

    Well, Brisdelle is paroxetine. Rebranded Paxil since their patent ran out. 10mg Paroxetine is on most $4 rx lists. 7.5 mg Brisdelle is $150 a month. Lots of gullible women will shell out a bunch of money for something they can get dirt cheap because they are uninformed.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    Melissa - I HATE HATE HATE that companies do that, making money at our expense.  HATE IT.

    I'm glad I don't know what hystersisters is...but if I were you, I'd get off their email list ;)

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2014

    Didn't I just read something lately about Paxil and breast cancer?  I know that it can contribute to breast cancer recurrence because it counteracts Tamoxifen, but I've never heard if it's been linked to in increased risk of developing breast cancer.  Anyone?

    Paxil is a nasty drug.  I took it for about six months years ago and switched to Celexa because the side effects were bothersome: significant weight gain, flat affect, thirst and dry mouth, tremor, zilch libido (and I mean ZILCH, quite numb if you get my drift), hot flashes, and concentration difficulties.  So, I can't understand how Brisdelle can help control hot flashes, when I dripped with sweat for six months while taking Paxil?

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited February 2014

    Sunflowers, hystersisters is actually a very good site for gyn problems and hysterectomy/oopherectomy info with discussion boards. They have a gyn cancer discussion board & I was able to connect with a couple of women who had the same rare ovarian cancer I had.

    Must have been a sponsored thing.

    I always wonder how many people have 5 different combinations of dyphenhydramine, painkiller & and/or decongestant in their medicine cabinets, all by either cold, sinus or sleep names. They are all the same thing. All you need is your choice of generic pain/anti-inflammatory, generic dyphenhydramine & generic pseudoephedrine in your cabinet & then take whatever combo you need. I'm always appalled at people taking tylenol pm every night when they don't have pain& don't need the acetaminophen.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited February 2014

    Selena, I think a bunch of the SSRIs are contraindicated with tamox. I think they are usually prescribing effexor instead.

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  • wyo
    wyo Member Posts: 541
    edited February 2014

    lots to respond to LOL Melissa on the party line- my aunts had that in upstate New York in the 70s- I have to say I loved it and yes we listened in all the time hahahaah

    I am a gadget girl typing on my ipad in the airport in SLC right now- have kindle fire also in the bag and 2 phones.  skipped the laptop because my google chrome-book will be waiting form me at my son's house assuming I get there tonight. 

    I have looked at the kindle paperwhite too- the fire is in my opinion a great little internet device and I think sometimes I like it better than my ipad but the ipad has all sorts of work protection on it so maybe thats why lol.  I have the chromebook so am thinking I could get the kindle just for reading- it looks so light and easy to manager and with Kindle Fire you really can't read in sunlight. 

    Selena its okay- you can live in the 18th century as it sounds like hubby is in the 21st so you are connected lol

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