So, I bought a new watch

[justalurkr]

It's a very special watch. Multi-function! I can hear the conversation now:

Me: So, I bought a new watch.
Mom: What's wrong with the (unused, worn to work) watch I gave you (two years ago)?
Me: Um, the battery died?
Mom: (that silence; you know the one I'm talking about. The Spanish Inquisition could have doubled its productivity with this silence.)
Me: The watch you gave me doesn't have 8g of memory for songs and audiobooks?
Mom: So, you bought the new iPod Nano, didn't you?

In my defense, it keeps great time. :D And while I did not get as nice a wriststrap as this one, I did in fact purchase a lower end Belkin strap and have been rocking out to The Essential Billy Joel as I surf idly and contemplate my spendthrift ways weighed against the benefits of retail therapy.

Retail therapy totally wins.

Comments

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

Just watched the Youtube video. Can you wear it like a watch? Put a strap on it and put it around your wrist?

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

It's a little clunky and somewhat risky if you bang your wrist into things, but you totally can. I've been walking around with it on and it has to be the most perfect workout buddy I've ever used. Not sure why around my wrist is working so much better than around my upper arm with respect to not tangling the earbud wire, but it is. Also, around the wrist has much better access to the ports and buttons than around the upper arm.

this is what it looks like on me

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

The guy in the wriststrap unboxing vid has hulking, manly wrist. I have a, well, fine-boned-for-a-tall-woman wrist:

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v638/justalurkr/?action=view&current=0918112349-00.jpg)

Re: this is what it looks like on me

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

It'd be too big for my wrist too, but that is so totally cool!

[nialla]

Ahhh, Mom Silence. Never will there be a more effective interrogation method. Other than Grandmother Silence, because they've had an extra generation to hone their skills.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Old age and treachery experience has no equal.