So some time back, I gave Domino’s another chance after a hella-long hiatus and decided that they hadn’t changed all that much from how I remember to justify that they had indeed overhauled themselves to become as awesome as their ad campaign claimed.

And it would have ended there, but then I happened upon their chicken parmesan sandwiches, and holy freaking crap those are redonkulously tasty, so much that I would forgive their otherwise “meh” pizza. I could just… only order the sandwiches but I still need a pizza fix too, so I’m trying to fine-tune their pizza into something I could actually look forward to eating. (As it stands, Costco and Papa Johns are the only ones that send me into a “DO WANT, GIVE, NOW” nom-fury at the mere thought. Especially Costco. I would give them all my pizza money forever if they had online ordering.)

Pretty much, my chief issue is with the sauce, and even there it largely depends on what crust type is used with it. (as far as toppings go, assume sausage and pepperoni, normal cheese) Hand-tossed with normal sauce is barely tolerable, so this time I tried Brooklyn w/ light sauce… which behaves like there’s no sauce at all (which is not bad but, you know, it’s okay to have SOME sauce!). Maybe next time… Brooklyn w/ normal sauce. Or I could go in a completely different direction and go Deep Dish, like I did for much of my childhood. :P

In a perfect world, I could loot the actual pizza from Costco (or Papa Johns if I had to have sausage + garlic dip), sides from Pizza Hut and chicken parmesan sandwiches from Domino’s every time I wanted this kind of feast. Doable, yes… practical in execution? Not really!

In other news: Holy crap, February’s almost over already? That means March… which means COUNTDOWN TO YOSHI DAY EPISODE 27. If we follow the rules of anime, this would mean this is the first episode of the second season. Hm…

You know, I was all about to post some redonkulous “whee, my mother is a blowhard drama queen” rant and she’s all moping because I misplaced my toolkit and can’t transplant one of her precious machines but… I’m just sick of the whole matter already, and feeling like I can’t make one little error without risking a meltdown that may or may not trigger threats of divorce, among other things, so I’ll just do this instead:

T brendala, I may have left my toolkit at your house, and I am a moron for not having thought to look for it before today. So, um, if it is over there, I don’t suppose you could drop it off at my house tomorrow (at your convenience, of course), even if you have to stuff it in my mailbox? >_>; I have a replacement toolkit on order for future redundancy, but… yeah. Terribly sorry for my shenanigans. -_-;

The only things keeping today from completely going down the crapper? Chicken parmesan sammich with my pizza, and new Law and Order SVU episode… starting right now. :O

Did I say how much I love love LOVE my Verizon iPhone?

Because I do. I mean, my LG enV was awesome for the 3-ish years I had it, but I was really glad Verizon got the iPhone when it did because my battery had gone to crap.

For one thing, which turned out to be my greatest annoyance from my old phone: no more having to worry about running out of room for incoming TXT/MMS messages, EVER. YES! As far as I know, the concept of the message inbox has been done away with entirely in favor of threading by contacts in something like iChat (AIM for Mac). On previous phones, I kept having to clean out my message inbox, which means I’d end up losing TXTs I’d wanted to keep. It wasn’t so bad for picture/video since I could save those out to the SD card, but since everything is saved on the iPhone’s giant hard drive (relative to… whatever piddly storage was on old feature and semi-feature phones), I can hold as many messages as I want henceforth. YAY!

I need to find out how mother’s inserting extra icons into her messages (she’s using cheeseburger and dollar sign and other icons). I’m thinking it’s probably a different app than the normal version. As much as I facepalm at her spamminess, those icons are cute and rather unobtrusive…

I haven’t played around too much with the camera, aside from a single shot of Kestine. This will almost certainly change in the near-future. For one thing, no more having to send pic-tweets as MMS, now I can upload directly to TwitPic via TweetDeck, with video-tweets going to YouTube. :P As for future camera abuse… let’s just say that I’m going to need to address this “buh I talk funny and I don’t like the sound of my own voice” and possibly have to correct this by force… and possibly your great amusement. Stay tuned.

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In other news, I’m totally getting a heart-shaped Papa Johns pizza today. Tried to get one a few days ago but for some reason I got locked out of online ordering. I’d like to think I’ll, uh, compensate for this and yesterday’s Jack in the Box by following Kestine and other kitties around with my iPhone. >_>;

So, uh… remember how I was all “omg iPhone on Monday?” Let’s pretend I actually meant Tuesday because Verizon is a dork and despite my phone being ordered within 10 minutes of mothers, saw fit to put mine on the SLOWEST UPS TRUCK EVER making delivery rounds on Tuesday. Seriously, the truck did not get here until, what, 7pm? o_O And then, despite my telling mother that we ought to read the paperwork before doing activation to make sure we don’t botch the DB switch (the one that tells Verizon that despite using up Evil Stepfather’s NE2 credit, the phone is mine)… she’s all “OMG HURRY UP AND ACTIVATE SO I CAN SPAM YOU WITH ASCII BUNNIES.” And, whaddya know, the phone got keyed to Evil Stepfather’s line and knocks out both our phones in the process. GOOD GOING THAR.

But that’s fixed, the phone is keyed to my line (though it still has some of Evil Stepfather’s data stuck on it, ew). There were a couple of other bumps– I can’t hack the ringtones for TXT/MMS (but I can for normal calls), and my Angry Birds iOS save files are gone. :( I thought they’d get transferred via sync but I guess not.

All those aside… AWESOME PHONE IS AWESOME. Where the iPod was “Celestial Rose,” the iPhone is “Celestial Thorn” because the theme here is that they are Dinah’s weapons (ninja swords, specifically) that she dual-wields like any badass ninja-bot. :D This is also my first true smartphone with a data plan and such. I’m kinda wary of Verizon’s claim that it’s “unlimited” (I tend to read “unlimited” as really meaning “5 GB”) but they put out a statement a couple days ago to the effect of “do your worst, though we reserve the right to throttle abusive users.” Um… sure, okay. I’ll believe you for now, though for practical reasons I’ll use wifi when available. :)

Oh! Completely unadvertised but redonkulously fun feature: the iPhone camera bits have a barcode/QR scanner. For stupid amounts of fun, loot the RedLaser app (free!) and go nuts scanning just about every barcode you can find. You may not always get anything of substance (for instance, scanning my copy of The Phantom Tollbooth only told me I was holding a “Paperback Book”). Scanning DVD barcodes will do a price search, scanning food items will at the very least ID them, and maybe pull up nutritional data and attempt a price/deal search… and then there are QR codes, which can lead to some fun things. This Papa Johns pizza box had a QR code that takes you to their mobile website, but you can cram much more into a QR code than a normal barcode. (Inversely, it would be fun to scatter QR codes that would link to random Instant Ramen or other specialized art pieces… :D)

Also holy crap I should sleep, like, soon. Yeah. Blastoise is pestering me to let him reboot (lol Windows Update). Ahh, keep your armor on, you big lug. :P

I promise I’m working on it. Taking a step back from the WoWs since I just took 2 characters from 80-85 back to back (Rei and Dinah) and finished capping their professions, and now I’m working on Gourmet Ramen. Wee~

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On a weird note, Kestine nicked my leg trying to jump on the desk to flee from one of the newbie cats that was chasing him (WIMP!). It bled quite a bit but stopped just as quickly… and now there’s just… well, I THINK it’s water? Sure feels like it. All I know is that I have to keep sponging it. It doesn’t look like anything dangerous, so I’ll just have to wait it out. Or I could actually be an elemental mutant and this is how I get super powers. :P Just saying…

I should, like, try and sleep which of course means I’m actually going to play Angry Birds… going to stand by for the UPS dood around 10:30 because OMFG IPHONE. Mother only got one shipping notice and hasn’t gotten anymore and the order status console hasn’t said anything, so we’re guessing this shipment will have both our iPhones. I have my ringtones ready and just need to funnel them into Dinah’s iTunes so she can load ‘em up. :D :D :D