Vanessa Embling » A blog about my life & photography

I just bought the iphone 5!  Well, I pre-ordered it, anyway.  It officially goes on sale in stores on September 21st – but I decided I couldn’t be bothered with waiting in lines amongst the throngs of people outside the apple store.  I haven’t jumped on every upgrade bandwagon so I’m hoping I made the right decision with this one!  Can’t wait to get it in my hands!

Speaking of phones… I thought this would be a great time to take a moment to reflect.  I am a child of the 80’s.  I did not grow up with a cell phone.  I remember when my mom got a ‘car phone’ – it looked a little bit like this and I can remember we all thought it was coolest thing EVER. I think I was in middle school at the time.

Then, she moved on to an actual ‘mobile phone’ – smaller than Zack Morris’ phone on Saved by the Bell pictured below:

My Mom’s phone looked a little bit like this:

Then, my sophomore year of college, I moved out to New York City to pursue my dreams of being a fashion designer.  It was in 2000, at 20 years old – that I bought my first cell phone.  It looked a little bit like this:

Fast forward to today… my goodness, things have changed.

Just two weeks ago I was back home at my parent’s house and we were cleaning out the basement and came across some ‘electronic antiques’ – this cordless phone being one of them – I can remember being in high school and talking on this phone ALL THE TIME!!!