I've gone and done it.

Totally jinxed my phone. Last week I went into Verizon to look at phones because I was due for an upgrade like several months ago. I found one I liked, the LG Chocolate Touch, but realized later that it's one of the phones you have to get a stupid data package for. It comes with the least-pricey data package, but still! They're charging for something I wouldn't even have wanted to use in the first place. So I decided not to get a new phone yet because mine was "still working perfectly fine!" I should never have said that, because my phone decided to crap out on me yesterday. When I tried calling people, I couldn't hear it ringing on my end and I couldn't hear the person if they answered. And same deal when others tried calling me. Because it was still like that today, I made a trip to Verizon again and bought the dang phone that I wanted and decided to suck up having to pay extra money each month, because inevitably most phones (at least the ones people want) will have the data package soon enough...I'm sure. I've only had the phone for an hour and a half but I like it so far. I just need to get used to the touch screen...when I try scrolling through the screen on the photos page, I keep opening photos instead of scrolling. But I'm sure I'll get used to it. My old phone had served me well for over two years. Never a problem until yesterday.
In other news, I finally turned in the rest of my supplementary documents for my graduate school/assistantship application for NMSU, so that's out of the way, yay!
Friday night Jake and I made a really good salad for dinner. It had pasta, sweet potatoes, asparagus, tomatoes, spinach, feta cheese, pinon nuts, and a balsamic vinegar/olive oil dressing. It was soooo good! But I made way too much pasta for that so tonight I'm going to use some of the extra pasta and make homemade baked macaroni and cheese. Mmm sounds good.
Off to start that!

PS. Most beautiful thing about New Mexico: Sunsets! No other state can beat them. Sure, a mountain sunset or one at a beach is also beautiful, but the ones here are just so infused with many colors that it's hard to compare. I am looking out my bedroom now at a sky of purple, pink, orange, and blue, accentuated with clouds of fascinating shapes.