I'm so effing smart.

I want to brag about myself for a minute (get a snack, you're in for a real long post!).

In panic mode, I started to think about how Tmobile, in its history of pissing me off, might just note my intense vulnerability and see an opportunity to outdo itself (in suckiness) - by somehow deleting the two saved messages left on my phone from Reboyfriend. I go in and resave them every couple of days, just to make sure they are still there. They each reflect a different side of him. One of them is all funny and inappropriate about my sweet ass and wanting to get home and do stuff to me, and the other is the I-just-got-you-the-Creamie-Girl-gig business call. And I had no intention of ever losing either of those little treasures.

It was starting to give Tmobile too much power. I'm tired of not having control over how much of him I get to remember (it's not as easy as it sounds, trust me). I'm tired of there being so much I want to have or keep, and so little that I get to. I'm tired of how obsessed I get over it all.

So I took matters into my own googling hands. I wanted those voicemails on my hard drive, non-erasable and clear as a bell.

If you ever find yourself as desperate as me, wanting some special voicemail saved onto your computer...take heart, and follow these instructions! (Have a great day!)

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1. Download Skype. That part is free.

2. Choose to "pay as you go" for credits. They are about 25 cents a minute. You buy a minimum of about 40 minutes. This will set you back $10. Boo hoo. Turn your lights off while you're gone and let your hair air dry a few times. There. I just saved you $10 on your power bill. Suck on that, Pacificorp.

3. Download a 15-day trial of Skype Recorder.

- NOTE: It asks you fifteen times if you are sure this isn't some hard-drive rape virus that is going to destroy the world. Just keep clicking OK. I'm still not sure it's not violating and my hard drive right now, so don't sue me if I just directed you to your PC's blue-screened demise. It will also ask permission to connect with your Skype. Tell it OH YES. It will take it upon itself to notice when you call someone, and it automatically records.

4. Open your Skype.

5. Dial your cell phone number. Let it go to voicemail. You'd think that's obvious, but you'd be surprised how tempting it is to answer the phone call coming from your own laptop.

6. Make sure that the "dial pad" is displayed. That's where you will click the star or pound sign (to get in to your voicemail.)

7. Proceed through all the voicemail you want recorded. Because the tape is rolling.

Click on the call in your Recorder's box afterward, and save to your hard drive.

Love is immortal. I want it written and engraved on everything, because it is. You can't kill it. It isn't an account that dies with the person you're sharing it with. It just is. Love is just immortal...

And now, so is Reboyfriend's verbalized desire to smack dat.