Well here is the long awaited update! I somehow mange to talk myself into waiting a month even though I DID preorder the new 5S in gold! However last week, I got tired of waiting for it to ship and canceled the order. For some reason the gold phone is quite popular. Anyway since my contract is over in 2 weeks, I've decided to NEVER go back on a contract plan. The cost savings is way to great and I don't really need all the bells since I do have an iPad :)
I'm looking into what to do and which carrier to go with now. Thanks so much everyone for all of the advice on not doing a dumb thing like getting an iPhone 5S!