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Posted: November 23, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized 3 Comments »I keep forgetting to mention how fabulous my husband is, in that he bought me a new digital camera for our anniversary. This was our First Blind Date anniversary, not our wedding anniversary. We met nine years ago. I knew before I even met him that I would be with him forever. Only I thought "her" then. Still, here we are.
In any case, our former camera was a lovely little model, new in 1999 I believe, a gift from my Dad and we really loved it. A nice Canon Elph. Over the years, it stopped zooming (the little toggle got something sticky in it) and lost battery power so that each battery really only got us 20 minutes or so of camera time. I guess we could have bought new batteries, but for only slightly more than a couple of batteries, we could get a new, much better camera. If for nothing but the blog, it was obviously time to move on.
If left to me, I would go ogle the pretty, colorful, crappy cameras at J&R and want them and want them and want them and then MAYBE Wes would convince me that I should get a less pretty, more practical, better model for less money. It would take weeks of working on me.
As it was, we had this strange thing happen: work (ie MacTechWitch) entrusted me with a brand new, gorgeous little Elph for the library. Part of the entrustment could involve me using it on my own sometimes. So I started to think I didn’t need a new camera.
I came home and told Wes this ONE DAY AFTER he had ordered me a really nice, 6 megapixel whatever Olympus.
Needless to say, it was kind of… odd when I opened my gift. It wasn’t colorful or crappy like I thought I wanted and I also felt like I already had a new one. I was not the world’s most enthusiastic recipient, sweet as I knew it was.
Over a week or so, though, the Olympus grew on me as we bought its accessories (a flash drive-sized USB plug-in stick for the memory card – OH. MY. GOD. how did I ever live without thee?) and I realized that the really high megapixel thing really meant it was REALLY good and hadn’t cost much money at all. As usual, my Wes the comparison shopper found a great deal on a great piece of technology.
The eensy little memory card (512 MB!!) for my new baby arrived recently and we took our first picture. Truly, my love has blossomed…. it just took time. Much as it did for the arrival of our other baby:
Congrats on your new camera. Though it took a while, the best relationships begin as ‘just friends’ right?
May you and your camera have many many happy years together.
and besides the fact that your first picture was of a chihuahua who, apparently, can levitate… it’s a cute dog. Don’t tell anyone I said that or I will have to get evil. I am not a small dog person. but I like yours. Because it can fly.
I looove reading your novel. It is wonderful. You are an incredibly talented writer and have such a knack (sp?) for getting the small details and mannerisms down so that the people you describe are sharply realized. Yay!
Thanks, Lissa… plugging along, feeling very behind and slow and discouraged by sickness and Thanksgiving cooking, but I will keep trying to hit 50K. I will be mortified with myself if I don’t.
Estelle – your comment made me laugh so fricking hard. Gertie the chihuahua levitating… it’s the best thing ever. Gertie the flying chihuahua. It’s wonderful. She is such a horrid little thing, too. Cute, occasionally sweet, but horrid. The picture is taken from our mezzanine – she’s on Wes’ lap and he’s sitting at the computer. It’s my view when I am typing this. We would really like it if she could fly because that would mean we didn’t have to carry her up and down the stairs picture behind her – she fell a few times and hasn’t tried since.