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My friend requested more photos of Emma. So this post is all about her (Emma, not my friend).
One of her favorite games, fighting through the blinds.
Catnip toy – ATTACK!
Attacking again!
Ahh! Resting after knocking some sense into that toy.
Photo shoot is over. She’s annoyed.
Thanks for humoring me by looking at pictures of my cat. I think that she is pretty darn cute.
I got my 5 pound sticker tonight at the WW meeting. Yippee! I keep calling it my 5 pound coin. I guess that is what working in addictions does for you. Every type of motivational kudos is a coin. It doesn’t matter what it is really. *grin*
Guess what I got today?
My Nikon D40.
I’ve been playing with it most of the evening. I am not sure what the heck the different settings mean but I sure am having fun messing around with them. In a few hours, I ended up taking 159 pictures (that I ended up keeping).
Cory was a sweetheart and played model for me. Emma was also working the camera. I could tell when I had pushed both of them to their annoyance limit. *grin*
Here are some of my favorites from today.
Emma being her cute self.
The face on the utility pole in our neighborhood.
Grey Cat from next door. She is extremely friendly and just hangs out on the porch.
Cory handing off the matches before he starts juggling FIRE!
Thanks for looking.
I was reading an edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, when I came across this quote. (Bathroom readers are great sources for random information.)
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the facts have even put their boots on.” – Mark Twain
It sounds awfully familiar. It’s from the Terry Prachett book, The Truth. We saw the play The Truth back in April. Just thought that I would share that with people.
Have a mellow Sunday!
I just called Fed Ex’s customer service. It turns out my camera is stuck at the airport until Monday because the facility where it is at is closed. Grr! That’s what I have to say about that!
I was so hoping that I would get my camera today!
I’m just being slightly obsessive regarding tracking where my camera is. Poor Cory, he is the one who gets to listen to me while I stalk my camera. The online tracking system says that it was scanned into the Portland facility at 10:24pm. Maybe I will get it tomorrow.
I am looking forward to being able to take better pictures than this one.
I’ve been monitoring the progress of my package. The camera left Indianapolis, IN at 4:50 pm today. It is getting closer to Portland.
The confession. I sat upon my digital camera about three weeks ago. Cory and I were camping, hanging out by the fire, chilling in the camp chairs. I got up to grab some marshmallows and chocolate for S’Mores and left the camera on the seat of the camp chair. When I came back, I sat right on top of it. I ended up bending the lens housing. It is bent only slightly but it is enough that the lens housing doesn’t extend. Ugh. I felt (and still) feel right stupid. For the rest of the weekend, we took pictures with a disposable camera (they are on a CD and someday I will post about that trip).
When I got back to PDX, I went to a local camera shop and they said that it would be close to $125 dollars to repair it.
My parents gave me a raincheck for my birthday present and I went through several “wants” before settling on a camera: the Nikon D40. After a phone call to my mom and a slight guilt trip , she agreed to let me order the camera for my birthday present. (Actually, I just said that I would really like a new camera before going on vacation at the end of this month. I love you, Mom!)
I have decided that I would like to try and have some fun with digital photography. This is partially what drew me to blogging in the first place. Getting a sneak peak into other peoples lives through the photographs that they share. Since, the camera was broken, it just wasn’t as much fun to come up with blog entries that were text only. I tried taking pictures with film, getting it developed, and having the pictures put on a CD. There was just too much time between event, photos, and blogging. I ended up loosing a lot of steam. (Digital photography = instant gratification.)
GOOD NEWS! I ordered the camera on Tuesday night around 9 pm. Well, as of 9:37pm EST my camera has been shipped out of New Jersey! The tracking info says that the box is 5 pounds and is scheduled to arrive in PDX on June 11th before 7pm. Yippee! I’ll be a beginning amateur photographer on Monday night.
Good Night, all. I just wanted to share my good news!
MY CAMERA HAS BEEN SHIPPED!
P.S. The title references that once I get a digital camera again. I will post more often. *crosses fingers* Hopefully. The photo in this entry is one of the very first ones that I ever took with my old camera.
