my present

It's almost my 30th birthday. And I use the term "almost" loosely.

But it's almost my birthday, so I bought myself a present. Something I've been wanting for a long time.

I went back and forth Nikon vs. Canon vs. Sony for a long time. Before I realized that if I kept doing that, my children would be adults before I got the camera and I'd have nothing to take pictures of except the walls. Which would be sort of exciting, since the walls will probably be clean at that point in my life. But still.

So I just took a deep breath, closed my eyes, stuck out my finger, and spun around in a circle. When I stopped and opened my eyes, the man at the store was looking at me strangely, but my finger was pointed at the Nikon, so I promptly bought it (after I haggled down the price, obviously) and walked out the door.

Okay, maybe that's not exactly how it happened. But I do have a Nikon!

I have no idea what I'm doing with it. I'm not even an amateur. I'm whatever is a step below an amateur, because I haven't even read the manual yet. I've just been playing around with my camera for the past two weeks. Of course, that hasn't stopped me from buying a new lens on Ebay. And I've already taken 300 pictures.

My hard drive is not happy with me.

I've gotten some great pictures of the kids. So far they have been good sports, mostly because I have bribed them with candy, and because my main subject can neither walk nor talk. He's convenient that way.

He's also very drooly, but that's not really relevant information, is it?

I love this picture. Could you just eat that face? I could. I do.

This reminds me that I have no idea where that hair clip is. Sigh.

It only took 455 pictures to get one of them all looking and smiling.

I love my new camera. I bet I will love it more when I learn how to use it.

Happy (almost) 30th birthday to me!