No Whining Allowed

I have a confession to make. I have been coveting. Not my neighbors ass, or house, or anything like that. I was coveting our friends camera.

We have a wide assortment of cameras at our house. Several regular film cameras, and 3 digital.  Maybe 8 or so years ago Honey gave me a new camera, and I LOVED it. I would tell you the name of it, but The Boy took it to school for his photography class, and that information is just not handy at the moment. You would think that I would know that information, due to my great love and length of time that I have owned it. But you would be wrong in your assumption.

I have happily used this camera for many years to get good shots for my scrapbooking endeavors. It zooms in so close and clear. It has been one of my all time favorite things.

Now we enter the digital age. I resisted strongly. As I resist  ALL things new and, in my personal opinion, complicated. Ab-Cat has had one for several years and would show me her pictures, and even download them on my MySpace for me. But I never touched the thing. What if I pushed the wrong button and erased everything??? Oh, I would have just died!

Honey bought one last year, in haste, because he was going to Japan for work the next day. For the month of June. Maybe I’ll tell you about that someday. That whole summer had some blog-worthy stories. Anyhow, the main feature we were concerned about for that  purchase was cost. Cause what if he lost it during ALL the traveling he was doing? And it was just to take a few shots of Mt. Fuji and some other “must see” spots.

And last, but not least, Q. Mouse jumped on the bandwagon at Christmas. To take all of those shots I told you about a couple of posts ago. The ones with gigantic faces, weird poses, her cat, Lucy,  her food at camp, and other important stuff.

I never laid a finger on a single one of them, until I started this blog. And then I knew that I had to do it. I had to take the giant leap into a new age. I had to learn to stretch, challenge myself and to learn a new way. And I did.

Much to Ab’s displeasure, I “learned” on her camera. And due to the aforementioned resistance to learn new technology, I didn’t want to “learn” again on anyone else’s. So she is having to constantly navigate the muddy waters of my blog-tography.

So we now have 3 digital cameras. And they all have approximately the exact same capabilities, as they were all around $100.00. And none can zoom in to the degree to which I have become accustomed. And the pictures are not as crisp, clear and colorful as those to which I have become accustomed. Honey’s suggestion was that I simply unaccustom  myself.  

So, now comes the coveting part. Last Wednesday, at Mousey’s last swim meet of the year, we saw some friends, whose daughters also swim. We were there for 4 1/2 hours, I’M NOT KIDDING!!!!!!! And we did not even stay til it was over! Because we were hungry! But, it was so nice to have friends to talk to while we waited for our children to swim.

Now, I don’t want you to think that I don’t like talking to Honey. Cause we talk a lot. But that is a long time for us to entertain each other at one stretch. And if you asked me for two pieces of advice about choosing a mate, I would say number one would be to marry a follower of Jesus Christ, and number two would be to find someone who can entertain you. That is a truly useful skill.  I know it has come in handy for us over the years.

Back to the coveting. One of our friends, Officer Mark, was showing us his new camera. It looked like a professional camera.  I even know the name of it!  A Canon Rebel X something. And he bought it at Best Buy. I was ever so impressed. And he was gracious enough to give me a little lesson. That thing had a zoom to die for! And it had a feature where you could take a million  pictures in 10 seconds! And you could crop, and focus and this and that and then he let me use it! 

 He should not have done that.  Cause now I have this little sin issue going on. I want his camera.

Well yesterday Honey and I were at Sam’s Club, buying mass quantities of food to consume, and he checked to see if they had the Canon Rebel X something. And they did! But then he made me guess how much they were. And that is never a good sign. And then I remembered  that Officer Mark had said 2 times at the swim meet that he had bought it at Best Buy, two years, same as cash. And at the time, I didn’t get why he said it. But now I do. 

I might have to accustom  myself to one with a few less bells and whistles. But I really just want that camera.