Not that I blame you. I know I said I would post and get everyone caught up, however I continued to have more trouble getting the old pictures off my now dead camera and didn’t want to bore you with a lot of talk.
Guess what? All you get today is talk!
Briefly here is where we are picture wise. I was finally able to get the old memory card from my now defunct camera to read, only to find out that all 200+ pictures were gone. Everything from March including the kids first trip to the Aquarium together and a couple of other outings are gone. In the grand scheme of things I do realize that this is minor and this isn’t meant to sound like a ‘whoa is me’ post, more of a ‘you see why I am annoyed’ post.
To further set the scene, because while I’m sharing I may as well come totally clean, I did break down and buy a new camera the day before Easter as the thought of not having Easter pictures was making my head hurt. I got a really good deal on a camera with excellent ratings. It came with all the normal paraphernalia plus a leather case and a 4GB memory card. All for about $50 less than the normal price of just the camera alone. I used it at Easter, put it in its case, put it on my desk on top of my printer (basically the highest place on my desk) and thought nothing more of it. Until…I came back from dropping D off at school the day after Easter (about a 15 minutes excursion) to find that our 10-month old puppy had decided that the leather case smelled really tasty. What happened to the brand-new, less than 30-hour old camera you may ask? Collateral damage from the puppy munching on the camera case. The memory card didn’t get damaged, so I have the Easter photos, however the camera is a total loss and I am once again without a camera.
I did manage to resign myself to the fact that I was just going to have to go buy the camera again but when I went to do that I found that it was no longer on sale and I just couldn’t emotionally make myself pony up the extra $50. It seemed so wasteful to have to spend an extra $50 for something I had just purchased for less the week before. Almost like I was getting ripped off. My parents suggested I try to return it but I’m pretty sure that as a general rule the stores does not have a ‘my puppy ate my camera’ return policy.
As you can tell I have deep emotional scars around this issue. I do not however have a new camera. Still. Four weeks later. It is killing me!
My Mom is letting me borrow her old camera but it doesn’t do very well with action shots but as long as the kids sit perfectly still we should be fine. Yeah, don’t expect many pictures until I get a new camera. Seriously, deep emotional scars. It is sad.
I will be posting D’s birthday party pictures though, as promised (several times). I’m going to start that post as soon as this one publishes.
PS: For those of you wondering. The puppy is still alive and unharmed. That story might be different if I thought he was going after the camera, but I’m 100% positive it was just the leather case and I have grown up around enough dogs to know that freshly unwrapped leather is like a puppy magnet so I’ll take partial responsibility for not actually locking it in a cabinet. Be assured though that the puppy has been given fair warning that cameras are to be considered off-limits.
