Incidents and accidents

Meggie and her man Tim just called. Loud music blaring in the background, they both screamed “HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!” into the phone, then hung up. I love my sister.

Found on the net:

Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten apples from the ground that aren’t as good, but easy. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they’re amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

Now Men… Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it’s up to women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

Ground Rules:
The first player of this “game” starts with the topic “5 Guilty
Pleasures” and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about
their 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule clearly. In the
end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their
names.

1. Everything Hummingbirds.
2. Sweet things, candy, cheesecake.. etc.
3. Reading fantasy novels in the bathtub
4. Cameras
5. Sexy underwear.
And…TAG, you’re it:
Scott Feldstein
John
Meggie
Stephen
Binary Jesus

The Best ___ I ever spent. Rules: it has to be something you yourself purchased, not something someone else bought for you. It cannot be a group of things that add up to the amount. It may be something you bought for someone else.

The best $5: My Crest Spinbrush Pro
The best $10: Covered cat box for Stumpy.
The best $15: Black felt for photo backdrop.
The best $20: Hummzinger Excel hummingbird feeder
The best $50:
The best $80: 1GB Memory stick for San Diego trip
The best $100:
The best $200: Marco lens for Rebel XT (well, will buy)
The best $500: The Sony DSC-V1
The best $800: The Canon Rebel XT
The best $1000:
The best other:

January
Find out that I am indeed partially Native American.
The upstairs water heater breaks overnight, flooding our apartment.
Got a fun ice storm.

February
Stumpy adopts us.
I adopt a Betta fish from Atari.

March
Trip to San Diego
Christine’s baby shower.
The first year watching for hummingbirds to return.

April
Find out that gardening w/o gloves really sucks.
Finally some hummingbirds.

May
Visit the ren-fest.
Cut 13 inches off my hair for Locks of Love.
Finally learn to use the sewing machine.
Decide that I need a $2000 camera

June
Move website to Dreamhost
Stumpy has her own blog.
Panic when I find wasps in my car door.
Decide that I can live with the $900 camera instead.

July
Baby Benjamin is born.
Start new job

August
I turn 26 years old.
See the first non flying live bat of my life under a tree.
First annual Georgia hummingbird Festival
Make the switch from PostNuke to Wordpress

September
Southern gas shortage scare.
My car dies for a while.
My last hummingbird leaves for southern migration.

October
John and his dad make the car live again.
Find some kittens near the complex’s dumpster.
Sell my huge collection of Pixietails on Ebay.
Finally get rid of the kittens.
Buy the $900 camera at $700 on Ebay.
Meggie visits.

November
seXXXy haooloween.
Reach my 10000th photo with a digital camera.

December
Dealing with a stomach bug at work.
I get the tummy bug.
John turns 27.

Unless you geek out with other photographers on a regular basis, you never know what it is to be ’shot’. I was testing out my new XT when I happened across a katydid. The kit lens it came with has a minumum focal distance of about 6-8 inches or so. I was checking to see how close I could get with the lens and still get a good shot, nice and sharp. DavidB (my photo-geeking) friend who was out with me, enjoyed it so much that he took a picture of me taking a picture of the bug! He just got them back a few days ago, so we had a nice laugh today.

Since I just bought the Rebel XT, I find myself needing a smaller camera than my Sony for daily use. I want to buy the Canon S500, since it uses Compact Flash like the XT and I wouldn’t have to get more memory cards.

So, the Sony. Asking price is $400:

1 Sony DSC-V1: specs here. ($150)
All cords that came with it. USB, power, TV.. etc.
3 Batteries Np-FC11 ($15 each)
1 512 Memory stick ($50)
1 1GB Memory Stick ($100)
1 Lens/filter adapter tube ($20)here.
1 F-adapter ($30) like this, for use with a scope or binoculars.
1 2x teleconverter lens ($40) here.
1 soft-sides camera bag ($15)
Total worth: $450

Let me know if you’re interested!

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This list is mainly for myself. I tend to lose things when written down on paper, so I’m making my gift list here so I can’t lose the list of things I need to write thank-you’s for.

Mom
Baldwin Brass Hummingbird Ornament: link.
Fluffy Socks: like these!
5 in 1 sensor clock: here.
12 Artline flower feeders: right here.
National Geographic Photography Field Guide: Secrets to Making Great Pictures, Second Edition
Geisha : The Life, the Voices, the Art
James Clavell\’s Shogun

Dad
1 Loan Payment (kickass!)

John’s mom
Cash
Hummingbird Ornament: here.

Aunt Lorraine
1 unknown photography book (got shipped to BrianL)
Cash

BrianL
Attracting and Feeding Hummingbirds (T.F.H. Wild Birds Series)
Geisha : A Life
Song In The Silence : The Tale of Lanen Kaelar

John’s Dad
Sigma Macro Super 70-300mm Lens: here.
12 Speed Blender: here.
Huge M&M bowl with candy
Gihardelli assortment

John
Conair Ultra Massaging Foot Spa: Wheee!

Larken
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

Tim and BrianS
Spaceballs (Collector\’s Edition)

Work
$20 Walmart Gift card - Charlie’s Mom
$10 Bath and Body Works card - Emily’s Dad
Bath and Body Works Bear + Bathtub - Sierra’s mom
Bubble Baths - Aiden’s Mom
Ice Cream Bowls, Fig + Pear Lotion - Milla’s Mom
Pencils and Paper - Hannah’s Mom
Tie-Dye shirt - Michael’s Mom
Apple Nightlight - Maison’s Mom
Victoria Secret Pear Glace Gel and butter - Nicholas’s Mom
Picture frame - Diane
Dog NotePad + Buckeyes - Renee
Snowman Soup - Sheri
Candy cup - Rebecca

It’s been a while since I posted anything. I’ve been so busy with work and christmas planning that I haven’t gotten the pictures off my camera until now. The stories just aren’t as fun sans photos, so they’re late. I will tell you though, being a Pre-school teacher has some holiday advantages in terms of nice people. I’ve been making out like a bandit at school. A $20 wal-mart card, a $10 Bath and Body Works card, a huge picture frame, an adorable brown bear in a copperish bathtub from B&BW, some fancy drawing pencils and paper, 4 ceramic japanese bowls, some bubble bath, great Victoria’s Secret body butter and shower stuff, and an apple nightlight. It’s nutty!

On the 21st, John and I and Tim and BrianS and Kevin all went over to Larken’s place for a little pre-christmas get together to open presents and stuff before people left for out of town. We all had a good time just messing around and drinking egg nogg. Well, Diet Coke for me. John and I bought Christine her own box of Apples to Apples, so we had a fun time playing that. John and I made it out with a collector’s edition DVD of Spaceballs from Tim and BrianS and our very own copy of Kung Pow on DVD from Christine and Bruce. Yay for awesome movies! The running gag and highlight of the party was the gift from Christine to Tim and BrianS. It was a talking Yoda doll. Yoda played Apples to Apples with us, Yoda got a little excited and knocked over someone’s drink.. etc. As an added bonus, if you poke Yoda in the ass, he says “See that you are interested in something else, I do. Save that for later, we will.”

I didn’t have to work yesterday, so I spent most of it hanging out with Larken and Munchie. I brough my camera with me and got lucky at the park and in her kitchen. Munch and Christine and I all ate at the China-Star Buffet, then made Cheerio-string birdfeeders, then we headed to the park. That park is a great park, as well as being out of the trees for some great near-sunset lighting in the winter. I came back home for a little while, but instead of taking a nap like I should have, i messed around with the pictures. Brian S called and we hung out and ate cheesy raviolli before going back over ot Christine’s place to watch Kung Pow. All In all, it was a fun few days.

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