So, 2 weeks off from work and so far, I think I have done a pretty good job jam packing it with things to do. The only thing that is bad about this break is the fact that I have spent a lot of money shopping -_- Went to the outlet in San Diego, one in Barstow, 2 in Vegas, and now the Great Mall in Milpitas (and Ross and Loehmann's the day before). It would be ok if I didn't come out with things, but I seriously got at least one thing from almost every store I walked into. Sure some were gifts and some were things my sister wanted and I knew she would pay me back for, but I still got a lot of things for myself. Yeah, I guess it is good that I finally calculated what my mom and sister owed me from all of their QVC purchases and believe you me, that was no small amount.
I need to lock up all my money and cards and maybe I will stop buying things. Who am I kidding, that will probably not happen. I just need to create occasions to wear half the things I buy and maybe I will not feel as bad since I would be putting them to use XD These occasions must be dressy, like going to a friend's (or in my case, multiple friends) wedding. Let's see if that happens any time soon.
I fear the incoming credit card statement >_<
Monday, December 28, 2009
Camera Disaster
I have not updated in forever! So why not start it up with this post: MY CAMERA HAS BEEN MURDERED!
Yes, my Canon Powershot (SD850IS Digital Elph) was murdered today by my 3 year old nephew.
Now, you must be thinking, "Come now, you jest. Sure children are clumsy and perhaps ACCIDENTALLY broke the camera, but surely he did not MEAN to break it."
And to that I say, "NO, the intent was there to knock it down. Sure, maybe he didn't mean for it to fall down THAT hard or land the way it did, but the intent was there."
So, let me set the scene. I had handed my camera over to my second sister earlier after taking a few pictures of my niece running around. I then went to the kitchen to help out my older sister in the kitchen making turkey pot pie with the christmas leftovers. My second sister was now sitting in the living room with my 3 year old nephew, 1.5 year old niece, and my father watching the Cowboys/Redskins game (which made this even even more sad knowing the Cowboys would win this game). My mother was pacing around the living room doing whatever she does when she paces.
Now, to explain what I heard. "TAKE A PICTURE TAKE A PICTURE" and a "RAWR! HI-YAAAAAAH" and a crash.
When I peaked out to see what had happened, my sister and mother were looking at this SPLIT on my camera and I was thinking "OH DEAR GOD, PLEASE BE WORKING"
Then my brother-in-law, who came back into the house from his wood working in the garage after hearing all the commotion, took a look at the camera. He popped it back together, and started checking the lens. NO FOCUS. Then I told them, "great, the most importat part of the camera is BROKEN." Upon hearing that, my older sister said, "if my son broke your camera and my husband cannot fix it, you can have one of my old cameras since I have 2." (Canon PowerShot SD800IS AND PowerShot SD700IS, both of them being models older than mine).
Now as all of this is happening, my second sister is rehashing what happened and as it turns out, my mother, who was taking the picture, did not strap it around her wrist. My nephew, who likes to ruin pictures, decided he would run full speed at her, swat her arms, and the result was one really nonfunctional camera.
Now, my mood was already no so great and to hear that, well, I have to admit that I was a little more than just a tad bit irritated. My 2nd sister, upon hearing that comment said, "I WILL JUST BUY YOU ANOTHER CAMERA." Needless to say, this added tension to the already awkward moment we were having. Then to shake it up a bit more, she said, "You know he did it on purpose right? Did he even apologize?" and to that I said, "Nope, he didn't apologize for breaking my camera, he didn't apologize for ramming his toy drill into my leg. He ONLY apologized when he BIT MY LEG." (Yes, He ran a rotating toy drill at my leg the day prior to this incident and he bit my leg a day before that.)
Well then, you can guess what happened next. My oldest sister made him come and apologize to me and she says, "I know you didn't do it on purpose, but you have to apologize." And what does he say to me?
nephew: HEY!
me: What?
nephew: I have something to tell you.
me: What is it?
nephew: I'm sorry.
Now, I could have gone into a long lecture about him needing to own up to his actions and be more responsible, but then the thought crossed my mind that, well, he IS only 3. So what comes out of my mouth?
me: I accept your apology, but you have to be more careful next time. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
That's it?! So many things were running through my head that I could have and probably should have said, I said nothing. Why? Because when I am unhappy or irritated, I usually say nothing. And what does my family do? Ignore it until all that tension blows off.
So as I stand there in the kitchen, texting my friend about what happened and stirring the pot pie filling, my mom comes up to me saying she feels bad and she wants to help with the cooking coz she sees that I am texting. Now mind you, my mother does not cook and she causes more problems trying to help, so I told her to stop hoovering and to just not be there. And so she stands there to my right, hoovering over my shoulder until I started getting really irritated and I just said, "Can you PLEASE STOP HOOVERING?!" And so she leaves.
I then start talking to my eldest sister about how I now need a new camera and how I was contemplating investing in a digital SLR, which now, I could REALLY use since I don't have a camera. She then responds with, "wouldn't we all like a digital SLR." Why, I guess we all WOULD like one, but you know your son DID break mine, but no offer to replace the damaged goods was made.
So, dinner is now ready and I have no camera to take pictures of the food, so I grabbed my sister's PowerShot SD800IS. I, still being irritated, announced that their camera would be filled with a bunch of random pictures and that they have to transfer these onto a disc for me so I can take home SINCE I DON'T HAVE A CAMERA.
After, I started to take a bite of my pot pie and I see my mother messing with the broken camera, which my brother -in-law said he would take a look at after dinner (which he has still not done as of this post). Then I hear this beeping coming from the camera and my mom asks, "what does ' Lens error, restart camera' mean?" and with that I kinda went off saying, "WHY ARE YOU MESSING WITH IT? IT IS ALREADY BROKEN! JUST LEAVE IT ALONE." And when I look at the camera, the les was not retracting back down. And with that, I snatched it out of her hands, pulled out my SD card, put the camera where my brother-in-law would see it, and started mumbling to myself.
Yes, my Canon Powershot (SD850IS Digital Elph) was murdered today by my 3 year old nephew.
Now, you must be thinking, "Come now, you jest. Sure children are clumsy and perhaps ACCIDENTALLY broke the camera, but surely he did not MEAN to break it."
And to that I say, "NO, the intent was there to knock it down. Sure, maybe he didn't mean for it to fall down THAT hard or land the way it did, but the intent was there."
So, let me set the scene. I had handed my camera over to my second sister earlier after taking a few pictures of my niece running around. I then went to the kitchen to help out my older sister in the kitchen making turkey pot pie with the christmas leftovers. My second sister was now sitting in the living room with my 3 year old nephew, 1.5 year old niece, and my father watching the Cowboys/Redskins game (which made this even even more sad knowing the Cowboys would win this game). My mother was pacing around the living room doing whatever she does when she paces.
Now, to explain what I heard. "TAKE A PICTURE TAKE A PICTURE" and a "RAWR! HI-YAAAAAAH" and a crash.
When I peaked out to see what had happened, my sister and mother were looking at this SPLIT on my camera and I was thinking "OH DEAR GOD, PLEASE BE WORKING"
That really should not be coming apart...
Then my brother-in-law, who came back into the house from his wood working in the garage after hearing all the commotion, took a look at the camera. He popped it back together, and started checking the lens. NO FOCUS. Then I told them, "great, the most importat part of the camera is BROKEN." Upon hearing that, my older sister said, "if my son broke your camera and my husband cannot fix it, you can have one of my old cameras since I have 2." (Canon PowerShot SD800IS AND PowerShot SD700IS, both of them being models older than mine).
Now as all of this is happening, my second sister is rehashing what happened and as it turns out, my mother, who was taking the picture, did not strap it around her wrist. My nephew, who likes to ruin pictures, decided he would run full speed at her, swat her arms, and the result was one really nonfunctional camera.
Now, my mood was already no so great and to hear that, well, I have to admit that I was a little more than just a tad bit irritated. My 2nd sister, upon hearing that comment said, "I WILL JUST BUY YOU ANOTHER CAMERA." Needless to say, this added tension to the already awkward moment we were having. Then to shake it up a bit more, she said, "You know he did it on purpose right? Did he even apologize?" and to that I said, "Nope, he didn't apologize for breaking my camera, he didn't apologize for ramming his toy drill into my leg. He ONLY apologized when he BIT MY LEG." (Yes, He ran a rotating toy drill at my leg the day prior to this incident and he bit my leg a day before that.)
Well then, you can guess what happened next. My oldest sister made him come and apologize to me and she says, "I know you didn't do it on purpose, but you have to apologize." And what does he say to me?
nephew: HEY!
me: What?
nephew: I have something to tell you.
me: What is it?
nephew: I'm sorry.
Now, I could have gone into a long lecture about him needing to own up to his actions and be more responsible, but then the thought crossed my mind that, well, he IS only 3. So what comes out of my mouth?
me: I accept your apology, but you have to be more careful next time. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
That's it?! So many things were running through my head that I could have and probably should have said, I said nothing. Why? Because when I am unhappy or irritated, I usually say nothing. And what does my family do? Ignore it until all that tension blows off.
So as I stand there in the kitchen, texting my friend about what happened and stirring the pot pie filling, my mom comes up to me saying she feels bad and she wants to help with the cooking coz she sees that I am texting. Now mind you, my mother does not cook and she causes more problems trying to help, so I told her to stop hoovering and to just not be there. And so she stands there to my right, hoovering over my shoulder until I started getting really irritated and I just said, "Can you PLEASE STOP HOOVERING?!" And so she leaves.
I then start talking to my eldest sister about how I now need a new camera and how I was contemplating investing in a digital SLR, which now, I could REALLY use since I don't have a camera. She then responds with, "wouldn't we all like a digital SLR." Why, I guess we all WOULD like one, but you know your son DID break mine, but no offer to replace the damaged goods was made.
So, dinner is now ready and I have no camera to take pictures of the food, so I grabbed my sister's PowerShot SD800IS. I, still being irritated, announced that their camera would be filled with a bunch of random pictures and that they have to transfer these onto a disc for me so I can take home SINCE I DON'T HAVE A CAMERA.
After, I started to take a bite of my pot pie and I see my mother messing with the broken camera, which my brother -in-law said he would take a look at after dinner (which he has still not done as of this post). Then I hear this beeping coming from the camera and my mom asks, "what does ' Lens error, restart camera' mean?" and with that I kinda went off saying, "WHY ARE YOU MESSING WITH IT? IT IS ALREADY BROKEN! JUST LEAVE IT ALONE." And when I look at the camera, the les was not retracting back down. And with that, I snatched it out of her hands, pulled out my SD card, put the camera where my brother-in-law would see it, and started mumbling to myself.
Lens error, restart camera...
Non-retracting lens
I held on to my sister's camera for the rest of the night and said, quite loudly, that usually the things that I carry around in my bag are like...my life, and that is why I always have them with me. My camera is one of those things.
And so, what is the resolve? NOTHING. No one has talked about it since it has happened, except for my second sister who is truely willing to buy me a new camera since she knows how often I use it, but I dont feel right taking a camera from her. The responsible parties should just own up to the incident and right some wrongs. I am still waiting for this to happen. And I know I should be a little more direct with what I want to say to my family, but unfortunetly, I am not like that and mine is kind of subtle but not and people tend to ignore it, which is a huge fail on my part. So until then, the PowerShot SD800IS is on permanent loan.
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