My husband and I are having a debate over a camera. AK thinks $450 is too much to spend on a new digital camera. The way I see it $450 – the price of a new Nikon D80 10.2 Megapixel SLR Digital Camera – averages out to about $55/child if we have the eight we plan on. I mean my husband is Greek for goodness sake … you are obliged to have more than 2.5.
“You already have two cameras!”
This is true… but one is ancient – my father bought me an amazing still camera at 16 when I began to dabble into photography. But, it is older now and I won’t take it with me to places for fear I will hurt it. And my father also bought me Nikon Coolpix this year because I wanted a camera I could throw in my purse and not worry if it got smashed. Hmmm… too bad I can’t badger Daddy for toys anymore. He has a much better record.
I can’t remember what I said to make him give me this face – but this photo is mid camera arguement.
Onto pregnancy news: this pregnancy is kicking my ass. Not that anything unusual or particularly interesting is happening. Friday I registered at the hospital, took the tour, saw the delivery room with only a million sharp metal gadgets that immediately made me want to cry, throw-up, and run – all at once, and learned that once the baby is born it will be attached by the umbilical clamp to a GPS device that will monitor where it is at all times and sets off an alarm it it leaves a certain radius. “Don’t be disturbed..it comes off when you leave…” the nurse began. Disturbed? Can I keep it? Hell, just leave it on! You know how great that would be? I could parent from the couch, and it would be way easier than trying to convince Dr. JGW to microchip our baby.
This morning at the grocery store I dropped a can of beans, sat in the aisle and stared at if for an eternity, decided I could pick it up, then spent five minutes chasing a rolling can down the spaghetti aisle, failed miserably and kicked it under the shelves and left the store, looking suspiciously behind me in case they stopped me for littering.
Wake me when it is April. Will you?
