Can it be Christmas yet?

Because of various commitments coming up, I'm all ready for Christmas right now. Presents are wrapped, bags are packed. Thank you note for an early present is in the mail, cookies have been distributed, the house is organized and decorated and clean. Meals are planned, clothes are planned. The Christmas parties with our friends and at work are over. I feel like it should be Christmas now, and I'm completely uninterested in going to work for the next two days - I just want to drive to my parents' and trade cookies with my mom and listen to my dad's Christmas cds and see my brother. The next two days just seem superfluous. Can we just skip them, please?

I know, whine whine.

Camera-geeble

I love my camera, I love my camera, I love my camera!

My old camera had all kinds of fun functions which I never really used to their full advantage - really learning and having it stick involves taking dozens of rolls of film with copious notes so you can actually see later what changing various parameters does. This camera does lots of the same things, plus extras, but with the instant gratification of letting me see what just happened when I changed the ISO or whatever.

(Yes, I realize that I'm, like, four or five years late to the party. Shaddup. Leave me be, with my lovely lovely camera I love.)

Of course, I haven't actually printed anything yet or anything. And I don't make any guarantees that I won't want an SLR at some point in the future. But right now, I'm happy.