I'm just too excited

This came yesterday:I think technically I can take today off from the whole Blog 365 thing, but why get out of the habit? I needed to post about having a new camera.

I am hopefully going to have my godson and his parents tomorrow to Sunday. We are supposed to get snow and they are coming down from north of here, so we are playing it by ear. If they come, there will be pictures taken with the new camera.

I should give the camera a name.

I was wondering how one would take a picture of a new camera to share? The above is borrowed from Canon. I could just use my old camera to take a picture of my new one, but I do not want to use the old one ever again. I am going to return it to its original [second] owner.

Why am I so excited about a new camera? It is my first very own digital camera that I really, REALLY should not have spent the money on. But it was on sale and I have a crap load of weddings this year and friends having babies and it was time to get rid of the old one. The story of my digital cameras (good luck following)...

My first one was given to me by my ex. He found a digital camera on the ground in a parking lot with no car nearby, no memory card, and generally no way to figure out who it belonged to. It was a PowerShot Elph SD450. SO, he gave me the one he already had and kept the one he found. The one he had was an older PowerShot Elph. Okay, fine. I was just excited to have a digital an this was only about four years ago.

Then he 'lost' the SD450 that he had found on the ground. I was really disturbed by this because he had last seen it in his house. He said he searched everywhere. He was heading out on a vacation though, so he bought a new PowerShot Elph (I do not remember which model).

[As an aside, my ex is actually a very good photographer and used to do all of his own developing. He has a small camera, an Elph, and a very nice bigger Canon digital. He's also Asian. I find endless delightment in this. He was never as amused as I.]

Okay. Back to my story. He loses his camera (I repeat, IN HIS HOUSE); buys a new one; goes on vacation. A while later, he FINDS HIS CAMERA BECAUSE IT WAS IN HIS HOME OFFICE. Apparently under some papers he failed to move when he was searching everywhere. I gave him a lot of grief about this, partially because this was also when we were in the process of breaking up and it really exemplified some of what I could not deal with anymore.

Fast forward ~5 months to my birthday last spring, and even though we had broken up several months earlier, he "got" me a present. I use this term extremely loosely, as he actually just "wrapped" up the camera that he found on the ground, lost, replaced, and refound. It was a newer model than the previous used camera he gave me, but seriously? I had just bought a big memory card and he was acting like he was doing me such a HUGE favor by wrapping up a twice-used camera and giving it to me for my birthday. I got mad and said all of this to him and he did not get it.

"Give your nephew the other camera," he said. I ended up giving him the older camera for him to give to his niece and I kept the newer used one.

Part of me started feeling ungrateful and bad that I had made him upset by being upset about getting another used camera from him. I appreciate the gesture, but as a gift? To someone he claims he still wanted to be with and have children and misses and cares about? A used camera? Again? Is that really all that thoughtful? He could have just given it to me without trying to make it a birthday present if he really just wanted me to have it. My friends assured me I was not being ridiculous.

Now I have my own NEW camera. My Mom said she was glad I could "do that for myself". My response was that it was not really that I "could" do it, but that I "just did" do it, as I was really tired of my hand-me-down that the battery did not quite work in anymore (among other quirks).

I am going to return the twice-used one the next chance I have.

OOOoooo...speaking of which. The ex, who should also be known as an endless supply of fodder, asked if I wanted to go to Rio de Janeiro with him in the next few months. If I could buy my plane ticket, he would take care of the rest. I don't know where he thinks I would get money for a plane ticket to Rio. Here is the email conversation:

Me: Um. No.
Him: but it would be fun!
Me: No, it wouldn't. Do you run these ideas by your friends before you email me? I think you should. At least one of them would tell you not to email me. Listen to that friend.
Him: We don't have to sleep in the same bed. Geez!! I know you want to get to South America... :)

EXACTLY. If I am going to South America, it better be with someone I do want to sleep with?! Geez is right.