i have this crazy amount of energy right now.
i call it frenetic.
another friend called it manic - but not in the bad way.
hmmmm, manic sounds bad.
all i know is i can't friggin sit still!

anywho...
haven't had caffeine since monday.
but i feel like such a waste sitting here in my cube in front of my computer
when i could be at home being creative with my hands or playing with the dogs or any other lovely thing there is to do rather than sitting in a grey cube, under fluorescent lights in front of a computer.

Tonight at 8pm I am sparring another kickboxing student.
I've only sparred with my trainer so far.
I'm a little worried since the student is at my skill level and probably doesn't know as well as the trainer how to kick and punch so it doesn't really hurt. We shall see.... 8pm is also so late for my old ass! GOD DAMN! Good thing i have some energy to burn apparently.

And, not like i have any business spending money right now, but i'm slowly becoming more and more obsessed with purchasing an SLR camera. The quality results are just too spectacular compared to my P&S. What's a girl to do but make pipe dreams and wish on stars?

All i can say is it's almost fucking friday and i could not be happier about it!
I feel like bustin out of these work chains already.
OUT.

And that frankly will not fly
You will hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
When this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay . . .

As hollytorrico said in her eloquent post today:
I have been making sweet, sweet love to my camera all weekend.
Mine may not be as fancy as her shiny new one, but i still am loving it.

I went on a little spring nature walk today.
My 366 Challenge picture comes from the walk and I've included some of my favorite springtime flower shots too! :D

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eeeekkkkkkkkk

i just bought the new Canon SD890!!!
It was released today!!

OMG i haven't been this excited in awhile.

And this time I have a carrying case for it :)

YAYAYAYYAYYAYAY.

I am nearly desperate for a new camera .... so sad that that's something to be desperate about ... but, i'll admit it!

Walk 9,703 steps

high: doing 18 "real" pushups with my personal trainer

low: walking to work down a closed Peachtree St covered in glass

I got my Bahama's minibook done and it is so adorable!
I tried to photograph it but the quality of my old Nikon sucks so much ass i can't bear to look at the pictures.
I went online to immediately buy another Canon 850 when I discovered the Canon 890 which comes out in a month and is supposed to have better anti-shake capabilities and better zoom and larger lense area.
So, I guess i will wait and try to minimize my whining :)
Canon's site says available early-April but Amazon is the only store I can find selling it and they say shipping May 1. D'oh!

On careful thought I've decided to return the camera I so hastily bought at Best Buy on Saturday.
Sarah pointed this out to me, and I had already noticed, but the image quality seems to be degraded from what I know it can do - like most of the pictures I've taken are kinda grainy.

I did buy the service plan with it and i will see if they will replace it because of that, but otherwise i guess I'll return it and buy one new from Amazon.com. I have 7 days from purchase.

So yesterday Eric and I spent the entire day with my brother packing and cleaning and moving all his shit to our house. We got a new couch and big tv. I think he's ahead of the game for packing but now at the 11th hour he has decided to change realtors so that was a huge source of stress yesterday. Trying to figure out how to break it to the old realtor he was firing her AND then getting back all his papers he gave her. D'oh.

My tattoo is a lot better but is scabbing terribly. I took some pics and they even made me gag so I won't post them but it's pretty gross. I have to admit i am scared SHITLESS, I mean PETRIFIED, that the color is going to be all fucked up when it's done healing. It's starting to depress me but I'm trying to think rationally and tell myself "wait and see...." maybe it will be OK. But i have never seen any of my tattoos scab over like this. And i have quite a few to draw experience from. I will be devasted if it turns out looking shitty cause unfortunately i have high expectations. If it is shitty i may actually consider going to a different shop to get the color redone - thinking it was the ink that was the problem. That's like a HUGE phopah in the tattoo world, but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!

I just emailed my boss and requested a meeting to talk about this coding training. I almost directly emailed Sam but I don't know him well enough on how he would take it. Maybe I should just talk to Sam first instead of going straight to Judy? I don't know.

It's another manic monday apparently :)

OK EDIT****
I just emailed Sam:
Sam, I'm hesitant about this training.
I'm not a computer programmer and have no aspirations to be one.
And, as I told you, have had nightmarish experience in the past trying to learn code.
Honestly, I didn't know what this program was until you showed me and I have serious concerns about my ability to do this.
After a lot of thought this weekend, I just don't think it's time productive for me to learn this code especially if we won't be using it any time soon.
I'm not sure where to go from here....

i just impulse bought a camera at Best Buy!
The old camera I had, Canon SD850 was on sale - well they had the floor model onsale for almost $100 less than the list price - so i got it for the same price as I could find online but no shipping costs.
It's a little beat up but seems to work perfectly fine.
I also sprung the extra $30 for a 2 year warranty where they will replace it for free if anything happens.
AND, yes, i bought a camera case this time.

I had actually thought i might upgrade to a SD950 but I am perfectly happy with the 850.
Besides, I've read the extra megapixels the 950 would give me are really bullshit because the camera sensor can't use them ... or something geeky like that. And i've had absolutely no problem printing even 8x10s from the SD850.

I just took 73 pictures in about 15 minutes :)
Welcome back old friend.
I figure i have 4 days of 366 portraits to catch up on.
More of that later.

I can finally stand on my leg again (although it is still swelled so it's kinda tingly and achy to stand but it's way better than yesterday) so I'm going to attempt some scrapbooking! Which I haven't done in over 3 weeks now!

Yay.

I can fit into my old vintage dresses again!!!
The ones I got in the 80s in high school.....



I wore this last night when we went to the Pipettes show at Vinyl.
It was alright. It would've been much better if I could actually see the show cause that was what it was all about.
But oh well.

I CAN WEAR MY OLD DRESSES!!!!

I also bought a new camera today.
It kicks so much more ass than my other one.
After taking a couple of pictures I've realized i've been really challenging myself with the old camera - taking 20 shots to get one good one etc etc.

I spent waaay too much money today but it's the first shopping spree I've had in years really.
I got the camera.
And the Popmart DVD
And Seinfeld Season 9
And some scrapbook paper and ribbon.