New Camera!

So! This Christmas I got a lot of good stuff: jewelry, clothes, room stuff, $$$, etc. But one of the best presents I got was one I bought for myself (hehe), after saving and working hard this holiday season I knew I needed to get a new camera, since I broke my old one. Stupid me stopped taking care of it, didn't get a bag for it, and the button used to zoom in & out and take pictures broke off. I could still take a picture but could not zoom in and out, and it was only a matter of time before the camera would not be able to take pictures. Me, being the camera whore that I am, needs to have a camera.

So I went to Best Buy after Christmas, the parking lot of course was packed and the line to return items was a mile long (not really lol), and looked at some of the cameras they had on display. I immediately fell in love with this one:

only to discover that it sold out! The customer service person told me they should be getting a shipment in two days, so you better believe that I was there two days later (same person; she remembered me hehe). So that day, I left the store with my new beautiful camera, card reader, rechargeable batteries, me smiling from ear to ear, the whole shebang. I brought the camera to work and was playing with it before I had to go in, and I discovered that my camera takes amazing pictures:

-This is my coworker, Damian. He's also a movie & technology geek, so he supported me playing around with my new toy by posing for a picture that came out awesome.-Like my old camera, I'm very happy that this camera doesn't require flash in order to take pictures that seem like I'm still in the room.<3>

Then I brought the camera to my friend's New Year's Party and played with it even more before the party started:

-So my camera has this feature that I can highlight one color and make everything else black and white.. and wouldn't you know that it chooses the color green--my favorite!

-This picture came out great; I love how my camera is able to catch like every single detail in the fake flowers. Can't wait until spring when I can take pictures of real flowers<3

I am verrrrrrryyyyyy happy with it ^_^

-Me & Lisa at the party!

-Me & Dave at the party! (There are more pictures from the party that I cannot/don't feel like uploading haha)

FAQ of my Non-Existent Readers:

1) Hey, Lauren. Where have you been?

Busy. Working 30+ hours a week at Barnes & Noble; spending time with family, friends, & the boyfriend; sleeping; twittering; playing video games. I haven't felt like, nor had the time to blog =/

2) But I thought you promised to blog frequently, even after the semester ended & the only reason you blogged was for your class?

Me too. Apologies. I know you've been dying to read my thoughts.

3) What're you gonna be blogging about? Video games?

Whatever I feel like! I have a couple drafts saved that I have to finish up. Of course I'll be blogging about video games, since that is a small aspect of my life. But I'll probably include work situations (such as, dumb people I'm forced to interact with), fitness video games, recreational video games, interesting links I come across, my favorite shows, any good books/movies I have seen, etc etc.

4) Are you gonna keep this promise?

I'll sure as hell try. I keep up with twitter more, and I'd like to think my tweets are funny and/or interesting. Check it out. Follow me. =D

5) How was your New Year? Any resolutions?

My New Year was pretty good this year; I had a lot of fun at the party I went to, and hot to use my beauutiifull new camera! =D

This is Phil, Lisa, Me, and Dave. =)

Resolutions?.. um, lose weight? (like everyone else in the world.) I'm not abnormally obese or anything and I'm actually pretty comfortable with myself. But I like to say that I always have potential to be hotter. So that's what I'm gonna work towards.

6) How?

a) Dieting? (lmao.) No, I have tried to eat healthier meals at work & not snack as much.. but the damn candy machine calls to me -_- I like to eat. Sue me.

b) I bought myself some Wii Fitness games that I'll discuss in a future blog. As of the past three days my bed was calling out to me & I was unable to get up early enough to work out =/

7) I can't think of anything else.

Me neither.

Talk to you soon. =)