I am becoming impatient…

I am now 2 weeks in on having no camera and I hate it…

My camera was sent out last week… Monday the 14th and I still don’t have it… I don’t know what is taking so long… the mail? Customs?

I hate waiting… and I wish that I would have been heard when I asked for it to be sent out express and not priority…

Each time I hear a car on the street I look out and when I see the mail truck pass by and keep on going then my heart sinks…

I know… it is just a camera… but there are so many things I feel like I am missing out on…

Hopefully it will be here for Hallow’een…

We have had our Canon G6 for 3 years now… everything was going fine until I put my card in the card reader yesterday… put it back in the camera and found that the card reader had messed up the card and then messed up the camera.

So now… all I get when I put a card into the camera is “Memory Card Error”… (*eta: I have three cards that I have tested it with that work in our old camera)

I called quite a few places and no one wants to give estimates over the phone… and if I bring the camera in it cost anywhere from 30-45$ for an estimate…
Our other option is to send the camera to Canon, have them look it over and then call us with the estimate. There is no change but there is a longer wait time..

I have been drooling over a dSLR or a long time so I started looking into that option… Getting a dSLR and having my G6 would mean that I could have a camera for quality pics and another for portability and video option…
Now that I am not sure if the price of repair is worth it, I decided to think more about what I would get as a new camera…

After searching a bit I realized that the new G9 is out… It is 2 models higher than the G6 that I really do love… so the more I looked at it the more I started to like it…

Then I started looking at the price.. all the Canadian sites I found had it listed at and around 599$… The US sites had it at 499$…. with the Canadian dollar above parity now that is just a ripoff… pure and simple, there is no good explanation for it…

I searched around some more and found it on Amazon.com for 449$ but they won’t ship to Canada… So I am getting it sent to a friend and then she can send it to me….

I would love to buy Canadian but a more that 150$ difference for the same camera is just too much…

Now we wait… and I am sad cause I can’t take any pictures for the time being… but soon I will have a new toy…

Sometimes I hate how much I rely on Technology. I have an external hard drive that had tons of stuff on it… All my music, backups, photo backups etc…

When I was gone grocery shopping on Saturday it fell over and crashed… I have tried numerous recovery programs but nothing works… I found some files on it but they were incomplete or corrupt… so….everything is gone… the drive still works so I am putting things back on it now…

Besides the music, a few downloads and a few programs that were installed on it, it was mostly backups… so I didn’t lose too much… but it still sucks and it makes me realize how much I rely on technology and how fast things can go wrong…

There hasn’t been many times that we have had to wake the boys up in the morning… they get up when they are ready… and for Xavier that is getting  a bit later and later…

Today we are heading out to the recycling plant and Xavier was still in bed… so I thought I would go wake him up so that he wouldn’t be rushed…

and for the first time… he looked at me and said “just 2 more minutes” and then put the blanket over his head…. we did that three times before he finally got up…

Just another reason for Homeschooling…

Today is Sept 26th and we are having record highs and it is 26C but it feels like 34C with the humidity…

I am hot…

I don’t like being hot… we stopped the pool motor a few weeks ago… if we hadn’t I would be in the pool right now…

Khéna is wearing a diaper only and is sweating so much there are drops of sweat hanging from his hair and he is so clammy every little hair and piece of dust on the floor is sticking to him… I feel that the floors are gross but I don’t have the energy to clean them right now…

When I am hot like this, I feel that I have no patience either. The boys are driving me crazy today… they are driving each other crazy…

Khéna finally passed out on me but he hadn’t been wanting to nurse because he didn’t want to be too close…

Tomorrow, we are going to the recycling plant for a tour and it is going to be raining so we can’t have a picnic… the person organising it said that it will “preferable to go to McD’s” I don’t know who prefers McD’s but I don’t… ugh… I think that I am going to bring a lunch and we’ll eat in the car or go to a friends house with it…

At least they say it will be cooler tomorrow…