The searching has begun for new photo equipment! The purchase of a new Digital SLR earlier this summer of course means that I have to build up my entire system, (which to be perfectly honest wasn't all that impressive to begin with), with new lenses and accessories made to work with a digital camera. Thankfully my filters will all still fit most of the Canon lenses but I still plan on purchasing a few more special effect filters anyway. It's turning out to be more fun than tedious to dig around online looking for the kind of equipment I want. The only thing that sucks is the sticker shock! I found an absolute must have lens - but I don't have $1,100 to fork out either! Of course, it is almost tax time.......


Yes, well I'll have to figure something out because it's looking like it's going to cost at least $3,000 to get the bare minimum of what I'll need to shoot weddings the way that I want to. It'll be worth it even if it doesn't take off right away, just to know that when I take that photograph it'll look just the way I envisioned it.

Fuck it. New self portraits are going to have to wait until later. I spent almost the entire day yesterday running about doing this that and the other thing. I had to get up and take Kevin over to the mall (which was pointless - he only had one guitar lesson to teach and his student didn't even show up!). Then we grabbed both of my friend's guitars from there and drove to the bar to pick up Kevin's amp and car that he had left last night because he had a few drinks while he played a gig there Friday night. We took all that back to the apartment then made the absolutely insane trip to the mad house that is Wal-Mart. All I wanted to do was pick up baking supplies to make cookies and truffles......that shouldn't take over an hour!!!!!

By the time we got home from that I just tried to relax for a while and worked on getting some cards and letters ready that should have been in the mail last week. Oh well, the cards actually say "Happy Holidays 2008" on them so technically that covers New Year's as well. It would not have been such a problem if I hadn't lost an entire list of addresses that I needed! And so here I sit at 4 in the morning with snow whirling outside the window again, all three of the cats curled up on the couch with me and not the slightest inclination to go to bed. I should try to get some sleep though. I have a few batches of cookies, 2 batches of truffles and some baklava to make yet today. That's going to take a very long time but I'm excited about making the truffles. Usually I only make Irish Cream but I thought that I would try making a batch with Kahlua and dipping them in white chocolate so they would be like a White Russian truffle. It sounds good, so we shall see.

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Happy Solstice!