My blogs are boring.

I'm not very politically driven, nor do I have strong opinions on a lot of different things. I'm mainly even tempered, but if someone ticks me off, they will know it.

Sadly, the Canon camera company will be feeling my wrath this week and they will know that they have ticked me off. As a potential Canon-girl for life, they could have gotten thousands of dollars from my pocket to their overloaded wallets. But now? I'm just not sure. I bought a Canon digital Rebel XT about a year and a half ago. If you knew me at that point in my life, you know how excited I was to buy it after saving up for it for about three years.

Fast forward to about a month ago. The camera stops working. No apparent reason, none at all.

Fast forward to a few days ago. I take it to Best Buy to hopefully get it fixed (and hoping they could give me a deal since that's where I bought it), knowing full well that I only had a year warranty on it (and it had to stop working just over that). The reason I didn't have a longer warranty was because I didn't have $200 extra dollars to spend on it. I'm a freaking college student after all. Best Buy tells me that it's going to be $350 on the low end to fix it. SCREW YOU CERTIFIED CANON-FIX-IT-MAN. Robynn was right, he's a bad man.


In other news...
I'm really getting into writing several short stories series. I'm only working on one right now, but I think I want to do a super-personalized series. Here's my idea:
I've had a lot of people who have influenced my life in one way or another. I have many people I would consider good friends, and many people who are working their way up to that. Other good friends I have fallen out of touch with, but it does not mean that they have not affected my life. It would be fun and probably a little intense on the introspective side to go through my life and to pick a few people from each area of my life. They all were/are/will be interesting, with lives that could never be considered boring (even the people I knew at my little Lutheran high school).
Bob got me thinking about that last night, sometime after the shot of almond extract and probably before the part of the conversation in which he decided it would be funny to name your children after bands. He suggested "August Burns Red" and I chimed in that the other should be "mewithoutYou". As a teen, that could be a problem for mewithoutYou's friends. "Hey, do you want to hang out tonight?" "Nah, I'm already hanging out with mewithoutYou."
Maybe that was funnier last night. Although the name Emery is beautiful and could completely be a name for a girl. I may put that one in my back pocket for 10 years down the road.

Well, I hope this counts for a blog. I worked real hard on it.

-JP