Camera Karma

Imagine my surprise when on Christmas morning I went to take a few snapshots aroung the Christmas tree and my camera was busted.

First of all, I have to confess that I’m not great at organizing things like that. This camera was a birthday gift in August from my mom–well, the money to buy it. But I didn’t actually manage to get organized enough to get it until late November. Naturally, I wasn’t very impressed when the thing just stopped working on Christmas morning of all morning. I’m secretly suspicious of a 4 year old, because there were an awful lot of pictures of feet and floors in there when I looked last.

However, I didn’t observe any major accidents, so reported it in for warranty to a scruffy-haired, bulgey-eyed customer service representative at the camera shop.

But I left the store grumbling a bit, because he was very doubtful that given the problems, it would be covered under warranty. They said it would be a couple weeks before I knew what their diagnosis was, because they were sending it back in to the manufacturer.

I so don’t like little annoyances like that.

Well, apparently, I’ve got some camera karma banked somewhere, because a couple days later, I  get a call from the camera shop and they tell me that the delivery man, who was supposed to deliver my camera to the manufacturer, LOST my camera!

HA! HA!

And that by default they would give me a new one at no cost.

Well,  then I was smiling.

So, I went in to pick up my camera, and they pulled out a little box and inside was a small black camera. I gasped and said, “but MY camera was PINK!”

I returned it saying I absolutely must have a pink one, because the case I bought was green and the two together are exactly the colors of my website. I was very serious about this, and I could see about 4-5 agents behind the counter giggling to themselves that it actually mattered to me to have a PINK camera.

ARE YOU KIDDING!??

I mean, one of my greatest joys in life is color coordinating. I have little woolen socks that match the teal colored patches in my snow suit and when I wear them with my teal colored neck warmer, I smile twice as wide as any other day of the weak. I mean, they’re my socks. No one sees them but me.

I digress. Sorry.

Well, they took back that dull black camera and the very next day called me in to tell me my pink beauty was ready.

And so she is: 

And just in time for our Green Smoothie Queen 3 Day Challenge which starts up on Monday!  If you were going to register, we’re closing down registrations really soon, and then next one will be in a month or so around St. Patrick’s Day.

Stay tuned cuz this blog’s about to have a lot more pictures. And no feet or floors, if I have anything to say about it.