Christmas Came in the form of Electronics.....

Santa was very good to me this year. Either I was a very good girl (I was), he knew that I had a really rough year (I did) or he really loves me (he does). But whatever the reason, he did great, I love it all, I appreciate it lots and I love him lots.

Items pictured above:

- Olympus E-P1 Camera. I have wanted this camera since Olympus came out with it. If you like taking pictures and are not into a big DSLR camera but want something better than a point and shoot. Get this camera! It is beyond awesome. Keep in mind it is not a DSLR, it is a Micro Four Thirds camera so while you get amazing pictures it has its limitations. Learn more about the Micro Four Thirds Camera's here and see some amazing pictures here, here and here.

I am going to start a 365 project of my own on January 1, so get ready to see lots of picture's with my new toy.

- Case Logic Camera bag - I could not find the same exact one pictured above but I found one similar on Amazon here.

- Tamrac 3445 Rally 5 Camera and iPad bag in Black- When I need something bigger to carry all my gadgets.

- 32gb iPad - I love this thing. You can tell by all the smudges that it gets a lot of use.

- Leather Red Sena ZipBook - I love this cover for my iPad but very recently I found this site and I am loving all the skins, especially this one, this one and this one.

Last but not least. Do you all remember my posted about these shoes in March? I waited to get them because as much as I wanted them, I wanted to spend my money on other shoes. Well, a few weeks ago I went on Zappos and noticed that they had a sale going on. So I checked out the shoes and they had one pair left, in my size and they were under $100. SCORE!! So I bought them as a Christmas present to myself.

What did Santa bring you this year?

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

PS: Did you know that they still show old episodes of Soul Train on TV? I am jamming to Kool & the Gang right now. Love it!

Is it a sign?

This morning I woke up early, watched an episode of 24, had breakfast and then got ready to start my day of errands. After I am done dressing and putting on my face. I look at myself in the mirror and I am happy. I am one size smaller, my skin is not freaking out and it is nice enough for me to wear my cute purple and star top that my friend's mom got for me when I was in Florida on vacation.

So I decide "I am going to do my first FOTD and outfit of the day. Not my once in a while snapshot. I like how I look." I dig in my purse, take out my precious camera, stand in front of the mirror, then I point and shot. Easy, right? So I thought. I look at the preview and it says "Error". That has never happened before. So I tried again and again I get the "Error" message. I start to panic. I run out of the room and find Mr. P to show him that there is something wrong with my bulky, old, four going on a hundred year old point and shot that I love so much. He thinks is just that the memory card has busted. So he tries one of his other cards, pops it in. When he turns it on, the forsaken "Error" message comes up.

My friends, I must say my camera has gone to a better place. A moment of silence to my trusty friend that over the years has taken great videos such as this and even great pictures. I will miss it.

So Mr. P sets out to find me a new camera and we find out that none of the new camera's take the Compact Flash cards any more. which translates to: I can no longer take one of his cards when I cannot find mine or if I want a higher capacity one. Oh well. I just know I want one similar to what I had. So he found my old camera's upgrade.



Satisfied with the camera we set out to Bestbuy to purchase it. Now that we have taken care of that I start to think about what happened this morning. For those that have been reading my blog for a while and read the 25 things about me, know very well that I do not like to be photographed (see # 22).

Then the day that I finally decide to take a photo my camera breaks down. Are the gods trying to tell me something?



Maybe my irrational thought of me looking like one of Diane's subjects is not really irrational? hmmm?

Well, at least I got a shiny new camera out of this. That I like very much. So now you all will get better photos coming from me. Not slightly blurred pictures because I cannot stay still long enough to take a simple picture.

That is all. Ciao! xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

* Pictures from: Best Buy and Flickr.

P.S: If you have read this far, just wanted to let you all know that I was mostly joking. I do not think I am ugly but I do think I look like one of Diane's subjects in picture's.