Death of the Olympus

I was pretty lucky all these years. I banged the heck out of my poor digital camera and it served me faithfully anyways. I was the one at the wedding with rubber bands (holding my batteries in) on my camera. That damage occurred at a fancy restaurant at Christmas-time when the waiter took a group picture, them promptly dropped the camera breaking the battery door hinge. No apology by the way, either.

It had an optical zoom of 10x and had about 9 or 11 lenses inside. The inner workings came unmounted and were loose inside the lens casing; discovered when I tried to turn it off. It looked really sick. I was told that most don't get them repaired due to cost. When I first bought it, it had a beefy 2.1 mexa pixels. The time has come to look for a new camera. I'll be looking for something beefier.

In the mean-time here are some photos from last year. One year ago to be exact. I was on my way to my nephew's 1st birthday party with Patrick's Pumpkin Hat in hand. Now I'll be going for his 2nd.

The funny thing about toddlers and hats- most can't stand them. My nephew couldn't wait to tear the pumpkin off his head. In fact, he couldn't get it off fast enough! My friend at work has a little girl that loves to wear elasticized shorts on her head - in public. She's 18 months now, so perhaps I will knit her Miss Dashwood from Knitty. (The Fall Knitty is out by the way!) That will prove to be an interesting experiment.


This is the Reverse Bloom Chenille Washcloth from Weekend Knitting. I had the pattern from an older Interweave Knits mag. My sister-in-law received it for her birthday present last year. Us girls deserved to have pampering things now and again! She shares a birthday with her son and my other brother. Virgo-central!! The cloth worked up easily.