12 of 12 October (8 of 12?)

12 of 12 time for October. Post 12 pictures of your day on the 12th of each month. Check out Chad's site for more details of his great idea and for pictures from folks around the world.

6:17am: The alarm went off and Sadie immediately pounced to make sure I got up. There's no hitting snooze around this dog.


6:20am: The thermostat. Since my roommate and I refuse to turn on heat yet (it was 85 degrees on Sunday!) it's a little chilly in the apartment. Outside temp is about 50 degrees.

7:01am: Sadie visiting with a neighbor dog on her morning walk.


7:11am: Waiting for the Milwaukee bus

7:49am: Made it to work. And early! Good for me.


8:39am: A little itunes shopping...11:11am: Proofing covers and interiors


And right about here, my camera stopped working. Many many fuzzy pictures of my desk over the next few hours. Below is the last picture my camera took before the lens got stuck out and I got full-on error messages. I guess getting dunked in Hawaiian punch isn't so good for the insides of cameras!

TOD: 6:28pm

Quick Update

My camera gave up the ghost on Friday, in the middle of my 12 of 12. It was very traumatic for me. How would I take obnoxious pictures all weekend! Very sad.

So I'll post my 7 of 12 later today or tomorrow once I receive the new camera.

Oh and Saturday: shopping and art, Sunday: cooking at eating all day, and yesterday: off of work.

Awesome weekend. Really very good.

CAMERA UPDATE

I didn't send it off for repair. I think it's ok. Maybe. I've used it a few times since "the incident" and it seems to be working well.

I'm still a little worried, but I think it'll be fine. The LCD is a little screwy, but that's so expensive to fix it just seems silly to send it off when it still works.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Besides, now I get to point out the the pink Hawaiian Punch stain on the wrist strap for all of eternity. :)

Test shots:

Oh, and did you know that there's a VitaminWater group on Flickr? That's crazy. There's a group for everything on that site.

Happy 4th of July!

Ah Chicago. I love that you like to be different.

Chicago has their big firework celebration on the lake on July 3rd--which is convenient for most of us that have the day off on the 4th so we can enjoy holiday fun and then sleep in the next day!

Every year, a group of us heads out to the lake (by the Petrillo Band shell, specifically) to see the show. This year was no exception except that our group was a little smaller than normal. We ate junk food, played cards, and drank random alcoholic drinks.

I, of course, had the camera out and took more pictures than necessary, but that was until...THE INCIDENT.

When handing the camera over to a friend, it got dropped into a full cup of Hawaiian Punch. Oh alas! The camera did not like that. It refused to work for the rest of the night.

Now it's ok, but it'll squeal when on and the LCD screen is funky, but it DOES take pictures. And the ones that I had on the card were fine. But...no firework pictures for me.

The camera's getting sent off to Canon today to see if they can fix it. We'll see how much that costs...I'm hoping since I've only had the thing for 2 weeks they'll take pity on me and say that it's under warranty. But since it was dropped and didn't just "stop working" you never know. Fingers crossed!

But the night was fun. Drinks, friends, and fireworks in the park. Good times.

On the 4th itself, we had a big brunch of greasy food that was spectacular, and my neighborhood went crazy with the fireworks for about 3 hours. CRAZY, I say. I've never seen so many fireworks in such a small area. I think I'm lucky no bottle rockets went in my window.

Sadie did not like it. :) But she's fine.