At No Additional Cost!

Another day here in Southern California. The FIRST day here where I haven't had a stressful conversation on the phone with one family member or another. I love that I've been in California a week and haven't seen A SINGLE FAMILY MEMBER. Finally, I am happy to report, I have A PLAN. Monday, I am going BACK to San Diego, to see Janae and my little bro and sis and the rest of my extended Pierre family for a couple of days. THEN, I am flying to San Jose to see dad and friends before I fly back to New York.

I've been feeling better. Every day it has gotten a little better. Plus, the digital camera has helped A LOT. I don't think it has helped Graham at all, because now I take pictures of everything from my socks to his armpits, and then I INSIST on showing him EVERYTHING that I take pictures of. Literally, the response to me and that little silver box has gone from "Oh, there she goes, with the camera again!" to "Dear God, no..." in only a matter of 36 hours! But I can't HELP IT! Having spent years with 35 mm, disc cameras, polaroids, and cameras made out of cardboard boxes and a sheet of photographic paper, the digital camera is a sort of REVOLUTION for me. I don't have to worry about the amount of exposures I take! There will be NO PROCESSING TIME! There is NO ADDITIONAL COST! I can see the picture INSTANTLY! AND I am LOVING the visual affects that digital has to offer. Check out what a candle looks like when I MOVE IT:



SO ARTY! SO FINE!

OR I can do CRAZY self-portraits that make me look like I am witnessing a UFO landing:



I LOVE IT!

You people who have had their fingers on the pulse of technology, and got their digital cameras YEARS AGO, are probably rolling your eyes and saying, oh, look at the little CAVE GIRL, she's discovered FIRE, isn't that QUAINT. But I don't care if I am late to the party. Not when I can take pictures of things I love, like this: