Shmootz

Sometimes I lose patience with people being so unkempt. I'm a tidy person in general and can't stand grit and grime in my home or car or work environment, but my physical person is of particular importance when it comes to cleanliness. It's hard to understand having black and green goo slathered all over the nose pads on your glasses and not caring or even NOTICING at all when they're SITTING ON YOUR FACE. Ick. I had one today... guy comes in (super nice and quite put together otherwise), but he says he has recently taken a pretty big fall from a ladder and his glasses were scratched as a result. After removing his glasses he points to the left lens and shows me where the damage occurred and wonders whether or not the "scratches" can be "buffed our or something." I explain that buffing is not an option as it distorts the prescription, but that I would love to take the glasses back in the lab to see what I can do with my magic pixie dust (a.k.a. SOAP AND WATER) first. Sure enough, those "scratches" are actually a big old smear of schmootz- probably pitch or something that came right off with hot water and soap and while I was at it I went after the early growths on his nose pads for good measure. Man, this guy thought he had ruined his glasses and wasn't going to be able to see clearly out of those lenses ever again all because he didn't even rinse them off after falling in the dirt... hmmm. Seriously?

Anywho, my sister-in-law made a point on her blog today about the need to "go private" and her timing was spot on with my own thoughts of doing the same thing. I'm struggling with censorship and wishing to have more control (fancy that!) over what I can allow myself to record here and share and discuss, but would a password protected blog force me to lose any of you whom I've slowly (gratefully) come to know and love in some cyber-tastic way? Would you come back? Would you log in? Would you miss me? It's funny, I'm quite secure in my own opinions of clothing and a zillion other topics which I don't tend to ask your advice on, but I've grown to LOVE the community and joy that is you're comments and am always wishing for more. I'd hope that would continue, but I'll make up my mind based on what will be best all around and I'll let you know.

Will you let me know too, the answers to my questions? Because, the next big post was going to be about how I've taken on a cleaning job to begin saving the gozillion dollars that I need to buy an slr camera that is better suited for my mind's eye and I WILL NEED YOUR HELP ON THAT ONE! That post was going to be all about how I'm pretty sure I want my camera to be BIG and to have a "D" in it's name, but that I really have no frick'n clue exactly what I want or what would be good for me so I was going to need some recommendations. I want to be able to zoom in on something like a deer and take a really nice picture of it (perhaps that's where the fiftytrillion alternate lenses comes in). I'm also tired of not being able to take a picture indoors- outside of the hours of noon and 4pm when the natural light is at it's peak. Other interesting and photo-worthy things sometimes happen at night or in LOW LIGHT SITUATIONS. Shock. I want to be able to shoot rapidly, many pictures in a row and have more than one turn out. You see where I'm going with this? My camera sucks. I've learned to use it in the way it works best, but it's SO DAMN limiting. I'm done. I'm tired of having great photo graphical ideas and being unable to follow through. I don't want to be a pro-photog, just a chick with a camera that can document when desired. It's going to take me a good six to eight months to come up with the moolah, but start educating me now so, I can feel a little less hopeless and more like I'm getting somewhere. It will be worth it, that's what I keep telling myself anyway.