Guess what I got for my BIRTHDAY?!

[Meowster]

A DIGITAL CAMERA!!!!

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, "But why?"

Because I love cameras! I love taking pictures! I always have! Although I haven't had a camera to take pictures WITH, because I wasn't interested in cameras and never took pictures. Then I took photograph classes and I hated photograph and kept telling my mom about how crap photography was. Then, when I got back from the tour, my mom asked why I had so few photos and I said, "I hate photos."

But secretly, underneath it all, I obviously love cameras, and my mother knew this, and knew it was a relevant present for me that I'd use for the rest of my life. How she knew? I do not know.

But best of all, this camera is nearly the same price as a small wacom, and they sit next to each other, side by side, like brothers, on the shelf of PC WORLD. Although I have wanted a wacom since the beginning of Wacom Time, I guess my mother knew that I would prefer, and get more use out of a camera. And I was going to be so much more delighted when I found out that it was a camera, and not a wacom, that she dropped hints that it was a wacom. Like, "It's pen shaped!" and "It's going to help your artistic ability!" and "You're not even going to want to go in to school when you get it, so I'll give it to you in the evening." And then, later on, "It's triangular!" which was a lie.

Thank you, mom. Thank you for this wonderful, horribly expensive, yet incredibly thoughtful present. You keep coming in to the room to see if I'm using it yet. Remember when I first saw it, and my grin sort of froze on my face in delight? I turned it on to see if a pen fell out, or whether it unfolded into a flat, wacom like surface? And when the memory card fell onto the floor, I picked it up and scratched it on the camera to see if it was some sort of disguised pen? After that, I pressed the record button by mistake, and it wouldn't stop recording, so I put it away and left it on the far end of the table, and quietly started my concept art for Luna using a pencil and some paper. I'm not sure if I want to record anything because I already have a webcam to do that with, except the webcam also has a microphone. And we already have hordes of cameras lying about the house not being used because I don't like cameras. But I'm going to go outside in the rain and find something to take a photograph of, later, when it stops raining. If it stops raining. Maybe I'll take some pictures of a wacom! That's the best part about a camera instead of a wacom. With a wacom, you only own a wacom. but with a CAMERA, you can own a camera AND PICTURES of a wacom!

Thanks again. This horribly, horribly expensive present is the best present ever, and I don't know how I can word my delight because it's horribly expensive.

I have to go now, because I have to draw concept art. I was putting off the concept art until my birthday because I was going to use my new wacom to draw it. But you got this, instead! And I am delighted. So delighted. And I am delighted for YOU, because it was not a waste of your money.

However, I think people should stop buying 'surprise' birthday gifts and start fucking consulting the people they're buying them for. Just in case they one day don't get the right present, but they spend lots of money on it anyway, and the person getting the present has no use for it whatsoever but they have to pretend to like it because it's horribly expensive and they might seem ungrateful. All it would take is a simple question to save this awkward predicament.

I hate surprises.

[SSH]

Did she keep the receipt?

[Meowster]

She didn't even keep the packaging.

She was that sure I'd love it.

I feel really awful.

But I'm never going to use it. Ever. I didn't even use it when she gave it to me. I just took it out, looked at it, smiled and said "thanks" and then put it back and put it on the furthest edge of the table, and started drawing. But she didn't notice. She actually didn't notice. I felt mean for doing it, but I didn't know what else to do. I really didn't want it. I couldn't even pretend to like it, very well. I said, "Uh, wow." when I was looking at it. In the same sort of voice you whisper "oh my god" when you hear one of your best friends just died in a car accident.

[Haddas]

Reminds me of christmas 2 years ago... I wanted a PC!

... I got a Stereo-set, WHICH, was almost as expensive as a PC! Now I have a PC! though.

[Meowster]

From now on, I don't get surprise presents any more. For anybody. It doesn't work.

So close to getting a wacom. And yet so far.

I'm going to ask her, off handedly, whether she kept the packaging because I want to check something on it. If she did, I'll try exchanging it. But I don't think that'll work.

[Haddas]

BTW. Just to make it easier for you, I got myself a wacom last week

[Meowster]

She took the camera to show my brother. Now she's going to the shops. Perhaps she's exchanging it for a wacom?

There is always hope...

[shbaz]

AWESOME.[/u]

Do you think you could post some of the pictures you've been taking with it?

[Meowster]

Yeah well fuck you.

[juncmodule]

What kind of Wacom are you wanting? Do you have your heart set on a specific one, or will any do?

Will you maybe use the camera at some point...Digital cameras can be really cool...

Be sure you respond to this...I might have a surprise for you.

later,
-junc

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

lol quite a funny story, except it kinda fell apart in the last paragraph. How about you stop moaning, get a job, and buy that wacom yourself!

Guess what I'm getting for christmas this year? INSURANCE!!! Well I can be sarcastic about it, but it's gonna save me like £1000, so I'm actually very grateful for it.

[BOYD1981]

i'm sure if you put that camera to good enough use you'd be able to get m0ds (or ivan) to buy you a wacom

[shbaz]

lol quite a funny story, except it kinda fell apart in the last paragraph. How about you stop moaning, get a job, and buy that wacom yourself!

She has a job, it's hard to save that kind of money when you're in school.

Guess what I'm getting for christmas this year? INSURANCE!!! Well I can be sarcastic about it, but it's gonna save me like £1000, so I'm actually very grateful for it.

Geico?Ã,  8)

[Meowster]

Arch: She wasted her money on something I'll never use, and I can't say anything because that's ungrateful. And for me, the frustrating part is that it could have bought a wacom.

I do have a job. I work. Hard. For two years I gave most of my earnings to my mom, and it was only recently that I started spending it on paying off my school tour. So I haven't ever had the money to buy a wacom despite working for three years.

So don't get me wrong. I'm not whining and demanding expensive presents. I'm frustrated that I was bought an expensive present I'll never use, when the same amount of money could have bought a wacom. You see how that's disappointing and frustrating? And I can't say anything, obviously, and I have to pretend to be delighted with it.

Boyd: HA HA HA HA HA HA AHAHAHHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Andail]

spoiled brat!
I almost feel like bying a wacom for you, just to make you stop whining

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

lol quite a funny story, except it kinda fell apart in the last paragraph. How about you stop moaning, get a job, and buy that wacom yourself!

She has a job, it's hard to save that kind of money when you're in school.

On the contrary, it's easier to save money when you're in school, on account of having no bills, food or shelter costs to worry about.

Guess what I'm getting for christmas this year? INSURANCE!!! Well I can be sarcastic about it, but it's gonna save me like £1000, so I'm actually very grateful for it.

Geico?Ã,  8)

Je ne comprends pas

[Blackthorne]

lol quite a funny story, except it kinda fell apart in the last paragraph. How about you stop moaning, get a job, and buy that wacom yourself!

She has a job, it's hard to save that kind of money when you're in school.

On the contrary, it's easier to save money when you're in school, on account of having no bills, food or shelter costs to worry about.

Guess what I'm getting for christmas this year? INSURANCE!!! Well I can be sarcastic about it, but it's gonna save me like £1000, so I'm actually very grateful for it.

Geico?Ã,  8)

Je ne comprends pas

GEICO est une compagnie qui vend l'assurance automatique aux
Etats-Unis.

They often use a Gecko Lizard in their commericals, or have "fake" commercials to promote themselves.  They're really funny and popular in the US.

[Meowster]

It's hard for me to save money in school on account of me giving it to my mother for two years.

I do contribute as much as I can.

You can't tell me you wouldn't be secretly disappointed in the same situation.

[InCreator]

Digital camera? Yufster, you're just a spoiled brat. I'd kill for getting one. And even more for a video camera.

[shbaz]

On the contrary, it's easier to save money when you're in school, on account of having no bills, food or shelter costs to worry about.

On the contrary, I had bills and food to worry about. I had to buy a car for transportation (no other way to leave my home except by my mother) and pay for insurance, as well as other misc. stuff that my mom wouldn't/couldn't pay for. Not everyone had it so easy. Especially now, when I'm also paying for school. I think I saved $200 for myself over two years, since I was only working part time. I built an amplifier for my guitar with it.'