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So I broke the camera. I mean, who cares, really. No one actually has any use for a functioning camera around the holidays. I've never seen pictures of kids gleefully ripping open presents, or stuffing their faces full of turkey, or trimming trees, or anything like that. That's not the kind of preservation of family memories people generally go for, right?

Can you tell I'm giving myself one heck of a kick in the pants right now?

Yesterday, I happened to drop the camera right after the battery died, so we had to wait for it to charge before checking to see if it was working or not. It wasn't. Okay, technically it was, but first you had to take it out to dinner, ply it full of an expensive french wine, buy it some flowers from the little old lady selling them on the corner, and then, if you held it just right, maybe it would think about turning itself on. I managed to download the last set of pictures I'd taken, and then I left it alone.

This morning Henry and I took it back to Best Buy where they said they didn't have much hope for resurrecting it, until I showed them how you could turn it back on. Then they decided to go ahead and ship it back to the manufacturer to see if it could be repaired. We're still under parts warranty, but not under labor, so we'll find out later this week how much it's going to cost us to fix it. And as it turns out, I really want it fixed. I love this camera. It makes me a little misty thinking about it being out there in the world, far from home, sad and broken.

Meanwhile, Henry and I took care of some holiday shopping. Don't tell him but he's getting a Magnadoodle. And a pop-up tent if I can find one I like. We also picked up a couple of items for other people on our list, as well as some fabric to make our own version of this, and some felt to make our own versions of these. After two hours of kicking around stores, we were both pretty hungry so we headed over to the mall chinese restaurant and had some fried rice, bourbon chicken, and black pepper chicken.

We were happy campers after that.