The first step is admitting you have a problem

So, I sort of have a weird habit. I tend to buy digital camera’s. Lots of them. I can’t afford a habit like that so of course, I return them all.

In the past few months I have purchased and returned 4 digital cameras. I keep them for as long as allowed, then like Cinderella, I rush to Walmart before the stroke of midnight hits, my dreams of photographic bliss dashed.

I test them out, play with them. Usually I decide that I like mine better, and I happily return the others assured that I made the right choice in picking the little digicam that I actually bought and kept.

Until I met the Canon S3IS.

It has a 12X optical zoom lens and so (I could add a few extra “o’s” here) many settings. I’ve named her Cherry. You see, I had never used a camera like her before. She is a hybrid between a manual camera and an automatic. A good learning camera.

The thought has crossed my mind to keep her more times than I’d like to admit. I absolutely cannot afford to keep her.

PERIOD.

But I had pretty much decided that I couldn’t lose her. Love is funny like that. Makes you do crazy things. I asked my husband if he would return it for me, he laughed “I will not get involved in your machinations.” I had to look up the word machinations. He’s always making me look words up.

It gets worse. The more I thought about it, the more I decided that if I was going to spend that much money on a camera, I should get a Digital SLR. That would make more sense naturally. At least it is a better investment.

So now, I am teetering on the edge of insanity about to return my friend Cherry and instead buy an even more expensive camera, a Canon Digital Rebel, because once you’ve tasted the sweet fruit of an amazing camera, there’s just no turning back.

I am fighting the urge with all my might.

If you know me in real life, and feel compelled to tell me not to do it, specifically if you are my mother- please back away from the computer and leave me to battle my own conscience.

Goddess above, help me be strong.