Trailer, Phone, Class, Seester

First order of business today is for you to watch this trailer for the new movie "Babies". Please note that SQUEEEEEEE-ing will be not only allowed- but encouraged- in the comments section. I simply can't wait to see this. It's like Children Just Like Me, only in movie form and with wee ones! (Babies are my Thing... but you knew that, right?)

(Looks like you have to click through from Google Reader to see the trailer...)




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Secondly, I got a new phone yesterday. One that I am highly under-qualified to operate. Like, I'm not even sure how to make a call. But I did figure out the camera and managed to shoot not one- but 85- photos of Kate giving me a crusty look. Man, I love her.

(It's the HTC Hero... Um? I think? It's a Hero-something.) (My phone, that is.)

Fun fact- we do not own- nor have we ever owned- a SINGLE piece of Apple* technology! Not an IPOD, not a Macbook, not an iPhone.... nada, zip, zero, zilch. I know some of you just played a little sad trombone for us, but I assure you it's easier to not own any of this technology than listen to my husband rant about it. He's a PC man. (RAWR!)

*Is "Apple" even what the kids are saying these days? Is it even the right word? I mean, for all I know, "apple" refers only to reminiscent elementary school "open-apple a" functions...

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Third: last night David and I took our first DSLR class. The class came free with our camera purchase, so I was a little worried about it. 1) I thought it might be suuuuuuuuper boring 2) I thought it might be one long product placement and/or 3) I was worried it would be waaaaay over my head.

I was pleasantly surprised that it was none of those things. I thought it was full of useful information (format your memory card EVERY TIME! Who knew???), had ZERO sales approach (in fact, the instructor often told us "don't buy that" instead of the other way around), and I was only slightly overwhelmed by the prospect of taking my camera off auto-mode.

We get to take one more free class, which is much more technically based. I also signed up for their Photoshop Elements class, as I think it will be 50 bucks well spent. For anyone out there trying to get the hang of their DSLR, I'd highly recommend taking a class. (Ours were through National Camera Exchange.)

Between my new phone that I don't know how to use (I can tweet from it! And do facebook too!... wait, how do I turn it on?), and the camera class, my brain! is! full!

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Lastly, Seester was here this past weekend. It was awesome, and I wish she lived here.

We stayed up late, laughed too much at David (he's an easy target), went geocaching (where we were zero for two on finding the geocaches, but Seester did teach the girls how to make daisy chains dandelion necklaces.

We had a great time, and it sucks that she had to go home so soon. I hate living so far from so many of the awesome people in my life. Boo!

(Photos from her visit are here.)