Camera Drama

Now this will probably be the most boring post ever for most of you, but it has been consuming my life for the past couple of days.

I cannot get a friggin' camera to work.

I haven't had this much camera drama since you had to develop film...which inevitably came back undeveloped.  Well....or there was the Great Camera Drama of 2006 when I maybe accidentally reformatted the SD card with all of our pictures from the Turin Winter Olympics on it....lost them all...got in a huge fight with Marco....but I digress.

It all started with my reading that one should not be caught out on the streets of India with a big, fancy camera around one's neck. So I decided, of course, not to take my nice digital SLR to India. Instead, I thought I'd take the little point and shoot I bought in L.A. last May, when I also decided it was a bad idea to take the nice camera with me.

So last night at home I dutifully plugged it in to make sure it was nice and charged for my trip. Marco went out and bought me a new SD card with 4GB of memory so I could take tons of pictures. I packed and went about my business.

Two hours later, I went to unplug my camera to pack it. I turned it on-- nothing. Huh? What? I plugged it back in.No little light, no nothing. Is it the right charger? I spend a good hour going through chargers, trying everything--nada. Keep in mind this damn camera is less than 6 months old.

Then just as I am about to lose it, Marco reminds me that I still have my friend Nate's old camera which he so kindly lent me 2 years ago and which I so conveniently never gave back. Great! I throw the Charlie-chewed thing (Nate are you reading this??) in my carry-on, shove in the fancy new memory card and I'm off.

Today,  as I was leaving the Louvre in Paris,  killing time before my flight to India, I took out the camera to snap a couple of pics of the beautiful Tuileries gardens. I turn on Nate's camera: "Memory Card Error."

@#$% &%#$ #%&@ @%$%

I am NOT happy.

I take the card out. I put it in. I turn it around. I turn the camera off, I turn the camera on. I try to reformat it. Nothing. In desperation I turn to Google,  where I read that possibly the fancy new card isn't compatible with a crappy old camera. I need a new SD card.  A bad new SD card.

So I do what any normal,  red-hot blooded American girl would do: I hit the Champs-Elysses for some shopping.

The long and the short of it?

Thank God for:

Google
The Virgin MegaStore
...and this awesome Pinkalicious bar where I'm drowning my sorrows with a tall one.