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Pardon my schoolgirlish squealing, but OMFG! I placed a spendy Canon digital camera (along with a cheaper Kodak) on my wish list purely in order to pool Christmas money and find one for sale or on eBay or something. I can never remember model numbers and such, and after doing a bunch of research on Consumer Reports (with hub's help, he of 2 semesters of college-level photography classes) I wanted to remember which ones I'd picked. Anyway, to make a long story slightly longer and wasting more bandwidth- hub's mom got me the Canon! Holy baby Jeebus! She also got him an onyx black Kitchen-Aid 5 qt. mixer! No flame job like Alton Brown's, but he'd put it on there for much the same reason I did, not expecting anyone to get it for him.

She said she'd gotten a nice bonus, and since we hadn't hit her up for money this year she wanted to give us a treat. Who says staying off welfare doesn't have it's rewards?!?!?!?!

Anyhoo, the pictures it takes are amazing. The first I took didn't come out (flash issue) but these are most of the rest. I haven't done anything to these except crop them and run unsharp mask.

( cut and sanitized for your protection )