Frivolity

This summer I earned some $$ and I decided to spend it on something completely frivolous: a shiny new camera!

Isn’t it pretty?

pretty skinny!

Let me back up. My sister-in-law Steph and her husband have a business called Dirtboy Designs. They sell silicone arm bands that look like dirt bike tires. It is quite the flourishing business! Steph “hired” me to fill and mail their orders while she was away for a few weeks this summer. Instead of being sensible with my earnings, I did the opposite. It was liberating. But kind of scary. Now I’m back to my normal, responsible ways. [This picture is Rose amidst an exceptionally large arm band order]

This is my now-old camera. It is pretty chunky. I have been wanting to upgrade my camera to a smaller, more portable model for a while, but I didn’t want to sacrifice the quality, zoom, and sweet settings that my good ole Canon S5 had. Well, in the 3 years since we bought that camera, Canon has come a long way. My new tiny camera has more zoom and more sweet settings than the old one! Win! The only downside is that it’s so slim that I can barely hold on to it—there’s no grip. But I can fit my camera into the diaper bag now. It’s revolutionary.

I love the “fishbowl” setting.

Cool-looking poster setting

Some of the settings are a little scary.

This blurry one is fun to play with.

Ah, sepia.

Speaking of brown… on to the OTHER “piece of frivolity.” We got a new COUCH this week! It pays to have some savings stashed up so when you find your dream couch, you can just GET it.

This thing is so comfy. The cushions are spring-loaded too, so it’s bouncy and easy to get off of—it doesn’t suck you in and hold on like our other couch. The house we stayed in for our Brown family lake vacation this summer had this exact couch in the living room. Jeff and I fell in love with it there, and vowed that we would get it if we ever saw one for sale.

Well, we were at Costco last week and guess what? So was The Couch of Dreams. It was actually affordable too, which was the bigger surprise. Within a day we had decided that we couldn’t let this opportunity pass us up. So we got it. We managed to get a couch that had been purchased and then returned, so we got a nice big discount. This beautiful couch was a mere $650! Hurrahhhhh! We crammed it into our little apartment, and now it feels like we live in a tree house with all those cushions everywhere. And none of the browns match. But this is not the phase of life where we have a cute-ly decorated home with matching furniture. So I’m ok with it.  

I’d say a little frivolity is a good thing every now and then.