For my birthday 2 years ago my husband took me shopping for a digital SLR camera. I had been BEGGING for the longest time, but those suckers are pretty pricey! So anyway, I got the Nikon D3100 and I freakin love it! Now I'm begging him for new lenses ;-)
I love taking pictures, I always have, and if you could see all the picture folders on my computer you would see that I'm never IN a photo because I'm always TAKING them... that part is kind of a bummer... oh well
The place where I live is extraordinarily rural, like we have a HUGE county and only 16k-ish people living here. Most of our county is just farmland, and we don't even have a Walmart.... that's right people, I've got to drive 30 miles (COUNT'EM!) to get to my "local" Walmart!
I know, It's freakin' nuts.