D-SLR Cameras, Blog Titles, Dogs, Blogoversaries, Etc. (advice needed)

Yahooooo! I am finally getting a DSLR camera! It is a refurbished Nikon D3000 off of Amazon for 420 dollars (427 incluing shipping). My mom will only have to pay 60 dollars of it, the rest I have left over from my 'dog fund.' I'm going to start saving up for a better lens too. I chose Nikon because my mom has an old Nikkor lens from a SLR (film! not digital!) camera she got years and year ago. It won't be able to autofocus with my future camera, but, oh well. It's better then no lens.

Also, I am still searching for a blog title. Nothing seems right- nothing clicks and fuzzes up my brain or anything. And, please scroll down and check out the 'My Triond Articles' gadget, I just published about 5 articles in total, including two short stories. I'd love your feedback about those articles. Plus I earn cash from Triond for page views. I'll get payed 16 bucks on August 10th to my parent's Paypal account- I'm planning on getting "Mockingjay" the last Catching Fire book. Afterwards (when I earn enough) I'll buy Kirsten Miller's new book, "The Eternal Ones."

And, I have found what I think to be the most beautiful (at least for now) breed of dog- the Shiloh Shepherd. It's a new and relatively rare breed- developed from the German Shepherd to be more like old standard GSDs.

And, today my mom, brother and I went downtown to the Polish Consulate and later the beach. We went to the Consulate to renew our Polish passports. But, turns out we forgot the pictures we need for the passports... and there's this ridiculous new law thing where we have to have some paper from Poland that says we were born, which costs 75 bucks, and to get it we have to personally talk with the Polish Consul who is on vacation for another whole week. After we talk to her, it will be over 3 months before we get this paper. Then we have to apply for this OTHER paper which we will get in a few weeks after that. Then we actually apply for the actual passports and get them in a few months. Aaarggh. The beach was fun, though. I will post pictures tomorrow.

Two last things: One, since my blogoversary is in 21 days, I am planning to do a photo contest and/or a writing contest. What do you guys think about that? And what should the prizes be? And, should I do anything else (like a tag?). I am already planning on doing this post to sum up the year and everything.

And two...I have found a great article about the The Ten Greatest Mistakes That Young Writers Make. Check it out! Thanks for reading,