Camera = FIXED!!!

A montage of images after taking apart the camera yesterday:

UH OH.  

Double UH OH.

Why is this thing blurry????

Hey camera!  Stop being blurry!!!

Wait!  Hey!  IT WORKS!!!!!!

WE'RE NOT BLURRY!!!!!!

Hi!  We're not blurry and we don't have to buy a new camera!!!!  Yes!!!

Go Brandon!!!!

Thank you, Kimber!

Today I received a wonderful surprise!  To my delight, when I opened the package the mail man brought to our door, I discovered this lovely, original painting from Kimber!  (For those of you who don't know, Kimber is the daughter of my best friend, Amber - that makes her my "niece" or just girlfriend as I like to refer to her :)   THANK YOU, KIMBER!!  Keep up the great work!!  I hope to see you and your momma very soon!!!  Lots of hugs & kisses!!!

Camera

Ever wonder what the inside of a Sony Cybershot looks like??? Yes!  Well, here you go:

We figured we didn't have much to loose since the camera isn't working at the moment anyways....

Camera status still TBD.......

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Have you had your NURDLE today??

The saying goes, "you learn something new everyday."  How true, how true!  In order to blog more and I suppose entertain, I have decided to share some of the more "odd" lessons I learn while on the job...

Today's lesson:  The Nurdle

You're like, "Diana - a nurdle????"  I know, I know.  You use one everyday and have no idea; been there and have already had that revelation.  A nurdle is precisely what you see below....

....the toothpaste swirl that goes on top of your toothbrush! 

So the story goes....my current mentor, Susan, used to work in the commercial and toy industry in NYC before leaving for Los Angeles.  For one of the commercial shoots, she was working for a very prominent toothpaste company in which she was told she needed to make a "stand-in nurdle."  First question is obvious, "what is a nurdle?" second question, "why a stand-in?"  Apparently, there are Professional Nurdle Makers!  That's right, she was asked to make a stand-in nurdle while the camera angles and lighting were set because as you are aware, toothpaste melts!  Once everything was ready to go, the Professional Nurdle Maker would do his thing, make a nurdle from the toothpaste tube, then jet-set somewhere else around the world to make another nurdle; he was a fancy international nurdle maker!

Now you know!  The nurdle!  And for fun, check out the nurdle video below :)

Fathers Day

Fathers should encourage their daughters to reach for the STARS

Thanks, Dad, for all the times you've not only helped me reach, but lifted me up to BELIEVE that my dreams are possible!!

Just look at what is happening now :)

I LOVE YOU!!!

Happy Fathers Day!!!!

San Diego 2

We went to San Diego over the weekend to visit one of Brandon's friends.  Since our camera croaked last week, I took just a few pictures on my phone - guess it's time to look for a camera!  

Hmmm....Chick-fil-a on the way to San Diego!!

Funny looking out here in Cali!

On the 5 South - SEVEN lanes wide!!!

Count them!

I think we were close enough to the curb.....

Brandon and his new buddy, Bella :)

3 month old pit-bull puppy - super cute!

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Disneyland!

Last Saturday, Brandon and I went to Disneyland!  We at WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering) are opening a new attraction at Disney California's Adventure (DCA) on June 11th called:  The World of Color.  They had a preview for us - think "water show at Bellagio" in Vegas, multiply it by 100, add lasers, fire, projections, music, and you have a brand new Disney show!  Let me tell you, we were blown away!  If you are ever in Cali and go to the parks, you must wait around to see this spectacular show!  We were unable to photograph or take video because the shows doesn't open to the public until June 11th - you can see some clips on YouTube though.....

Since the event didn't start until 8:30pm, we decided to go all day and give Disney our best!  We arrived at the park at 7:30am and the park opened at 8am.  Perks of working for the company were free parking and free admission!  We hit most of the big rides before 10am then headed towards the smaller ones like Dumbo!  Yes, Brandon rode Dumbo with me :)  The lines weren't awful but there were still some long wait times, about 45min on a couple.  Instead of eating lunch inside the park, we went to Downtown Disney (a 5 min walk) and ate some pizza at an Italian restaurant; something different than park food :)

After lunch, we spent the rest of the day re-riding a couple of rides, and just walking around.  We headed over to DCA, had dinner, then entered the event area.  The park closed at 9pm to the public.  A couple of rides that were just re-done stayed open for us but we didn't ride them.  Instead, we went into the event area to have "light refreshments" which included an open bar; I know!  Gotta love the mouse sometimes, well, most of the time :)

The bad news of the day was that our camera CROAKED right after lunch - yep, not many pictures :(
Good thing I work where I work so we can go back and make more memories to capture!  Here's our day before the sad, sad croaking camera:

Disney before opening - the park is celebrating its 55th year!

Splash Mountain!

Brandon is in the back - I got covered up by a jacket :(

A nice guy offered to take our pic :)

Dumbo!

We are in the front row!  

I'm screaming my head off and Brandon's laughing at me!  

All day we were either in the front, or in the back - I even got to "drive" the Indiana Jones!!!

Sleeping Beauty Castle

Downtown Disney

Pluto

Mickey Sorcerer

Captain Jack Sparrow Bibee

Mad Hatter

LEGO Man

For Grandma Juanita and Janet!!!  

Of course there was a Braves Mickey at Disneyland!  Perfect!

Last pic before the camera croaked....

Our satellite office at the park - actually, it is back of house (or "backstage")....

I was at the park the other morning for work and took a pic :)

After The World of Color show, we went back into Disneyland since it didn't close until midnight.  We rode Star Tours and walked around then decided to head home at 11:45pm; a lloooonnnggggg but GREAT day at Disneyland!!!