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May232010

Curses & Carnations



I'll say it: I am a total snob when it comes to carnations. To me, they're the poor-man's roses. The floral world's red-headed stepchild. The only bloom appropriate enough to serve as the boutonniere on your uncle's powder-blue tuxedo from 1976. The one flower you'd secretly groan about to your girlfriends if you received it from your boyfriend (although I'd argue that mums would fall a close second).

I don't like them--and I think they know it. And I believe they're trying to get back at me.

I don't know if it's coincidence or not, but this week, I selected them for my One-Bouquet-a-Week Challenge (hey--I'm a carnation snob, but I am still open-minded). I bunched them together into smaller vases (I felt like that was the only way I could stomach them) and placed them around my studio. Fine. But I still don't love them; the red stems I bought seems so food-coloring-ish and artificial and uch.

Nevertheless, I took a few photos of them with my big camera, and they turned out okay. Until I went to sync the camera with my computer.

Now, I don't know what the carnations secretly whispered into my camera's ear, but my five-year-old iMac is suddenly not recognizing any device--my camera, my iPhone, my iPod, my etc.--and after several hours of consultations with the Apple helpline, the guys at the Apple Genius Bar on Fifth Avenue, the tech team at work, and my dear old dad, I think I have come to the realization that it's time to buy a new computer.

So I'm looking this week at a MacBook Pro. And my savings account is looking at me and shaking its head.

(P.S. I was at least able to take the above pic of the carnation photos I took on my camera using the email function on my iPhone. But don't think it was that easy.)

It's a hefty price to pay for a little bias. But, at just $3.99, at least the carnations themselves were cheap (and by cheap I also mean "shoddy" and "of little account" and all those other negative Dictionary.com descriptions for "cheap.") (Yeah, I said it, carnations! C-H-E-A-P! So suck it!) (Okay, sorry. Please don't hurt my stuff again.)

Reader Comments (5)

Poor carnations, they get no love. From me neither. But don't forget–besides uncle Jasper's lapel–they also (appropriately) belong to a certain unfamous powder milk.
p.s. remember to use your company's discount on apple products.

May 23, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJorge

Don't get me started on powdered milk...

May 23, 2010 | Unregistered Commentermdashing

Red-headed stepchild? Amy, what a terrible phrase!

May 23, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKendall

(-;

May 23, 2010 | Unregistered Commentermdashing

You are definitely related to me.

May 24, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSusan

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