Case of the Midnight Pig: Case Closed!!

So tonight at Young Women, it was Senior Appreciation Night. There was just one senior this year, so it was Channy's show! Woo woo! And it was short. Woooo!!!!
So afterwards, I was talking to some folks in my ward, and I told them the story of.... the midnight pig. Well, Eileen, one of my friends and neighbors, had been talking to people, and apparently, one of the ladies in our ward has a big pet pig, and it got out. And ate my compost pile, apparently. :)
So it's not as scary as I thought.... I think a wild boar made a better story, though.

And the last couple nights I've made dinner for some people in our ward. Last night I made fajitas. And I make dang good fajitas! Basically, I use the marinade as the sauteeing sauce, and I use my stir-fry methodology learned in China.... and there you have it! Awesome fajitas. Kevin said they tasted better than a restaurant's. So bringing these fajitas to a friend for dinner did nothing but inflate my pride.
Which immediately got deflated tonight. It was cold today, and I made meatloaf. The meatloaf was good. My biggest problem is that meatloaf goes well with potatoes, and I don't like potatoes. Therefore I never make potatoes and don't know how to make anything good with potatoes. Well, you can't go wrong with mashed potatoes, and since we had butter and sour cream on hand, I knew I could make some awesome mashed potatoes.
I tasted them and thought they tasted nice. But apparently the texture left something to be desired. We don't have a hand mixer, so I'd used this hand blender thing we got for our wedding that I use all the time instead of a hand mixer. Mixer, blender. What's the difference?
Well, apparently the hand blender leaves your potatoes-- instead of light and fluffy like whipped potatoes-- a little more like... paste.
Well, she didn't have to eat them, did she? She could just accept the stupid potatoes with grace and decorum, take a bite, and then scrape them into the garbage. Maybe that's what she did. Either way, it looked better than just showing up with a meatloaf. I mean, it has plenty of vegetables in it (onions, carrots, tomato sauce), so it could be considered a complete meal. But it looks pretty sparse.

And for you folks (ha ha, fools) who read to the bottom of this long, rather rambly post, I have a question:
What kind of digital camera do you have, and what do you like/not like about it? We need to buy one, but we can't decide on the details.