Kristen,
There just is not enough space on the CC servers for everyone and no one wants to downsize their pictures as they want to brag about how good their camera is and how big of a picture it will take. You don't want to use a photo hosting site, so you have two choices. Either clean out your gallery and get it down to a size that you can post or leave as is and go to a hosting site and post your pictures and stories and put a link in your post or even better yet in your signature line so it will appear on every post. Believe me, the moderators have a lot of patience to put up with some of the stuff I have seen posted. Myself I prefer the photo hosting sites as they have no limits to the amount you post and it takes maybe 20 seconds to add a direct link to them which in no different than the camera icon here. If they allowed the wealthy people to buy unlimited space they would slow the club to a crawl and force out all those who can't afford to buy space. Also a couple of the main complainers, not you, should use some of that money to hire a teacher and learn to read as the stricky's have been there for nearly 3 years. If you need help I would be happy as would Fred and Warren to help you, but you aren't going to get more space on CC. This is not meant to offend you in any way and I apologize if it does, but it is a fact of life.
Ron