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May 3rd, 2006

  1. Attie Gail Book Club (Redux)

    May 3, 2006 by Gail

    Attie Gail Book Club

    June 27, 2004

    Move over, Oprah!

    This pic is nearly two years old. The kids are much bigger now!

    This is a ‘redux’ because the photo is one of my favourites and it was originally posted using Blogger’s fuzzy compression engine nearly two years ago. The photo already had a smear on it, so the final result was blurry enough to drive me bananas. I had to fix it.

    It won’t be long before I can sit amongst the five kidlets and they can read to me while I soak my bunions, haha! Seriously, the oldest two are already reading and I’m sure Maddy will be following in their footsteps soon.

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  2. Happy Birthday Taku!

    May 3, 2006 by Gail

    Happy Birthday... urgh!
    Happy Birthday… urgh! by Smaku

    I met Taku at my very first Toronto Flickr meet back in February, which coincided with the launch of his current issue of U&I Magazine.

    I like what he did here with the frame, and I thought it was a great idea that he also posted a picture of himself at 20 and 10, as well:

    My birthday is next month, but I don’t think I have any photos from when I was 24 or even 14. I barely remember doing anything besides working, working, working at 24. And Grade 9? I dunno, I’d have to go rooting around for that yearbook, because I don’t think I’d have a picture of myself at 14 anywhere else.

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  3. Random Wednesday Rants

    May 3, 2006 by Gail

    • Oh Income Tax Refund, where art thou?!? (It’s been a month already! I’ve never had to wait this long!)
    • I was trying to submit an online form to one of the most high profile corporations in the country, and at the end of the process was informed that an error occurred because I didn’t use any of the three acceptable browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer (currently unsupported for Mac), AOL, and Netscape! What’s a Mac user to do! (Phooey, I downloaded Netscape… the lesser of the–well, you know.)
    • The more I feed Hugh, the more offended he acts when I don’t share my food with him.
    • I phoned in to my radio station of choice the other night to make a small donation to their quarterly fundraising drive, receive a free copy of a CD, and make a song request. I used my mobile phone to call in my particulars and the line was a bit static-y, but I was chuffed to hear them announce my contribution on the air within five minutes — “… and we’d like to thank all our listeners and fundraising supporters, the latest one with a song request for ‘I Loves You, Porgy’ by Nina Simone in memory of her husband. Thank you, Gail Edwin-Stelding…”
    • I prefer using subway tickets to tokens because the TTC tokens are barely visible to the naked eye, but more often than not I’ve been stuck waiting in a queue at the collector’s booth for drunk people to count out their fare in DIMES or the collector’s gone off somewhere and I end up buying a token ANYWAY because it’s the only way I can get past the gate!
    • Crazy Property Manager is a real title, or, at least should be.
    • I’m really trying to get my sense of humour back, but it hasn’t given me an ETA. Working on it.

    Category Randomage, Rants, Toronto, Urban Life | Tags: | 5 Comments