I’m glad March is officially over, I found it very stressful. I look pretty tired and haggard here, but I’m still smiling. Photo credit goes to Makeda, age 7, taken last Sunday.
March, 2009
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Farewell, March!
March 31, 2009 by Gail
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Protected: Sometimes The Best Road To Take Is The Hardest
March 30, 2009 by Gail
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The Sunday Brunch That Morphed Into Dinner
March 29, 2009 by Gail
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Preview: Lo-La Martini Lounge
March 29, 2009 by Gail
A few photos from the event I shot on Saturday night. Now I’m going to pass out after a very long day and save the rest of the editing for later…
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Preview: Homecooked Korean
March 28, 2009 by Gail
Actually, it’s a mix of homecooked Korean and homemade sushi and various other tidbits, but nevermind — it was salivatingly good! More later…
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Flashback Friday: Red Lipstick and Bangs
March 27, 2009 by Gail
I have a million stories from my one year in Banff and my first time to live away from home, which made it difficult to select which photos to scan for today out of the Banff albums. I didn’t have much time, so I picked a couple where I wouldn’t launch into a very long accompanying story.
Thankfully I had the foresight back then to write dates and names on most of the prints. There is no way I’d retain all that info after 18 YEARS. Wow, can this photo really be 18 years old?? This is me at 18: gawdy red lipstick and awkward bangs (or “fringe” depending on where you’re from). Yikes.
February 1991
Banff Rocky Mountain Resort staff accommodationSimon LeComte was a huge French-Canadian guy, at least 6’5″. He’d work out in the gym and I’d have to reset all the equipment after he was done with it. Wouldn’t harm a flea, though, he was a gentle giant from what I could recall. Staff accommodation resembled a university dormitory — everyone hung out in everyone else’s rooms. I’m sure this wasn’t mine — I was too bashful to own such a scandalous-looking calendar of beefcakes.
I did, however, develop an attachment to red lipstick and bangs to cover my forehead and eyebrows because I hadn’t figured out tweezers yet. When I first arrived in Banff in September 1990 (a story in itself), I got a job on the first day as a housekeeper at Banff Rocky Mountain Resort. I stubbornly wore makeup every single day (I can hardly believe I gave up precious morning sleep to tend to my face), and one of the other housekeepers later told me that for days she thought I was a guest. Until she saw me carry a vacuum.
Two months later I got a job as a sports facility attendant at the same resort. I still wore makeup most days, even though I spent most of my shift playing squash. What a waste of makeup!
July 30, 1991
“Buffalo Paddock”
Cascade Inn, BanffI’d organised a big beach volleyball tournament for all hotel and bar/restaurant staff working in Banff, which sucked much of my free time leading up to the event. Man, was I ever glad when it was all over. I developed conjunctivitis (“pink eye”) in one eye, too, but you can’t tell. I think after numerous kegs we all had bloodshot eyes, anyway, and I blended right in. I was later informed that the post-tournament party drank the ENTIRE town dry that night.
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My First Wayward SMS Of 2009
March 26, 2009 by Gail
I get these from time to time, and this time it was while I was at the grocery store.
Remember when I was invited to “chill and chat” back in 2007?
Or that very drunken gut spillage last year that was more than four mobile pages long, in which the sender declared “I love you more than I love my sister”–!
This one is pretty tame by comparison, but these random texts always turn into a drawn-out exchange because the sender is in denial about making the mistake and keeps asking ME who I am. Does it matter?
“Wrong number!”
“?”
“I’m not Chris!”
“Who are you?”
“I’ve had this number for 3+ years! It’s not Chris! I’m Gail!”
“Who’s Gail?”
“Not Chris! Check your number!”For the love of Mary! Stop texting me! Haven’t any of these people figured out how to save numbers?
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Wednesday’s Sunrise
March 25, 2009 by Gail
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Were You Read To As A Child?
March 24, 2009 by Gail
I was listening to a CBC Radio program today where people called in to discuss how they were introduced to books as children and which books got them hooked on reading. In the course of the discussion it struck me that parents reading to children seemed very much a Western, Developed World activity. The first time I’d ever seen this was in a Disney movie or on North American television, because it certainly didn’t happen at home.
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Double Birthday Bash In Georgetown
March 23, 2009 by Gail
Double Birthday Bash in Georgetown
I love shooting family events and birthdays are no exception, which is why I was thrilled when Justin at Cherish Events invited me to photograph a double family birthday last Saturday in Georgetown. It was Katy’s 50th and her daughter Melissa’s 25th, so they celebrated together and the rest of the family and friends came out to celebrate at a local hall. I have more photos to add to the album, but here are a few highlights:
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