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This blog would never be complete without all the photos I’ve taken prior to starting A Photo A Day. I’ve been posting old photos because they deserve to be on this blog and it completes the big picture. I’ve been telling myself to dig them up and post them for quite some time now but it’s only in the past week that I’ve actually started to do it. It almost feels a little like sh*t because it makes me want to go back in time and relive these photographs.

This one was taken at a BBQ hosted by the President at my old company. The BBQ is held at his home + ranch in Montreal every summer and we hop on a limo bus to get there. It’s a GREAT time. This horse is one of his many beautiful horses. I wish I could say it was mine – I’ve always wanted one! I’d ride a horse to work and he would be my new commute mobile.

Dexter was flawless until Season 2, Episode 6. He cheated on Rita and I’m so, sooo disappointed. What a downer! He lost all appeal after that! They say that he’ll win me over again soon but I say, I have no mercy for cheating and poor judgment and self-control. But I am excited to see how he redeems himself. I trust that there will come an outrageously compelling reason to love him again because I hate him right now. In real life, cheaters don’t deserve a second chance. But since it’s just TV, we can be more lenient.

Welcome to the last day of February. Looks like we’re whipping through 2011, too.

More oldie but goodie. I’m going through old photos and editing them because there are so many undiscovered good ones that need to be loved and acknowledged. But these photos are making my heart ache for the summer more than I’d like.

I’ve been editing select high resolution photos all weekend to prep them for my portfolio feature at Canon. Found this one, taken back in the Spring of 2009. I love it! This was a photoshoot my group and I did for our capstone Marketing course a few months before we passed it with flying colours and graduated. We were working with the marketing team at Bluenotes to develop a marketing plan involving a Bluenotes Look Book, inspired by LookBook.nu. So we sported Bluenotes from head to toe and took photos all over Toronto. For me, it was an excuse to squeeze photography into a marketing project. Ugh, I miss school so much.

My man had surprise Swirls Cupcakes of love delivered to my office today. If you didn’t already know, Swirls Cupcakes are the best cupcakes in Toronto. My heart and stomach melted.

I can barely contain my excitement for Dexter right after this.

It was a busy night. All of a sudden a tornado of crap needed to get done. Quickly uploading this and then sneaking in an hour of Dexter before bed, even if it means I stay up past my bedtime and regret it when I can’t wake up in the morning.

She’s the most star-crazy girl I know and is relentless when it comes to star gazing – you can run but you can’t hide (from Andrea Beiko). She’s also the most loyal Backstreet Boys fan ever and at this point, she really deserves a stripe, a badge, a golden star or a Backstreet crown or something; the girl literally loves the boys unconditionally with the exact same amount of passion now as 15 years ago – not an ounce of difference. And then she’s simply the most organized hoarder of the coolest things – her bedroom dazzles me every time with its bells and whistles. But best of all is that her and I share the most hilarious secret of life that we’ve vowed to take to our graves – this secret keeps our friendship divinely unique and virtually irreplaceable by anything or anyone on the planet.

I present Andrea Beiko to you. Love you, HUNG.

I don’t watch TV, so I’m not up to speed with TV shows – I just go along most of the time or turn my head and try to start up a different conversation with someone else. Today I finally gave Dexter a shot because everyone talks about how much they love the show and it sounds a lot more intriguing than Jersey Shore for instance. I started with Season 1 and I’m up to Episode 8 and down a bag of Crunchy Cheetos, a bag of Sweet Onion Kettle Chips, and a few bowls of fried noodles. Give me another day and I’ll be talking about how much I love Dexter, too. Damn these brilliant fictional characters – they get a hold on me. If only they were real and alive. I’d love for Edward Scissorhands, Edward Cullen, Dexter Morgan, Joe Black, Forrest Gump, Mary Poppins, Tyler Durden, Captain Jack Sparrow, (to name a few) to come alive, hold hands and sing and dance with me and teach me a couple of cool things.

Her mom likes to sew and has a collection of vintage sewing machines that still work and they are stored in these neat antique suitcase-like boxes that are perfect for photography props. She could start a photo-prop rental business and I’d be her most loyal patron. Renting for me, would work a little better than buying because when I buy vintage treasures and bring them home, my parents get irritated and dump them in the garage. I get it – to them, I’m bringing home junk and taking up space that could be used for things that are not “junk”. And I can’t argue with them because I don’t buy vintage items to become a collector of them. I buy them strictly for the joy of photography and when I’m done with them, they will sit in a corner and collect dust, at which point, they are rightfully categorized as junk. Essentially, I love them because they fuel my photography, not because I have a desire to start a collection. Anyway, we all have eyes for different things – one man’s junk is another man’s treasure, temporarily or permanently. Garage sales, thrift stores, vintage shops are bomb.

A little birdie told me that once every spring, there is a gigantic garage sale hosted by a church in my neighbourhood. And it’s gigantic because all the members of that church contribute vintage treasures to the sale. So let’s say they have a congregation of at least 100 people – that should put the size and scope into perspective. It’s supposed to be so good that people get up at 6 in the morning to line up for it. I can’t wait.