I had a terrible night discovering that my new Canon 7D needed a CF card, not your regular SD card. When you’ve been excited all day to play with your new camera and you discover something like this that stops you from being able to play with it… it really sucks. It gets worse. I drove to Walmart at 10:00pm to find a CF card and they didn’t have any. So I drove to Shoppers Drug Mart and of course, they also didn’t have any. Basically, I didn’t get to play with my new camera tonight. Now I have to go to Staples on my lunch tomorrow to pick up a CF card, so I have a camera to use at the Raptors home opener. My Rebel XSI has been sold. Good night.

I parted with my Blackberry Curve + the joys of BBM last weekend. But the grass is surely greener on the other side and even the shade of green is more beautiful. Meet my white iPhone 3GS – it’s a temporary fix until I am eligible for an upgrade to a white iPhone 4 in May of 2011. It’s white or nothing. Recognize the wallpaper? February 17, 2010’s photo a day.

My other new baby is a Canon EOS 7D. $$$$$$. My credit card physically exploded and tore itself to pieces. It was a well-deserved splurge but it still hurts. It doesn’t help when you work for Canon and placing an order for one of these things take literally two seconds over the phone and you pretty much just have to walk two minutes to another room and it’s all ready for you. I just have to wait until tomorrow to pick it up because I ordered it late in the day. Lalalalala. Despite my feeling like shit, I AM also feeling ecstatic. Guilty pleasures work that way.

My business cards are also getting printed. I’m afraid that they’re not going to turn out right.

I know this isn’t a photograph but I have to post it. I was supposed to get my business cards printed yesterday. I tried Staples because there was one close to work. I almost had a temper trantrum talking to the sales reps there. You know when you know more than the sales person? And when the sales person knows just the bare minimum of what they’re selling? Holy crap. But that’s expected in most retail-level stores because those employees just don’t care enough about their jobs.

Anyway, if you want lame business cards, go to Staples. Otherwise, go find a real printing house. So I left fuming because I hate when you expect to get something done and it goes the complete opposite way. I called 411 and asked for the next closest printing shop. The Printing Team came up just about a three minute drive from where I was, so I went there. Lo and behold a real printing shop! The gentleman who assisted me confused me with loads of different options. When you’ve got me confused about what I want, then you know what you’re talking about! Yay!

Turns out that my card’s design, the combination of colours, and my choice of card stock was going to bring the price up to $300. So, I had to tweak my design to bring it back down. This is the final version and I am dropping it back off to The Printing Team on Monday – $125 for 250 cards VS Staples’ moronic business cards services at $90 for 250 cards, getting none of what you ask for other than their standard this and standard that options.

I also got a 16gb white iphone 3GS and I was playing with it all night last night, which explains my missed post for October 22nd.

I am also selling my Canon Rebel XSI (kit) for $350 and upgrading to a 60D in the next month or so. If interested, email me!

Stung by the busy bee. Both my personal and professional to do lists are the size of the universe. Quite frankly, I’m a little bit stressed and my mind is everywhere all at once. Woo-sah. But I’m still feeling like a star and you can’t stop my shine.

This is my grandmother about to feed me something I am not familiar with. Stop it, grandma.

I went digging for my toga party photos in Rome because I miss the summer already. I think our toga dresses are superb and we’re practically designers. Bedsheets from our hostel, leaves from the bushes outside of our hostel, and headbands from London, England’s PRIMARK – we bought the headbands because they were cute and cheap. They were meant to be brought back home to wear in Toronto, not quite at a toga party in Rome, so that’s more bang for our buck.

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Today I delivered my first mini presentation at Canon – the audience was just over 100 people. I am so, so, so grateful for opportunities like this. It is obviously scary and gives your heart a nice workout without actually being physically active. But with each scary moment, comes improvement and progress. Embrace scary moments! Whether or not you handled it well is really quite minuscule compared to the real value, which is in experiencing and going through it. Whether you realize it or not, the experience, even if the whole thing blew up in your face, has STILL made you even just a tiny bit better than before. I want to avoid comfort zones for as long as I can. Can’t run low on scary moments – not for a long time! Go write an exam or something. Go do something uncomfortable. It’s good for you.

I really seriously wish. I don’t even want to try and understand you because that day will never come. So I just want to fix you instead.

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I’m missing LG Fashion Week right now and my heart is bleeding and my soul is weeping. I had no clue about it. This is what happens when you’re no longer working in a fashion house. Big fashion things happen and you don’t have a clue. I’m deeply saddened. This cannot happen again when Spring 2011’s LG Fashion Week hits the runway or else I will explode into a monster.

We laughed until we cried and we cried until we laughed. This was my very productive 2:00-3:00pm today: a colleague and I worked together on a teaser video for a project and spent one hour laughing to sweet tears, and choked on fluids in our mouths, and coughed up our lungs, and struggled to gasp for air, and went on to vomit rainbows, and added roughly five extra years to our lives, all while slapping together a neat little video (that we obviously think is hilarious) and got the job done with flying colours given bare minimum skills and resources. Love the task that you’re given, make things funny so that you can LAUGH and stop being so serious, and genuinely work as a team and become a synergy-producing powerhouse and the job gets done completely effortlessly. Bada bing, bada boom. None of us is as smart as all of us.

Two more from yesterday’s shoot. This is such a different style from what I would typically go after, so I was way out of my comfort zone. I loved it.

Here’s a quick one from today’s makeup shoot with four beautiful girls and one talented makeup artist. I wish I could post more but I gotta run. More on this tomorrow!