Eyeful of Canon

It's raining here

2009-11-10T15:33:00.000-08:00

In order to avoid the gloom and doom of the grey skies, I am resorting to old pictures taken when the sun shined a lot more often. And yes, that is a miniature rubber ducky, what's it to you?

What we're doing around here today

2009-11-08T17:23:00.000-08:00

Starting last night, I began moving around all of our books into new bookshelves and tidying up the place. Seems I'm not the only one on a little cleaning spree.

Something colorful for the grey day in Vancouver

2009-11-07T14:22:00.000-08:00

The weather here has seemed to turn to the grey grey winter. I need a pick me up, so I'm going to look at these shots for the next 5 hours. I know, right? I spend my time doing the most useful things.

Natural Textures

2009-11-06T17:07:00.000-08:00

The holder of the bunny rabbit

2009-11-05T12:31:00.000-08:00

Can you tell that I had a weirdo dream last night?

Because it's coming up on Christmas soon

2009-11-04T13:02:00.000-08:00

Changing, 2 of 2

2009-11-03T13:35:00.000-08:00

Overwhelming colors of the changing leaves at the Van Dusen Botanical Gardens.

See:

Changing, 1 of 2

2009-11-02T14:25:00.000-08:00

The leaves in Van Dusen Botanical Gardens look like they're on fire.

Observe:

My cat wanted a word with you

2009-11-01T14:32:00.000-08:00

"Hey betches. What's goin' on?"

I lied to you, and it might not be the last time

2009-10-12T13:14:00.000-07:00

Last night, after about 2 months of walking right past it, I dusted off my camera and went about getting prepared to download all the pictures from my camera to my hard drive. I checked the battery - good to go. And then I spent 2 hours intermittently wandering around in the office and looking at the cupboard where all my camera gear normally resides when not in use to find the cable - a very important piece of equipment if you're attempting to copy files from a camera to a laptop, without which the very act of copying is unpossible. I spent some time looking at the top layer of my desk, which sits about a foot above the desk's surface and is comprised of god only knows what but probably stuff that I should organize at some point. I rifled through my one desk drawer and noted to myself that because the drawer rifling was somewhat therapeutic that I needed to sell my desk and buy a new one made of drawers for just this situation, as I expect it will happen several times again in the future. I tend to lose things, or as I like to call it, misremember where I've placed many items I often need to use at a later point in time.

And not 30 seconds after complaining very loudly that I couldn't find the STUPID GODDAMN CABLE to no one in particular but Doing so in the same room as my husband just so someone could register my complaint, I went into my bedroom to flop on my bed in a fit of WAHHHHHHHH and nearly tripped right over the very cable I'd been tearing apart every other room in the apartment looking for. Of course.

Long story short, I haven't even looked at those pictures yet, but this morning, after ignoring the fact that it's Canadian Thanksgiving (in October!), I decided to try to get a little artsy and take some shots of our wedding rings. And that's why I lied - sort of - and will now show you something else that happens to be wedding related - kind of.

I think I've drawn this out long enough

2009-10-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

I think from the following picture taken by Melissa it is clear that I do not wear a lot of dresses.

Also, purple clutch to go with the purple toes.

And now I will stop it about the wedding.

Accessorizing

2009-10-08T10:03:00.000-07:00

So a few days before the wedding, my mother took me to get a manicure and pedicure. Of special note is the fact that my mom had never before had a pedicure and she didn't once break out in hysterical laughter from her feet being tickled incessantly. I was most impressed. AND! And she only nicked her nail polish once! That's practically a miracle. While my mother was white knuckling the arms of her lazy-boy recliner from trying so hard to not laugh or wriggle away from the tickle-monster, I was searching through all the available colors for a purple polish. Because when questioned, my fiance had expressed that he'd like it if my toenails were painted purple for the wedding. And I obliged, because I'm all kinds of sweet like that.

Witness:

Of special note: I wore these shoes until about an hour after this photo was taken. And then I went barefoot for the rest of my wedding because I'm ALL CLASS and also a big fat weenie when my shoes are incredibly uncomfortable.

Now that we've established that I could never have a real corporate office job since my feet are whiny whiny bastards, let's move on to the hair. When I dug this puppy out of my purse and handed it over to my ridiculously awesome hair dresser, she laughed and asked, "No really, what the hell am I supposed to do with this thing?" She thought I was totally kidding when I told her to put it in my hair, but being the miracle worker that she is, she obliged and got it stuck in my hair so good that it only took 2 hours to pull it out at the end of the night.

Besides, who can have a wedding with an evening fireworks display without having a fireworks replica thingamajiggy in their hair? Not me, clearly!

(Melissa took these pictures. She's a rockstar.)

Yeah, this is also wedding related

2009-10-07T11:14:00.000-07:00

We were thinking of using this as a beverage holder, but someone finally let us in on the secret that it should hold candles. Who'da thunk it?

Summing up the wedding and MOVING ON SOON

2009-10-06T23:42:00.000-07:00

I promise I'll start posting pictures from after the wedding I had this summer just as soon as I get through these last couple of shots. None of the wedding shots were taken by me - they were taken by Melissa, my beautiful and so kind Maid of Honor or by Attila, my sweet adorable awesome friend who flew all the way to Vancouver from DUBAI. That place is way far away from here. I hope he got peanuts on the plane.

So first, the sky was all:

Then it was all, OMG, THIS:

So, I was all, HUNGRY, I'll go wait for my food and sit over here:

All of these shots were taken by Melissa, the gorgeous.

Coming up? Me in a dress. OMG YES REALLY.

Family

2009-09-30T12:45:00.000-07:00

We hosted a meet the in-laws drink fest the night before our wedding, where my beautiful mother, my practically sister-in-law, and my now mother-in-law spent some time chatting in my living room. It was a tad surreal to have them all here, at our house, together, considering the entire family now spans 9 time zones. But it was lovely to have them here and to get to watch them come together.

Thanks to Mel for taking my camera and taking this picture that evening.

I wasn't the only pretty thing at my wedding

2009-09-29T11:38:00.000-07:00

The sky sure put on a pretty pretty show for the night. We enjoyed a beautiful lightning storm and a downpour from the inside of a gorgeous venue.

Also, there was a rainbow. That I didn't see. I KNOW!

Attila - Thanks for the shots, I hope you don't mind me exploiting your skills.

Look, I put on a dress

2009-09-28T14:31:00.000-07:00

In an effort to not suck at updating, and to fulfill the wedding pictures promise...

No one told me the back of my dress was so damn pretty. And without this shot, I never would have known!

Thanks to Attila for the beautiful pic!

Oh, I almost forgot

2009-09-23T12:11:00.000-07:00

We also saw some harbor seals while we were out on the water. They were very lazy, but that seems fitting for a Sunday afternoon.

Back when I used to blog regularly(er)

2009-09-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

Before I went and got hitched, I spent a beautiful Sunday afternoon on the water with the future (now) in-laws watching some whales. Did I tell you this already? I don't think I did, but apparently once you get married your brain packs its bags. Or so I've been told.

This guy is part of K Pod; we figure from his markings he's K-25 (Scoter).

Standard Apology

2009-09-10T12:29:00.000-07:00

So back in July I went and got hitched and then I thought, I'm way too good for that blogging stuff and promptly ignored the internet for a week.

Then I went to England, and who wants to hear about that? After getting back from England, where I went with my husband to attend a wedding, because summer is for weddings and sunshine, I went ahead and just started to ignore the internet for another couple weeks.

Really though, nothing interesting has been happening, but I do have photos to put up in the next couple of weeks, some of which are not mine and some of which are of me in a white dress. Consider this the, "Excuse my absence, and now you can expect to get back to your regularly scheduled eyefulofcanon post reading on a regular basis." Starting... next week at the latest.

Pause

2009-07-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

After all the partying, I'm taking about a week break. Hopefully I'll have some good wedding shots to bore you with by then.

Straight out of the Camera Shot

2009-07-28T18:01:00.001-07:00

My fan for the wedding, since it was supposed to be 35, but turned out to be thunderstorming and humid instead. Still very well used. Oh and our rings, too.

And soon I will be able to rest, just like my cat

2009-07-24T09:52:00.000-07:00

But before the resting comes the marrying and the partying!

Ignoring me is a skill

2009-07-23T11:29:00.000-07:00

Mia's Faces

2009-07-22T10:46:00.000-07:00

I almost had her acknowledging me for a second there.