Weddings, Allergies, Olympic Fiascos

Greetings and Salutations.

I seem not to have much of the blogging type blocks of time these days...but I guess if I get my butt in gear I can still hit the once a week average of the past several months.

What's new to update you on....hmmm

I now believe the allergist who told me that I am allergic to dust mites. As per his instructions I was washing my sheets etc quite regularly in hot water. And then while they were being washed I was lying on my bed (sans covers etc. ) The result when I went to work about 30 mins later was not pretty. The entire day was non-stop sneezing, fountains of tears and enough tissues to make anyones nose chaff. I think I need to buy another allergy cover (my old one had an unfortunate accident) , cause the symptoms aren't entirely gone. Still sniffing and sneezing up a storm....

On a related note, you'll remember my eyes have been bothering me for at least a couple years, I tried every eye-drop known to man, was given a special eye cleansing regimen and nothing really helped...anyway, I am pleased to report that simply stepping up the aggressiveness of the cleaning seems to have eradicated the problem almost entirely.....for about four months now I haven't used any eye drops....so that is really nice......

On a non-bodily related note.....I did my first wedding shoot this weekend. Jenny's friend Sora is getting married next month...and in Korea you do the pictures before the wedding....they are very un-Korean in that they are going backpacking in Europe for their honeymoon and didn't really care about staged studio formals that are the norm for weddings in these parts. So since I like taking pictures and I want to build up a portfolio and experience do that sort of work, and since they like free pictures we were pleased to make an arrangement. Maybe they were more pleased but anyway.....it went well...

I was worried about not knowing what kind of pictures Koreans like....and about jollying them into some nice expressions and not being able to etc etc but they were really easy going and couldn't stop smiling and laughing so it wasn't awkward at all.

I did yearn for Victoria where the scenery in phenomenal and I know where to go. But considering I was working with available light (i.e. I don't have an expensive flash) and in a strange country with models that don't really speak English....I am quite pleased. I will post a link to a slideshow soon....

Oh and the Olympic Fiasco? The tickets which everyone applies for are given out randomly...and we thought we found a schedule showing which ones were Canada but apparently we didn't. Our round robin games are two US games, and Russia-Czech. Russia-Czech will still be amazing ...Ovechkin and Malkin come to mind. Our semi-final should still feature Canada. Assuming they make it. So I think we're gonna sell the US games. Quite disappointing, but beats the Belarus-East Prussiajikstan games that my friends acquired....