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Good Bye 2008 part 3c of 3

 

I am soooo done Bitching and moaning about how bad 2008 was. I have a lot of other topics I want to write about so I promise that this will be the last installment of Good Bye 2008.

 

Winter Blast 2008

Every year in late December my Tae Kwon Do Instructor throws a tournament. It has a tendency to run a little long this year was no exception. Tuesday and I arrived at East Portland Community Center, about 9:45 almost two hours late, but hey I had spend an hour combing my hair and 45 min. eating a nutritious breakfast that included items with Mc. In the name.

 

The tournament started at 10:00 with the tiny tots divisions, they are always so much fun to watch. At 12:00 the regular divisions started with kids, teens and grown ups, of all different ranks. As a black belt you are expected to judge when you are not competing than compete while you are cold. Always fun. I got slaughtered in every event I competed in. Tuesday however did great. She placed first in Breaking for the first time ever, (Which is really good because she has competed in 3 competitions a year since she was 7.) She placed first in Forms which are her favorite categories, and she placed first in sparring which is not her strongest event.

 

This made Tuesday eligible to compete in Grand Champion, Which she did compete in and won; again she has never even competed much less won this event. The tournament was over at 10:45, and everyone was expected to stay and clean Tuesday and I however ducked out as quickly as we can to skip out on the clean up.

 

The next morning it started to snow, and snow, and snow and did not stop snowing for 2 weeks. Portland was in utter chaos. My SUV broke down the first day and I got to drive my PT Cruiser around in the 24 inches of Snow/ Ice / and Mud. Like most Hairdressers we took the first day off and enjoyed the snow I didn’t even want to shovel because it looked so pretty. The next day when the cabin fever set in and the fear of loosing the best revenue producing month out of the year for the hairdressing industry we started the job of rearranging our schedules so we could come in later when it warmed up outside and we could leave before stuff froze.

 

Our Staff couldn’t make it in because of the weather, so D and I were doing close to 15 clients in a total of 4 hours of work with no assistance. I have to admit it was fun.

 

During the time off D and I would work on Hair pieces. We had a photo shoot scheduled with David Winterhaulter and Kelly Taggert of Purely Visual for the 4^th 5^th and 6^th of January, which is fine right because, We had all of that time off. Right, the time off pretty much consisted of sitting around the house and freaking out because we couldn’t get to the Wig store, or meet with our Crew, or even have a model call.

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Saturday December 28^th

 

I get a phone call from my Wardrobe stylist. She was crying and had to tell me that she would not be able to style my shoot in 5 days. She had a terrible case of Vertigo, and could not leave the house. Oh Sh*t I put off our big photo shoot for the year for 5 days from now and we have no wardrobe for it.

 

So, we loaded the car with Tuesday and her friend and hit the goodwill’s, the concept for the shoot this year was kind of futuristic warrior inspiration. So we split up all of us looking for some sort of Armor, or Sports equipment that could be modified to look like something from the future. We ended up with a pretty good haul, I even got a 4 foot teddy bear that I skinned and attached to a set of shoulder pads. It was pretty gory; skinning a teddy bear in the salon (a small child walked in and was shocked, it kind of looked like some thing off the TV show Dexter.)

 

Luckily Kristen my stylist found a friend of hers that was available for Sunday, but not on Monday. No big deal D and I could handle watching the wardrobe for one day. 

 

 

New Years Eve

 

We spent running around picking up traditional Asian Weapons. How could New Years compet with last year, Last year we had close to 30 teenagers in our basement playing music and having fun all night. Some of them had so much fun that they didn’t leave until 2 o’clock the next day. This years consisted of Weapons shopping, 45 min of swing dancing and not be able to eat because every thing closes at 10:00 in Oregon.

 

 

 

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Part 3b

 

Early December

 

I get a phone call from a photographer that went something like this.

 

“Hello is this Ryan Teal…”

“Yes”

“My name is Laura and I got your name from ____, I am doing an art project featuring women that Rock, in Portland. I am shooting Storm Large, and (I forgot her name) the lead singer of the band Cleveland… and I was wondering…)

“Of course” I interrupted “I will do it.”

“Ha, Ha, Do what???” she said.

“I will do the hair.”

“Oh, you do hair?” She says laughing. “I wanted to ask you if I could shoot Tuesday your daughter, she plays drums right.”

 

So that’s it I got trumped by my 15 year old daughter. The shoot turned out beautiful and I was out of town anywayJ

 

So a couple of weeks later we are at the art show down town and it is pretty rad, there are some great photos from Laura. Of course Tuesday’s stuff looked great I got so jealous I wanted to hold her head under water. But as we were leaving I get a phone call.

 

It was a photographer’s assistant “Hello this is ________ Rafe would like to shoot with you this Saturday for Portland Monthly (A local fashion magazine that is rather cool)”

I of course said yes, she than told me that the model was LeAnn Marshall from Project Runway.

 

To make a short story long here is some back story. About 15 years ago a friend of mine Mark Putnam won the NAHA awards. In fact he is the reason I developed the obsession for that competition. Anyhow that photographer was Rafe. So freshly out of beauty school I called Rafe and said hey I am going to win NAHA and I want to shoot with you. He proceeded to tell me that I was not good enough for him and that I should shoot with his assistant. I went off to shoot with his assistant for like 10 years and we developed a great portfolio. However I always wanted to shoot with Rafe.

 

So when his assistant called me I would have done the shoot for free. Also DeAnn and I are major TV junkies and we watch reality TV religiously, and exclusively fashion reality. So when she mentioned LeAnn Marshal, DeAnnalyn, Tuesday and I all freaked out. Of course Tuesday wanted to come but I told her to get out of my car Fame Hog.

 

The day of the shoot comes around, the crew was totally cool, Rafe wanted a totally simple look but the hair wasn’t going the direction he wanted D and I could not communicate we felt like Beauty School Students. I the talker was so intimidated that I just wanted to crawl in a corner and cry. Half way through the shoot Rafe was talking to LeAnn and says “This is Ryan and DeAnnalyn Teal, they are kind of famous.”
“I know who they are” says LeAnn.

 

Oh my god LeAnn knew who we are. I am not on TV what is that all about???

 

I think we calmed down after that. We did go to the bar afterward, however and verbally beat the SH*& out of ourselves.

 

Later that month we got the issue and it looked good. It wasn’t our best work but it was good. The best thing is we got to work with Rafe and LeAnn.

 

Tune in next week when Portland gets hit with “Winter Blast 2008”

 

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