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Archives for June 2011

Some Things

In no particular order, here we go.

I want to drive the crap outta this thing. Played cars with my 6 year old BFF, easily the kid I like the best in the world.

He mailed me a portrait recently, see how he’s really highlighting my esophagus.

Here’s my esophagus in real life last week.

Quite like this outfit I put together; you already know I love skirt pants and fanny packs.

Then I got all dramatic in my hood.

Drove many many kilometres last week, stopped in a playground along the way. Sometimes you just have to escape your car, eh.

You’ve met this pal before, James. He’d told me his latest invention moments before this was taken, and it’s one of the best online business idea I’ve heard all year.  It’s so simple.

I can’t say anything more, for obvious reasons, but we laughed hard over it, you will too. If you need to hire a solid webshop, he’s your guy.

Great photo of Casie and I.

Look how mooooody  (I did not mean for this post to be so car-centric).

I was sitting on my hood watching the stars, thinking about dogs.

One of my top three favourite places in the world is getting one. I’m taking the change harder than the family living there, I think.

I wouldn’t call myself an animal fan. I recently randomly was in charge of a black lab for a couple hours, this is the first time I’ve walked a dog in ohhhhh seven years at least.

Lastly, last night I cheered on my fellow blog girls at the Crystal Light Purse Challenge Fashion Show, congratulations ladies! Looking terrific! Sorry about the grainy photos, they all came out like this, I don’t know why.

Left to right:

@ValTorontoGal @UrbanNativeGirl @CasieStewart @RaymiTheMinx

Held in the Design Exchange, which was originally Canada’s first Stock Exchange, learn more about this Art Deco wonder over at The Canadian Explorer.

Do you even know HOW many Canada facts I have stored in my head?

I can do this All. Day. Long.

Kay I gotta run, TTYL! xo Keri

Meet My Cycling Team

If we recently met, it’s my 4th season of being President of a Cycling Team, so there will be summer braggy posts like this, and overly-dramatic capitlaizing of words like President.

My team is awesome, and we win a lot.

Technically they are riding for my show, The Canadian Explorer.

This is Episode #30 from said show – Exploring Cycling.

I should record a Twitvid of the audio when the peloton goes by. A peloton is a pack of cyclists.

Racing is brutally hard, like, see top right above? If you had that much lactic acid in your body right now, you wouldn’t be able to finish reading this post, you’d be so sick.  Beasts.

Couple that with how I rule with my little iron fist, and you get wins.

Last week we placed first in the KW Classic 2011 Road Race, YES Nick!!  The year before that we took second, YES Gary!!  As in, the best in all Ontario YES.

Nationals are coming up, and then the Canada Day Chin Picnic, which we dominated last year.

Sometimes, not gonna lie, in between laps can be a bit dull.

Good thing I am excellent at amusing myself.  Here’s how I sometimes cheer.  And look, it’s just my size.

One time though I was too good at it, and missed the finish to the above 1st/2nd win, because I was picking flowers in the park.

Some weekend ago was freezing and I had only sandals. I tried putting hot balm on my feet (it works), then hiked around the track.

It’s weird to look down and have someone else’s feet be there.

Here’s my favoruite parts about the sport of cycling.

I filmed this ages ago, when I was testing doing videos on a time-limit, which became my mini-video-series – Just a Minute.

They’re all one minute long, a variety of topics, click here, watch just one, thanks!

Kay one more dramatic photo.

All KeriBlog cycling posts found here.

All Canadian Explorer cycling posts here

PS – to my older readers thanks, I know you’ve seen some of the above before, but now I have a solid cycling-themed post to use as an introduction and sales too ;)

Hi From Ottawa, I’m Helping My Brother Move

Proud of the kid, he’s off to conquer the radio broadcasting world in another province. He will, too.

It amazes me you can rent all of the above, without ever proving you can drive it.

That’s not a shot at my brother, he’s excellent with cars and actually, if you live in Ottawa and talk cars online you probably know him.

Once I made a welcome post for RedLiners.ca, during my Exploring a Race Car episode. Which features zero footage of me actually driving the thing, even though I super did; it was not my fault.

However, it remains as maybe my best video screenshot ever, behold.

While in Ottawa he took me to Kenny’s, this nicely organized junkyard where I got little things, like a new hazard light and window button.

You sign a waiver, go in, tear what you want off, pay on the way out.

See the price of the key fobs? That’s like, $200 minimum at the dealership. That’s the trick.

This sums up how awesome my brother is… despite having so much to do, he insisted on going over my car.

I’m laughing too hard here.

My brother can make me laugh harder than almost anyone.

Here’s one of my favourite videos ever, talking to him on the phone one night…

Congratulations on the new job, Pete, it’s gonna be great and I love you!! xo Keri