Every year, I embed the same video.

And I go around saying this all day, every year.

Here’s to a wonderful day!
May all your dreams come true

xo Keri

Christmas 2010 - here

“About finishing a year” is an old theme, here’s one from 2010 - here

How much I spent in 2011 - here

An Eaton Centre VS Art Christmas Lawsuit Story - here

Santa Facial Recognition in 2008 - here

I was listening to Girl Talk in 2008 – here

The Christmas Parties are the best part - here

I get myself a gift each year:

2008 - Jawbone

2009 - Books

2010 - IronKey

2011 – I forgot

2012 – a dust-buster & jogging pants

Short answer: Christmas makes a lot of people feel bad.

Brooks, Alberta has 120+ different nationalities living there!  I know come ON.

The Calgary airport (YYC FYI) is quite nice, there’s even an F-18 simulator.

Nope, not travelling with any hunting bounty, antlers, ha.

By pure luck and I was upgraded to First Class on the way home, look how excited I am, thank you T ;)

You’re offered a choice of 3 meals, eaten with real silverware, finished off with warm cookies baked fresh in the sky, and look how I had my feet up. That’s luxery.

Good Twitter profile pic eh, looks like I’m yelling my tweets at you.

Just changed it though, no more holiday stuff. Click here to see the new one.

Here’s my trunk containing everything I own (plus my backpack of computer/camera gear).

You bet I did a dry run… imagine if my trunk didn’t fit in my car?

What’s the solution to that?

I don’t know either. Fainting.

And please tweet / email / comment / anything me if you have a suggestion about how I can keep my cel number while paying as little as possible.  I’ll be back when the snow melts.

Kay gotta run, work to do, TTYT

xo

Keri

Woke up to coffee and opening stockings, a family tradition.

The tree shone while the chinook melted the snowman.

I’m so grateful my visit coincided with a chinook, otherwise it’d have been a -25*C visit.

What’s a chinook?

I guess customs was curious about my brother’s gift hat.

We all got really into the fire log TV channel.

You know the channel that is just a fire burning?  Whenever the arm came out to adjust the flames someone would yell, “Guys! The arm is on!”.

My day today. I’ll tell you about Dinasaur Park later this week, which was awesome.

Dinner time.  Which was delicious; Kerri killed it.

Christmas crackers!

I like to think how many people around the world are wearing Christmas cracker crowns tonight.

And that concludes my Christmas blogging, that’s enough.

Have a great boxing day, don’t spend it all on the sales.

TTYT

xo Keri

I’m having a wonderful one with my brother and his girlfriend, hope yours is wonderful too!

I go around saying this all day, every Christmas, every year, ha.

Have a great day, Merry Christmas!!

Don’t feel bad if you’re not finished your Christmas shopping, you’re in good company…

1/3 of purchases are made 10 days before Christmas

Let’s go left to right.

The book: Concierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off—and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen

Who doesn’t like hearing stories about rich people behaving badly? Michael is New York’s premiere concierge, and has been for years.

I met him at a fancy dinner Amex invited me to in the fall. See me ruling the roost at the head of the table? Nah, I’m just being dramatic.

I inhaled this book, the best part was learning his tricks to getting the impossible accomplished… he’s quite the social engineer really, hat tip Michael!

A fancy USB key.

It’s from Swarovski, you can find them in any mall, and everyone has a use for a USB key… functional and fashionable always makes for a good gift.

Snoxin deletes your wrinkles. Really.

I wouldn’t have believed it either, but after receiving some at a blog event I ran a test, and stuff actually works.

It’s filled with peptides, the stuff that puffs your skin back up, and has the most you can legally put in a product. It’s a Canadian company, and here’s the best part, you can find it at Shoppers, easy.

And if none of these appeal to you, showing up with fresh flowers works too. Just don’t show up empty handed, that’s bad form.

FULL DISCLOSURE – I was introduced to these products through my blog, but I am not being paid by any of these companies, I just genuinely like this stuff. I probably won’t even tell them I did this, I’m a bad blogger that way.

Came out yesterday for Christmas with my brother Pete!

Flew into Calgary, rented a car and drove around lost in Calgary; now I know it well.

Look, I coincidentally ended up with a Ford Focus, ha.

I’ve still not told you all about Los Angeles and Ford shipping me out to the LA Auto Show have I. I have so much to catch you up on.

Pete took me on a tour of Brooks, which I’ll share with you later.  The people are ridiculously friendly, and there is a LOT of cool stuff here, you’re going to be surprised, too.

For now:

He and his lovely girlfriend are decorated OUT for Christmas; the dining room table has under-glow.

Even my bedroom is decorated, a bowl of candy beside my bead, awwww Pete I love ya.