Now I’m Home in Toronto

Goodbye warm weather, hello ending to my ‘Avoiding Winter Tour 2012‘.

Last flight.

Since leaving Toronto January 1, I boarded 25 planes.

 

Proud of this.

I have internet on my phone again!  It’s been 4 months since I could say that.

I was using the thing below.  Which means I had to manage two devices, and the connection was not very reliable.

Every blog post had to be kicked online, no dramatics.

First meal back on Canadian soil.

Girl catchup, very important.

It’s ironic that it snowed a bit today… my first day back is Toronto’s first day of snow since February.

I picked up a Ford Fiesta today, I’m mobile again!!

The studio is done, it’s stuck in a garage in North Toronto.  I’m going to have to jump it and take the back roads to the crushers.  I suppose that will make a good video.  Good for you, sad for me.

Pumped to be back, can’t wait to catch up when I see you.

Have a great Tuesday night!

 

 

I'm Homeless in 2 Weeks

No dramatics, I literally am.

I gave up my place January 1 when I embarked on my ‘Avoiding Winter 2012 Tour‘.

Guess I should get on finding a place to live, huh. I’m good the week I get back, but only that one week.

The requirements:

  • right downtown
  • no roommates
  • parking a MUST (I’ve got some sweet Fords and Lincolns lined up for my return!)

  • and NEVER a basement apartment.  They’re bad for your head

This was my view for 3 years.

Now that is good for the head.

I could see so much when I’d wake up, and it’d make me go, “work harder, Keri.  Look at all the competition“.

That was in CityPlace. I had a really great place for a really great price, until my landlord sold it last fall. That’s when I gave away everything I own and became a gypsy.

It’s dismal out there, guys.

And the roommates are “charming” and “professional”. Uh-huh.  $800/month sub-terranean room in you’ll share with 3 noisy pigs.

And then the bed bug factor: try to save a couple hundred a month, end up burning your belongings.

If you are ever looking to start a business, rent out furnished apartments for $1,200/month; they don’t exist.

Here’s a couple of my dream places.

Another old bank. As if it’s been empty for so long.

Imagine I popped out of there when you were walking by, hi hi! Nice day isn’t it!

Dream big I say.

Last fall I looked into ‘One King West‘. Beautiful. That’s going to be a setting in my movie one day.

It’s also an old bank. Wouldn’t be my first time living in an old bank.

Oddly, I had the appointment in the morning, and that evening went there to a Stella party.

(if ever you are invited to a Stella party, go; they’re always amazing)

Thought about Etobicoke aka “New Toronto”. That place is really booming. Predicted that in 2010, ha.

Wish I could live in my beloved Cherry Beach.

I’d also like to be a house sitter for rich people. I’d be so good at that. I’m probably cleaner than them, and I won’t use your appliances.

I’ll figure it out, I don’t mind the stress. But this isn’t really stress.

Stress is living in war-torn Rwanda, looking for a bug for dinner.

If you have any ideas or links, please advise.  TTYL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Miss My View

This was my view for 3 years.

That’s the cutest airport, Porter.

 

The shortest ferry ride in the world.

Different filers on my Olympus PEN.

There’s CBC, my first job when moving here.

I ended up becoming their inaugural made-for-web-show.

TheCanadianExplorer.com

Can you picture me standing at the bottom of the Rogers sign the night I guarded ACDC? Ha.

Woah this winter weather this is outstanding!

Thanks for a great visit home, Toronto, see you in the spring!!

 

 

 

 

 

PS – Gah, just realized: how can I not have a ‘Toronto’ blog category? Now I do.

Photos of the Sky

Isn’t that a great thing to see in the sky?

If you need a little image for a little something special, this might be nice.

I’ve heard that when you see an X in the sky it’s because the weather is being controlled, that’s why the Beijing Olympics had consistently beautiful weather.

It’s possible, ions and all that, a little Tesla magic, kinda neat to think about for a second.

Not as much sky here, but this is where I think the most valuable residential real estate will be in a few years, Lakeshore in Etobicoke.