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Hello I'm in Brooks, Alberta

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.

The Last Business Friday of 2011

My entire amount of Christmas encapsulated here:

The blue sticky on the wall lists the last 3 items to pick up.

Two colours of tissue paper from the dollar store wraps everything.  I set it up like an assembly line.

Christmas conquered.

I quit Christmas in 2005.  

I’m not being dramatic.  I’ll show up empty handed to your Christmas party and not feel bad about it.

But I can’t escape it completely. Family only.  If we’re not direct blood, like if you’re not my brother, you’re out; nothing personal.

I add up the receipts every year and compare my total against the mean average.

I still spent $313 this year on 4 people.

Average Amount Spent / Person on Christmas

Canada – $1 137
USA – $646*
Australia – $1055
England – $900

 

* I had trouble finding this stat; if you have a better source leave it in the comments, seems way too low

Cool graph of how much countries spend on average here.

When that was done, I sat down to unbox this crazy nice new gear come ON.

When I relented 2 years ago and acknowledged I needed a real camera, not just blog with my phone, I bought an Olympus Tough: waterproof, smash proof, you can stand on it it won’t break, Keri-proof.

Olympus then heard about my trip and kitted me OUT, upgraded my Tough camera and added their new PEN, sweet eh, and it’s RED, check out all the possible accessories here.

I’ve never had a lens before… my first lens!

Took this during purging, this is my toolbox. There’s practically nothing you can’t do with needle nose pliers.

Here’s the video I’m referring to in the above video, it’s one from my ‘Just a Minute’ series.

How a Year Really Is:

 

Night, ttyt.