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Oh Canada

It’s Canada Day! 

Years ago, I’d be pretty stressed around now, feeling the pressure to come up with a dazzling video, having called my show, ‘The Canadian Explorer’.

This one was spent out-of-country in Budapest, with a group of Canadian auto journalists, which is why I Instagrammed the dinner table reservation card.

Some previous years included: going to Ottawa one year; another year my cycling team won a race ; then one time I attended a citizenship swearing-in ceremony.

I asked the gentleman to take me through the Canada-oath.
Do it too – FF to 0:50, takes 11 seconds

Ep # 28/80 – “Exploring Canada Day” – aired 2009 (original post)

THE OATH – I affirm, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance, to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada, and fulfill my duties as a Canadian citizen.

If you say, “but Keri, what’s this Queen stuff?“, my thinking is: life’s pretty good in Canada right, so she can’t be all that bad, and sure it’s a bit antiquated, but of all the things we could focus on improving (homelessness / drug abuse / etc), let’s get fired up about that first.

It’s just, Canada is Shangri-la, and that needs to be protected, and if you live here you won the life lottery, so there’s a responsibility to do so.  I love that we’re a quietly awesome yet humble group, but maybe a touch more celerbating would be good.

Remember when we simultaneously threw the “Party Olympics”, while winning the most Gold medals ever in a Games?  Oh Canada.

(original post)

 

Where Did This Week Go

If it’s like this now, omg to when I’m 80 <blink> there goes a year.

Made a video in Cherry Beach.

I’ve probably filmed 25 videos there, and I still get distracted by the planes.

I finally, genuinely like FinalCut X.

Latest OCD song.

It was interesting to watch this song… it was leaked :| via the above, well-filmed video, and pretty good audio for a concert eh, the cheering timing… a concert where cameras are banned, by someone who was able to scrub images off the internet, and this video belongs to the simplest YouTube channel too…

Who cares though, this song is like, the Ferrari of beats and hooks; the one at 2:56, oh girl.

lilac picking

Lilac season!

Top 3 favourite smells of all time.

Had to get a new lamp.

I turned it on and it fried the lightbulb black, right before my eyes. I was going to put another bulb in and film it to make an animated gif, but then was like, watch that be the time fire comes out, and why don’t I own a fire extinguisher?

Go-karting with Kart Start last weekend, have another post for that.

I dominated the weekly auto section of the paper last week look, of the 5 articles 4 were written by me ha.

I’m behind on lots of posts, and blogging my ‘Keri on Driving’ columns, and a F150 off-roading video, and…wait, I’m going to make a list of “posts coming soon”, this is more for me than you….

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COMING SOON BLOG POSTS

– F150 Raptor off-roading video

– ‘Keri on Driving’ column x 2

– I <3 drones

– Car Reviews: Infiniti M37xS / Hyundai Accent / Acura MDX in Oregon / Chevy Spark / Santa Fe XL / Pathfinder / Dodge Dart / Acura RL

– dinosaurs

– switched to TELUS finally

– snorkelling

– BB Q10

– how to back up

– Kart Start

– editing style

– Swarovski

– cycling team 6 years president

– Autonet update

– it’s a good idea to monitor your connections

– Yada cam becomes spy cam

– CAA at the TSO

– plus single pic posts

aaaaand……

– about the QNX OS (_yes_ I cracked it)

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This is me last week, basking in my genius of when I cracked it – a stock market mystery had been puzzling me for years.

It’ll get it’s own post, but I’m going to keep that post more professional, so here sits the gloating photo.

Next week’s column is about daydreaming behind the wheel, I managed to get myself sick because I am a dumdum, nah I’ll just blame this garbage summer we’re having, have to return the Infiniti tomorrow boo, and I forget what else for now.

Hope it was a good Thursday, best night of the week,

xo Keri

 

Happy May 24

Staying in the city during the holidays is the best, because everyone leaves.

Not sure about the design choice of the stage; so angular when everything else is curvy.

This is City Hall’s recent renovation; remember it had that little garden area off to the right) #BenefitOfBlogging I also guarded an event there in 2008

Went to the movies! A bi-annual occurrence. Second 3D movie ever.

It was IronMan 3, and maybe the best movie I’ve seen in years.

What am I wearing? Not jogging pants, at least.

It’s a lazy day today. After I hit publish, I have to polish next week’s column (about towing things), then I’m back on my mini-break from online.

Really liking this Monday – Friday publishing schedule I’ve been gravitating toward; going to keep moving KeriBlog in that direction.

Speaking of direction, had a great coffee with my lawyer, Martin. I’ve introduced you before.

When I started all this online stuff back in 2007, I took it a bit more seriously than most; still probably do.

I’m very aware of the weight of what I post online.  For example, all ‘Canadian Explorer’ episodes are set to royalty free music; I always get on-camera acknowledgement and permission from the stranger I just filmed, they know it will be published on the internet; this time Martin helped out with contract stuff, because I have an employee now, so how do I properly paperwork that? Like that.

We’ve been a pair for WOAH just did the math on that… 5 years now. NICE.

Go Too – Martin Ross of Ross – Rumbell Professional Corporation     Downtown Toronto 416.800.1776

Above is a collage I made to celebrate OOK’s 3rd birthday April 2011.

Next week I’ve got Alberta to tell you about; made it to the Toronto Sun today for the first time; things are really starting to fall into a rhythm with Charlotte and I; armoured car shopping; it’s the 6th year of my cycling team; off to Oregon soon with Acura; and I think I may have invented the thing of all things yeaterday, a solution of epic proportions.

If it works, I’m going to link back to this paragraph, and it’ll be like woah, how’d you stay so calm Keri… it’s that good an idea. First time I’ve ever blogged the word ‘epic’.

kk enjoy the second half of May TwoFour!!
Weather couldn’t be better EH.

xo
Keri

 

Things I Found while Purging

Come on, I’ll show you some stuff.

Went through a big Ann-Margret phase. I’ve seen her 3 times, the last of which she hugged me.  I can do the song and dance to Appreciation from ‘Viva Las Vegas’.

Look where the bottom ticket is – Minot, North Dakota ahahah omg. Here’s an old blog post about that story.

I write myself letters, to be opened in the future.

Party photo booths.

Remember that time I threw myself a Blog Party? Looking back, kind of a weird thing to do. But it was 2009… different time different internet.  I wanted to bring my blog into the real world, take if offline.  Same for the recent Extravaganza giveaway… how much can my blog actually move?  More than I thought.

Why did I use a period instead of exclamation point after ‘party’?

Statement of fact:  you have been welcomed.

The raffle prizes were items seen in episodes of my show. It was cooler than it sounds.

Original header of my first blog, TheCanadianExplorer.com

Hi Suzy!

Graduating university.

Remember that time I was president of a cycling team for 5 years? Ha.

Meet my team – we were scrappy, and won a lot.

From New Years 2010, I went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Am a bit infatuated with them. Look at all the ones & zeros below, ha.

I’d totally forgotten about this, this is neat.

In 2008, I was picked up by CBC and became their “inaugural made-for-web show”. Below is the pitch document, written by my bosses, when they tried to get me a job there permanently.  This is all them, none of this is written by me. This experience was a big lesson about this business.

Because to keep me there, the money  had to come from the ‘entertainment’ budget, so that’s where the storyline of me finding myself came from, to justify it.

I didn’t like that part… there’s no finding, I’m right here.

I wanted to keep it documentary style, about the subject first, me second.  I argued, I lost, and I wouldn’t change one thing about anything, it all worked out correctly, genuinely mean that.

 

 

I Finally Built MegaCurtain

It’s been on my to-do list, since as I moved in mid-May (click here to see the ‘Before’)

MegaCurtain serves 4 purposes:

  1. draws the eye up, creating the illusion of height
  2. dampens noise
  3. hides the recycling
  4. adds beauty

I love sewing, always have.  That link leads to a quilt I made.

One time in university, I gave our living room a makeover; drapes, cushions, and re-covered the couch into a replica of Chairry, from ‘PeeWee’s Playhouse’.

Used the same sewing machine, seen above.

MegaCurtain was a lot of material to work with, no way did I hem it; not dedicating my limited spare time to that.