The Skip is Back in the Step

3 weeks on the road is too much.

Mega-decompression weekend; jogging pants only, with plenty of quietness, little talking, ahhh. Feeling back to normal, puffier, not haggard and melted.

#SundayCleaning, did some sewing, main-lined episodes of Community, and kicked off my blog re-build.

For the past couple months, the new frame has been being built, and now it’s at that juncture where only I can move the project forward. The list is daunting.  Every bullet you point you see above is 2 hours, anyway.  Sidebars are a time suck. Yesterday I wrote 8 ‘About’ pages omg.

Part of this re-build, is to clean up my social media accounts; so bad I’m wearing a winter jacket in my Twitter, and my LinkedIn is the world’s worst, doesn’t say auto journalist, or even KeriBlog.com I think.

Filming a car meetup this week; my Mustang review ran last week (I’ll blog it); and because I flew home Wednesday, it’s just my Jetta, back to schedule asap. This week’s column is about buying cars in bulk.

Coming up – several car reviews / the last 5 KoD columns / NFC / BlackHat / hacking cars / Vegas / security at the Honda Indy / Lincoln MKZ / 2 Land Rovers / the Raptor / and 9 videos are ready to go.

Here’s to a strong start to your week xo

This is going to be a great fall outfit.

A few recent additions to my lanyard collection.

Shhh.

Night.

I Have the Biggest Blog Block

Part of it is the time of year, the gray season, that’s trackable on here for years, but also…  you might say, ‘Keri doesn’t talk online a lot, Twitter and FB etc’, but for me, this is a lot of talking. In real life, I’m pretty quiet.  Like, ‘make it through entire dinner parties without speaking’ quiet.  And sometimes I just don’t feel like talking, let alone so publicly.   Yes I realize the dichotomy of having a blog and being like that. Gave up years ago trying to figure out why, then 200 videos & thousands of posts later, still don’t know.

It’ll pass, it always does.  There’ll be a 5th Anniversary blog party next year.

And I have so much going on, and have been run down and exhausted keeping up; this last quiet week has been good for me.  I look better too, puffed back out less haggard.  I wish they taught time management in school.

My Autonet articles have been fun lately, click here to read them.

Lastly, although I haven’t blogged much recently, I’ve still been documenting.  That is hard to turn off.  Not sure I’d want to.

Here’s some recent photos.

Thanks for always checking in. Appreciate it more than you probably realize.

Love,
Keri

Shots like the one make me miss having a huge header at the top of my blog.

Going to bring it back when I re-build KeriBlog. Which, remember when I shut down everything to do that?  Way too ambitious, couldn’t be done, it’s a bigger project than I anticapated.  It’s making me insane and invading my dreams.  Plus my phone is freezing, my computer is on shaky ground, it’s all a mess and adding to the blog block.

This week’s flowers. And top 3 favourite smells.

Thinking this would make a killer night-out outfit: cream mini-dress, ridiculous platforms, small chain purse worn crossways, lots of ghetto gold.

New profile pic.

Got some members for some strangers families.

Note the despondent dramatics, by how I’m about to blog a fortune cookie message I got.


Been using Android more and more. I get why people love it.

Have a Blackberry 10 review coming up (short answer – it’s solid).

That’s that’s it for now the end.

 

 

Blog Break’s Over, Here’s What You Missed

Me typing a lot of things.

How sweet my place looked going into the Chinese New Years.

Looks like a hotel, eh!  All white and crisp.

My place would look good on Pinterest.

Found this little guy when cleaning; when I was very young, he came everywhere with me.

Stayed in a fancy downtown hotel.

It’s weird staying in a hotel in your own city.

Went around looking good in my hat.

I’ll probably make one of these my new profile pic, which is due to be changed.

Replenished my jogging pants supply.

Busy busy week!  For auto journalists, this week is like the Olympics.

The Canadian Auto Show kicks off tomorrow, and we’re live-blogging it for the paper’s first time (ScribbleLive!), and I have lined up a first-look at something awesome for you to see.

I filmed my first ever TV segment this morning, talking about the auto show on Sun TV, should be available to embed tomorrow.

That’s all I got right now, I have to start preparing, update my gear and practice more with ScribbleLive. I also set-up my Galaxy to use tomorrow, the one TELUS gave me.  I wanted to use my new BlackBerry, but Scribble’s not yet available for BB.  I’ve got a post started to tell you about the phone, short answer: the OS is solid, the upside-down-L gesture is efficient, and business people you’re going to love it.

It IS time to upgrade my phone though, this old iPhone 4 is no longer cutting it.

Look how grainy, that’s not good.

Night, TTYT

 

 

Things from the Last Week

I liked this outfit.

Extreme paperwork project complete.

So it was ‘National Sadness Day’ this week huh. I’ve blogged how I feel about that before, click here.

This is the latest song I’m OCDing out to. Anything of mine you’re read in the last 3 weeks, has been to this.

I was supposed to be leaving Monday for a week in the Arctic, to drive a Mercedes Sprinter van from Anchorage Alaska to Edmonton, Alberta.

I was booked into the 3rd leg, which unfortunately was cancelled. Mercedes kindly offered to have me join the first leg, but I wasn’t able to rearrange my schedule. It looks like a great time, follow along on #SprinterArcticDrive

Outdoor fun.

Where next week’s column started from #ThatsGoodMultiTasking

Didn’t today feel… off? Like, the entire world had a collective stress stroke.

Spent a lot of time on my laptop.

A lot.

I feel depleted, not bad, but wiped.

Flash on flash off.

Night.

 

That was the Second Last Summer Weekend

Day walk.

Easy to forget Toronto looks like this, so green. There’s more parks and green space here than almost any other city in North America, EH.

There’s also lots of preserved olden times.

#SundayCleaning done. I blog that each week to remind myself another week of time has passed.

Also, I try to have this weekend-wrap-up post live by 11pm. I have 15 minutes from this sentence.

A handful of my weekend outfits.

This week’s flowers.

Friday August 31 is a full moon, but it’s special because it’s also a…

Blue moon – the second full moon that occurs in one month. Happens once every three years. Does not actually glow blue.

Night walk.

Night.

TTYT, have a great start to your week!

xo Keri

PS – Made it 10:56pm