A Saturday Night Update

It’s a pretty typical Saturday night here, bubbly water and my laptop. I’m polishing this week’s column, which is the 3rd (and final) instalment in what accidentally turned into an Eco series. Here’s Part 1 & Part 2.

I’m also doing blog renovations, and cleaning up my accounts around the internet.

Plus cleaning IRL.

Tomorrow kicks off the Year of the Snake.

I’m almost done, except for this mess.

This is the latest song I’m OCDing out to; how is this not a radio hit?

Insert headphones and turn it UP.

Remember dance packing? Chinese New Year cleaning will look like this.

(that’s an old OCD’ed out song)

Had a great time at the FordBlue party last night. Not surprising, Ford always puts on class events.

The storm was fun, eh! Canada looks like Canada again.

It also allows me to wear some favouite boots.  Good to -75ºC.

My hair looks great eh, this is Niki’s best blonde yet. Thanks missy xo

She’s been perfecting “Illusion Hair”; I’ll detail it out another time, it’s clever. Go see her, too.

I’ve been cooking :O

It counts as cooking, I used heat.

This is from last week, but I look exactly the same right now #SaturdayNightUniform

I’ll leave you with what my desk right now, been a while since I documented it.

TTYL, have a great rest-of-weekend,

xo Keri

 

That’s the Business Year of 2012 Complete

Hope you had a good ending, too.

Mine is below, plus I moved a mountain, right down to the wire on Friday. I like to think I finished with a little flourish.

I love how the world collectively shuts down each year like this.

I had a big Friday morning deadline, stood up from my laptop at 2am, then went for a cruise with fellow Autonet-er Russ.

He’d decided in case the world really did end, he wanted to be out driving.

Watch; it’s an automatic, too:

Ha! I’ve been pulling all-nighters for 2 weeks now, and this was a great ending to that.

Photobombing will never get old. Hi Shawna!

5 years I’ve been blogging Brennen,
& this may be his best blonde yet #B

Go too: Brennen Demelo Studio –  416 301 1072 – 316 Adelaide street West

I don’t miss my white blonde hair, but it took many months to be able to say that. Fellow platinums – it’s a bit of a shock, when you transition down in tone.

The Extravaganza is complete!  Both Prize Packs have been delivered to winners: Cara Eng, Toronto, and Glenn Morton, Kingston.  Congratulations!

I didn’t mean for it to get so big, it just kept working – $3,200 in prizes. That’s more than some national franchises, my little blog.

Thanks again PR companies, it was great working together this year.

I was very quiet this weekend, in recovery mode, slept in late today.

My overly-dramatic letter opener.

Did paperwork, Life Admin, light manual labour and no-brainer chores; I can see the floor again.

Of course I shred.

This is my face.

Now back to being quiet, TTYT

xo Keri

 

 

No More Curls from Olden Times

I asked Niki for a lesson.  Everytime I try, I look like, “ye ‘ole pioneer here, gonna churn some butter in these curls”.

A good (bad) example is here.

– don’t put hairspray on first, only after

– always curl away from the face

– make all curls go the same way, not alternating directions. This way, if one curl falls out, it can blend into the rest of the hair

– don’t clamp the ends of the hair between the iron, leave the ends out 1 inch or so; it will blend better

– twist the hair as it goes around the barrel

– whatever the diameter of your iron, your curl section should not be bigger than that. Otherwise, only the middle is curling

– put your finger on the thickest part of the curl. When your finger gets hot, release

– once released, pull on the curl by its end, so it’s not too tight

– run your fingers through, but only when it’s cool; otherwise you’re pulling the hair straight

– not the whole bang though, just a bend is enough. Leaving them straight is, aerobics instructor circa 1983.

Tada and hello from 2012

Go see Niki too –  Brennen Demelo Studio – 416 301 1072 – 316 Adelaide Street West, Toronto

 

Encourage Your Kids to #WeDay

We Day is Free The Children’s annual “youth empowerment” event. Held in cities across Canada, We Day motivates youth to take action on local and global issues. Each student group that attends is asked to make a commitment of one local and one global action throughout the year in order to help create positive change in the world (source)

These kids earned their way this this event, by being the most awesome at giving and charity, and they genuinely enjoy doing it.  The money rasied is for the Canadian organization, Free the Children: the world’s largest network of children helping children, with more than one million youth in 45 countries involved.

These kids are into learning how to build healthy and sustainable communities, how to “foster a stronger more compassionate nation“, said Marc Kielburger, co-founder of Free The Children.

You’ll recognize some of these supporting faces.

They called it the, ‘Generation Without Borders‘, and the most activist generation, ever.  There will be over 90,000 youth participating this year across Canada.

Here’s 22,000 screaming teenagers.

Know what they’re cheering for? The founder of ‘Doctors Without Borders’.  Their teachers.  Getting water to an impoverished African village.

I KNOW :O

This was the first TELUS WeDay, they just shook hands with ‘Free the Children’ for 5 years.  Congratulations guys!

Backstage I ran into my long-time hair stylist, Brennen Demelo.  He and his team had volunteered for today’s event.  See internet, I’ll only steer you towards good.

I think if your kid participates in one WeDay, spends the months earning their way here, and then experiences an event like this, they can’t come out that bad.

Watch Toronto WeDay on TV:

– Much Music, November 11 at 7pm

– CTV, November 24 at 7pm

Maybe one of the most pure atmospheres I’ve ever been in.  Even my robot eyes misted up.

WeDay Coming Soon:

• We Day Waterloo Region: November 14, 2012, Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
• We Day Montreal: November 20, 2012, Theatre St Denis
• National We Day: April 29, 2013, Robert Guertin Arena in Ottawa

(an aside)

To me, online means public

It’s big internet out there, and I worry how the kids put so much of their life online.

Parents please: keep an eye on video chat, not a lot of good ever comes out of video chat; remind them they should have minimum-8-character passwords; that their photos will follow them, the internet doesn’t forget; and no one under the age of 10, needs a Facebook account.

IMPORTANT: make sure their EXIF data, and geo-location services, are turned OFF.

EXIF data – information attached to an uploaded photo.  GPS location, time, model of phone, more. Can be used to track the person, in real time, using a simple web app.

Also parents – if you hear at work about the TELUS WISE program, ask to attend.  It’s the first security-awareness program of its kind in Canada, and it will help you help your kid, to make good online choices.