It’s almost Friday, already. I’m nervous and excited. November is Sunday and since September I’ve moved up almost 15 floors, got a new job and have a happy heart . I stuck to my goals and keep my thoughts positive. I have a really good idea for Nuit Blanche next year and it’s beautiful in my mind. I’ve been dreaming of an iphone. I’m nervous and excited about everything. My skin tingles through my veins.
photo by lee dale
Last week I got a new mascara in the mail as a member of Chick Advisor’s Product Review Club. ChickAdvisor is a girls resource for reviews and advice on stuff they like.
It made my lashes longer. It’s lite on your lashes, soft almost. It’s a good day mascara. I do two coats.
It brushes on nicely. The brush is a combination between that skinny plastic kind d the fluffier brush one.
My lashes feel soft and not all mascara-ish. I would use it again. My current favorite is the vibrating mascara, it’s a bit more expensive.
Twitter came out with lists yesterday. I made one list so far it is a growing collection of Toronto Blog Girls. I’m on a couple lists made by other including Toronto Twitterati, Social Community Alliance and Toronto Arts.
I got a really lovely shout out this week from my penpal Hillzy on her blog. Keep blogging sista!
Big thanks to Two Belt & E1E ♥
I had a really interesting dream last night. I moved to this house in Montreal. It was huge. I shared a really big room with a friend but it wasn’t small it was really big. It had it’s own bathroom. There were lots of things around the house from the people who lived there before. Maybe they still lived there. The house was really old too.
There were a bunch of people that lived there. Madison Mitchell lived there and I saw her in action. There was a trap door under the floor near my bed that had a room with four bunk beds. I had so much closet space to put all my clothes that I wanted more and more. The house was near a ski hill and it was winter.
I wish I had that much closet space, today is closet organizing day.New rack will be delivered in about an hour. The goal is all clothes have a home. Good luck to me.
Last night I stopped into The Hazelton for Macallan Scotch tasting. Wasn’t sure if I was gonna to make it through. I thought, ‘I don’t know if I can handle drinking scotch but I’m sure going to try’. I had a good time at the vodka tasting last time.
I arrived with Keri and sat down right across from Cheryl who I know as @Cherrysberries. We had a lovely Quebecois man named Mark showing us the Macallan.
It wasn’t long before I spotted a bunch of familiar faces around the room…
Toronto bloggers Zucket & Hyfen
Twitter peeps Jingle_jangle, _topshelf, Reado & Karmacake
Some things I learned:
The whole time I was tasting these I thought “I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Mmm, mmm, mmm. Here it goes down, down into my belly.” haha
Macallan 12 – added water, comes from Spanish oak, little bit of wood smoke, valinna woith hints of ginger, smooth palet, sweet toffee finish, dried fruit…
Macallan 15 – fine oak – lighter in colour
Macallan 18 – fine sherry oak, darker
Macallan 21 – like a fine ballerina on stage exquisite single malt
Whiskey stones are better than icecubes. If you don’t get the expensive ones you can go to Lake Ontario, bend down, pick up some stones, wash with wiskey, put in the freezer, use as ice rocks.
To ensure they don’t ruin their wood supply, they don’t cut more than they plant; they plan ahead 100 years for that fine oak.
That’s pretty cool. I recon making a hundred year plan is a good idea.
Let me tell you. Working from home is great. Well, working when you’re not on a schedule or have any deadlines and you don’t have to report to anyone. Working on Tweeting your friends, replying to emails of interest, attending blogging events, videos, celebrating yourself and your friends…it’s a tough life.
I woke up yesterday and put on Zombie makeup. It was lovely. I went to Sobeys to get groceries, got the mail and received a package from the concierge.
Scared some new neighbor and the cleaning lady. It was so fucking fun. Me, alone, Zombie by day, not even Halloween yet. I love me when I do things like that. Like really live it out. Make the most.
I started this draft a while ago and now it’s already almost 2pm. I have a meeting and haven’t showered even gotten dressed yet or washed my hair.
Karrera took all these photos. I just made a scary movie.
Working at home is harder than I thought…
When you love what you do it’s not really work.
Thank you everyone who entered the Harijuku Lovers contest. The contest closed on Friday and I apologize for being late at sharing the winner. I drew the winner while I a Zombie in spirit of Halloween.
The winner is Bianca Swayne and she is from Toronto. Bianca, your present is on it’s WAY!
Entries flew in from Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia, and even Sweedish blogger Ewa.
Some of the things contestants love include:
The funniest one was:
“I love cats that pee in the toilet. Specifically my cat. But since she isn’t yet, any cat is good enough.”
awesome weekend filled with fun. so many photos. show you later. last day at the office. pretty darn excited. have lots of catching up to do with blogging. hate that.
this week is gonna go fast and i am going to savor every moment of it. new camera is on its way. it’s getting sunny out. phones backed up and ready to give back. new number, the old number. blackberry makes it so easy to switch.
today’s my last day. i’m nervous and excited. exit interview, nice honest or the honest truth? and lunch with my boss. omg. omg… i feel like i could puke a rainbow.
First – GenyTO was fun. Thanks to Renee who really took the cake and made sure it went well. I left early after lots of congrats from familiar faces. We raised a bunch for UNICEF! Thank you everyone for coming!
Second – Zombie Walk is ON! No rain. I’ll be getting bloody and gross around 2pm and heading to Bellwoods to meet the other brain hungry kids for 3.
Third – Will post the Harajuku Lovers contest winner after brunch.
my tumblr blog is a collection of photos and things i from around the internet. it’s like a scrap book of pictures you’d stick on your wall with that blue sticky stuff when you are a pre-teen. the ones from the teen mags.
it’s things that inspire me. it’s people who are inspired. sometimes it’s funny and that’s inspiring too. i choose to be happy and the simplest photo can do it.
this one gets me
It’s where beauty meets eats brains…
So gross hot. I surprise myself all the time with my love for Zombies. I don’t like anything to do with blood or guts and cringe when I see them on TV. However…I love Zombie fun. I reckon I’ll be a Zombie pinup girl this year.
If it rains tomorrow I will not be doing the Toronto Zombie Walk for the following reasons:
I started this blog in 2006 so that I could remember more stuff. I found I was always forgetting and a couple friends started to get annoyed, as did I.
Now, I love this blog, I love it everyday. I look back in time and be reminded of people, places, things, and thoughts; stories from Mum, travel, movies I saw, genius ideas, stuff about style.
I’m proud of a couple girls I know who’ve been inspired to start their own blogs. Keep it up ladies, mama loves you!! They are: Cara’s Wild on Rice, Irie’s The Shnitz, & Katie’s Tales ans Snippets.
I finally cleaned my room and unpacked most of my stuff last night. It was great waking up to a floor I could spin around on without falling into a bunch of boxes.
I hope you all have a really great day.
Something made is just the best. When someone makes you a card and you get it, it’s like, totally amazing. Jenie painted me a watercolor card at Christmas. It was beautiful. This is very exciting to me…meet @hillzy, my first penpal since I was a kid.
She sent a survey: The Casie Stewart-vey ♥ V.1.0 CS 2009
Here’s just a few of my answers:
Q1) Favorite colour: green
Q4) I firmly believe:
1) you can achieve if you believe
2) in love
3) it doesn’t hurt to be easy on the eyes
Q5) If I could pack up and leave Toronto, I would go: back to Bondi Beach, Australia
Q9) Things I must have in my handbag:
1) smartphone
2) pen/pencil/sharpie
3) sunnies
Q10) My favorite part of the day is: when the sun shines through the clouds
I got out the art box and there’s lots of goodies in there and I’m gonna send something back now. Something that nobody, nobody ON OR OFF the internet has…something I made. Art.
* Side note: Hey Mum, who was my last penpal, was her name Darlene?
I slept for 12 hours last night. I laid down, exhausted, at 8pm and was woken up after 1am. Sabrina thought I had been at the Notable TV party. My body and mind obviously needed rest.
Today’s a day for wellies, a mini and no tights….it’s gonna be 17 degrees! Oh, I love!
I’m kinda gonna miss walking through the factory each morning. It’s really pretty especially during fall when the leaves on the vines change colour.
Sabrina and I really enjoy this red vine. Don’t mind the gay look on my face! I’m much better when I smile…
There’s a lot of history and old fixtures that I enjoy; the rail tracks, old boiler room, old fire hydrants. The new office will have it’s own things to love, this I do not doubt.
The closing date for the Harajuku Lovers contest is FRIDAY! I originally messed up the date but have been informed by the sponsors that it is TOMORROW. I’ll be making the draw for the winner after 5pm.
Tomorrow night the October edition of GenYTO at Spice Safar on King West. Come celebrate with me. Come meet and greet with a bunch of TO’s smart, young, cool people. It is a night not to be missed!!
What’s up with the new Olympic Torch design? I don’t like it. I prefer a REAL torch.
I just said bye-bye to my old job. I quit. I’m moving on…
I’ve taken a position with Much & MTV on the Digital Marketing team. I knew when I read the description, this job that was for ME. I remained positive the whole time and knew in my mind and my heart that this is what I truly want to do.
I’ve worked really hard over the last year and it wasn’t luck that did it, it was preparation meeting opportunity.I used to work in web development Toronto and now I’m moving into new ground. I could not be happier than I am right now. I am proud to say, I have left a job and now begin a career.
Thank you for your love and support.
