Good morning and welcome to 2012 work life! How was your holidays? You know how mine we’re, obvs. Had a relaxing day yesterday then went to Sammy’s to watch movies. He made dinner and left for Jamaica early this morning. Lucky bum heads to the sun on the coldest day yet. Have you been outside in Toronto today? Bundle up yo. Packed on a fur on top of my winter coat for extra warmth. Sammy has more fur coats than me, haha.

Came over to Raymi’s before my tattoo at 2pm. I’ll have have sleeve by summer I reckon. Lau, Raymi, Sarah and I invented #shitbloggerssay last night. You wait till we film that show! With over 200 million zillion blogs in the world it will surely interest a few thousand nerds like you us. I have so many days of photos and stories to blog, stay tuned for that later. A bloggers work is never done!! Have an awesome day.

Spend Thursday night with the lovely Minx Raymi her mama and Lois for the last Coug Crawl of 2011. So fun. No, I’m not a coug yet but I’m 100% a fan of The Keg. Used to work at the Cambridge Keg with my sister. We were on the Opening Team and won the Airband Competition at Keg Cup 2005. If you worked at a keg you KNOW Keg Cup is a HUGE dealio.

Love is in the air.

Keg is full of older dudes on the prowl for young babes, hence, ‘Coug Crawl’. I conveniently had some old drunkish man buy us all Grey Goose shots, we played up that is was Lois’ birthday. (Wasn’t really! moohaha)

Love the calculator iPhone case Sean got me. THANKS SEAN!

Then we had a blog party. Look how early it is!

Check what she’s lookin’ at. Me, meta.

Look a hipster died right here on the street!

Met up w/ Sammy for some shenanigans.

Came home to THIS outside our window. You may remember the Snoetry from last year eh? He’s BACK.

Have an awesome day! Last one of the year, yeeeoowwwwwwww! What am I gonna wear? Gah.

Over the holidays I hung out with my friend Taylor, the founder of Dear Photograph. I love this idea so much that I really wanted to submit a few of my own memories. Mum and I dug through TON of old photos and these are some of the ones that didn’t make it. You’d be surprised how hard it is to line everything up just right.

Jenie & I with Johnny’s old car.

I always had a thing for self photography. 

Always likes to play in the rain too. 

Stylish and plying the in the snow.

Dad & I cut down the tree.

This one is my fav & the one I submitted.

Lovely day for a drive. Taking Mum my PC for her trip home to NZ next month. So wish I was going. Hopefully later 2012, thinking Septemberish. Windows were frozen shut this morning. Dropped Sammy & Ross off at work. So cute. Looking forward to 2012 and all the goodness that a new year brings. It’s amazing to all that has changed for me in the last year. Setting high goals and ready to take on the world! 90’s on 9 XM is great if you don’t know already.

Time to hit the open road! Have an awesome day.

So, my sister liked her presents! Gave Jenie a bunch of goodies last week but last night I gave her a few ‘special things’. The present she is opening in this video is a lint roller she bought last week at Walmart and left at my house. I thought it was REALLY funny to give back her own crap all wrapped nice. Moohaha. Sister fun.

When we were kids Jenie and I used to wrap up things from around the house. Once I gave her a can of beans and toilet paper, she wrapped up a huge package of pads for me. What a joker! Earier in the day Mum and I had some fun at Maccas with Happy Meal toys. Mum always says she is really only about eight years old. Me too 🙂

After dinner Jenie and I went with the crew to Diwan the only bar open. We smoked hookah and danced Mediterranean style. It’s tradition to meet up with Sara and the boys when we’re all home for the holidays. Wonder what will be open tonight?!

Do you know the story of the Nutcracker? The little boy & girl and the Nutcracker toy, they go to sleep, the Nutcracker grows to life size and comes alive with the other toys and it’s all very magical. Almost as magical is being on stage in The Nutcraker with the National Ballet of Canada after you’ve dreamed of it your whole life. Add on having Mum, Steve & sister there to watch, double magic.

We had a breif rehearsal in the studio. Watched our part, learned the plan, practiced a bit.

There were ballerinas everywhere. Concentration happening here.

The REAL Peter/Nutcracker, amazing dancer. Buff and masculine. (Casting deets)

Sam learning where to walk on stage from dance instructor. Audience was out there. HI MUM!

This was cool to me.

Get ready time.

This brings me back so many memories. I did ballet for 1/3 of my life, those formative years cast a long impression. It was always a dream leave the studio and go to the National Balle, also the only reason I ever fantasized about moving to Winnipeg.

Backstage jitters? Nah. All good.

We do not have a video of it. Kate’s sister was there and said we were great. Wearing doll cheeks is really fun. I kept them on all night. Used the new Nikon to take a bunch of these shots.

Our whole part was over before we knew it and we’re ready to do it again. Time on stage was about 3.5 minutes.

You can’t even see the audience with all the bright lights in your face. I love that feeling.

There were over 2,000 people in the audience. It was so much fun, have I said that yet?. Mum’s told me a zillion times how great it was, said she’s “spellbound”. I didn’t know that she’d never seen The Nutcracker by the National Ballet. Jenie, Mum, Steve & Sammy and I went for dinner first too which was great.

I want to take ballet again.

Been rushing like crazy the last few days. Have heaps to blog before I forget everything. Until then, I wish you and your family a wonderful day. About to head out with Mum to get some holiday crap! Love you xo

Watched this yesterday, so lovely. I follow MBF on Twitter but had never seen/heard him sing. I think my dream man will do something like this. The song/video is super cute & will bring sunshine to you on this dreary day.

Did you catch The Hobbit trailer? Are you in to LOTR? I kinda am. I fall asleep like, every time but I still watch.

Currently waiting for Chevy Sonic to arrive and I’m gonna drive that baby all around town today when it does. Found a gas card in a drawer which is awesome! Only if I could find a PARKING CARD?!

This vid from Jimmy Kimmel is quite hilarious. He asked parents to give their kids a pad present early and film it. You’ll have a good “haha” I reckon.

Thanks for your votes in the G Adventures contest. With a late entry and only a few days left to go, I made the top 100. Please click this link and vote. You can do once daily until the end of the year. The more the merrier! Do it from all the computers in your house/office 😛

Car’s here. Gotta run!

Delightful 🙂

Walking Queen West to see Rob at Bobby Five for a new tattoo. Been waiting for this one a long time. It’s quite lovely & mild out. Wearing spring jacket and don’t even have it done up. Not really feeling the holiday spirit but really looking forward to The Nutcracker on Thursday and going home Friday.

Hope you feeling happy & healthy. Sending sunshine your way!

<3 CASIE