a slice of paradise in your own backyard

Had a lovely afternoon in the sun today. Picked up a new paid of Doc’s at the Dr. Martens Store (I’m the Mayor!). I gad a gift certificate from the team to get a any pair I saw at the Fall preview back in July. I got black polished laredo Serena’s, last size 6 they had. Lucky me!  Stopped by Quicksilver and got a pair of board shorts & a matching top for my surf trip to Costa Rica next week. So excited to surf. Visited the lovely  ladies at Get Outside  for a new pair of plain black Havaianas (trashed my old ones at the end of summer). Got may nails done on my way home. I love the hand massage you get. I wonder if I could just go in for hand massage? Is that weird? I’d say it was because I spend all day on the computer. Read my book in the balcony sun for a bit and am about to clean my room. Lauren is coming by before the My City Lives “That Night in Toronto” party and I’d like if my room didn’t look like hoarders.

Hope you’re having an awesome day. Get some sun on your face!

This is where we’re going tonight! Cheers to the Biz Media for making & My City Loves for sharing 🙂

Weekend Tune: “Katy On A Mission” by Katy B

Weekend! Weekend! Yay! Weekend!

For this week’s weekend tune I’ve pulled out a favourite recent hit of mine. Katy B’s “Katy On A Mission” came out last summer and became a huge UK hit. One year later and I still think it’s a great jam. Perfect for a Saturday night getting ready to go out.

Enjoy!
xo Kate

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  • Reading all your tweets now! Thank you everyone for coming to #CCspeakeasy last night. How you feelin'? #prohibition #
  • You guys are so kind. Ahh. Waking up to all this is lovely. In other news, our water is shut off and I can't shower. #
  • Link me to your pix or posts about #CCspeakeasy so I can share with the HBO & CC team! #
  • Water back on, thankful for that! Mum always remind me how lucky we are to have fresh running water after her year on a boat. #
  • "Why more people juggle more balls" written by @markevans in the @globeandmail today featuring me 🙂 http://t.co/PQy6ndXx #
  • Last night Sam & I took a cab to Maccas drive thru after we got home. haha. #
  • Tonight it's me & XBox Kinect. We have a date. #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/WbWvD57v FIAT Presents – CBS Alternate Routes: James Flames – "Python" #
  • Storytime: James Flames & The Python: My friend James who runs @RebelBingohttp://t.co/WxuBiCYe #thisismylife #
  • omg one of my dreams JUST came true. #yandr #
  • Rescue me! http://t.co/uVzDc4QK #
  • Wolf Blass cab, 10oz NY, scallops & bacon. #lunchdate (@ The Keg Steakhouse & Bar w/ 2 others) [pic]: http://t.co/4BKcOt6M #
  • I love you dinner. #keg http://t.co/t2jX6P3L #
  • I love this city. http://t.co/rObR9UQd #
  • The #CCSpeakeasy I would say good morning but as I write this it’s already the… http://t.co/LmDhCeRa #thisismylife #
  • wow, i am tired. so looking forward to Costa Rica, one week from today. #vacation #
  • I want to go to Japan. #
  • I got Sammy a lotto ticket for tonight but signed both our names so he has to split it with me. #
  • Thinking about booking Myrtle Beach trip while @PorterAirlines still has 50% off. Hmmmm @Keriblog?? #
  • #Jeopardy tourney of champs today! #
  • there's nothing hot about playing with other people's lives #yandr @JoshuaMorrowYR #
  • What movie should I watch tonight? #
  • Why do I love McDonalds so much? #

The #CCSpeakeasy

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I would say good morning but as I write this it’s already the late afternoon. What can I say? I’m still recovering from last night’s awesomeness. The Canadian Club Speakeasy was an old timey shindig if there ever was! Who doesn’t love dressing up all flapper-esque and pretending to be in Boardwalk Empire?! Here’s some photos I snapped of everyone dolled-up and  a ditty for you to listen along to!

Casie and the Car

This car was outside and begging to be posed with.

bartender

The bartenders were all dapper and pulled out some tricks as they mixed the Canadian Club cocktails. They were all Boardwalk Empire themed too. The hit of the night seemed to be the Nucky!

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Casie and I couldn’t help but have a mini photo shoot. The location was just so cool looking!

Casie 4

This 1920s girl is always working!

best dressed

How handsome! It’s no surprise that Jason won best dressed! Although he did have some stiff competition…

Classy Barbie

This Barbie is so classy!

Sam and Ross

Sam and Ross all suited up! Can the men of the world just agree to dress like this all the time please? All of you guys just have a meeting and discuss it at least? Cool thanks.

Well that’s all for now! Thanks so much to Canadian Club and HBO for putting on the ritz and feeding us tasty drinks! Now excuse me while I get back to my recovery and giant bottle of water. Maybe I’ll lazy about on the couch and watch something. Can you guess what?

xo Kate

Storytime: James Flames & The Python

My friend James who runs @RebelBingo tells a story about him being a conservation hero in Zimbabue. I watched it just now and reckon you might enjoy it on this lovely Friday afternoon. Well done James.

At the juice joint with fellow members of the Canadian Club.

I don’t know much about, much about, much about…

Heard this song last night at the opening of Little Burgundy in Style Exchange and loved it.

There were heaps of awesome peeps I’d not seen in a while, friends from MuchMTV and socialites. Pix are all from O’Nizzle’s Twitpic. Thanks for Style Exchange for the gift cards. I’ll be sure to use them before my trip next week. Yippeee!

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I’ve been to many festivals but one of my favourites was EinsteinFest in 2005 at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. (Say that five times fast.) I was thinking about that day today, my sister and I were volunteered with a bunch of other kids. The Institute is located in Waterloo not too far from Cambridge where I grew up. I’ve been an Einstein lover for ages. Some of my favourite things are his quotes (one of which is the title of this post). Ahh memories.

 

 

Have you ever had a Jerry Maguire moment?

One where you are walking down the street and you realize that what you are doing is exactly what you should be doing and you know you can help people and change the world and you have purpose and you are doing things that matter despite what anyone says, because you are going places and you are connecting with people and doing what you love and you are not ‘just’ an average person, you are being yourself and you are really good at it and you are spreading love and light throughout the world and it is totally awesome

Yeah that. I kinda had one of those last night.

“The key to this business is personal relationships”

– Dicky Fox

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