Have you ever been to a gifting lounge? It’s totally awesome. Last year at TIFF was my first time and it’s like your birthday. Hair, nails, clothes, games, makeup, shoes, products galore. You get hooked up with stuff from cool companies. Some of the brands are Bench, Converse, Toms, Jeffrey Campbell.
Stay tuned on how you can win a ticket to attend BHD SUITES June 18. Gonna be real FUN 🙂
Have plans Saturday? The city is gonna be full of excitement with NXNE & MMVA. I would like to invite you to come to The Ballroom Bowl to see Shad live. I have two wristbands avail that let you jump the general admin NXNE passholder line. Heck yeah VIP!
What: Shad and Windows 7 + Windows Live at NXNE!
Date: Saturday, June 18
Time: 11 p.m.
Where: The Ballroom (145 John Street @ Richmond)
Windows live will be giving away two Xbox 360s on site. They have ANOTHER two Xbox 360s and a Windows Phone 7 to randomly give away based on #RockwithWindows tweets or photos tagged at Microsoft Windows Canada on Facebook here.
This is my fav vid of his. Fresh Prince throwback!
Wanna go? Tweet me, @casiestewart with #RockwithWindows in the comments. Easy peazy. Will pick someone Thursday so you have time to plan your weekend.
One of the most annoying things ever is when girls (any age) talk about you to other people. I’ve talked about it before and despite getting older, it never seems to go away.
It is especially annoying when it is public, negative, the person has a high profile and they also don’t bother to say it to you directly. I was not Regina George in highschool and didn’t used to have the confidence I do now. I got bullied heaps growing up, mostly by mean girls.
Today I got a message from a friend on my way home from the airport after six hours on airplanes and spending half the day before in an airport…
“your tweets & blog post rant about parents with kids at airport is causing a shit storm with parents on fb”
GREAT! Welcome home!
First: Thank you for reading & linking to my blog Erica.
I’m happy to have you as a reader. I’ve been a fan of yours since I was a kid. Circa 1991 here, lookin’ cute.
We both worked at MuchMusic and I’ve often wondered if we would work on a project together. We both blog & Tweet in Toronto. We have many friends in common. I always though of you as cool with great style.
Second: Why didn’t you comment/say ANYTHING TO ME?
I know you’re not shy. Lots of options, Twitter, Facebook, Fan Page, blog , email? I am surprised you would single me out like that to your friends on Facebook without commenting as a mother yourself.
I waited to see if you would say something to me since you were engaging your audience about my blog post. You didn’t. Your comment “what people without kids think of us who have kids” is a silly generalization about those who have kids and those who don’t.
I am one person and this blog is about my life, not all people who don’t have kids.
Third: To the Commenter(s) & Everyone
I am not an asshole for saying it is annoying to let your kids make a wrack and misbehave in a busy public place.
I traveled heaps as a kid with my parents and yes, I for sure made noise, I was a baby/kid. Mum said I was real cute in her comment though, thanks Mum!
Why didn’t you share your thoughts from a mothers perspective?
Maybe you have some great ideas on how to deal with a situation like I was in?
I had ear phones but you need to listen to the loud speaker for flight information when you are delayed. They were making it very difficult.
If you have thoughts on something I publish, I’d LOVE to hear about it. This is the sharing economy of internet awesomeness.
There is a difference between being a kid and being a misbehaved bratty child. I posted how I feel about the situation I was in.
Let’s hope this incident inspires people to raise their children with manners & etiquette. We want the younger generation to be kind & respectful. Don’t we?
Also, if you would like to submit something to the brand new Annoying Department, please do that too.
Oh, guess what? I don’t really like animals either. OMG.
P.S. I ordered this awesome unicorn lightsaber t-shirt from Threadless and I Love Katy Perry. She looks so cute in braces. I had braces in high school too. I go see her in concert soon!
In honour of this windy warm weekend, here’s some Bon Iver to drift away to…
Wouldn’t it be splendid to be walking around Paris and stumble into this? So lovely!
New to Bon Iver? Well let me help. Here’s the Bon Iver breakdown.
That handsome singer-songwriter fronting Bon Iver is Justin Vernon
“For Emma, Forever Ago” is not only the name of the song above, but name of Bon Iver’s debut album from 2008
Most of the record was written over three months spent in a remote cabin in Northwestern Wisconsin – after a breakup!
Recognize that voice? Kanye West sampled “Woods” for “Lost In This World” and got Justin Vernon to contributed vocals for his lasted release “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”
Bon Iver’s second album (titled “Bon Iver”) comes out June 21st, but until then you can stream the entire new album here!
I recommend you do so, alongside some tea and a cozy blanket during the next thunderstorm.
Stuck at airport family with bunch of kids behind us. They are annoying.
Update: Erica Ehm and the mommy bloggers went to TOWN on giving me hell for this post. Thanks for the hits and personal attacks. I was stuck in an airport and these parents from Florida let their kids run ALL OVER THE PLACE. Who does that? I wasn’t attacking ‘every parent’.
“But should you find yourself in the presence of a family, try to avoid behaving like this girl. I’m thinking of bookmarking her site to show my daughter an example of how not to act in public. The tight close-ups of her sun-damaged face making rude expressions about a family committing such atrocities as wondering where they’ve put their boarding passes and worrying about running out of diapers during a delay do a disservice to urban hipster doofuses everywhere.
Corinne McDermott is the founder of Have Baby Will Travel – your online guide for travel with babies, toddlers & young children.
Hey, why don’t you show your daughter my site? And also the amazing things I’ve done? Then show her what you wrote about me and explain that?
Original blog post images have been removed because those Mommy bloggers bullied me and I couldn’t handle it anymore. WHAT KIND OF MOMS DO THAT, HUH?
I’ve decided to be annoying too. I’m using three outlets, ahem…airport asshole. Please don’t be offended by this post if you have kids. My parents used to travel with me heaps as a kid. If anything, feel sorry for me! I am a terribly creative person trapped in an airport with a bunch of misbehaved rascals. They are running all around the place, being loud, can’t hear the announcements, and the parents aren’t doing a thing!
“I’m gonna run out of diapers”
“this is why I never travel with kids” (the Mum said that)
“who has the boarding passes” (get it together! these are your kids people!)
“we got a connection, now we gon’ miss it” (everyone is missing connections)
HEY LOUD TALKER. (posted videos about ‘loud talkers’ here and here)
“will they hold our flight?” (no, they don’t even really do that for celebrities! duh)
Oh great, now we’re boarding. Thank god. See you in Atlanta. Serious thunderstorm happening there. Love you byeeeeeeeeeee.
Dad loves racing so to be working with a race car driver is pretty neat. Especially an epic, race winning child prodigy one.
Sky & I were twerkin’ hard in the office aka the rig. She is 11.
We were tweeting our hearts out during the bike race portion. She is a riot. RA RA RIOT.
I was telling Kyle how he’s gonna have ladies all ova’ him. He’s so dang cute. Any of you out there 13ish? He’s single.
Gettin’ ready. Talladega styles.
Race time. Team #71.
Was a totally crazy race. Started with 25 drivers, finished with 16ish. About 20 cautions, three ambo’s. This one went straight to hospital, back injury. Hope you’re ok man.
Waiting for the track to be cleared then take a few laps to warm up the tires.
(Get’s easily distracted) HAHAHAHAHAHHA.
What a winner this stud. Kyle took 3rd. Nice one buddy!
Kyle loves Gatorade. (wink wink nudge nudge)
Sky, you are the cutest ever.
Check those tire marks from racers bumpin’ him. Bump & grind fo’ realz
His shirt was actually soaking wet. We were laughing. Dang hot drivin’ them cars. (Clearly I’ve been in the South, I’m typing with an accent.)
Impressed with how well spoken you are Kyle. Nice twerk. Good interview.
Night was fun. Brekky & travel home tomorrow. I miss my own bed. I like being away but I love coming home. Next trip is Boston in July. Next week is busy with NXNE (music & interactive), MMVAs & more. Gonna be real fun. Have an awesome day 🙂
* worst screen grab ever. YouTube you are assholes, let me upload a photo please!
I was in Florida to meet Kyle’s race team & family to chat about his personal brand. He’s a totally awesome kid who is racing against people twice his age and winning. Started Kyle’s Twitter today, follow him. He’s gonna be a star @kylebenjamin71.
The Margaritaville gave us the media inside yesterday before bike rentals start today. Thanks guys! Got ’em comped too. Media VIP FTW.
GIRL ON BIKE.
We cruised Pensacola Beach baby.
Pensacola Pier.
GLITTER.
Behave yourselves now.
I love biking. Gonna to to Curbside Cycle this week & get the Pantone gem.
Had lunch here.
So lovely.
I’m 58.3% awesomerrrr each day.
Glitter me timbers!
Guess who took her beerski shopping? Oh yeah. I do what I want!
Back to home base. This has been my office view for two days and today we leave to go to another hotel for the race etc. I have so many great pix from race practice yesterday.