The big bad wolf couldn’t blow this house down

Ready for more? Come quick, take my hand, there’s lots to see yet. Choose footwear wisely. This is what my hand looked like before I climbed that thing.

Thought it might be softer.

So then I roughened it up even some more. It wasn’t exactly the pottery barn hahaa. Burly. bush league. Man up and all that.

Descending on to camp. There’d be a full blown mutiny by the time I was done.

Kept my eye on the villagers and then poof I was gone again.

And then I bumped into these clowns who roped me right on in to their culty schemes of climbing stuff for the mere thrill of it. Walked right in to their trap.

That’d be them.

Remember how I had 5 hours sleep. Luckily they didn’t breathalyze me. Jenn said they do for the edge walk. well there goes THAT idea. ahaha. NO wasn’t drinking this morning I just know it stays in your system cos some people can blow over morning after on their way to work from the night before even though they had a night’s rest and aren’t tanked.

This was like an if I was gonna die contract I better take full responsibility I guess, I dunno, I didn’t read any of it (who does?) It was a boring agreement form alright already lets get this show on the road!

I was stumped. Filling it out with 4 people watching and my nerves, hard task!

Removed bra so those suckers could be free.

I pretty much wore the perfect outfit for this. Guess which guy I had the crush on and who flirted with me? Claire did too, maybe she was hitting on me? Colleague was like relax we are here for work and then I LOST IT on him ahahaa. In the beginning I snapped at him ok final warning you better be fun this had to be fun you wake me up at the crack of f-k and *^&$&%E*&8y ahaha then look at me, climbing a survivor boot camp apparatus. I amaze me.

Suiting up.

On my way out we discussed her name, which is Claire and how I had chosen it as my confirmation name which doesn’t really mean anything other than it was the only name I could think of at the time. When I said my whole name once to some guy, oh right, one of my ex boyfriends (there’s tons) Lauren Krista Claire White he was like, woah, so enchanted by it, it was like a folk girl singer’s name. That is one of many stupid things he said to get me to fall in love (and move to New York) with him.

That is a long way up and a long way to fall. But more so a lot of pulling and balancing. You will be sweating profusely in seconds. I’d like to do more of this in the summer next time wearing a bikini. Like how I climbed the mountain in Red Rock .

You have three choices of walls to pick from. I am weighing my options here. I didn’t want to start it off all difficult with this one, too much swinging and I’d probably give up a lot sooner. I thought I might have been able to climb all Pirates of the Caribbean from wall to wall but no, glad I asked by yelling down before doing it first without asking. I am a hand’s on learner, no point in reading that Directions agreement I signed. Like when a plane is in the process of going down THAT is when I am going to ask you what the hell it is we are going to do. It’s out of your hands at that point except when climbing, totally in them. hA omg moving on.

At this point it hadn’t actually sunk in what I was about to do, I thought we were all just laughing about like when you find out a relative might die, has died, you don’t believe it because of course they’re all joking about something so severe. or to be less extreme, that shirt was bought up by someone else cos you didn’t want to carry it around the miami strip at night and now you regret it. Ok not the same things.

All the dopey girls I know (and love) are flipping out about my jeans. I am queen at finding cheap wicked jeans. Bluenotes baby.

Little did I know I was being initiated into the weird wild world of brickworks.

They asked if there was anything else? Yes, glass of water? I was parched.

OOOOoook this one.

Another thing I spaced on was that this would actually be work. Climbing. You don’t float up idiot! Ughhh. My colleague talks me in to all these things well, I kind of make him dare me to.

Gettin’ a bit tangly.

I was thinking, oh boy, this is going to be embarrassing, I over-estimated myself. I can do it but not today, too knackered.

But, thanks to the tick in my head that tells me to do it or else (insanity? competitiveness? I dunno) I kept climbing.

When you lean out like that your arms get tired but i couldn’t figure out a way to stretch my body out that also wouldn’t make me buckle out. Stay in a crouchy position and one hand at a time it.

I could see over the tin roof of the works and felt that that was pretty high, my god, this was enough ok time to come down now. They ignored me.

Oh jeez still so much more to go I look like a bleedin’ little ant. I was picturing my stupid brother and Linda and teacher all cashed out ’round the house hung over NOT CLIMBING UP A THING LIKE THIS and getting pissed off all over the place then laughing. I think you might go a bit mad on that.

I hated this part. Because it wasn’t already shaking enough, it shakes a hell of a lot more but the magic of zen balance was with me thanks to dance lessons, you just wait the wobbles out and when ready start climbing up the tire.

Pretty exotic, no?

The thing I am standing on is attached to the ladders/ropes and not as solidly steady as appears. I am bragging here. It was difficult.

I know right who am I Kevin Kostner in Water world? I wish. He does swan dives into the ocean and swims down to the very bottom to look at treasure and swims super fast away from bad guys. When I talk like this to boys, any male, their face goes like this o_o cos they cannot believe the stupid guy sh-t I know haha.

Omg alright already is she up yet?

I’m glad I chose the side I chose.

I seriously considered quitting at this point. I look very bad ass. I conjured up all my magic Raymbo powers and attacked that ladder like a woman scorned and succeeded. Lots more people were gathering. This was like when the bad guy climbs up the ladder of your fleeing helicopter, all tiny and dangly thing that it is. I bet I would have survived ‘Nam. Hahah hey Dad lets watch Full Metal Jacket soon…

Arms sore.

Almost.

Done.

Oh my. Long way up and down. I did it! Spectac view.

You’re all attached at the top of the rope thing here so you can’t wander around your floating raft in the sky very much plus you’re shaking from exhaustion and the climb. Maybe if I had more sleep or was in better shape I wouldn’t have been all rattly. They pulled me down thankfully NO WAY I was climbing down, not possible. Not that day anyway.

Oh my god I look like an idiot.

They say in that dove ad that 50% of girls don’t participate in things cos of body image issues F THAT look how wide my butt looks when my waist is all cinched and strapped in. I have totally stopped myself from participating in things in the past cos I felt fat somedays. So dumb. How do you expect to get thin then?

So happy to be back down there.

Everyone loved my docs. Thanks Style Exchange!

Close up poetic moment with the athlete. She is thinking about what she has done, says the whispering Wimbledon announcer.

Good luck undoing that.

Then we went cave exploring.

Nah, just other exploring not necessitating helmets though some might say that I should be with helmet at all times but then I folded them into a pretzel and threw it into the sky so I’d watch your mouth.

Look pretty fab for a mighty post feat. Fierce fearless female.

Oh great, my Vampire fangs have been exposed.

Grilled cheese time. I earned and would destroy it.

It was delicious. Caramelized onions were in it and the cheese was, I’m sure colleague got a photo of the sign. But maybe not cos I had just starvation snapped at him and he was ignoring me again. They also had scrambled egg wraps. Lovely.

The information was in front of me but the words weren’t taking hold, I think that is what people with extreme ADD (certainly my mom) experience. Once I got the sandwich in my mouth I was a scholar again. More evidence that I have slightly more testosterone than the average gal, functioning breaks down along with nutrition. Guys are complete irate crabby psychos when hungry.

Hehehh.

Bittersweet as I was still parched from even before climbing the thing, my coffee made it worse. I was as dry as a desert, getting sweatier, starved, amongst a sea of children running into my knees and shoppers dressed to the nines. Cue tantrum.

Relief.

Duh who would step on that, get dirt all over my $500 Alligator shoes?

More neatness.

And you guys just barely made the cut. Adorable.

Who decorated someone from Ocad? Zing!

Still in the climbing mode.

Woah so are they.

Cool place right?

In 1892 I don’t think they were having organic lemonade lunch breaks or encouraged to graffiti their names on walls or other dumb things I got up to. History is cool.

Oh hi there Tawfik! This is turning into the who’s who of foodie yeah?

Gnarly hair day but I am most certainly the little twink tastemaker right on and confusingly in there with these lot.

Trade secret up and over the mountain with your double chins before a photo is snapped. Gosh I’m awful generous. It’s only because I am usually the best looking one and get screwed over all the time if one person looks bad so I gotta cover my livelihood here ya know. (this is part of my stand-up material and way less stingy when said in person).

I say it deadpan and loud enough for all the surrounding women to hear, they gather and boom that’s raymitheminx tv.

Tawfik is a quick study, raise that chin to the heavens.

Throw in the teeth.

This fox is Arlene, she’s like the Amber Mac (in the capacity that everyone is all gaga about her) of all these foodie people, bigger even. She is my new buddy, Brickworks is her Domain and she taught me all about it, what was left of my brains to absorb if at all. When Rob met her last year the first thing out of his mouth was a come on. Hilarious. That’s the Parkdale Boys Club for ya, we don’t let ya down. (Rob by the way is now more so internationally famous, his eyeborg eye made the bbc news).

Super modest too, didn’t want her photo taken. I’m like why you look so glamorous and fresh and I literally fell off a jungle gym and had 3 minutes sleep last night. We talked about the marsh landy water thing there and planting native plants (what no palm trees? lol) and she pointed up a hill and said when the leaves are gone you can see a Rosedale home. DOPE guy! It’s such a lovely little sanctuary, def have a weekend visit before it starts snowing and get there early to get a parking spot. Take the Grandfolks to score extra points you only gotta walk around in a circle, your Nan will love all the doo-dads and the posh people watching (Mom, Nana would be Queening hardcore) and then you go home with the shopping that you bought from all those yuppie hippies and eccentrics and have your wine and make a fancy feast. There, I just designed your thanksgiving weekend you’re bloody welcome!

Liked that dog’s built-in sunglasses.

The picnic flyer. If it wasn’t a to do I’d wear my bear suit, teddy bear picnic!

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER AND ONE OF THESE THINGS IS RAYMI!

The grilled cheese gave me my super powers back so I gave a mini tour of this junky antique showcase. BACK IN 1892 THEY MADE MINIATURE BRICKS LIKE THIS WHICH WAS PROBLEMATIC FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND ‘TWAS NOT UNTIL ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY COULD THEN MANUFACTURE LARGER BRICKS TO SPEED UP THE PACE OF BUILDING STUFF. Colleague was tuning me out at this point. You know what, how do I become a writer for Saturday Night Live? They rip off material enough as is they may as well pay me for it.

Adorable. I have a miniature collection and fetish. Thanks mom.

Bought a sweet and smokey. She didn’t have change. That became an ordeal. I asked her to borrow money off another hippie.

HI!

That chick was fiddling, I danced but I didn’t want to pay her for her dance music so I didn’t make eye contact we kept going hahaa.

Humongous beans. Some place like Cowbell would give you a huge piece of meat and three of these smugly criss-crossed a-top and call it a day. Oh god My one chef and Raymi show idea is so solid I hope it gets picked up some day.

OK DONE! LOVE YOU! CALL ME!

About Evergreen Brick Works

Evergreen Brick Works is a community environmental centre that inspires and equips visitors to live, work and play more sustainably. Evergreen, a national charity, has transformed the former Don Valley Brick Works from a collection of deteriorating heritage buildings into an international showcase for urban sustainability and green design that is open year-round.

What is Evergreen?

Evergreen is a national charity that makes cities more livable. By deepening the connection between people and nature, and empowering Canadians to take a hands-on approach to their urban environments, Evergreen is improving the health of our cities—now and for the future.

Our two flagship programs—Learning Grounds and Common Grounds—have helped more than half a million Canadians transform their local landscapes from barren asphalt into dynamic, thriving green spaces.

Evergreen Brick Works, our most innovative project to date, is both a stage and incubator for Evergreen’s programs.

Learn more about Evergreen’s work across Canada at evergreen.ca.

Submit your creepiest email to Raymitheminx!

For me to read during a comedy stand-up set otherwise I’ll just have to make up my own or comb my email and I am already busier than Moses right meow. Come on Little Raymis, you know you’ve been dying to tell me how much you want to smell, eat, or be my hair lately. HA.

RAYMI@RAYMITHEMINX.COM

Be commemorated forever and the winner can request a coveted Raymi treasure of their choosing.

Ew I am already getting creeped out pre-maturely, thank you for that!

XO Your brave and loyal hero, Raymbo.

(It doesn’t necessarily have to be creepy, you’re the designer though, the power is in your hands. It can be a love sonnet about me, stuff about why I am so great, the usual).

I think I will be a great stand-up comedian. I have so much more content to work with than the regular SO I WAS STRIKING OUT WITH A GIRL LAST NIGHT or MY WIFE SAYS.. or SO THE FLIGHT FROM BOSTON blabbity blaaaaah. Mine’s all, DO YOU WANT TO HELP ME TRACK DOWN THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE WEIRD GREEN PLASTIC FAKE GRASS IN SUSHI CONTAINERS COS I AM TIRED OF PONDERING THIS PHENOMENA and SO APPARENTLY WHEN I PUNCHED MY BROTHER IN THE HEAD IT DIDN’T AT ALL HURT HIM COS HIS HEAD IS REALLY HARD AND HE’S TAKEN ENOUGH PUNCHES ALREADY BEFORE AND IT WAS LIKE TINKERBELL CRUMBLING HER ARM INTO SWISS CHEESE I DUNNO and THE THING ABOUT THE INTERNET IS IT’S RUN BY NERDS TRYING TO BE COOL AND YOU HAVE TO SPEND EXTRA TIME TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY SOMEONE SAID THAT THING TO YOU AND THEN YOU REALIZE THAT THEY ARE 4 FEET TALL ACTUALLY AND SMELL WICKED BAD THANKS TO TWITTER PARTIES.

THE BRiCK CHiCKS!

Hey sports fans, ready to see how you should live your life my way?

WELCOME TO BRICKWORKS!

Next time colleague please remind me to shine it up a bit, I spaced on the fact that this is elitist commune mecca. Luckily I grabbed that scarf on my way out, Slob Chic, THAT’S what’s up now!

Under eye bags photo trick – show the eyes but cut off/obscure at moonbeams. I may flirt with the idea of a work shop for little raymis. My trade secrets. We will cover everything.

Is that a cabbage? I think so.

Mini elevated hills just covered in evergreens, I was annoyed colleague didn’t capture all of it. I am the director too here. I made a funny David Suzuki joke too, he’s gonna be at the picnic I’m going to next weekend, not next one but THE NEXT. I have a major (big) one for David Suzuki. Another national treasure. I waved my hand across all of the evergreens magically and proclaimed in mock-brickworks grounds tour guide speak NOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE WAS DAVID SUZUKI WAAAAVED HIS HAND ACROSS THE LANDS AND FORTH SPRUNG A MIGHTY FIELD OF NEW GROWTH. Gahahah It was a very fun day, I ended up scaling a Trojan horse for crying out loud.

I love bantering with merchants. I feel like you have to be a marginal amount of looney baloonies to rock it Gypsy-like in the open stall markets. Her sweaters were $48. Vintage. Look brand new, I was like, how did they survive! She’s like well, there are quilts in museums…good point (Colleague lets get the heck out of here before I buy one for my niece).

OMG we are doing the same facial expression. All women turn into the Shire if they’ve blue blood in ‘em. ACK!

Holy toledos. It’s warm even though it’s open. I know what I’m wearing to the gala. GUESS! GUESS! PLEASE! I am bursting at the seams I cannot keep secrets!

How do I manage to look like a platinum Ramone? It’s the nose right and the beatle face smile?

That’s my tomboy gait. The Fred Perry kids were like, that golf shirt looks amazing on you, not all girls can pull it off as it’s a men’s. I said that’s cos I have tomboy in my veins. Here I am sampling a weird white tomato thing. Tasted like a cherry, was called one in fact but then I realized it was TYPE of a tomato not a weird little snozzberry. I think she thought I was stupid or something.

The counsel meeting regarding game plan strategy about the party I imagine. I suggested army figurines and one of those Casino rakes for craps tables and push armies around. Someone remind me when EMPIRE RAYMI is built to do that at our team meetings and I will need art from Angelo to build a mini UN vibe.

We took off while the brick chicks worked so I could work the grounds and learn it.

Haha that kid back there. Kids are so monkies.

Lots of posing, lots of people watching, lots of lots of hangover hollywood, couples doing the thing, the Saturday afternoon thing.

I got five hours sleep. I forgot my brother and Linda were coming into town.

Southern Ontario WHAT WHAT! Doesn’t that make you think of African Lion Safari? No just me?

Those are all actual rivers, water is running through from actual rivers all leading to brickworks is that right? Ha Colleague is going to have a lot of copy cleaning up to do. Whatever man there are 200 photos here to work with. Hang tight. The Mayor may also be at this party. I don’t know if I am supposed to be saying this or not.

I liked the tropical rustic beauty. There is art all over Brickworks. They are 8 years old and work with the old, cross it with some new and voila, party central. Great to have a place like this just touching the city and Celebrity chefs everywhere abound too.

I found the tiniest cute thing in this Labyrinth playground. Oh so cute.

Speaking of wizards, don’t I look like one?

Bricks everywhere. Brick flowing rivers beneath bridges, I noticed. (so many clever things to notice).

Hippie heaven haven. It truly is like Wizard of Oz, see the flowing brick rivers in the distance?

Yo take a picture of this so I can make fun of it later. I actually really dig it.

Dude do something with all that wood, clean up that pile of wood! OK I KNOW! Arlene told me it’s a christmas tree. Cool. I picture it burning at burning man or at the cottage when you run out of firewood. We’ve burnt entire picnic tables. Then you wake up with no furniture and someone always gets a little grouchy about it. HA.

There’s a little pilgrim cowboys and indians style village for witches thing, I mean for your children to play on (it’s awesome dump them there then go shopping) on the other side and check out that gigantic purple daisy coming out of the wall. I swear I thought I was hallucinating throughout this tour but am glad there are pictures to show that I wasn’t and that I didn’t eat the Alice in Wonderland mushroom.

This leans at the exact angle of the leaning tower of Pisa.

Tiny humour is amazing. If Jackass can do it then I can too.

Doing this with a crowd and colleague, I am a happening.

Kids and people markings everywhere. Time pieces. I like.

ol Aunt Raymbo had a message for visiting folks from other planets too.

I’ll speed this up.

Always self-promote.

Yeah exactly.

I got those to piss off my brother (he had the same oxbloods) so I’ll wear them at Saturday’s 90’s reunion party to piss him off more, plus my Fred Perry shirt. I need to get suspenders. Going to be hype. I’ll get the whole town drinking the raymi kool-aid then throw a bash for them in Toronto sometime. Sometimes we have to go back to our peoples to find out who are. That is a Native proverb I just invented ahahaha. I set a goal for myself to force a joke beneath each photo I post in this blog feature in order to stay sharp on my comedy cos Ben Miner is going to help me prepare for my stand-up comedy debut. Fully serious. the more insane and terrifying and thrill-seeky the activity I engage in, the better the outcome of it. My body just started violently shaking when I started typing about stand-up.

It’s true.

To be Continued…

Adventurist Parkdalia

Almost gave that onesie away on permanent loan cos I was like, there is no way I am going back down in size to a shrunken 2, the time I bought it the zero also fit me so yeah, but, looky-loo how’doya do?

Our walk to Mezzrow’s for our first patio date together ever was straight ridiculous. As was our patio antic entertaining for the regular rummies. Teacher met up then we went for a Bison burger waiting for it on the patio of Stampede and proper saw a store walker take down of a shoplifter, yikes the look in his eyes, was moments prior watching him chat up his friends, who then got to see him get busted. I cringed ten jillion times and got our burger to go.

Stella got to play with Al’s dog Quinty. I didn’t want to take Stella out cos I know of her neurotic deficiencies but Al has ancient dog wisdom, I have zero, his dog is famous in pdale, so he was like it’s fine it’s fine bring her. NO not fine. I was, ok this is going to be TMI but, I had a tampon emerg and knew STella would be dragging me the entire time totally flipped out. There would be Parkdale obstacle course chess pieces in form of lunatics and derelicts that jump out of shop doors like a funhouse ride, I needed to get to a pharmacy and get to Mezzrow’s but go the back way and do they let psychotic dogs come in to stores with you? The way I have always done it is just bring her in. Sometimes I actually pretend to be blind (I have a blind fan who reads this so I am sure he will be pumped about that haha hi bud!) and it gets funny when I start reading things off big bags of chips BLIND ACT OVER.

So we get there, it all worked out. But then she tried to nose her way on to the patio 300 times. I don’t think dogs were bread with patio beering in mind but maybe they were, I feel like a lot of their lineage is britishly-linked and Stella is a border collie blue healer which i envision (do you like how all my facts are based on feelings and beliefs rather than factual fact? Ahahahah YES I TELL YOU WHAT THE F-ING NEWS IS TODAY) revolves around tiny towns with moors and pubs and cable-knit sweaters so, Stella’s great great great grandma-ma sat on the cobblestones of the McMaster Arms back in her time while her owner cradled his pints. All we do is watch big brother uk now so I am learning all kinds of new accents to fake. I love how Tara Reid is talking like them too, one part based on premature dementia and one part just the nature of acting.

Always loved this house.

I had to go have a relax on the patio cos yesterday I worked non-stop on all projects presently on deck. Get someone who is already busy to do something for you and they will get it done. Throw it in their cyclone but not only that I have no other choice, all projects need a lot of love in the building stages however, I had done enough and it was absolutely gorgeous out and I got in this line of work to set my own damn hours and damnit It was time to take a walk. We are pushing our luck with these sunshiney warmish days and I have SAD plus it was the red tide, I deserve a break why do I feel guilty (somewhat) even while “relaxing” my mind is chomping through mental workish data, all the writing I have to do. Blah who cares. I was so going to wrap this up but then I wanted to add one more picture which turned into ten more so, yeah.

I like how my toasted marshmallow hat matches my hair, it reminds me of Pamela Anderson’s furry hat. I like how she told that posh guy (bbuk) to stop hunting foxes, and BAD SPORT. She is such a lady. All I do is talk about big brother uk now and apply every single life situation to it, I use it to justify my shitty behaviour as well as to defend it, I use big brother examples hereto and sunder and now I am talking like them too. It’s hilarious and bringing back my time in England and how absurd it is that it’s normal for them to talk like babies about wanting cuddles and such. Also I first ever watched big brother while in England and the addiction to it as a Nation, it’s pandemonium, Beatlemania-esque and I got to experience it so watching it now helps me regress back to 17 again on that couch in Wimbledon. At night I’d smoke cigs on the drive and step on huge snails, they’re everywhere and massive. SICK. I started wearing flip flops after the first time.

Then we were lying in bed, silent for ten minutes, and I pick up right where I had left off downstairs in the kitchen about Aden or some’ingk (That’s Newcastle accent, Jay is a Jordy boy and talks like that aghh get out of my head!!)

But I am actually getting pretty good at it so I’ll have a full-blown proper fake accent ready for you in about a week. Right in time for Oktoberfest, which would actually require a German accent. Ugh. Teacher tricked his kids the other day and didn’t tell them there wasn’t a difference between a German and Austrian accent. Hahaha.

He shows some of these pics to his colleagues. One guy shakes his head and repeats IT’S NOT FAIR. ahahahaha.

Ok that’s enough fussin’ about. ps. CHECK OUT Mykel’s Etsy. Get your little ghoul a necklace like I got my Hailey one. BOO!

LESLIE I WILL MAIL YOU THAT PAINTING I SWEAR You know my style.

punk dancing for self defence

We were having a belt buckle battle.

I think mine wins.

Hahah omg. Couldn’t even wait a sec before the close up, check the gooey cheese over there on my side plate. It wasn’t pretty.

Because it was beautiful. Ordering it was funny, hi, we’ll have the sweet potato fries poutine, except not sweet potato fries, and no beef, plus a side of sour cream (which never came, though I asked THREE TIMES!) but no complaints cos the sun was shining.

I kept forgetting I was wearing this cowboy hat (thanks alison!) but it was the perfect charmer at the caddy. I think it intimidated our servers, they divided to conquer us and ended up screwing up lots. I wasn’t even mean at all (never am).

Do you want to talk about my hip bones?

ok fine, maybe later then. omg so busy gahhhhhhhhhh explode explode!

adorable cheese. life is short.

I am writing burlesque notes for my several upcoming shows. I’d like to do a photoshoot soon too with Jasmine Valentine. Just you wait for what I am cooking up. First, we were promoted to saturday on HALLOWEEKEND now (I made that word up last night) so the date has changed to OCTOBER 29. We will open the show to this song:

I am loling to this now. I know the entire film, every word, lyric. I was a nerd at one point.

bewb watch.

Pear mojitos, skinny. Pearjitos. I am trying to get kate moss tiny. My stress mania is helping in spades.

You know I am a genius, right?

SO much so that I got us mad ballerz a vip sushi drop in. Mad ‘spect Umami. I was just talking about how I would so totally entertain in a teahouse like memoirs of a geisha. Put it on the to do list before 30 thank you. Maybe I’ll do a dance to gorillaz white flag. I think we had decided that I would. I also have a ninja costume. PERFECT!

And then we can copy kim cattrall sex and the city movie sequel (trying to track down that post when I saw it in theatre with meredith and all of toronto’s female media, it was so fun) waiting on valentine’s day all night long for her boyfriend with sushi all over her naked body.

Next up, Arlene and I discuss mole people and ecosystems. I love getting involved with sustainability modern new agey do gooder stuff makes me feel good. More people should do it. Turns out, they are! Love this inspiring slogan:

Inspired by the Past, Motivated by the Future.

I will also be telling you all about a mega party with ANDY MILONAKIS!!! I am getting involved with to take a break from all that charity. (PLEASE DONATE TO MY CN TOWER TEAMMATE I’M THE AMBASSADOR FOR/ALONG WITH!) At the moment I am trying to do thrice the work in half the time and it is making me a billion per cent lethal. I need to go for a run before I go bananas.

BLOG POST TITLE came from this.

Ok so sometimes I care about stuff other than myself so listen up

tristan is in orange, ace is in yellow, owen is in green. the mutt, nina, is not ours (thank god)… no offence, nina.
x

thats the makings of a tv show right there.

So, this cool chick facebooked me the other day about a hamilton party thing, coincidentally I was going through my FB messages today to catch up on all the ones I miss as it’s like Beatlemania fan mail somedays ’round here.

(raymi@raymitheminx.com lol).

Anyhooters, I get this email from her today that kind of sparks our FB chat that you will read following her email (Which is mass-forwarded and therefore horribly formatted):

> I’m participating in 2011 CN Edge Walk. I will be Facing MY Fear and taking a step out on the edge as I walk around the OUTSIDE of the CN Tower for AboutFace!
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> ‘Face Your Fear’ is being hosted by AboutFace to raise money and awareness for Camp Trailblazers: a retreat for kids ages 10 to 18 who have facial differences.
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> Many of these kids will meet other kids like themselves for the first time. At Camp Trailblazers, they will learn life skills, challenge themselves to overcome physical barriers, and create life long friendships. To learn more about Camp Trailblazers and the event visit www.aboutface.ca
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> You can help support me by making a secure online donation using your credit card. Click on the link below:
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THIS MADE ME FEEL JEALOUS AND INSPIRED. TWO FAVOURITE THINGS. No, well, I want to do this CN Tower walk too but I am already in the middle of so many other things blabbity blah, also kind of probably totally terrified, but mostly don’t have the time to campaign for donations in order to do it, what’s more, I don’t have triplets with cleft palets so I would be an asshole to campaign over Jenn now that she showed up on my radar. Hoping to marry our two adrenaline junky wants together to form a super-power awareness so we can walk the edge and you can give her all the money and I just get to dangle 1,815.4 ft and faint at 1,815.4 ft just so I can say that I did. It will be just like what I did on Saturday at Brickworks except 1,685 feet SCARIER. One day I will call for donations to climb up the CN Tower stairs though. We have 4 sets of stairs in this townhouse, sometimes climbing them just once in a day is enough to make me wheeze a little. BAD SIGN!

Jenn

thinking you should come to supercrawl in grimy, ol’ hamilton today. all day art and bands and loveliness.

http://www.supercrawl.ca/

Raymi Lauren White:

i just tweet noticed a girl talking about it. i am already crush f-cked all over again from last night. do you live there? my godmother has a resto, a nice italian one, tracadaros? anyway ill be in the hammer soon.

Jenn:

yep… i live there. trocadero! that place is a hamilton fixture. i’ve never eaten there, but i think i should- i’ve heard great things about it. thinking of you on this 9/11. i can hardly bear to watch the footage on tv. can’t imagine what it was like to witness it firsthand. that kind of thing changes a person forever.

Raymi Lauren White

aw i missed this sorry for delay. i havent eaten at trocadero (my godmother’s restaurant in hamilton) yet either cant wait. theres a delay in opening it cos one of the cooks injured her hand aw. just got yer cn tower email thing i totally wanted to do that. how do i get in as an ambassador w/o having to do the charity crap part to raise awareness for all involved?

Jenn

i only found out about it because my triplets were all born with cleft lips (they figure it was some sort of fluke when the egg divided so many times). the organization offers support and resources for families of kids with all varieties of facial differences. you could try emailing someone there. jessica is the manager of marketing and outreach, so maybe start there: jessica@********

i am terrified of doing it. they give a breathalyzer before to make sure you’re not tanked, otherwise i’d have a few for sure.

Raymi Lauren White

omg i would smoke a billion doobs. triplets! cleft lips! you saint and inspiration. ill make a donation pitch on my blog for you then. when does it happen?

Jenn

awww, you are sweet. it’s october 28. i think any other info would be on the email i sent with pledge link etc. it’s strange with my kids, too, since they are indentical, but they have their clefts in different places. tristan had a complete one on the left side with a cleft palate, owen had an incomplete one on the right, and ace had an incomplete one in the middle. strangely enough, the locations are indentical with their position in utero. we are so lucky that their clefts are only a cosmetic problem and they had no associated syndrome. they are smart as whips and creative as can be. their surgeon was amazing, and some people don’t even notice, but it breaks your heart as a mother when your kids stare at themselves in the mirror and ask why their lips aren’t shaped like other kids in their class. anyway… typical mother ramble. did you want me to send you a photo of the turkeys? many mercis.

Raymi Lauren White

what are the associated syndromes? joaquin phoenix has/had one. you should write to him, and then get him to have sex with me. deal! and yeah barely noticeable. will be considered hot when they’re older, just dont let them turn into dorks. should i make a dont let them turn into dorks work shop?

Jenn

nah… no anti-dork workshop. i think you should have a workshop for men who are already dorks and spin ‘em into cool dudes.

yeah, there are tons of crazy genetic syndromes that have clefts as a ‘feature’. we are so thankful that for our dudes it’s just a fluke… strictly cosmetic. it’s crazy how common it is, too, and how many misconceptions there are associated with it. when they were babies, some salty broad at the grocery store asked if their brains were ok. i nearly decked her. anyway. i’m sure joaquin phoenix would love to have sex with you.

Raymi Lauren White

better idea. your disposition in general despite having 400 joaquin phoenix clones is f-ing adorable. this is how we will get donations for you by exploiting this talk, having senses of humour is the last phone call to a friend i have from killing myself some days. you’re alright buddy.

DEAR PLANET TORONTO,

GIVE THIS WOMAN WHO HAS THREE BOYS (WORTHY ENOUGH OF DONATIONS) SOME MONEY (for aboutface, her charity) SO SHE CAN DO SOMETHING INSANE AND THEREFORE MAKE IT ALL WORTH IT. I AM GOING TO HARASS JESSICA TO LET ME IN ON THIS TOO COS I SURE AS HELL ok I’ll stop yelling, I sure as hell am not having triplets in time to get you to care about me, like I need money to hang on to a building, I’ll do it for free hahaha. Help me spread the word too, you know I love you, tell me what you want, I’ll give you some of my toys or send you to a concert, or design a date, get you laid, maybe even continue blogging so you have something to read at work tomorrow.

XO Your pal Raymbo.

(pretty sure if I go through with this my dad will faint. I made a hot air balloon ride joke once and he could not handle it). (hi dad miss you!)

I know I could never jump out of a plane, the feeling of falling would seriously make me be blacked out all the way down and my jump partner would be like cradling a baby. Boring and embarrassing. With the edge walk you’d be forced to be lucid the whole way through. This just got real.

Ps. Jenn did not ask me to do this post either. I like to call this MODERN WARFARE ON CHARITY. I think we all need to man up and start givin’ a care and if it takes (and it does) crazy stunts to get money out of people for honest to goodness causes then by all means, throw me in a lion pit, I’ll do it. Jenn’s spirit regarding her boys is what moved me most of all. I feel like the majority of people (or the perception of them) with some kind of physical handicap or disability or a child with one, they seem lobotomized or neurotic, uptight, un-fun, and Jenn seems funner than a lot of people I love more than myself, right? People with no reason for chips on their shoulders and such. Role model material that girl is.

Thank you so much for the donates in advance!

you crack me up. your post is grand… only one small correction that doesn’t matter much anyway, but all 3 had cleft lips, only 1 had the cleft palate, as well. no matter, really. what i like is that you’re helping bring awareness to such a great organization. aboutface was a wealth of resources for my husband and i when we first started on this adventure. there are so many kids who suffer from self-esteem issues etc based on their facial differences, and it warms my heart to think that there is a camp where they can go to feel just like their peers. aboutface also educates on syndromes such as apert, crouzon, and non-syndromic conditions such as hemangiomas. education breeds acceptance, i always say. can i cheer about them more?

and honestly your kids are cute as hell so good luck with people sympathizing ;)

omg i picture me and joaquin floating on clouds in gladiator outfits (from his movie) and your boys as our golden floating cherubs. gahahaha.