leave a message on the date machine

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time for some good old-fashioned relatively serious to mildly (offensive) tongue-in-cheek dating advice tips. enough of this hogwash other people try to sell you, they’re idiots. they know nothing and like the sound of their own writing voice and have been ripping me off long enough. you can’t rip me off cos i’m already ripping off something else i forget from a long time ago, who really knows when i started writing the way i do and how or which way is up anymore. people ask for advice from me because i 1. tells it likes i sees it and 2. i make fun of them at the same time which adds or takes the sting out from the harsh truth of their repetitious dating failure fuck ups. you gotta take it outside your group of friends sometimes and get aunt raymi on the case. ok did i big myself up enough yet?

ok where to begin? the online correspondence leading up to said date is pretty important to discuss. actually no, fuck that we have to start at your profile because that is where you blow it big time. i am on my FOURTH profile now never you mind why and it’s staying up until i find the one that’s it i don’t care how or where i meet him. i have figured out now finally what to not say. hey man, no one likes baggage right, or, liars. let them figure out many months down the road (if you get that far) that you are awash with emotional instabilities alright, not right off the bat, make them fall in love with you first. that is not a good look on anybody. play it cool. so write your profile then go over it and remove EVERYTHING that has red flags in it. here’s what mine is, we can analyze it together after, line by line. i kept it short this time around.

About Me

hi there internet dating world.

my about me section has been tampered with twice now (i have to remove this part, i look like an idiot here, and paranoid. tampered with? who, the CIA did it? hahahha), no idea why. but here it is straight (i should have just started with here it is straight, i will fix that):

i am not on here to waste my life one to two weeks at a time with you playboy types. that’s great, we’re all babetastic animals with sh*t to prove and secrets to hide but at the end of all that i am searching for more meaning. you must be willing to put up with all of my bullsh*t and accept that i do not intend to change ever, or compromise. haha no just kidding. i do enjoy a bit of a bossy type just know that it will always be a challenge with me, i say stupid things constantly, i somehow made it this far in life successfully and self-sufficiently i’m like tom hanks in BIG. how did i do it? good looks, wit, humour and knowing that ***holes finish first.

this originally was longer, i took out the part where i sad no that’s YOU actually then i went on a rant about anal-retentive people. i am actually full on erect for anal-retentive people so why the hell i lambast them on my dating profile when i am trying to attract them? see? stupid. don’t do that.

my entire blurb has humour to it, shows i am feisty with a bit of an edge. i’m coming off like a man but then i let you know i like to be controlled. i am fucking with you. this paired with my cute photos, guys don’t even care.

First Date

something amazing. no pressure though (tons).

this is your last final impression chance. no one takes this at all seriously, well some do. do not ever go on a coffee date. do not mention coffee. do you want to sit sober in the day looking at someone in an anorak at starbucks? no you do fucking not. i won’t even drink coffee with my own friends in the day. it is a total red flag if someone mentions a coffee date but if that’s for you then that’s a sign you are both not taking it seriously.

i am old fashioned. dates should take place in a restaurant or bar, early evening and he should pay. you only go dutch or pony up if you have something to prove or you plan to bone this poor slob because you have needs and now he is YOUR bitch, your prostitute. hahaha.

make sure you find out where he lives in proximity to where you meet and where you live to calculate drink for drink how much more attractive he gets and if you want to go to his or yours. usually by the second drink i know whether i want to see him with his clothes off or not. i am never impressed or attracted to who i meet off the internet right off the bat, i nervously shyly awkwardly look all around us and fake it until he makes me like him or i loosen up. i get gun shy. instantly seize up when i get there. later on i ask what their first impression of me is because i need to be validated every half hour. they always say the right thing i also do mind voodoo and blaze vanna whites at em to ensure they turn to mush asap even if i don’t like them.

then we talk. i’m out of the gates with the pissing contest first.

do NOT do this. this is why you are single. you career women beasts. us. men want to be men so let them be men. show that you have it but not all the cards because by the third drink it all tumbles out like I AM THE KING OF THE CITY I INVENTED IT ALL I DO NOT NEED YOU even though you just finally worked up the courage to mention whatever great thing it is you are proud of that you did you look like a bragging asshole. i told my date last night that i didn’t like him right after i told him i was smarter than him. he’s a teacher. it pissed him off so he got feisty and i was too spastic and exhausted to waste my energy on arguing so i went immature and pulled his pigtails by saying I DON’T LIKE YOU AT ALL (which made him really like me. seriously it did. reverse psychology works i’m like officially a wizard now). then i went on about how i was smarter than him and how technical smarts and book smarts didn’t matter what matters is beauty smarts. anyway in all that baloney i actually did realize i hated him because i saw what being with him for five years being corrected would be like. i also kind of dug it too. i manipulated him into thinking i actually was smarter than him momentarily several times. i know lots of guys want really brainy chicks because they love to argue constantly. men need challenges and bullshit and drama to survive. this is where women come in.

i think my ability to inspire self doubt in people is one of my greatest strengths and powers, yeah totally, and it’s attractive. some people want you to tell them to go fuck themselves on a regular basis. hey, NO PROBLEM!

last night i learned about the crazy/beautiful axis. i’ll draw a graph or just picture one yourself. the hotter you get the crazier you are or can be, yes?

so like the more confident i get from becoming more fit, the more obnoxious i am, the more they call me a trainwreck, the more crazy i appear and i try to snuff that out with dazzle camouflage by way of beauty adorning myself in the crap that i do and i get defensive, more crazy, the cycle continues.

so last night’s date for example, i ate chicken wings, i was late, he said i was like clementine in eternal sunshine who has a balance of crazy beautiful that she hovers between. endearing i was hunched over mawing down on chicken wings like i didn’t care (guess what i didn’t) i hate her hair. i have been compared to her before. i see it yeah yeah ok so, people, everything one says on a date is 1. intentional and 2. revealing so these tidbits of information you can choose to exploit for your own personal gain or not. me, i choose this adventure. so he wants an endearing little naive retard arty girl, and off we go. then i ate again (small salad)(i starved all day). he went out for a smoke, when he came back i said did you text a friend about me? he said he actually did. i inserted myself into his world, the discussion about me, concerning his time with me. this is manipulative. so then it comes out that we are making fun of me. i am now manipulating the friend from afar too. he texts her, “she’s eating again.”

fine, i invite my gay bestie stew over from parts and labour and say if i was a boy and gay i’d be stew. we are snarky catty and have matching earrings. date was impressed by that. stew and i kind of look identical sometimes that’s a reality in my stew is my identical twin fantasy.

stew orders a burrito we split it. date is diggin’ it because i am eating again. i say go ahead text her.

the blue eyed silver fox’s revealing gift to me was saying he needed to be liked. ding ding ding! i even pointed out to him how he just gave me some power there. always be listening girls, pay close attention. bite your tongue too, let them talk and hang themselves also they will like you more if you shut up. the more you motor mouth the more you will not be seeing him again.

anyway the point of all this is stick with a theme, choose your personality and be it. UNLESS you luck out with a wildcard who loves crazy girls. my crazy/hot readings were all over the chart. i played with my floppy turtleneck a lot.

oh yes this brings me to my next section WHAT TO WEAR?

simple. what is this guy and where are you going?

if dude is a yuppie he wants a trophy a funky one. tone down the accessories. unless he’s beneath your class then you can overdo it. guys love rich pussy. i am like a rockefeller con artist, legit not rich person (but i’m comfortable enough) right i have to dress to impress and assimilate. i’m like a spy. i get to wear all kinds of different garb for different settings but because i am tall and blond and sexy (use that if you have it, use your sexiness, women, always, very powerful thing. we will NEVER be a modern day no sexual harassment in the workplace existing species, while in the dawn of this era, men are still like cavemen, shows like mad men just bring it all back too but anyway) all i have to do to modify a look (say for a meeting, or a blog feature) is change my shoes. pointy means business. mary janes mean i want to add height and draw more attention to my legs. where the hell am i going with this? blah.

yuppie = sexy post work drinks office clothing which is particularly hot for me because i never wear that shit so i instantly get into character when i dress this way. as a teenager, i kid you not, i owned two piece power suits. sets! matching skirts and blazers tall tight black boots like i was a fucking escort. i was taking law and business courses totally intending to be a lawyer but also, dating yuppies. i was way young so i had to dress old. once those clothes were on me and i’d cruise bay, front, the looks, you just copy all the women but be better than them (wow this is turning into a minxing guide) be them but also every slutty character on ally mcbeal (that’s dating when i was actually doing this hahaha) you know the one snake bitch who uses her vagina and her meanness to get ahead. be the villain. not to be a villain but to be this character, the villain will bring you closer to posing as bay street. the funny thing was i paid for my yuppie bait costumes with my blue collar job earnings. everything from le chateau yep yep.

if you are going with a jock, go holly madison from girls next door (classy) but be kendra the tomboy jock. i went on a leafs date and i wore my manipulative pink turtleneck, tight ass grey leggings (so he and everyone could see everything) chucks (that’s where the punk comes in) and sporty tube socks. voila. boner mobscene all around me. sometimes the dude’s a dud but you can still be a prize and have fun a little bit. that outfit got us right down to golds, better seats.

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the guy still tries to get with me and won’t take my silences as an answer. i know this was a successful outfit because all the jocks on fb from my school liked it. setting doesn’t hurt either.

if the guy is a hipster DO NOT WEAR PLAID ON THE FIRST DATE. while hipster dudes want a hipster they want a real subtle sleeper one at first like, wuuuuuh who meee? hip—stuuuuurrr?? where??

i’m going to wrap this up now i don’t know if any of this is actually helpful. ask me questions to steer me in a direction to fix your fuck ups. if not then next i will talk about such topics as how to pretend you aren’t stoned and how to hide yawning (still working on this one), and then how to write an impacting first message to hook them line and sinker. then, your photos. another, pretending to be naive. that’s a boner maker for sure. check and mate. we’ll cap it off with the benefits of dumbing it down.

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hey guess what TMR is doing a deal with TEAMBUY right now for their re-energizer boot camp spring package now you can get an ass like mine. CLICK AND BUY and i’ll see you at the next class. $25 for 4 bootcamps. xoxo oh man you should have seen the move james taught me today with one of the big balls. i was like a carousel. ok enough raunchy talk for today. (it’s never enough!)

overheard herding nerds

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k so where were we then? yesterday i was squirrely. today i am squirrely from being squirrely yesterday. your brain is constantly whirling as a blogger you put your attention and focus in so many different directions daily. ka-blammo.

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the raymi pose. the raymi charlatan. don’t worry, one day we’ll have a nice juicy coffeetable book detailing all this stupid shit organized, thorough, articulate, awe-inspiring and guilty pleasure-ridden.

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wonder how many people look in on my world and hate themselves for it thinking they should be hating me cos i said something to piss them off once (lots) yet they read and read and oh look nipple poking through a shirt ugh barf at her.

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like i said, i bought four shirts. so we had to see them all.

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in a bachelor apartment on the edge of the world of parkdale the very last unit of the last building. i shouldn’t have been there. i also should have been there.

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i woke up there having an anxiety attack. they come on from not enough sleep, stress, my period, or heat. the apartment was swelteringly hot. i lay there doing lamaz class style breathing and used my mental super powers to rid the panic attack away. considered canceling my tmr session. anxiety makes you think you can’t do things. i powered through.

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i had some anxiety today too. all that nudity i do, and am about to be posting more of, it affects you. i wrestle with it in my head, knowing who reads this just, i have to just forget about it. the city thinks i’m insane right? i can’t do anything about that anymore but feed into it.

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that mirror has a greatly positioned smudge. looks like i got spanked around though.

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the D butt is winning. sometimes in the past i posted bubble butt pics of my rear and nay sayers said i ain’t got no ass nice try though. anything to deflect and take away from you, they do it. applaud it you asshole don’t you want to see more of it? lady gaga is bare-assed constantly.

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when she came out about weed “for artistic purposes” or whatever i said SEE mom and my mom goes yeah for her ART ONLY um blahaha and what the crap do you think i am doing over here? cutting out snowflakes? fuckin finger paintins? puh-leaze. go back three years to when i was an exclusive drunk and have a read. little more comatose. buh-oring.

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i had an interesting phone chat today. it was like my ego got a rub n tug.

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and my dreams, a happy ending finish. ahahhahaha. you can see a copy of dear raymi on the left there. best offer can have it. signed.

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i’ve been using this on my hand. i am addicted. i’ve been slathering it everywhere actually. i’m softer than i’ve ever been before this is like, the making of an escort be careful if you use vitmain e it might make you extremely conceited.

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my face? garbage dump in this photo but my hand, total hand model what’s up eh? fantastic. oh that’s right my nails ARE sponsored. dirt off shoulder.

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i just had to get daytime drunk to deal with this pile i’ve been pushing aside on the floor all over my room for 2.5 days now. catch-up stress is something powerful. the want to right everything immediately yet escape from it and get trashed. avoidance. story of muh life.

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how much more darling am i now that i have little diamond earrings? ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW! buy me new ones please i want crazy feathers and all the stuff i have missed out on. i am a girl now.

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a grandma girl. new hot look. grandmas SS11.

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i’m a stud now again. look out lesbians at the beaver and the spill-over ones at gladstone.

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albino iris kurt cobainer.

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this would be amazing if my face wasn’t a big giant jug.

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i just totally rolled my eyes at myself.

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now i just ooh la la’d at myself.

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leah face. past babysitter and aaron’s older sister and then my co-worker at home hardware aka familia.

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no i’m innocent i swear face.

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half price fajita date.

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it’s like they all read my blog somedays.

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*prrink* (nip squeeze pinch sound effect).

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notice how my bag matches my boots. both cherry red. or oxblood? that’s an older h and m bag i unearthed. s madden bag is gargantuan and too security blanky.

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my favourite shitty date bar serveress was on deck last night. love her.

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she likes me too.

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the bread dip omgzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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he was 25. just turned. i asked. he gasped. i had a wiped memory of everything about him. we began talking about november so we finally nailed down meeting.

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being the older woman. hmmm. i saw him melt midway through dinner. uh oh.

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i am a mess five times over i did the back peddle as we walked along queen. i like him though. i say no more.

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i did say the i am not going to lead you on hall of famer though.

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a sign. from above. i said did you notice the pin ups downstairs when you went? he sad no. no? you pass this wall how can you miss an entire wall?

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ok then.

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i had to show my id to get in his building where he lives with students he used to go here. it was icing on the cake tribute to reminding me i am older. my id is expired. i was nervous. it was like road trip the dormitories lobby all the student babysitter nerds i swear and we heard his roommate come in partying next door and i also heard retching and a lot of flushing in the other direction. amazing.

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how fantastic is this view though? so good. so high up. no wonder he hasn’t left.

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and the window overlooknig this you can sit in like a bubble over the huge gotham foggy sky waiting to see the bat signal.

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ok gotta speed this up i’m fading. i tackled my laundry. i have to make coffee.

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it’s nice to be a tourist in your own city.

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look at me. stay away boys. don’t give in.

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nuuuuhhhhh—-oooooooo! i told you i tried i really did.

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ahh y’all fucked now.

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who doth go there?

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do you guys even care anymore?

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a travesty. i had a teeny nibble. i was repulsed. tried to make us sit down in the food court dungeon of eaton’s center. uh no. i was getting gritchy at this point, phone dying, obsessing about laundry mountain and a job to do.

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what’s up cp24 :( hahah nice nose thanks a lot bangs.

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thanks for the faux rays though babe. raymi ray bans. the product endorsement possibilities oh just so many. a popular soft drizzle emailed yours truly just now. we’ll see what happens. they said i am cutting edge.

mmmhmmm that’s what’s up now!

i love you but i have to leave you.

Goldilocks had a twin

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any ideas what this post will be about???? such a mystery! these are lost photos from feb 19. i’m more fit since.

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weirdest worst work outfits i put together to date. nice socks. what am i a garden up one leg? yes, i am.

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this re-energizer bootcamp class was so packed.

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i look like a slob. those hurdles are harder to jump cos they’re higher than the orange ones.

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why do i look hungover i’m so not, i was a good girl the night prior.

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holy shit look at me go leader of the pack much. i’m running a revolution. i’m that girl eating bloody flesh on that t-shirt stew has, in the woods, my bikini-clad mob in-tow, guns. fuck yeah.

like so.

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oh fun such a ball and a ham.

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i’m an animal.

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wow ain’t that something.

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i talk to a lot of gym rats on plenty of fish. some of my profile pics are wicked jock bait. i have gone on dates with guys that i am hands down more fit than and stronger than i am constantly sizing myself up to them. luc was like i don’t think i could take the military guy. oh, no shit eh, you don’t say hahahah! james and shannon keep asking about him too i was like oh dude that was so two weeks ago.

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landin’ like a nana.

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way graceful.

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ugh why do i even.

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lately when i start to go spazz when i’m talking and can’t effectively communicate my psychotic ideas i tell people that i was born with a learning disability. NOT ONE PERSON HAS REFUTED THIS! then i get piss shocked face incredulous. whatever.

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now what the fuck am i doing? who do i think i am sometimes right guys? hahaha.

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i’m getting better at that move. sundials? you rotate 4 times clockwise then counter. fun. i love anything that works my triceps.

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ooh my fave. this is my training for the apocalypse station. pull drag drag and then push it like an ox.

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that’s the russian nightmare near me hahah. one day i might train with him. i think he’s afraid of me even though he is basically something right out of mortal kombat hahahha. he thinks i’m a russian mail order bride probably. i think i spy him watching me murder myself on the treadmill like a total f–ing lunatic some mornings for warm-up.

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hahahaheehehehea nice. so tryng to impress jeff here. that chick in the foreground to the right came from the magical world of facebook. social media works for business yo! but you need a virtual salesman like me to push it.

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rah scary raymi. scary raymi army. anyway, here is an example of how funny my life is and how fun. i get to take my diva persona into emails, business emails. here’s an example of a back and forth one from yesterday.

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HEY RAYMI WE HAVE THIS TOTALLY STUPID CONCEPT/PRODUCT INVENTION AND ZERO SOCIAL RECOGNITION OR INTERNET INFLUENCE WE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU OUR CRAP TO HOCK ON YOUR BLOG THAT YOU SO DON’T WANT AND NO ONE WILL EVEN GO FOR BUT PLEASE DEMO IT FOR FREE THANKS THIS IS(N’T) A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU HOCUS POCUS ALAMALOCUS!

me: i don’t promote for free what is your budget?

UM, WHAT ARE YOUR STATS?

me: ten k daily

ZERO RESPONSE.

it’s not that i get as many hits as xiaxue (so don’t) or the like, it’s me, i am the influencer here and look at my alexa ranking. i have put company’s business on the internet map just by linking to them repetitiously. i’ve raised the level of my frenemy’s blogs too so i don’t really link to them anymore. the closer i get to the 10,000 ranked website in canada, the pool of competition thickens exponentially. i have been too kind to too many for too long.

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in short, i busted my ass to get where i am now here, how much is it worth to you to have an advertorial with raymi? it’s worth a lot, it’s more effective to be seen here, my finger is on the pulse. people battle daily for my opinions, responses, whatever why am i even saying all this? i think i am still defensive about this entire blogging racket and i am tired of explaining it to people the same crap over and over again. HEY YOU CAN MAKE MONEY FROM THAT WHOLE NEW-FANGLED INTERNET BLOG BOX THING HOW DO I START ME ONE OF THOSE? ugh.

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i take all my rage out at the motion room. they’re turning me into linda hamilton and i am making the personal trainer rounds right now for variety, it’s fun. but i can’t try my tricks with the new ones so it’s more effective. even when james is screaming at me i am like oh baloney shut your face then laugh like hell into my towel as i am lying in a disgusting pile of my sweat.

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not enough weight on this i need lots because i am a rhinocerous.

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too light and i do a face plant.

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always wear tighter clothing. i am shrinking and learning this and i know i’m in the zone when i start to shrink out of my clothes or for five minutes i look like a lanky praying mantis or jimminy cricket then it’s all downhill from there. yes. downhill from looking like a grasshopper that’s right.

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yummy and weird but my arms, blah gross. they’re much better now.

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shannon you are a twig. go eat some bon bons.

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jumping jacks.

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i like aerobicsy stuff cos i can practice my dance rhythm and i pretend i am a cyborg fitness video background demonstrator dancer. i also like the floppy flop of my ponytail because i now associate with thumper and that’s the direction i am steering my brand. bambi bunny playmate. look, you think I think i’m insane? can you imagine the machinations going on in the head of an ACTUAL chick who takes this stuff legitimately seriously? my word.

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i mean the whole blond bombshell vacant mess hollywood thing.

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it’s what being insane ALL the time is like.

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lying in a hammock staring up at a palm tree will make it worth it.

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flop.

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TMR has been a great anchor for me the past few months. can’t wait to see how the globe and mail edits it altogether. i have to start getting more comfortable on camera and be more natural. yess’m.

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i am good at the wall thing.

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that’s my friend mara! hi! cute french braid too. so cute. the ball thing that girl is doing is fun and easy and great for your abs.

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speed tubing punches.

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that’s the smart face.

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seeing these helps motivate me as i look better than this right now it’s kind of a phewf don’t go backwards thing. helpful in this case. document your progress.

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sometimes i give myself a gold star for cuteness. nailed it.

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some are so great, cute and then weird things in the background all over taking place.

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i am going to get my ass insured one day. how does that work? so weird eh haha.

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i need to get gloves.

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oh god this one’s a challenge. goood luck budd-ay!

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bewbs dewds.

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haha i just thought of something mean and snarky to say to defend myself the next time someone says people only read my blog cos i’m hot or naked i’ll go totally that’s right cos if i looked like you no one would read this thing at all ever. me-ow.

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shaved head guy by the wall worked me out on tuesday, andrew. i did very well.

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no mo effin’ around fo me bikini season is nearing. everything season. i think you need to be ready to be sir nakes-a-lot always. you never ever know.

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crazy plank. so easy to fall over. i tapped casie over for fun haha.

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down she goes.

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oh there’s a face.

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i see tongue.

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saved it.

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me and casie finally meet face to face.

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hey buddy.

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ahhahahahha wicked.

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i was so sweaty i changed. hi shannon! one important thing shannon and i both agree on for fitness is having manicures. hahaha. look at my nails. perfect.

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hottie! from the internet! the internet breeds hot women. fact.

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i heard a certain someone really likes this station during bootcamp.

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people were supposed to do slow lunges on the treadmill but i was a hyper insaniac so i cranked it to 9 and ran like blow darts were after me.

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i’m meeeeeelting.

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this is what we do to the motion room and who wrote that? that’s the sleaziest word you could come up with? C-. may as well have written NERD WAS HERE. by the way all the hotties in the background, various trainers and the like all party on TMR’s facebook page so if you were fat and had a crush, well, that’s where you go.

also, drum roll please, ready for the heavyweight challenge?? you’re gonna f–ing LOVE this one…

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these bros (dan and walter) are going head-to-head, toe-to-toe, belly-to-belly, for a six month weight loss challenge.

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meet dan. he first fell in love with me here. baahahah first comment in that post is anonymous: i have a crush on james. AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH!

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walter.

oh boy this is going to be super fucking good. i’m going to work out with them one day maybe i will get to yell at them like i yelled at my mom when i made her do supermans. i love challenges.

OK BYE! SEE YOU AT THE BEACH!

blame it on the Raymes yeah yeah

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i felt hugely that i was a brainiac at a young age and started feeling ugly cos of so much brainpower, i had coolness obsession and my best frenemy called me a brainer all the time to psyche me out, i even dumbed it down cos of this bitch like lohan in mean girls for se’ers. grimace. so i wanted my looks to be able to compete with my brains and be on par and maybe get me noticed for those first i can stand up in the class and be dominating but that’s not a good look for an ugly woman. i made myself a target constantly necessitating beauty armour. i felt inferior to prettier girls in my class. so i wanted to transform myself into a thing of want once i was done my grunge phase. have you ever seen what i looked like in grade eight? even more beautiful in grade nine and my best at grade ten.

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me at fourteen on the left, mega whore. jailbait indeed. anyway i wanted to be very pretty and i dunno what happened i started reading cosmopolitan i was coming out of being a ginormous hermit slob and had my own mini threesome of boys fan club, like a pre-pbc (parkdale boys club) unit i was the girl friday and i took cues from sluts in our neighbourhood on how to be, girls they had crushes on, devoured all knowledge possible concerning hotness. guys in the naybe were feared to near me way more than they were at highschool thanks to my brother. how-e-ver (how many are shaking reading this right now ahahahah) little did he know, said fellows, while keeping their distance, definitely did the googoo eyes dance with me. i was kind of a terrified neurotic, of our hood, it did have its rough patches as well as coming of age when your parents are kind of like telling you NO all the time and you’re battling pre-pubescent/adolescent depression and other awkward weirdnesses you have to figure out who the hell you want to be and what you are too. i wanted to be an enigma, seen, mysterious, sought after.

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holy crap look at my mug.

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if you will please ignore all the embarrassing shit surrounding the pièce de résistance here, your hero in thigh highs in grade SIX no less. i was dancing here too so i was learning how to be a gazelle and i was legitimately the most awkward fucking thing when i started, i had no idea how to relax i was nervous ALL THE TIME and i was always singled out and picked on until i fucking snapped. it took me TWO YEARS to snap in dance class. yes some elements of that black swan shit are true. lots of perfectionist pressure. i was being picked on by miss amanda (they were ALL called miss amanda) and i said WHY are you ALWAYS singling ME out specifically STOP IT i said in front of everybody we were all lazing around on the floor post stretches. i mean, i went on, invisible vibes to be egged on emanated toward me, i am NOT the worst one in the class and i know you do it because i’m the class clown and i talk a lot and the most but just, stop. i finished because the look on my face said everything. i was about to EXPLODE in the face with tears if she even TRIED to fuck with that statement. i think i also added i don’t come here once a week to be yelled at k thanks. it was true. i was miserable a lot in jazz. A LOT. but i kept at it cos i don’t really quit things. i quit cheerleading though. that’s another story. at least i made the team bitchas! i know drill still.

ps. me in that purple dress and stupid blue jean dress, my ears are pierced only time ever than now. i look like a monkey you saw in dominican republic at an all-inclusive. ooh ohh AHH AHH! (monkey talk). thank god i grew into my ears.

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i don’t know why i am sitting like this but this is me and aaron one of my best friends (my boys club trifecta member, there were three of them, plus me, pay attention). our phone numbers were practically identical by one number difference isn’t that amazing. he had a cardboard box star trek hang out pad in this basement with amazing truck car seats? i have ten billion stories about all our adventures. here’s highlights:

1. playing manhunt with my brother at riverrun park (so dangerous) up in the forested hill part beside the practically vertical hill that the burn outs dumped gasoline all over and burned, anyway, my brother checked me when aaron was IT and gunning for us at the top of the ridiculous path slope hill and i rolled all the way down the hill gaining momentum hitting trees and created a landslide of dirt earth branches leaves ahahahaha and my brother was RIGHT on my ass as i was barreling down i stopped just before being flung right into the fucking river, i landed in the mud instead on all fours including my face ahahhaa. THANKS SHAWN. it was a severely steep and dangerous hill, part of the point and thrill of the chase.

2. got sap all over my ass and body climbing a tree at the park with arron waiting for my brother who was grounded from loitering at falconer plaza and therefore we were his only friends, anyway, i fell out of this tree and hit my head or ass or something. i think my mom canceled shawn’s grounding a few days prematurely because i almost died tagging along with them all over.

3. i got wasted with aaron one of my first times getting wasted. barnes barfed out of his nose when he went in his house ahahhaa and i slept walked and pissed on my dresser. we had a bush party down by the river. my first boyfriend was there too and he was so gassed he drank cried cos i was whining about bullshit. i was grounded for two weeks and they hit the vacuum outside my door first thing in the morning to welcome me into my newfound hell.

this was the beginning of my demise as an innocent girl.

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holy crap all i wanted to do here was talk myself out of nudity guilt by saying i am a victim of my own narcissism and insecurities. my date last night told me to relax a lot, and that i was paranoid. i could not stop vouching for myself, selling myself. it was disgusting. he wasn’t the one so i felt like i had to over-compensate for the both of us. he looks like gavin mcinnes and is a foot freak. we had a good time. i irritated the hell out of him. he liked me though and he said he had never met anyone like me before and i earlier told myself as i was getting ready to leave, oh, i’ve never met anyone like you before as if i were him. i talk to myself in my head i am constantly going because i am a writer, and manic. anyway, sometimes i have moments where i recognize i just might be different than everybody else and therefore maybe i should cut it out. i think i got used to freaks or i surround myself with many degenerates and then when i meet normal people and they look at me in that way i go, oh yeah, i am a fucking rocket. i showed him my hands though and said look how good these look now picture them as my feet so yuo can picture how nice they might look like except i walk on them so they’re kind of mangled, but they’re beautiful. it came out more funny in real life. i have beautiful appendages. i didn’t say that though, i am just saying it now because i wanted you to know.

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ok bath time.

you don’t get to know me anymore

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i don’t even know where to begin i feel overwhelmed right now agggh internet here i am positively hysterical it’s been so long. be careful though this post may contain some newdity. i’m trying to hype myself up into composing a letter to playboy and to stop rejecting the person that i am. senor nakedface.

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forgot to add truffles from a leopard print forest. started with princess soap cos i have a particular kind. dove. from the baby department because it smells like baby powder and then i use baby powder on top of that and douse myself in 4 different kinds of perfume. my body rejecs all of this anyway because i am 1. extremly toxic and 2. my natural born with scent is a good one. you know some people smell repulsive? i do not. i think i was born to be a minx sometimes, so many things just so totally align and then it’s like ahha, no brainer obviously my back arches like so and my well, you know…

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we’ll take it from the top. here i am on the train, semi-drunk and my blackberry battery was running low so i had better settle on a plan soon before i stopped existing, still no internet at home no point to rush directly there. this is the last train in to my fair city. i went to not my dog to meet a PBC member with all my luggage and traveling gypsy bullshit, my big steve madden bag knocked over musician when i came in. i later left with him. we had unfinished business to attend to.

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i was still sick and kind of tired but it was early and i dunno, just had to do it. oh right i know why, my latest fling had fizzled and i needed a replacement fix.

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serial daters cannot be rewired.

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so i focused on the fact that i will not let my mojo die or fade. i will never look like this again. i may look better than it actually. fucking right i will with a tan? ballin’. anyway. i’m going to submit to that magazine that i said i would. you know when you’re watching the girls next door then they all of a sudden go topless (in canada at least we show nudity on tv here) and you’re all shocked to see holly’s perfect fake tits? it’s like oh yeah right they’re like creatures of perfection pinging every single playmate stereotype possible, posing 101. anyway i practiced my playboy poses and took some amateur self shots. i think i fit the mold, despite my flatness. i have seen some super flat girls in playboy before and it was shocking but then almost more perverted i was thinking, how is this possible? it gave me confidence to see it.

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actually completely covered here but still pretty raunchy. why should i be ashamed of this, my body? how many girls out there with better bodies than me? tons. they can’t show theirs though like i can cos of whatever vanilla society role they play. natalie portman in (mom what magazine was that?) style? in style? man i’m ignorant anyway she said it was very french to emphasize a feature that one might see as a flaw, her stylist said for her to only ever wear flats despite her short height, he said everyone else would tell her to war heels. being short is her strength. so for me it would be my nose, and being flat chested. how often do i highlight how flat i am, or my huge nose, all angles i always tilt so you can see that they’re adding it as a hill at blue mountain. i have a strong french streak so this makes sense, my provocateur ways and bawdy flat indifference. i was born to be backlit and naked in a parisian window, a funny cigarette betwixt my thumb and forefinger. that is my destination to be encased in that moment, a muse. i must be my greatest lover ever. listening to some weirdos poetry until one day someone impresses me.

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boom came through with a delivery. april was there with my colleague and she said she liked her eggs like she liked her men, over easy and dark. fuckin a-men sista. i think we might have a slumber party this friday me and her to be up and at ‘em for our chemical peels saturday morning and it’s tarek‘s birthday friday night and no you are not invited we’re all full thanks (haha kidding)(NO I AM NOT!) ahh man i can’t wait i need a new circle rotation i am jonesing for these people it’s been awhile. i need to be scolded by tarke to write my book again and to get over the drama and haters and all the other crap i make up in my head and obsess over.

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wore this on my dayte yesterday. i brought my plaid back-up. i bought 4 shirts at mapleview mall on monday. retail therapy. said with zero irony, sheepishness or legally blondisms. my mom put it crystal clear, she is ocd about having filled closets because they never were growing up. one outfit only. i have inherited this for sure i realized yesterday as i was doing laundry, round one and discovered brand new things i JUST bought and was high off of all over again.

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this is a smug little belly shirt. a small from f21 meant to be worn bigger and looser i just can’t deal something so big though these tings fit everyone differently, snowflakes people do not assimilate ever. i know it’ll shrink and turn into my pinky turtleneck, one of my manipulative shirts. that one is manipulative and smug. this one is droopy and sloppy all over the place.

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burn doing better since i have been slathering it with vitamin e.

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starbuck’s is turning to the dark side. i had to tell my barista today how horrible my valentines day was cos she saw me the morning of. she is vegan and PERFECT and tall and hot and ENGAGED and perky and odd and a total beauty queen and i am a skidrat wombat-eyed scary mascara uni-bomber sunglasses post work-out disaster when i see her. she’s like so how was your valentines day and i wince and go ahah yeah i was kind of afraid to tell you. well lets see, i got a death threat (guy barista behind her goes WOWCH!) on the internet and the guy who i was supposed to see emailed me half an hour before he’s supposed to land to tell me he’s not coming, i was nauseous all day getting progressively worse replete with chills, aches, pains (at least i was skinny) went to a singles mixer with my ex who was socially retarded and purposely rude to every single girl he spoke to cos there was no one he liked. i wasn’t attracted to anybody, i didn’t want to tell her or anybody else the rest of the deep shame of that night but it’s safe to say hands down it was the absolute fucking worst valentines day of my life i would have killed myself except a family kin already did that and i am not that cruel. oh yeah i was still reeling from the suicide funeral i attended the day before. lovely!

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so an adorable chapter of the co-dependent singles club got together to set me up with the manager of a restaurant lois has been trying to sandwich me together with for awhile now but i keep meeting assholes getting hung up and off them and then you know, other stupid shit. i went to my mom’s this weekend to be babysat and nursed back to health and mooch the internet. i brought nothing to wear out. i brought my rubber boots like a giant baby and i was a sick sweaty disaster so i told lois monday was off. then i changed my mind but i had to buy an outfit. mom gave me some flats, i bought 4 shirts at f21 and then met lois at the bar. show time.

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mom that shirt does not photograph well on your big jugs. give it to me. lois and i are talking strategy.

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nobody understood my shirt and lois kept trying to get me to wear her red angora sweater. i took it to go. this guy was not that into me and my mom was judging him, vibing him out and i was being super nice flashing my vanna whites a lot and dimples but neither were really feeling it. his world is this bar. negatory. lois i hope you’re not bummed.

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that’s gary across from me. he wasn’t drinking so naturally i made fun of him like crazy. i said he looked like ellen degeneres in that white tennis sweater vest. i like gary. i said i would go make out with the manager and he’s like no you can’t do that with guys cos then they think you do that all the time i’m like, hmmm, interesting.

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i’m eating the blackened chicken. it wasn’t at all spicy. the potatoes it comes with are retarded amazing.

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this is what i ate all weekend long. that bowl is a family relic artifact.

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mmm.

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MMMYUM!

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my plaid shirt. guys are suckers for plaid it’s a little disappointing and thrilling at how easy it is.

this is going to be a two-parter i don’t want my laptop to explode before i get a chance to publish.

next up: guide to dating tips.

burn watch

i don’t think you are ready for this, new discovery of mine. i am about to be super rich now because i have figured out how to get rid of hand wrinkles. pour boiling water on it and burn your skin off. voila. (for the morons out there reading this no do not actually do that, thank you, i do the dumb things so you don’t have to).

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it’s like, the tanorexic aunt’s face/entire body in something about mary.

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i don’t think i’ll have a scar or skin difference in colouration/pigment change though with my luck, it’s probably safe to say that i will definitely have exactly all that and then a tree will fall on me. it’s nice how the vanilla tone of the sheets brings out the tan burn, makes it pop. my hand is SO ready for bikini season now. i have been slathering lotion all over it obsessively like eight pints of st. ives. last summer from biking like a maniac all over town my hands became very tanned and leathery. i am going to find the strongest spf lotion there is. i am doing summer right this time. the minx nails set off my hand tan too. sigh.

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butt watch!

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on the mend now. woke up bathed in sweat. i hate sick sweat. i love getting pneumonia from my own sweat, that’s super fun.

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ok that’s all i have for you right now. raymbotumblr will have some action for you periodically (if you can make sense of it, place is ‘tarded over there) if you’re jonesin’ hard.

i just forgot what day it was.

cabin fever!

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just in lust

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rocky needs a haircut. i don’t know what i am looking at anymore. where is up?

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ahh dudes i’m so sick. frowny face. looking at this carpet picture made my allergies sinuses everything act up. so stuffed up. there will be an over-abundance of the word “up” in this post. callin’ foreshadow. stamped it. (actually i was wrong).

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this retarded month of commuting back and forth all over and sitting in drafty coffeeshops has taken its toll on my immune system see, this is how homeless people die. they never get proper rest or shelter, always on the move in their patched-up too big for them coal miner pants and stick with red kerchief full of worldly possessions bindle hahah but you know what i mean, too much hustle and bustle, public spaces, no good for you. i’m just used to being a cave sloth, doing my jobs, then back to my nest. haven’t been able to do that with proper rests in between. there is always something, right folks.

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stupid mishaps, foibles, and catastrophes (i can’t believe there’s no i in catastrophes) are what fuel my blog and life in general i suppose. what the hell would i write about otherwise?

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life would just be pictures then, no stories. eeeeeeeeerrrrkkk that’s me screech steering us away from that sort of fairy talk for the rest of this journey.

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being a work out person makes you 50% more body conscious. i’m like jersey shore up here, caucasian edition, always lifting my shirt up and shit.

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except for my face, that’s still kind of orange.

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hahahah HEADQUARTERS. do we know who’s in charge? hmm it’s a mystery. we might have to hire professionals to figure it out.

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i battled and fended off a chill for 2 days. then friday night, the night of adventurehouse (which i didn’t go to i was that run down) which was amazing i hear, everything fell apart. well, my glands became engorged and swollen like bull testicles or footballs in my neck. coincidentally this was the night when EVERYONE i love to party with contacts me at once to give’r but meanwhile i have a very important personal appointment to tend to. it always goes this way don’t it.

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in the choose your own adventures grand schemes of things, you can’t choose them all.

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but oh lawdy, we try.

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ladies in hades. perfect name. put a tumbl on that shit!

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ugh and still climbing. guess who is winning, quality or quantity. one guy has offered money to kiss my ass. i have got him at $200, i have not counter-offered or quoted. hahaha. more on this later. well no not that i am not going to do it, i just mean, the whole dating thing. i hate it. i am sick of new people in my life i have enough people. i just want to be tethered to one thing. instead, i waste my life, one to two weeks at a time.

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love this book. my mom bought it for my dad years ago.

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doing buns to see how my hair fares this way, this length. when there’s only a blow dryer in the house or you’re short on time this is a good look. fluke look. at chap’s they almost had to call the newspapers they’d never seen something so wild before. at the coach and four, the more they drank, the cuter i got then every time i passed the gauntlet of people to get to the bathroom from mic to our nook, i passed by ten compliments. i was in an extremely foul mood, an email set me off. it got to a point where i just sat and refused to mingle or move. i loved watching lois have a grand time though. philip and i did a duet, we killed it. at the end i sang thank you by dido and all the british men lined up to basically thank and pay me accolades for it cos that’s one of my raymaoke ringer songs from years ago, i used to do it all the time and i can simulate dido’s accent and yeah, i killed it. killed it with leia buns and brits love dido and never saw or heard it coming. there’s something to be said about standing facing a cluster of moist-eyed soft faced endearing pub lushes smiling at you while you belt one out. laura told me she loves karaoke and fantasizes about her compliments for days on end afterward.

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i miss her. we met off the vice messageboard, she’s one of the original vice kids where raymi the minx began. she took me under her wing when i went to new york. she was 23, i, 18. super cool indie, but better. indie was a slag back then and no one said hipster. can you version 2.0 hipsters envision a world without the word hipster? it happened. no one on vice said the word hipster. seriously. hands to cheeks a la macauly culkin on that one. people were just cool without a label, without marketers re-packing their originality in the form of urban outfitters.

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i just sent her this email:

i want to come visit you.

my life is so different now.

i will be 28 at the end of march. our ten year pumps anniversary is coming up.

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remind me to write about the day i met her one day. it’s an incredible story.

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wah whut hayoooo!

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the socks were irritating the inner-neurotic. i coulda just put them on the other feet, the correct feet and the ribbons would have been aligned symmetrically.

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freak strawberry.

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massacre.

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lime jello is the classic family flavour favoured by us when sick. there’s a bottle of aloe here for my burn that looks exactly like my jello i am eating. WHY DOES EVERYTHING MATCH THAT OCCURS TO ME WAAAH KISMET CHARLIE SHEEN COSMIC ENERGIES blowin’ my miiiind. kidding. no i’m not. yes i am. kidding. just kidding. (hi steph! she laughs when i do the just kidding)(just kidding no she doesn’t)Ughbdshfgdsl ugh brackets forever sorry i am sick and hallucinating enjoy the ride.

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and now the past few day’s from my blackberry’s perspective. this is my fajita salad. i didn’t eat all of it. why can’t restaurants make smaller portions? why do they want to kill all of burlington?

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dad had this. yum. well i tried the burger and it was so totally mass-produced, it made me kind of sad. such a foodie snob. but i love going out and we love chap’s cos we’re weird so i give it a green flag.

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chap’s bathroom. i was extremely overdressed. hahahaa.

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i chose this one because of the catch me if you can-like label. have you seen that movie? the opening title sequence.

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roots scraggly mess after my workout friday morning using TMR‘s office for, you guessed it, internet. sigh. apparently it’s fixed now. ha right, early april fools day joke much lucas?

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weirdest oopsie outfits lately. haha one of my single white female blog (in-denial) stalkers who tries to emulate every single thing i do for 4 years now copied one of my oopsie outfits the other day, the one i wore to shasha what a retard you copied an accident. burn. one time a kid was copying my english quiz so hard and fast he wrote my name as his, i looked over saw it and snatched it out of his hand and slapped it down beneath our teacher’s nose on her desk and everyone around me who overheard died laughing cos andrew was a slack off loser who tried this shit on everyone. i was the class brain, big mouth, teacher’s pet and clown. do you think i let anything slide or an opportunity to get a laugh or be right go? fat chance. also countdown to said SWF copying my buns. clockwork!

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we always sit in the same place, the bar perch. i love people watching here. it feels like being in a barn, completely different from what it looks like on the outside. good place for a religious cult to operate out of or a setting for a sequel to dawn of the dead, board up the windows. i could envision the end of the world going on down here. i told someone on pof that i was training for the apocalypse cos he asked about this photo of me pushing a bunch of weight at the motion room “hey what are you training for?” my approach with men is to be as endearingly snarky as is possible straight off the bat so they know exactly what they are dealing with.

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u training for anything in particular in that one pic?

the apocalypse.

you should probably stay close in case a falling object comes near you, i will throw the undead through a wall to protect you also. no need to thank me.

i, am smooth. el smootho. hahaha tumbling that.

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gotta give it up to brennen, every time i see him he’s got a new look. this time? a little bit of the J man (jesus, who else?) and charles manson. we dubbed ourselves manson and marilyn. how sweet is that?

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what’s not sweet though is my burn. it just gets uglier and uglier by the day. you should probably try not to burn yourselves ever kids just a head’s up. i get really jumpy around hot water now, should have seen me making jello yesterday. christ that was scary.

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classic Veronica Corningstoner. in advertising the advertorial’s impact doesn’t show success until the consumer sees it three times, so repetition is key. what i’m saying is, the next time i say veronica corningstoner it will be committed to your memory.

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love rickard’s white. can you bring me an orange grove with that please? seriously. i had a phase of adding all kinds of real oj and juices to beers.

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big time food fetishist.

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when we hang my dad calls my brother to make fun of him over the phone so shawn can feel like he is with us in person being made fun of. a man at the bar was reading alone over a glass of red wine. he was there last week when my dad and i went for dinner. who is winning, him or us?

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my dad bought these to wear for one of their dr. robert performances for halloween but the night before he saw elton john on tv wearing the same pair, he didn’t want anyone at this party to draw a connection between himself and elton john and the beatles. hahaha oh dad. no i mean go dad. one of the funniest family dis-exchanges happened full circle on that blog, my brother and i still laugh about it and to not be selfish, i shall re-share it again here for all to enjoy and benefit from (laughter is the best medicine):

MOM SAYS: NEED TO THINK OF A BETTER BAND NAME, “GO DAD” IS “GAY”

RAYMI SAYS: OK HOW ABOUT, “MOM SUCKS”?

AHHAHAHahahhaHAHAHAHAHAHH!H!!!!!! yes. high five shawn. don’t feel bad for her she’s ripping on me and telling lies on facebook right now. ugh.

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two birds one stoner, selfies for dudes/blog/twitter. blast that shit out and spread it around. sometimes duckface can’t be avoided. i can’t help it that’s what my face looks like. it’s nana face.

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this was a fat night. immediately after this i ballooned right up. maybe it was the fajita salad and the beer and the sadness. women as they’re pre-menses they’re wolf vultures, it’s scary.

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i wonder what a wolf vulture could look like. amazing obviously.

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i like that rug. where did it come from dad? maybe i’ll buy a nicer one for my room. i might have to mine is full of never been vacuumed once evr and a billion and a billion tickle trunk parties. it was, i forget how much it was. under a hundred. from ikea. it’s the perfect fit though so i need one the exact same size. or, i could just buy a black & decker hand held vac. or their competitor could fucking mail me one already holy shit as if bloggers “pay” for “things” that moms have to buy.

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met the PBC (parkdale boys club) before i took the train out here (again) at mitzi’s yesterday. the spicy eggs are delicious. i wish mitzi’s would put a healthier option on their breakfast menu. like, salad. come on. just one fucking salad do it please.

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by the time we got to sobey’s with my mom (we drove in circles, her attention span steers the car ship man so naturally we were nowhere near the supermarket destination by the time we realised we were nowhere near the supermarket destination) i was hallucinatingly chilled to the bone, train ride wasn’t unpleasant as the one before when i was going to my dad’s (such a gypsy) which was a travelling icebox and packed with commuters. for everyone else yesterday riding with me i’m sure it was unpleasant, i was sniffling like crazy and when i wasn’t i was coughing and sneezing hysterically and frequently. sorry! no one sat near me. aww.

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i bought a bottle of bison sweetgrass vodka to drink through this bullshit, it’s not as good as the other brand though. i like the new tone to my hair it’s like, old lady toned. kind of silvery grey hint. white blond brennen said. i am forcing this smile. i was pretty miserable here. and the rain. blah. i get smiled at alot because i am pretty, yeah i said it, but when i am frowning frumpy mean crabapple face i feel so bad for that cute fool who accidentally looked at me smiling cos he saw the shiny blond puppy but then i am scowling, not at them just at life (can i get-a amen there!) and then their face goes from smile to scolded child i feel so bad, no it’s not your fault at all i feel like saying, i am just psychotically high maintenance and forever kicking schoolyard rocks in my mind a million miles away, in purgatory from a magical place i will never ever get to, understand? all this goes down on my way in to the lcbo as he is coming out, both alcoholics, starting from a high point. raise the bar high. look, i was relatively good friday night, you have no idea the incredible will power it took (sort of, my arm wasn’t exactly twisted) to avoid all those certain people and all the trouble i saved myself from so i had my saturday clear-headed enough, despite my sickness. i had a rough week. i am a whiner baby princess. i earned, needed, and deserved a break from the party and of course i’m guilt-ridden over it. blue eyed silver haired fox learned me a new term, the fear of missing out, forget exactly if that’s the term, FMO what the hell is it called? anyway, you see what i mean. i’ll make it to next advhaus party and the world will still keep spinning. speaking of, should i have a big birthday party or a private pity party?

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swapped tampon brands. i like that they’re marketing to junkies, how very syringe this design is and what’s more, in multi-rainbow colours. a drug addict so totally is the creative marketing director of this brand. some kind of wacky idiot. honestly what’s with the see through vial? is this the days of our lives hourglass? or did this come from my fisherprice doctor kit? where’s the big stethoscope that shit is FUN to scream in to when your brother has the ear buds in.

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ahha and GRANDMA WILL BE PICKING YOU UP TODAY WE’RE GOING AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. DINNER’S IN THE OVEN, $’S IN THE COOKIE JAR.

should i cancel my work out tomorrow and rest up or commute back into the city tonight, still super sick and dope up on meds and man-up through it? missing work outs gives me huge guilt anxiety.

apologies for typos, i’m tweet/fb-blasting this pre-edit cos i pro like that. impatient. i know nerds are bored and waiting out there for their rayminjection.

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY HURRAH!

Brunch with Raymbot

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i must say, there’s something about the atmosphere in BOOM. for me specifically of course cos i’m their poster girl (and it’s nice to eat with the entire kitchen staff and bussers smiling winking and waving at you like you’re marilyn monroe) but i noticed this day that the nice treatment isn’t just exclusive to yours truly, they dole that shit out to everyone like they’re truly nice guys or something. heinous. haha.

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what’s more is, i wasn’t even the one who suggested to eating there. mhhm. military guy wanted to see for himself. fine by me pal.

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hope you know what you’re signing up for though, taking this photo and then, many many more, is part of the deal. BIG part.

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even the garbage ones i’ll use. part of the story.

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i look like my nana papa grandma and grandpa all in one.

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so stoked i wore the same thing pretty much this day and yesterday’s post. VARIETY! actually all the outfits i’m wearing these days are comprised of clothing scraps and various rags in general as we’re out of laundry detergent and because of the lack of internet (fiasco heard round the world, literally it’s just a cable or wire that needs to be attached to the fucking phone pole back of adventurehouse) i haven’t been around much at all to take care of lady chores. anywhooo.

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cheapest all day breakfast to hit the city guys! look! fantastic!

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pictures of what this looks like in the real world coming up shortly. military guy is a tank so obviously he could eat two breakfasts easily, order firstsies first and elevensies after.

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calling card.

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i had the eggs tuscany. i try to mix it up.

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mr. tony was in my favourite! go up to him and have a chat sometime. he’s so funny.

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me and my americanos.

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OMG SO STARVED RIGHT NOW.

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mmmmmmmmm. didn’t get a bite. i NEVER get a bite of the waffle someone always scarfs it down before i even get a chance. hmmph.

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in my brain i just poured thick gravy all over this.

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so you get a huge plate of frites and two huge eggs any way you like, toast AND coffee.

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do i look smarter in these or just a stupid hipster? what kind of frames would suit me better? i need to wear them sometimes it’s not some bullshit lenseless try-hard crap you know sometimes my eyes do get squinty or i look like i didn’t sleep for a thousand years or at night in bars or biking, my little peepers need a boost.

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AAAAAAGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! yahhhh yum. i am losing it. nice knowing you guys thanks for everything.

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wuh oh bitch face emerges.

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that coral polish is fetching in photographs note to self. i lost this one bottle of green emerald polish i have misplaced, best shade to photograph ever. i’ll find pics. where did it go??

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it’s nice to eat here like a customer and not as my crazy in the kitchen running around like a servant self. i do like serving though, well more so hostessing and playing party. ha grown up party hahah snore.

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i love food like this, sloppy stack you mash together. kindergarden forever. oh yeah.

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meanwhile look at his plate, tidy, anal.

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and this would be the guest of honour. insert trumpet blares.

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how perfect.

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i didn’t know i was borderline cross-eyed. wow i learn so much about myself through this blog. never-ending self-reflections.

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military guy is powering through his and i’m still working on my first. LAY OFF ME I’M WORKING OVER HERE! you should see other people’s faces around me sometimes (when they’re eating like normal folk and i’m still snapping my appetizer), perma-hidden camera social experiments. sometimes my friends will give me little insights on people’s reactions to whatever retarded thing i am doing and photographing. aimee one time told me as i pulled out a tiny blythe doll from my purse a woman in a pub in oakville’s eyes bulged out of her head and she thought i was insane. i’m like where is she point her out to me, she did. woman was a beast. keep gawking then lay-day i may be nuts but at least i don’t look like choo. ps. rod stewart haircuts only look good on one person, ROD STEWART (and i know this cos i tried it once).

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DO YOU THINK YOUR HERO WILL EVER GET A TASTE OF A BOOM WAFFLE OMFG!!?

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ok this special begins THIS MONDAY and you can boom it up monday through friday. $4.99 is super cheap for breakfast these days, considering the bustling urban metropolis what is toronto, the most pricey city in the country to live in. on top of the cheapskate $4.99 ticket you can still get tax off with your Raymi D(iscount) List just for reading my blog. i just asked blue eyed silver haired fox what five dollars with no tax was. duuuuuuuuuuh. ok now he’s saying this makes no sense either. it does right?

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i loooove these little plaques, i found a new one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486320807/in/photostream/

i want this in my house. dream house kitchen martha stewart explosion.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486320961/in/photostream/

see the coffee cups? cute. of course.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486321097/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486321251/in/photostream/

oh who’s this now?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486321421/in/photostream/

emma was sitting at the bar chatting up everyone. what a neat gal. incoming raymbo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486321829/in/photostream/

808 college street just east of ossington, north side, pretty much across from revival.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486322005/in/photostream/

what is it 1982 look how grainy these are. I KEEPS IT REAL.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5486322159/in/photostream/

i’m as cute as a plate of potato frites. you know they put rosemary on that ish eh. i am going to my eat hand now if you’ll excuse me.

now go eat and save and say i said hey OR ELSE (you won’t get a discount silly)(gosh!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5499266831/

XOXOXOOXOX