…an anchor of stability in a turbulent world (i almost used this as a blog title but then i realized it was too gay and the writer wanted me to use it as a blog title but i will not give in, i will not).

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Dear RaymiLauren

I love to check your Flickr pix and blog. You are like an anchor of
stability in a turbulent world. I don’t know how you find the energy to
keep it up.

As a new viewer, I have been continuing through your archives to catch
up on the past 10 years. Skipping around rather than going straight
through (to tell the truth I find the recent years more interesting than
the old). I got a second monitor so that I can do this more
efficiently. I look at your Flickr pix on one monitor and the blog on
the other. Or I can do my own work on the right and continuously check
your blog for new entries on the left. It is a peach of a setup. I
have attached a photo so you can see how it works. Isn’t it great? Why
don’t you give it a plug for some of your other fans to try — all the
geeks like me will go crazy.

Gotta go now . . .

Kim in Berkeley

i was already going to blog this before you told me to but wow. why are you so obsessed with getting through my pics? you must think you know me inside out by now eh.

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skinny watch 2011.

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hi there bag end. i found my faux raybans i found in the bathroom of barranga’s over the summer. britt accused them of being hers on saturday. there is nothing more purely enjoyable then knowing you are right about something so i confidently informed her these weren’t real ray bans, they are garbage ray bans found in a garbage bathroom because my life is garbage. garbage. ok i didn’t say it in that way or at all period. moving forward now.

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this is the purgatory vestibule of adventurehouse separating the real world from adventureworld, will i get in this time, or will the doorknob come off in my hands? super likely. it’s like the labyrinth you better get it right on the first few turns. i got desperate today but my trusty hardware skills came back to me, i calmed down and wiggled and jimmied until it clicked. took about five minutes. phone was dying too. CONTACT EVERYONE SEND HELP I CANNOT GET IN. but i did. crisis averted.

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i like ezra’s pound. a lot. if i was a different person when i lived on st. george i might have occupied that place at the time. i will show you photos of my old balcony later on. i could never show it because we lived in a super easily identifiable condo. one of the top ten to live in in the city (there was an article clipped to the corkboard in the laundry room informing us of this) anyway, our balcony was the same size as our unit, pointed, expansive and looked on to the park with all those screaming children.

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once you see one thing, you see it everywhere. like the typewriter in my painting. or my red docs. i’ve seen so many people in oxblood eight holes.

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winterland.

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where am i? when am i?

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my girl, my girl. don’t lie to me. tell me where did you sleep last night?

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oh man, what a night. worlds collided. huge time. my ex, two groups of friends i stopped being friends with when we split, well, one set still friends with but kinda separated, you can’t have everyone. the other set just took his back, no dice, some of these people i never liked anyway and actually somewhat despised only because they were nothing but condescension and passive aggressive cuntyness and then this nite all was confirmed yes in fact, she spoke shit about you tons all along. excuse me while i take an i told you so bow. some chicks just always gotta be the alpha.

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happy birthday alicia!!! you guys got married i’m so happy for you. i am serious about consulting for joe and adam’s magic career.

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brad was newf drunk. i was drunk drunk. britt was HOSED.

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she loves this photo. i got brad hooked on this stuff. oh right i owe you for some of these drinks.

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i wanted to give my card out to a few dudes but everyone was gonged and i feel like if i give a guy the tiniest (non-existent to the naked eye) inkling of an opening of a chance and they don’t take it then they are not man enough for me and in the crush of bodies i was definitely thumper prey, everyone cock-blocked each other. i did make out with that los angeles dude slut that kenny and betty dragged in down by the bathroom. i was over it immediately.

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next time just wear the scarf.

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american gothic. i lined up the cn tower through the window.

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brad photobombs me. he’s been doing it since before it became a meme. trailblazer!

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we were getting jacked on chocolate coffeebeans and champagne pomegranate mimosas.

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tired looking furry and pink. a dude behind me snickered that someone would be putting this photo ON TO THEIR FACEBOOK and the leatherface wet blanket gold digger with him watching the football game smiled. i whipped my head around and glared at her then went back to ignoring them. then they left shortly thereafter. don’t fucking instigate shit and then back down from it friggin pisstank sittin’ around a pub all day drinking in the afternoon.

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so we got up and took this photo and i didn’t look over at them once but they were totally watching. this happens in restaurants ALL the time, complacent smug unhappy chicks chowing down on deep fried platters oh what fun your life is we’ll just sit down now and try to be as invisible as possible so that you don’t have to feel threatened.

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WALL OF SMUGNESS.

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purgatory sinners.

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sinless.

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it’s a sin looking this good. ha. get me a tshirt and a sharpie, quick quick the asshole from within is emerging.

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one day when i have two seconds i am going to get my ears pierced.

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they make my ears bright red and kinda hurty. melodie can’t believe women back in the day used to do this. these are screw on. visualize it. your ear in a vise.

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this is one of my cute manipulative faces you see once you are already “in” and we’re messing around and i am trying to get you to make me something to eat.

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this is fakey smile shyness pose when too many dudes in the room are staring at the platinum mega blond girl.

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shy trying to be fierce above it pose.

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pretending to do something showcase the other side of the face pose. this is good for at indigo.

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bridget jones outfit i wore to andy’s poolhall friday night. i got made fun of and also encircled by several horny mobs of dudes both melodie and i did our girl gang dance routines they are quite the hit especially when you couldn’t give a fuck about anyone in your immediate vicinity, you look cool and dance sexy and awesome.

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this is the chasing after mark darcy in the snow without pants on outfit she wears. all the meatheads loved it cos of my running shoes. nerds.

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paddock earlier than that, post existential play me and superjew went to. i’ve in the past exclusively only ever inhabited the paddock on blow so it’s weird to go there like normal clientele, consisting mostly of rich got something to show whilst being casual types.

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i looked like this.

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my graffiti time capsule from four years ago is still there.

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sometimes my life feels like a graphic novel.

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i live in the west end of the city. when i have an appointment in the east(ish) i spread myself around quite a bit, killing time, making my way home, waiting for dates.

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sometimes it feels like i am eighteen again wishing i was an adult having a life i now presently lead and totally not being happy enough with it.

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hair blow out tutorial thinger with fabfind at brennen demelo. official post coming another day. brennen did my roots too what a doll. such a coincidence to revisit my old salon who want to steal me back. hair world, man, it’s cut throat. punintentional.

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showed up like this. anita is that you?

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oh shawna.

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nice. where’s dan deacon?

uh oh spaghettio gotta go!

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i barely made it into adventurehouse. the doorknob almost came off in my hand. that’s the latest adventure in these parts. will i be able to leave adventurehouse today? we will see.

yes i realize my letter was 80% about how people are looking at me.

Raymi’s Blogger Brunch from Josh Harrower on Vimeo.

Windy on Ossington from raymi lauren on Vimeo.

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hello my people, having a nice sunday? that’s great.

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first up we have casie kasem brilliant blog peer hyper-active monster competitor (hyper-active competitor not blog competitor, we only pretend to be in competition to fuck with you guys) with/of/by yours truly. i knew she could hack the motion room. james put her through it. think she loved it too. i yelled out at one point SHE LOVES TO BE TOLD. ahh it was super fun working out together i got a contact high going through these photos again.

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off we go now.

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i love doing the ladder. i pride myself on my speed, co-ordination, agility and hyper-activeness. i am like a hamster in a wheel, i can do drills forever.

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squats.

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having casie go down the line with me was exhilarating cos you’re being chased, challenging one another.

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what am i doing? i don’t know but it looks magical.

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oh that’s right i turned some of these moves into dance moves. super fun. (drunk still).

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bear walk (my terminology) the ladder. i am better at this now by far. i just love being fit. not that i was pathetic at this to start but my upper body strength left much to be desired not to mention all of my fat storage goes right to my arms.

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now, i am an animal, i mean, i meow at people. come on meow.

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glorious.

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no slow-pokin’, casie’s right behind me.

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still slightly inelegant at this. i lumber.

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we focused a lot on the ladder.

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what a sprite. she can do a backflip you know.

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an actual move you start doing what i am doing (it is not required to pose as gracefully though if you want to stand like a sloth then by all means) and then you lunge into a box and work your way down the ladder like how casie is demonstrating. yesterday when i worked out with april and britt at tmr we were doing some stuff with the football hurdles (?) and we timed it to look like a cascading synchronized waterfall of hot babes coming down the turf. i think we have something here.

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come and get me.

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i am neurotic about my form and keeping my core tight as all gym rats aspire and obsess over. you want to master the movement not to just get through it but to get results from it.

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kash taught me a great trick for my carpal tunnel (left wrist ganglion cyst blob)(ew i know right) you do abc’s, a b c d through the whole alphabet flicking your wrist in an octogonal isolated movement and it loosens up the tightness in your wrist. helps me do my push ups which i am obsessed with mastering.

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casie killed it and i was screaming like an orangutan through it to show i could too and didn’t give myself a break going back through it again.

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hips low, work through the burn. ass down, don’t hunch, no cheating.

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i am a giraffe.

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chasing casie.

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no like this. haha just kidding i was pretending to correct form for the sake of a perverted photograph like a tennis instructor in a p0rno.

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oh triceps and biceps here i come.

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there was just a little bit of dying. that’s when the endorphins flood you and you keep going and going. i am definitely addicted to this work out life of mine now my life can be falling down around me and i am shielded from it from all the do-good being a work out machine has done for my overall happiness state of being. it also tastes better than brunch.

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doy.

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this is fun, like a compass, side step on bounce off then the other spazz has a go then you go then they go forever and ever and ever. fun. works your core and thigh backs, probably other things i forget.

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sometimes my legs look so peggy i feel very endeared by them like aw, there goes long legs skinny i bet she reads books and says super awkward things to strangers in coffeeshops then goes home and eats oatmeal and is weird like the chick from the shining.

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unintentional sock co-ordination.

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reminds me of those bubble toys you buy for 50 cents that blast up to the ceiling when you flip them inside out. reverse convex? i can never remember concave or convex. great here cometh the nerds.

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my next “thing” will be to pretend like i am really smart. maybe i shouldn’t be telling you this i should just BE smarter and then you’d just notice on your own by seeing photos of me um, in a lab coat.

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love these balls. don’t move the sand within them. keepsarms long and straight out not bent (you’ll get bette at it), if you bend you are wasting your time. the straighter (the harder it is) they are, the more you work your triceps. don’t make me tell you twice.

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blogging gives you muscles.

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bahahah whose face is more awesome here? could so totally easily photoshop-swap them face/off styles.

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abs check. those teeny pants are x-small so they contain my love handles yet also highlight them if i try to wear them like casually on my hips, no go there brah it’s highwaisted all the goddamn way. meanwhile, casie was born with a six pack.

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ugh christ.

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this was difficult.

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we had lots of fun. giggle fit explosions simultaneous to set-completion. very entertaining and motivating.

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just noticing our tattoos here looks good. one time i said to james omg shut up you’re distracting me something or other and he’s like the only thing that’s distracting is your tattoos. why am i such a glutton for punishment is it because i am a selfish asshole? likely.

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face plant contest!

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demonstrating air push ups once we were done making tons of lewd sex swing commentary.

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see how cute i look when i use my little brain? jeff looked over at me and looked nervous for us using these haha. i notice everything.

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maybe we’ll revisit these another day. i like them there it’s like one day you will be mine, i’ll be blasting through futuristic universal soldier air push ups fuck that old fashioned floor over there. floor, more like snore.

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you better be careful.

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limbo time.

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you cannot resist me even though you should. DOUBLE ENTENDRE!

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fun fun fun.

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you take turns pulling back and forth i was like um this is too easy then i pulled with all my might and pulled casie right to the ground and then we laughed our heads off.

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when will there be raymi casie action figures?

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tomorrow i have my assessment. i wonder how much i’ve improved?

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i can see through time here. i get the same rush i get from spicy food at the motion room and i let everyone know when i’m goin’ cosmic. it’s great. reality is for the sufferer. i choose la la land always.

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bear walk. um, nice shot who knew you could see through those pants.

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animals. on a scale of one to lazy where’re you coasting about now looking at this post?

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this move kills your back/abs, burns them, which means works. i am starting to look like an alien in the torso. love it. that’s what the twilight guy said about how much he worked out for his role where he took his shirt off and he looked like patrick bateman in the machinist (yes i know i’m combining two movie references in one here i am bipolar thank you very much). haha what the hell is his real name? anyway you sort of don’t get my point and anyway who cares really, it’s sunday you’re probably a mess right now or doing family stuff.

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joseph had to hold one of my legs for me it is hard for me to do it alone i mean i can do it i’m just lazy and on top of that always had struggle with straightening my freakishly long legs.

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guuuuuuuuh dying can you just do it for me.

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i heard lots of groaning over here too.

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i swear to god if i don’t get in playboy after all this i am going to maxim. or whatever those stupid man magazines are.

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no pain no gain and other simpleton metaphors.

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hey where ya going?

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seriously, does anybody really have to see this? i give my colleague (photog) free-reign of editing photos and selecting whatever he likes cos i’ve lightened up a bit on the control-freakness i suffer from slightly also it frees up more of my time for pot smoking and drawing pictures of moonbeams but anyway, once in awhile he lets these grotesque ones slip through and i winder if he is either sniffing glue or fucking with me. i just matrix’d* the fourth wall fyi.

*the scene when they come to save morpheus and one of them helicopter machine guns out the windows of the building while keanu run dives dodges the agent’s bullets that’s what i did to the fourth wall. i also must re-watch this scene for accuracy’s sake if i am going to be some big shot perfectionist movie-referencer now.

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stay hydrated.

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i recognize that look on james’ face. that’s the look of shit talk.

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totally so is too. must be nice to have a job where you get to scream at people all day long until they crack and then they get you back by doing the plank for an extra 30 seconds. cool justice, not. should we bring not back?

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what’s he whispering!? dying to know.

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um, nice one bangs.

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is there a longest blogger ever award i can be nominated for or what?

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i tried out for black swan but they um, i guess they lost my number for a call back or something.

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if our plane crashes like alive on a mountain i am happy to know that i won’t be chosen to be eaten. ugh barf. well maybe my ass but definitely not my chicken leg.

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arms are transforming. yes guy.

kay thanks bye stay tuned for this!

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also any of you new years eve resolution social media fatties wanna come work out with me and casie please do get in touch, don’t be shy now. you will love the motivational views we provide and then you can just work out on your own there and get hot for beach come summer. you know it always sneaks up on you like that. also, look at me. i’ve been on the results 1 on 1 program for 4-5 weeks now? this month i am totally going to lean out. shit works and i am way stronger, more flexible. yesterday during squats oh man i was so egotistical in the brain it was an accomplishment i feel. i like bendy. you know who else likes bendy? um, wendy?

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comment of the month by pierre savoie

The thing I like about Raymi is her total refusal to logically develop ideas and sentence-structure and punctuation. If I read some “witty” piece in the NEW YORK TIMES by some metrosexual jerkoff who spends more on a lunch at Pitti than I …spend on my dentist in a year, the deal is done in 2 minutes, I get my supercilious chuckle and that’s that. Where’s the fun in it?

Whereas if you struggle through Raymi’s stream of consciousness you have to THINK, you have to reconstruct meaning like an archeologist in Egypt looking for the only unlooted grave of a repeatedly raped house-pet belonging to a pharaoh, and it’s a real feeling of achievement to extract some MEANING from all the cat-poo discoloured by time and by things you’d rather not want to think about, to arrive at how an eternally photogenic basket-case practiced her culture several thousand seconds ago at the Dawn of this, the Kill-by-Twitter Age.

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check how hippie’d out i am. OM NAMASTE and shit.

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rrrawr hello there. come here right meow.

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andrew took me to bohmer last nite. seeing people face to face for the first time when you have been speaking over email for a year is kind of a trip. this is the vanilla crem brulee a couple scottish shortbread cookies and this perfectly mellow strawberry compote.

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this was amazing. i forget what it is but those are stacked cinnamon apples on a sort of tart thing? i died it was so good. feed thy hangover.

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beautiful grouper with bok choy, fingerling potatoes and beet carrot reduction. i love beet juice it’s cleansing and gives you a zap. this was so zen.

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some other kind of fish. it was nice. i was good with mine.

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blazing apples (so boozy) drink and oysters. my life is ridiculous.

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my outfit was cute. wore my desert trek clarks. koala bear cuddly shoes that’s how i feel when i wear them and with these pants especially, it’s one of my oh i know how to dress outfits.

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superhero stance. if you rest a finger near the end of my hair length you can visualize how i’m going to look with my hair a foot longer. prepare yourselves for it ladies. bra is sequined from burlesque days, polka dotted like shirt too. it all works out in the end.

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gin fizz. frothy, sucked it back wicked fast. kind of an orange creamsicle icee. make sure you try one. hands down best drink.

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someone’s lookin’ someone’s likin’ eh.

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tickle trunk hangover vortex.

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tickle tinier?

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post cafe taste with darius. that’s a gluten free beer. is it any good or the same mel and others inquired. it’s totally the same yet totally different. uh, ok thanks nice review?

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eating the life. such great people watching there and not to beat the dead horse what is everything i ever talk about but i was not only getting stared at triple takes and rubbernecked but, please tell me why this is happening to me more frequently these days? is it the check out scenery combined with my hair?

hair blow out at 3. maybe movie with superjew or just keep it parkdale for the night. the workout at the motion room with casie today was wicked fun and she impressed everyone huge time. can’t wait to see our photos.

oh yay my new cards!

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my hot housewifey headless pledge.

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printing dudes perving out over them haha i wonder what they’re saying.

Working out how deep the paper can be pressured mixed with heat to stamp the foil on. Now we have to do math on cutting…this is old skool to the max.

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embossed on super soft paper you want to thumb over and over, you’ll see. err feel, rather.

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welcome to the land of the criminally hung.

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stuck on this planet, the planet of the tickle trunk room.

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NEVER FORGET how crappy this feels next time raymbo.

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i cannot believe i meowed at someone. me-ow (meow for wow).

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hair looks cray cray against the platinum wig. note to self don’t do that in the future. look what some cuckoo did to my painting at my second art show. sabotage. over a broken heart no doubt.

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ian you will be pleased i am finishing your painting. what’s your zodiac sign?

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pancake bear from jamie. sass head from sass.

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who’s a princess?

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takes bow. forever.

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it lives in a hair net. i am particular about it.

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beetlejuicey.

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for sale.

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bottles and pills in every painting. kerouac’s typewriter.

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isolation.

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big sur-like stir crazy.

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it is troublesome to reach down there.

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siberian sun. soak it up. sparkly snow caught in the beams. magical narnia land.

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encased in this transparent orb.

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blam. sumptuous. like me.

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the pink/purple one i am working on isn’t spoken for yet.

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wilhelm gave me this repro blythe doll (that i eventually tattooed on my arm) when i was 21. not a cheap gift.

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melodie brought me this. ate it in 3 seconds.

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think there might be a photo like this in one of my blythe photo books. i have a lot of blythe eh.

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ok i have to get my act together. a friend is in town who i’ve never met. he became my friend when i left my ex at the same point his mother died and we bonded over our, well his grief and my new crazy world. i am still demented from last nite. just trying to get through winter man.

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card die for my new business cards.