Before my shoot yesterday. Plain faced.
Balcony needs a bit of a makeover.
Smell ya later!
LOL. As we all know I got in a box today with the parker and I have never felt so small and so zen before in my life. The braids came to me in an almost dream last night and I hoped to rememeber in the morning that I wanted to do that to my hair and how perfect was that? Thanks Mike!
Can’t wait to see these. The photog’s are way better than my camera’s.
More later!
I’ve been pretty busy this summer you may have noticed. Part of that is due to upping my Social Media PR girl/consult game and its been very eye-opening, learned, and rewarding. I absolutely love every new person I’ve met this summer, worked with, for, partied and/or networked with. As much as I chide myself as a loner, I am a total people person. I feed off people’s energies, creativity and their wisdoms. It only leaves me thirsty for more.
Move Up Realty are some of these such peoples. Two crazy Russians, Slava the broker and Jay the realtor. We got together to enjoy espresso and talk houses for sale in Toronto. Jay kay I don’t know anything about that. We discussed social media and blogging. Looks like they listened to me too cos they wrote a blog about our meeting! I am impressed. Check it out:
I am used to holding signs. We all remember my tenure as a ring girl. WHICH will be happening again soon in October. Excited.
Slava brought out their collection of magazine covers posed on. Blew me away. I love that stuff. They sure are savvy. You can see them better on Raymi Toronto.
Lane Studios is also located in the same unit. More on that later. I’m going for a photoshoot there this week, super excited. I’m getting naked in a box.
Okay who does a better handshake, Jay or…
Slava. Lol.
We all went for food. Pure jokes and were so full afterward. Just wait til I yelp it then we’ll know what went down my mind is a black hole I can’t remember anything unless I am googling it which I sure as hell am not doing right now as I have NO TIME!
Cute socks Rob.
Here’s video of the whole experience meow! Gotta scoot ttyl RLW.
Happy Thursday! Been a busy and good week. Here’s some treasures from yesterday.
We went to Addison’s to poke around with our new friends Toronto Interior Designers LHDT. I could not resist blowing this long horn on our way out. Watch the clip here.
Louise and Jenn are talented women and a great team. We meshed very well together and I look forward to working with them in the coming months (and dare I say, years).
We had a lot of fun. Did I mention that yet already?
I look like sasquatch. No shame.
James Addison put me right in the slammer when we arrived after calling ahead and begging them to stay open. When 3 hot ladies showed up he didn’t stop cheekily Scotsman flirting with us until we left. Best time.
He was expecting for another gal to get in there after me haha.
This installation is being worked on, he said.
We look like an indie folk band. Bluegrass?
Throw away the key bro I got all the nudie mags I need.
We were all sweltering in there it was almost like a test to see how long we could last and it was worth it because there was just so much to discover. I love antiquing. We will definitely head back again. Mr. Addison keeps bees too so naturally he and Rob bonded over that. FATE
Paula is super nice! We will be featuring more of this experience on my new website very very soon. Sorry to cut it off I just don’t want crickets and tumbleweeds to blow through RTM is all.
Now here I am a week ago Wednesday the night I met Louise. Don’t get me started on how behind I am in blogging just do NOT.
Here I am scampering away from Louise all shy and she’s looking at the picture I just took of her, oh that fateful photo.
She was disappearing into this painting and I needed to get a picture of it and as it turns out she’s just as driven and high-energy as yours truly. Meant to be.
Spied this old world structure on our way to a meeting yesterday morning.
Some of what we shared with clients yesterday. Delicious.
Thanks for dropping in and understanding! See you around xo RLW. Lurk my ello if you get desperate.
Here is an excerpt from a book I started working on years ago. I have ten thousand words written and I have not read them also in years. Something will be used and/or come of it someday soon but in the meantime I am lighting a proverbial fire under my ass and sharing this content with you meow while I work on other things.
How to be famous on the Internet.
Intro/Writer’s voice.
I will tell you how I did it and through that perhaps you can glean your own infamy course of action. Essentially, all the bells, whistles, and gimmicks of being an internet celebrity are merely simplistic no-brainer hallmarks of a successful businessperson. Talk a good game, be one step ahead, be smooth, motivational speaking type shit. This book is a novel under the guise of a guide. I am using talking points from my how to be famous on the internet lectures, of which I have given many, as my chapter titles. Not only will you learn how to be famous on the internet, you will also learn how to write. First you learn how to write, then you learn how to harness your writing skill for online domination. If you’re here not to learn anything other than how I do, just taking a seat along for the ride, that’s fine too.
Chapter One.
Writer’s Soul.
You might have heard of this thing called a writer’s voice. It predates the internet. I have a few writing books I’ve been gifted along the way. If one writes then one receives books on how to be better at writing which they never read because we’re all born good writers if we really love it then we do not need to learn how to do it any better than we already do. It has taken me thirteen years to get through one of these books, actually, I stll haven’t finished reading it but still, the point is they discuss writer’s voice and “finding it”. As a teen that shit was elusive to me, I didn’t get it at all. I mean, I got it but it was very intimidating to me. The voice I had wasn’t compelling enough, apparently. I was comparing my voice to ficton writer’s (It is impossible for me to write fiction by the way) voices and becoming beyond frustrated by it so I thought well, enough of that guess I’m going to Law School I am never going to make any fucking money being a writer because I suck at it, I have no voice, this is pointless.
Many years later I fell into my voice, through blogging. Write a blue streak and don’t consider it very much at all that’s what you need to do. I was trying too hard to make a voice appear which got me nothing but writer’s block and drunk. Your writer’s voice is what you really think. It’s that humourous internal dialogue inside of you. Release that guy and while I’m at it, fuck this writer’s voice shit more like writer’s soul. Sometimes when I am writing so honestly it’s like I am puking up myself upon you and those are the best pieces of writing. Here, take my skeleton and my lunch, how’d that taste?
I cannot teach you how to feel the way I do when I know I’m on a writing roll, you just know it when you feel it.
My writer’s soul is damaged and arrogant. Stubborn, smug. Grandiose. It can do no wrong so I can write anything I want without fear or thinking twice about it. Of course I can say that, that’s what I say. Duh! Write yourself into a pigeon-hole and you can get away with anything. Lucky for me I am infamous of many stupid things so when I do or say something….
to be continued.
Hey compadre, havin’ a hell of a summer over here. So many experiences and new friends I don’t know where to begin and I am sick of breathlessly saying that here but not as much as you are sick of reading it so lets just get through this.
Went paddleboarding again last week. Brought Casie along and we had a great time.
It was challenging fighting the waves around the lighthouse/bend over to Scarborough bluffs beach that water was very choppy but we got through. Rob fell in with the camera in his back pocket and now it’s toast we have to get a new one. I didn’t bail in once not bragging really cos there was a time or two I fell ON to my board and not in the water and was lucky. Casie ate it pretty good at one time. I think laughing all day was equally as good a workout as paddleboarding is for your core.
That’s Paul, me, and Bark the cat. First I thought the cat’s name was Mark, which would have been pretty great. Paul is the paddleboard addict messiah. I wanna get out as many more times before summer’s through.
I’m decent enough standing up but prefer it on my knees (minds out of the gutters now) you can go faster that way. On the way back from the beach fighting the current I figured out how to time my wave-descent with the motion of the ocean lake ontario and felt pretty pleased with myself.
Video of the first time we went paddleboarding in case you missed it only because I am too time-constricted to blog the pics and this video has ‘em all. Just fast forward to me in the marina.
After paddleboarding, I cleaned up my act a little and headed over to Sam’s (my book agent) to discuss said book and meet some of his other writers too. Vicki Hogarth was there. She’s a very famous (ex-addict, now sober) writer who recently shaved her head because of hair extensions gone wrong her article about it is published in Flare magazine.
Vicki is an impressive bundle of energy and it was Sam’s dream to have us meet and as we shared our respective war stories throughout the evening he’d be like, SEE!? SEE! You guys together I KNEW IT etc.
To finish the sexy book I’ve been working on will take too long we think and we also think that I am hilarious so it will be a lot easier and natural to make a funny book so the direction has been changed to being funny AF in literature and you have social media to blame. Only because I am so immersed in it again it just makes sense to fine-tune it, make a talk, be a talker who knows. I got through 40 pages of Bossypants (Tina Fey) yesterday despite a car alarm outside testing my rage.
Sam’s place is a writer’s playground.
Then on Friday your busy little buddy went to the Rogers Cup to see Serena Williams and she won but now I see that she has been disqualified so wtf is up with that?
I captured her famous victory wave.
Lounge lizard. Glad I went with the pink dress. I’m going shopping today I need some new duds. Bet there’s end of summer sales everywhere.
Wednesday we had a meeting up on high in a fancy tall building.
I took a lot of great shots. It is my plan/wish to do a dedicated Toronto architecture various skyline photos blog post soon with pictures from my camera. Way better quality. You’ll see. You’ll ALL see. Yes you will.
Everyone helped me select my nails and toe polish. It confused me a bit more to pool the crowd though it was fun to gab with ya about it.
Farmer’s market bounty. Isn’t food beautiful. Footage (pics) of my trip to the market will be on my new site once we launch it.
A struggleplate I posted as a joke but got a lot of love I was like wtf you guys are gross. People surprise me everyday, you just never know what the people want and turns out it’s garbage plate art.
This reminds me must put air in my tires. Finally brought a bike to the city to use.
And that would be my sweet bod. I better stop snacking on bacon I’m due for a boat cruise today.
The sun came out a day after a horrid weather colder snap in Toronto and all was well again.
Gonna wrap this non-post up so I can get my errands done and take advantage of REAL LIFE.
Check ya later.
Last Friday we had a meeting hang with these guys too. I don’t even know why I begin talking about these things I have no time to finish. Like I said, busy summer. Til next time.
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Here’s just a quickie post to link my two videos from yesterday’s busy day.
There’s never any time before you’re off to the next thing! I have to start going to bed sooner and waking up earlier.
Yesterday we went to the National Post building for an art show exhibit of Gina Godfrey’s amazing work, entitled GUESS. It was a bonus to bump into two peeps from the social media scene I know, one of which said I inspired her big time at my talk 8 years ago way back when (I’ll link to that blog post when I get a chance to)…
I love Saucy minx Glenda! She came to that talk I was just mentioning earlier and the other said a ton of incredible stuff to me too that really lifted me up. It’s good to be back in the scene again doing stuff. Then I met a new friend/prospective client which was the hat trick to that event. Note how I leave the party telling everyone to “enjoy their time”. Smooth. But then it gets even funnier after that actually.
Popped over to Coco Lezzone for the rebirth party which was packed to the tits with beautiful people everywhere. I’ll be featuring the event on my new brand friendly site so look for it when that launches. Have to get ready for paddleboarding now. Excited. Lots to share soon as I have the time to. Meeting with lit agent tonight oh god summer is flyin’ by.
Have a great day!
Last week I went to Numi Beauty + Laser at 10025 Hurontario st in Brampton for some serious pampering. I had four separate treatments done in the course of two hours and a spray tan to top it all off. Let me walk you through it.
After chatting with the ladies up front they took me to a cozy little room and I was like, what is going to happen to me in here?
Just relax and get comfortable you are in for a treat…ment or two.
We began with the hydrafacial. This is before all my makeup was lubed and sucked off. You can go with full makeup no problem. #lazy
The HydraFacial MD is like super advanced medical technology which is specially designed by engineers and techies to reduce sun damage, wrinkles, oily skin, rosacea and blemishes with four steps that include cleansing, exfoliation, acid peel, extractions, hydration, lymphatic drainage, red and blue light therapy. Monette, the attendant, used the machine in combination with a vitamin-enriched serum which had an exfoliate that tingled and supposedly was infused with antioxidants that are formulated to leave your skin looking and feeling younger.
They put your hair in a towel wrap and you can take avant garde videos of yourself for your instagram like I did. I felt very 80’s arrogant chic. I like the moving art videos to change it up when I can.
My face was hydrated and vacuumed over and over again. Then I was massaged into blissdom, and it felt great. HydraFacial hydrates and rejuvenates your skin. It scrubs off a layer of skin (dead skin) and leaves you shining, glowing, youthful and happy. You gotta try it. I’ve done it once before when I was 27 yrs old, and same thing. It’s NOT a one-time treatment but rather is something that you should be doing for yourself and your skin once a month and if you have acne, scarring, hyper pigmentation, sun damage, Rosacea, oily skin, wrinkles then you should visit once every two weeks.
Feeling it! Monette is an excellent esthetician we got along great. I giggled a lot because I have a hyper-sensitive ticklish zone all over my neck. She was patient and we got through it; I was eventually able to relax and enjoy this truly refreshing experience.
My skin is red because this is halfway through. I was smiling the whole way because I felt so good. No shame. Enjoyin’ that! BTW if you go to NUMI be sure to mention my name, wink wink.
Text war with mom. Not enjoying that. Multi-tasking away though.
ugh.
I got over it though. I look pretty relaxed.
This is what they used on my face.
All makeup is gone. Face is shining.
You got me believing.
Then I got ready for the collagen booth. That’s what its called. Collagen is the main constituent of your skin, eyes, liver and kidneys and this treatment helps replenish depleted collagen supplies; it helps people regain vibrant, healthier and younger looking skin.
You can watch this video from inside of what it’s like. It’s kind of a combination light box work-out closet that tones your body. Incredible. You have to try it to feel it and experience the effects yourself. I loved it. It’s like standing in a suntan-workout booth – you hold onto these bars while being blasted with the light all around you.
You feel vibrations through your whole body like your fat is being sanded/jiggled off and your core feels tightened, your arms, butt, all your trouble areas get majorly vibrated. I want to go again.
This is what you stand on in the collagen booth. It teeter-totters back and forth at a high intensity.
And now the lights are on. This is before I dropped my robe. The only reason why we can’t post the video is because of a few nude scenes starring yours truly. Numi have seen everything so you really are at ease there when you’re in your birthday suit just saying.
I kept my undies on. This was shaking like crazy when I took this.
Requisite art shot.
You would explode if I told you how much that bottle of Kardashian Glow is worth. Okay on to the next treatment, it’s my legs!
Soprano Laser Hair Removal is for men and women of all skin types and has been proven as a safe and permanent solution for painless hair removal on areas of your face, arms, legs, bikini lines, back, chest and hairlines. I got my legs done..
Lube me up yo.
Lets do this.
Think of all the money I am going to save in razor blades now.
Legsaholic.
Be strong Raymbo.
State of the art technology!
This part feels really good and soothing.
I look awesome.
Onto the next treatment. Laser Spider Vein Removal and hunting for said spider vessels. It was hard for them!
I’m just that perfect. My legs are flawless – hate to break it to ya ladies.
Oh oh .. look here.. they might have finally found something, oh let’s get it.
Then they wanted to do my nose but I was like lets not. It would have made it super red and my eyes would’ve watered nah I am cool lets pass on that one hehehe.
Next treatment: PhotoFacial on my neck.
This is apparently what Sharon Stone has done to maintain her youthful appearance, and she looks awesome. The Soprano Skin Tightening machine executes a mini laser treatment designed to constrict and rebind loose, wrinkled skin anywhere on the body and face. I had a choice to tone flabby skin on my face, thighs, tummy or under my arms. We chose my neck.
I’m real happy all around with the treatments I had at Numi. We had a little love fest @Numi10 on Twitter and this is Jennifer fyi she’s great! Also, NUMI means New ME. Cute.
Look at this technical display panel showing wavelength and buzz tech – all this science is applied to our appearance .. Ladies
Lubing up my neck.
Waiting patiently for the beauty science experiment to begin.
And no it doesn’t hurt. All that much. Just a bit of a zap you can deal.
I was kind of fantasizing about having Kylie Jenner lips but a smooth neck is just as nice.
Spider vessels attack time. This hurt even less. I was scared.
Jennifer was like okay lets do your spider VEIN. Singular. We laughed. But then in this new room and lighting they noticed some other areas to poke me with. Lol beauty industry people gotta love them.
Cozy bed too. Very soft. I reviewed Numi on Yelp and made mention of the beds check it out.
I didn’t even flinch.
Pretty comfortable there. Quite.
Oh lucky day they found some more.
Well I am happy to help you gals out here lol #guineapig.
Raymi settings. No clue what that means. It must be good things.
Spray tan time.
Cover that precious hair.
Stickies for your feet so you don’t have orange soles for the week.
When it was done. My face is shiny and rejuvenated and now going to be an oompa loompa for good measure I love being tan. Matching my lighter makeup has been a little interesting for the last week, though haha.
Love it.
Letting it all hang out at the bar where you can also hang out and sip a protein smoothie, herbal tea or spa water and chat about your health and beauty goals.
Of course.
Great space, great place. You’re awesome Numi thanks for everything! Sincerely. I am still nicely tan and it’s Monday 5 days later.
Visit Numi on Facebook. Be sure to tell them you saw my post if you visit!
Then had some chicken at Nando’s!
