We experienced a happy discovery last night – Uma Nota!
We bumped into Sean Anicic.
and took in Flavia Nascimento and her band. She is incredible.
Now watch the video from last night. I get down big time.
I had an excellent time. The best. I love dancing with strangers and making new friends. Hopig to go to Uma Nota again next year!
And I made big bubbles too.
We played ping pong. We suck.
Just a teeny little walk from Liberty Village and you’re there.
Last week I met Toronto dentist Dr Natalie Archer at the downtown Archer Dental location 600 Sherbourne street, which is at Bloor and Sherbourne. If you know me in real life or even just via internet you know that I’m very into my teeth and constantly worry about them; I was going to make my Tinder profile byline “add me to your dental plan” in fact.
I love the (many) photos taken with our profesh cameras BUT there are always a select few special ones taken with my phone (for instagram) that I feel like I should include because, well obvious lol.
I’ve been seeking a new dentist for aaaages now. Who would think that this could ever happen to/for me? I have dabbled with dental coverage over the years and I am sure a lot of you can relate to that as entrepreneurs or temporarily working corporately and being covered. When you aren’t covered you become acutely aware of how scary it is to worry about your teeth or if an emergency should occur. I have a bit of a nest egg I’m building and I surely do not want to dump it on dental fees so each time I raise a glass to my teeth for a drink I “slow down” so as not to chip my teeth. Dental is costly and not covered by OHIP as we all know.
I chipped my left front tooth a few years ago just a sliver and it made me realize I needed to be more careful, cautious. As a “scrimper” plus selfie addict, I can’t afford to bust a tooth.
Dr. Archer’s facility, friendly staff, and easy-going style woke me up to a new kind of dentistry. I generally shy away from change and had grown accustomed to my small town dental clinic’s ways, so I was a bit hesitant to try something new…
Loved this kid. Your kid will leave with clean teeth and a baseball bat, which seems kind of counter intuitive, but there it is.
Hi there.
The one of many things I loved about this experience (aside from the purple colour scheme) was how thorough Dr. Archer is and thoughtful. They are patient, FUN, and informative. Two hours just flew by, and I wasn’t scared or uncomfortable once.
Legs segue.
TV is a vital part of a dental visit – it’s basically like a flight to New York in that respect. Distract the client, plug them in.
Here I’m relating all my hopes and fears for my teeth. I can’t remember the last time my family dentist ever asked me what my teeth future wish list was? How about, never. It has never come up, as previous practitioners were likely preoccupied with my cavities to care about any cosmetic aspirations I may have had. I have never been so teeth-attention flattered before.
This dental experience was nothing short of a social visit with the ladies. I am not even selling you right now or obligated to that’s not what RTM is about here (it’s about links which we can talk about another time). Look at the joy here this is practically a stock photo image.
If you care about the technical side of what’s going on in your mouth then Dr. Archer’s people are the ones for you. I’ve suspected over the years that I have a crime scene in my mouth and most of me does not want to know, but the other half is curious.
So, absolutely everything was transparent and that is good.
I don’t know if it’s “special treatment” they will prob get mad I said that cos they are like this with everyone I saw with my own eyes other customers getting the love and took note. I am a lover. I love, love. It never goes unnoticed. Anyway, I have never talked about my teeth in length ever before in my life so thank you for listening and caring.
I had a gap in my teeth when I was younger so I never smiled showing my teeth although my grandmother ALWAYS said I had beautiful teeth I was ashamed of this little Madonna gap I had but then around 20 it began to close and one of the front teeth became longer than the other so my old dentist filed it down during a visit all lickity split and my teeth were straight, with no gap for the first time in my life! That was my first brush with “cosmetic dentistry” ever.
If you have been a Raymiite for years you might note that I only started smiling and showing teeth in my blog photos around 2009. So, for nine years I never smiled or showed teeth. I learned how much prettier one can be with a bright toothy grin. I was always just too shy and emo and the hipster shame of being a blogger in Toronto got to me. I never faked it to make it but now I know I need my smile.
I was asked what my hope was for a year from now with Archer dental. Dental lottery much? I said white teeth, fillings free, all straight. They were like no problem.
I have an overbite. Confirmed overbite. LOL. Jennifer Jordan here by the way was hilarious, and the perfect match for me. She looks all normal and at first I was worried that I would need to be normal, but then she got me going (laughing) instantly and I had no worries.
I’m so VIP Michael came in to over-see the action.
There she is now hello Dr. Natalie Archer glad you could join us.
Pinky up!
This blog post is just one Three Stooges grape scene in mouth opportunity after another.
These ones I like because it’s kinda Prometheus, sci-fi in nature…
…plus I like how I look? I take selfies because I want pictures of me which I seldom get so when I get a photo taken of me without a photographer vying for credit or whathaveyou hassle, I adore it.
I have some teeth erosion from how I brush and now I know how to brush right. You do a swipe back and forth THEN down. Yeah like that’s ever happening.
The 80’s were a great decade nice glasses.
This picture shows of how caring Natalie is. Look at her.
This nearby demolition with its big rig hydraulic jack hammer was pathetic fallacy for what was happening in my own mouth rat at tat tat tat.
Wow this post is long but anyway NOW the real action happens (continues) because I get to plead my case again about my teeth to the head honcho, Dr A.
Legs segue. Sorry but they are there and I cannot NOT ignore them.
Archer legit has her hands in my mouth now.
There is such a stigma attached to visiting the dentist I can only hope to help change that through these meticulous photos you might be still wondering why you’re scrolling through. It’s the Raymi experience and I am kind of sure it’s my first ever dental feature here.
Max Headroom.
Sarina over there is so lovely – we had a bonding sesh while I waited my turn at the chair and she imparted some choice wisdoms upon me.
Ready for my teeth close-up.
You liking this experience, guys? For me personally it’s one of those wow I love what I do moments and I feel blessed plus proud. Blog for dental it is work bruh.
If you photographed everything that you did in a day, your day would look something like this too no? You see that it’s a lot really when you have a file folder of photographs. Between our two cameras… that is why this post took awhile to sit down and do I knew it would take time but I am happy to do it and it reminds me of Xiaxue my blog idol and her (awesomely enjoyable) long-winded princess blogvert posts. She is oldschool like me and really paved the way I credit her all the time.
My teeth are being x-rayed here in case that wasn’t clear haha.
Your past dentist will eventually send your x-rays from before to Dr. Archer fyi and you won’t have to talk to them and feel awkward.
Where did that stool come from?
Well hello sailors.
No one can resist the Raymbo.
This is where they told me I had two turtles in my mouth? For real. Any fans out there know what that means? Let me see how smart you are in the comments. In a year we’ll see how many there are….
That was a long time of having my mouth open I guess my nose was clogged.
And fluoride spit. See ya tomowoah!
Hey-lo. Here are three videos. Happy accidents we like to call ‘em. The camera takes a video of every photo cycle making a little Raymi TV action happen. As long as I don’t say anything incriminating or off the record we can use them. Yesterday’s video was “a little much” so I don’t think you will be seeing it sorry haha. However I think you’ll be entertained enough by these three: paddleboarding, Nunu/biz meeting the next morning and Italian lunch meeting in Libville. The vidos have a Blair Witch quality you’ll see what I mean. Ciao!
Hold out til the end and you will see Swans too! Also Grand Electric.
The videos are so much easier than posting all my pics although I do like storytelling through my images.
Here I am semi-hustling and getting drunk it’s like a night out on the town style video that spills into our meeting with Route Eleven the next day.
Then this one at Caffino Ristorante which I also reviewed on Yelp. I can hear my party throat when I discuss my name(s) speaking of which, hear how to pronounce Lauren! Also you see my underwear at the end okay bye.
Ready for a giveaway blog post starring tons of pictures of my weirdly shaped body? Perfect.
Bathing Belle Designer Swimwear and Raymi the Minx have teamed together to bring you a sweet contest open to all lovely ladies worldwide. Just follow Bathing Belle’s instagram and tomorrow, you could win this custom designer ice cream swimsuit which retails for $189. It was my idea to do this contest because I wanted to give something back to the Little Raymis and I don’t think it’s fair to always be like me me me look at what I have and you don’t. Plus we get more engagement this way so thank you to everyone for entering the Bathing Belle swimsuit contest.
That water was refreshing alright. Toronto has been struck by a heatwave for what seems like forever now so when Danica said lets go upstairs to take pictures in the pool I was more than game.
This has been my twitter header for awhile now.
Work it girl!
It’s hard for us ladies when it comes to swimwear and we know that store brand sizings come in sizes like 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 or 1, 3 ,5, 7, 9 like wtf no matter what I am always the in-between size that doesn’t exist because of my love handles. Small, medium, and large sometimes isn’t enough options either. That’s why custom swimwear like Bathing Belle is your friend.
Bathing Belle has a lot of other designs available and the most adorable printed suits for kids.
Thanks for your help with the shoot, mom.
Burger prop. See my scrunchie? Bathing Belle will hook you up with a matching scrunchie for your suit if you so desire.
Great photo Danica. You “found” me.
The prints Bathing Belle has are endless. Check the etsy!
People are going crazy for the fries suit.
Melty melty ice cream.
Thanks for the suit and the wine Danica, ilu!
Here’s my hot new two-piece in action.
Getting ready for the pool shoot in front of 6 strangers trying to expel the awkward deep down.
The bottoms were made for my behind which was happily just eating them right up lol.
Do you want to talk about my bun? Or the fact that I’m also a trained lifeguard? Nokay?
How about now.
I love this knotted halter top so much. Danica is wearing a black one in this pic I noticed when I was doing my Bathing Belle homework and I wanted it. Turns out she got my telepathic want and made me a pink one. She also KNEW my size just from eyeballing me on the internet. Swimwear guru. She’s going to be making youtube tutorials for how to make your own suits so look out for those. I have always been a fan of DIY. I used to try to make my own stuffed animals with paper and garbage you don’t even want to know lol.
Those ladies were nice in that they totally ignored me and I returned the favour. They were having fun and I tried to figure out what their story is. Are you curious like that or are you indifferent?
Look at this beautiful tree. Lets use it.
When I really laugh I make this face and a loud voracious laugh comes out which makes people laugh harder too. My friend Amy has a cackle laugh that is loud and contagious. She told me it’s disarming. A piece of advice I never forgot. Just make people laugh if you have no idea what you’re doing, basically. That’s why I’m always laughing cos I have no idea what is going on. I will probably be laughing in my casket. Knock on wood.
Trying to ignite my abs. My flabs. I got my period the day before, day of actual shoot, so lay off me.
Quite the bun yeah. See how it’s just sitting there on the side of my head like a hat?
If the pool was empty can only imagine what these pictures would have been like.
Someone on my facebook said they were pretending this was a selfie stick LOL.
Treading water is great for your core and to also look like a leg is sticking out of your head. Bottoms are looking great there. This is a Las Vegas poolside bikini for sure.
A lot of effort goes into a shallow existence. You can think what you want but, you’re wrong about me. Who was it that said it’s very expensive to look this cheap? one of my sayings is it’s a lot of work appearing to have an easy life. Something to that effect.
Warning, you are in a shallow area so suck in your gut.
Back to here now. Don’t forget to follow Bathing Belle to win this ice cream swimsuit (in your size) you can pretend to be Taylor Swift because she is addicted to highwaisted swimwear. I am glad Katy Perry ripped her at the Superbowl by having dancers in Taylor’s suit no offense swifties but that girl kinda deserves to be torn apart just a little bit.
Long hair problems.
Girl crush!
You can’t help but catwalk in a suit like this.
Planking is sometimes necessary.
I should have just stuffed this one in my purse lol. What bikini?
Time to add more blond to my locks.
Oh look it’s that bun again.
And that’s that! Thank you for pool partying with me everyone. Looking forward to finding out who our winner is tomorrow, be sure to be on the lookout for that. xoxo
Hey buddy! Things in July usually get crazy don’t they. Sweeps sweeps. Blog sweeps. Everyone is outdoors and bloggers, websites, want you indoors on the internet so we jam it with “more” or “other” content. Do you know what rich content is? Do you know that I know what it is? Do you think that I think that this is rich content? Did you know that I can do thinky stuff too?
Well anyway, after school we hit the pool. It has been bloody hot in Toronto bro. I was having hot flashes.
I speak all over the place online about my comings and goings and don’t actually formally address it here first. I feel like this should be my corkboard from now on. I am not trying to make blogs happen, just mine. But anyway I spoke at Humber yesterday about my time working at an ad agency to much rapt attention because that’s all the kids want to know is how to get hired at an agency.
Then I took their final exam along with them (internet marketing class) and there was a lot I didn’t know (forgot) so I googled as much as I could (cheated) before I grew tired of it, answered some from knowledge/memory and then just gave up completely because it was fifteen pages and I wanted to cruise buzzfeed instead. Why does school make you so hungry btw?
Sticking chip in now to get more pics from class.
Leah did my hair years ago! It only dawned on her as my sassiness came out and she was brought back to me in her chair saying god knows what.
Don’t ever photograph me while I am speaking. It will just not work out, sorry.
I use my entire body when I teach so ya.
Instead of prattling on and on I tried quizzing them periodically throughout my talk. One question I posed was regarding how to sell a product as healthy when it might not particularly “be” that healthy, what verbage do you use to instill a feeling of…vitality, refreshment (that one is huge). Anyway if you ever want a consultant, speaker, editor, wordsmith, help with emails let me know I’m actually qualified.
I am easy for the dinosaurs to digest the information I offer by using outdated technological props. Like a pen, for instance.
And by God if you ever have doubts on a formal document send it to me to proofread/rewrite before hitting send elsewhere. My rate varies from reasonable to exorbitant.
Good times guys.
As mentioned previously, I was feat. in Digital Journal yesterday. Will talk about that later. Back soon with another blog post! I went shopping yesterday too so a fun post is en route xoxo.
Hey! Hay is for horses. Lets go!
The last two weeks, maybe three, have been a hectic fun blur I can totally relate to that cat’s facial expression right meow. Barn cats are great, so low hassle they pretty much raise themselves and the local wildlife take care of (eating) the rest. So many kittens on this farm.
Baby turkeys. By November they’ll be a nice size. Nice knowin’ ya more like. Oh man I am on a roll today look out.
That little kitty I could fit in my hand so teeny weeny. We died.
This is the watercraft we SHOULD have taken out. Massive. Like the friggin’ Hudson Bay Company boat. But no, too much drama to portage it over to the other house then water? Which was actually a swamp reservoir. God what a shitshow.
That’s the water we went in. My ass is sopping wet and dirty here. We had to crashland on this woman’s property who was not keen and I had to take off my wet shirt, her nerdy little girls in-tow all dressed like amish recluses. The girls were asking me a million questions and commenting on my toe polish that they loved it was cute but the mom was not feeling it. I was like oh don’t worry this was totally not my idea or a good one. We had to walk the dingy off the property then donated it to a family Rob knows but forgot to give them the paddles. All in all two adults in a dingy is NOT a good time. It was hilarious though, looking back. Some unfriendly locals in that town. This other gruff woman in a pick-up truck blocked us off at a crossroad and got in Rob’s face about what we were doing there WTF lady do you own the town??
Rob is crazy like me. Crazier probably so everywhere we go it’s a spectacle. Sometimes I just walk on ahead to avoid embarrassment. Creative types, I tell ya! Our cameras were in that jar plus smokes. At least a pile of beers and vodka micky was out on display while that pilgrim woman was giving us the gears ahahha.
All the guys at the bonfire our last night said I was a good time (no not like that) and I’m invited back for sure. I am kind of like a guy anyway in that I have a horrible mouth on me and can keep up with their quick-talk. I was hazed quite a bit. I can be gullible and fall for dumb shit often. But once I catch on boy, get ready for the roasting. One guy was like so… is your house being fumigated why are you here with Rob? I always seem to perplex people.
Although we were up north we sure did a lot. Not much relax. Maybe a little. I pretty much laid in bed all day yesterday deservedly so. My arms went numb from holding up my phone for two hours I could not nap no matter how hard I tried.
Berry picking was a disaster too we didn’t find much but I got to see this beautiful wheat field my new best friend. Everyone made fun of us for going berry picking but it was an excuse to get away from the family and see the sights.
At least my hair matches the field.
Got some hive spying action in. I didn’t do any bee work. No one likes to do it cos you get stung. I was too hung to get stung. I’d have a full blown meltdown.
Heaven on earth. Legit.
Do you recognize this? Can you figure out where we were/are.
I love this beach.
Wished I had tanning bronzer lotion. Love that shit. Seagulls pecked at us as we slept on the beach. The bag too. Ballsy.
Rob hates this thing, thinks it’s garbage. Seeing me take a picture of it made him appreciate it more and he felt more proud about it. People can’t see the forest for the trees when they’ve seen something their whole life.
Drone.
Honey everywhere. Forgot to bring my wax home. Do you want some wax? You can use it to clean your house apparently. I can steal some and then sell you some lol.
Arighty then I’ll leave you now with this wheat video. There’s a lot more to share soon have a great Sunday!
Hello fellers. Here be the rest of my PEI uploads. I wanted to post some new stuff but I left my camera cord at home for some dumb reason.
Two back-to-back trips and a backlog of work to catch up on has made my head spin where to begin.
The night before PEI. I was super worried about getting fat. I imbibed. I got fat. But now I’m all svelte like it never even happened so no harm no foul.
My flight look. I didn’t want to look too party. I feel like it was an Alicia Silverstone Aerosmith video homage.
Honestly the time just flew by. I was worried I’d feel trapped there too long but it was the perfect amount of time all and all.
Moncton. Didn’t happen if you didn’t take a pic.
Confederation bridge. It just goes and goes and goes. It’s an island afterall.
This is the first Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A Macdonald. Americans have a guy like him too, first name Ronald ooh roasted.
After dinner gearing up for a night on the town.
This was funny. We were sloshed. Had a wicked dance party at fishbones. Go there if you go to Charlottetown. We stayed at the fanciest hotel too obvi.
Love period people. Confederation festival.
It was overcast the day prior. We were hung as hell/sleep-deprived can you tell?
Spectac greasy burgs. Gravy was hangover necessary.
Great little sanctuary. I got zero writing done. The slow wifi turned me into an animal. Divine intervention.
Singer in this band obviously gravitated right toward me.
A stewardess snappd at me on the flight home so she was my secret enemy the entire time. I iced her out hard. We had upgraded seats basically first class and she was still a f___ing c__t! Oh well. Then at the end we were friends when I let her take my garbage.
We ate like kings. Trevor is a foodie snot like me. He’s WORSE.
I love scallops.
He had surf ‘n turf.
I had the tenderloin.
Where’s Raymbo interlude.
One last Scooter burger baby!
Travel fashion homeward bound. A security scanner gent really loved my shirt.
Was home three hours then off again to the country.
Totally gotta jet though now. Check me tonight at Sfizio pizza bar for a ladies mixer. xoxo
Happy Monday! Nothing like a rainy Monday. At least this is a day of travel.
Just a little breathless post to say hello and goodbye to PEI. The time just flew on by. Sadness. I’ll tell ya one thing I surely won’t miss and that’s the wifi! Holy bloody slow. I didn’t work on my book at all nor did I edit this interview that’s waiting on my go for press. You think you’re gonna do these things on vay-kay, but ya’s ain’t.
Yesterday I paraded around in this little number (til I got changed into real clothes at dinner) and had a completely fine time. It wasn’t a sunny day so we were like to hell with the beach and obsessively played monopoly deal. Very addictive that game.
The day prior I made a bit more effort, so.
As much crap as I can fit in this post still won’t even scratch the surface on amount of images captured blabbity blah.
Liquor store parking lot action.
Did exercises around the house in this between card games. I have gained some lobster weight. Great. Fat makes my face look healthier and younger anyway I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. No I won’t I’ll hate it.
Okay I am being rushed now gotta pack and go.
Yumness.
BOOOOOATS.
Oh hi.
Pinch me.
I love this dress. The back is adorb too.
Caught up on my sleep out here too. Feel refreshed. Gotta go meow!
