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Zoolander

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What do we do when we fall off the horse?

We get back on, Little Raymis, we get back on.

Ready for round II? Ah duh.

Hi Lena!

The penguins would make little runs for it it was so funny and cute, they’d puff up their chests and flap wings and SCRAM then the girls would have to scoot them back in again. We were so close we could have touched one but we’d get pecked potentially which one girl did much to our amusement lol.

I went from crying to laughing in seconds. Normally a sign of hysteria or any form of crazy but I was at a zoo extreme emotion boomerangs happen here. Animals in captivity (usually injured so it’s a sanctuary of sorts), new ones being born, winemotional. To recapyou though, Lady Garbage was put down this day + a dude ran in to me with wine glasses after a downpour (thunder and lightning scare me & rain PISSES ME OFF! If I have to be out in it)(Plus I am still sick and was at the time) are these enough reasons for crying yet? Thank you.

The universal cat call known as pss pss pss worked like a c harm we had thing thing near us in seconds. You should have seen Bech get an Eagle to squak at her to STFU! cos of her voice and annoying talking at it bahaha ps. check out her tumblr I updated like a crazyiac last night. It’s fun currating other people’s images and putting the best-ofs together or whatever. I am the shittiest best friend ever!

AW I LOVE IT I WANT IT EXPLOSION!!!! Also I am pretty. Shut up don’t tell anyone you’re making me blush.

So close. Bech looks like a 7 year old that is what I love about her.

I just said Aw Booboodoodoo out loud. If you can tell me where that term originates from I will blow a fart on your tum tum. Mom no telling.

Two of them!

Awwwww.

It was ridinkulous. We were on our way to the stingrays and I was like whaaaaaat!

Yes that is actually what I was like. That is a thing now. I hope I get on Letterman before he retires so I can be a total asshole to him back. I don’t like how he is unraveling and being a POS (piece of sh-) to guests like a drunk prick uncle. You adapt to society, do not expect it to adapt to you. Remember that everyone.

HAhaah lovely. You can’t bring your wine in so we chug them and then go drunk in to the stingrays it is a ball of a time.

She’s all we wouldn’t let you go very far with them and I said you couldn’t catch me anyway hey colleague check out her foot! HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLLEAGUE B T W! The ghost with the most! LOL ((((colleague)))) o_O :) Now tune-up ma bike we got stuffs ta do tomorrow.

Wash your hands so we don’t get our dirty hands all over the stingrays.

Doing the same last year.

Rebecca is MAJORLY focusing.

And last year.

We went right to work.

We’re like one of those movies based on people who work at sea world having adventures and romances and heartbreak and valuable life lessons I get to be Adam Sandler called it.

We are whispering bad girl things and daring each other to be tough guys.

Here I am bragging about this being my THIRD year in a row petting these freaky alien sharks and bein’ straight ballin’ gangster god how annoying I am sorry Rebecca (NOT).

Ya gotta get right on in there. Now why was I getting stink eye again lol. Like I care.

We were already damp, moist, and/or soaked from the downpour so what did it matter anymore? There was one particular stingraymi™ that was a punk dick! It splashed me big time, lots of people, but it was being playful really I felt cos it kept coming back for more. Some will come up for a pet they like it.

This is the one (what kind of shark is it?) that we held on to that was pretty ballsy what if it turned around and bit us? I would if some stupid girls were holding me like a snake. Raymbecca does as Raymbecca pleases.

See? she did it first I had to stop her because I have maternal instincts whilst Bech’s snake-charming ones kicked in to overdrive HAHAHA fantastic.

I am so dramatic. I was destined to be a gay icon. #truth.

Thanks a lot Raymbecca.

Oh my god seriously?

Do you come in large?

I would not quit until I held this one.

Lots of them in this area, they circle the entire pool but the meat of them are all here it’s like petting central.

Careful we’re about to get creeped.

Colleague liked this one most of all haha lawda mercy!

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a juicy day in the Raymbohood. Atin’ and drankin’

That’s Raymbecca as sharks.

Time to dry off.

Love my neon nails.

Flirty nearing thirty.

Wiping the moisture from my stupid phone camera lens.

KEEP GOING TONS MORE TO READ AFTER  THE JUMP!

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Carretilla Initiative TORONTO

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Hey there dudes got a question for ya, does this look like an oven to you?

Well to some cray Austrian artist genius guy it does. Can you tell what it is? If you follow along I will show you. Too bad Bech didn’t come she’s Austrian too.

Tat sent me deets on a foodiexclusive rehearsal/media preview of the TORONTO CARRETILLA INITIATIVE (huh?) some fancy arty thing that’s part of Luminato Festival. I thought it sounded like a unique concept (housing it at Brickworks was a good tip-off), something fun to try, and at the very least a reason to wear my floral apron plus free grub and entertainment. You’ll get a chance to check it out in the Distillery and some other places from the 9th of June to the 17.

There, that was easy! Hmm LA Weekly you don’t say. So basically they clamp a bunch of shopping carts together with cutting boards and mini propane tanks and stoves in a U-assembly-line formation and then get a-cooking. It goes set-up, prep, eat, dismantle then skidaddle. That’s pretty cool, novel, and I love a group participation pitch-in activity. It makes cooking way easier. You too can also sign up to get in line and help out, stick a kid in there why don’t you they are the best little helpers and you don’t have to lift a finger plus cutting garlic stresses me out.

Colleague said there was media royalty there yeah duh obviously. We saw Mr. Mintz but then he was gone before I could chat him up. You might recall this piece on me in the Star he wrote. Great headline, dad we should have it plaqued ha ha.

That was a great meal and we all got tanked, kind of, sort of. Right Rob? I have to re-html that blog post’s photos before I can link to it. My To Do list just bulged at the buckle. Oh intern! Corey wouldn’t allow my cellphone technology to make his food look fugly so I drew funny MS Paint drawings instead to kind of get around that, what an a-hole right? (what me or him lol).

Delicious and scary!

Anyway…

This apron is massive but you can cinch it up teeny weeny. I wore it to Barque Smokehouse afterward because I was not done eating. It’s a total decorative apron I will probably lose my mind if I actually get food on it, which I did, a pocket full of brisket ah gaaad.

Two dishes were up on offer. One sweet and the other savoury, you guessed it. Here I am inspecting the sweet one. Any guesses?

It’s gnocci! With icing sugar on it whaaaaaaat? Plus poppy seeds! Oh get out of town. It was the softest most oowy-gooey disintegrate-on-your-tongue gnocci I’ve ever had, so fresh, like just invented fresh. The sugar was an interesting blend with the poppy seeds, although I definitely pitch for the savoury team I will never turn down food. It’s rude and that’s not the right attitude. I get really offended by picky eaters, sometimes even allergies. How dare your gluten sensitivities hurt that poor baguette’s feelings! There, there, little baguette. I will eat you. Munch munch, all better now as I scowl hard at you haha kidding. (I don’t kid).

Gotta love food artists. Love messing with them cos they take it so seriously, only once my belly is full though, beforehand it’s all manners for days then once your little grilled cheese sandwich (Ruby Watch co. wink wink) is in my hands and in my mouth, gloves are off.

I will beet you senseless! I will beet you at anything I beet! This was the savoury one, the garlic smell was palpable throughout and flavour too and at the bottom of the beet pile was more of that baby soft gnocci mm mmm there goes a skinny day out the window. Good thing I did lots of sit-ups and tricep extensions the night prior. And I went on a psycho run before colleague picked me up.

Verdict: Beets were born to stain white cotton. BORN TA! So I better get this in my mouth quick. Also I was fungry.

And that’s what it looks like all put together.

So friggin’ cool.

I tried to mask my runner’s hair, did I succeed? Sometimes you can do a sloppy braid and adorn yourself in lots of glitz and colour and they might not notice.

Alexa and I discuss my hair. I self-deprecated (as usual), caught myself and said JUST TAKE THE COMPLIMENT and we all agreed. Thank you for helping me better myself Alexa! Lets do lunch sometime.

I really like this picture of us too.

I made him take my picture doing this cos I gave myself a hand washing complex when in fact I do it all the time and the last time I went to Lee’s or Sound Academy was ages ago I probably wash my hands 40 times a day. Ok maybe half that.

Ahhhhhhhh sweet clean endorphins release relief.

They were ahead of schedule so some of the assembly line action was missed and baby didn’t have to get messy but I still wanted the photo opp, always get the photos kids.

But then faking to making it quickly turned in to actually making it oh great. Whenever I am hamming it up I always get busted but then I strike a pose like what they are seeing is supposed to be happening and raymi voodoo hypnotizes them in to my trap.

He’s got me in his sights, I have poppy seed butter in mine.

I wanted to at least “do something” so I grated parm on his gnocci. I even screwed that up. Only just a little

My aim and projectory was slightly off, I don’t think I grated any on to the ground I could barely get a good grate on. Well no, I think I did three good ones in succession. Hi, I’m dumbing it down, have we met? I’m pretty sure I said, “I can’t think of everything!” Lol. I’m always practising my peewee herman tv show dialogue. GOOD MORNING MR. T CEREAL!

I offered to help dismantle then kicked myself because I did not actually want to do it but then I dug the hole deeper in bragging about handy girl skills like Sayed (#lost) building houses for a not for profit charity collective and now I am pissed all over for Rebecca ruining the end of lost for me, I haven’t seen the final two episodes. COOL THANKS DUDE!

I think wearing an apron to food feature gigs could be part of my “thing” also I have the matching platter to this so you could stick me in some bizarre a la eyes wide shut secret society party. If you like that kinda thing I recommend seeing Sleeping Beauty btw. No not that one, this one.

You might recognize that chick from Sucker Punch (another wicked flick). Anyway…

The man himself! Rainer Prohaska.

Cool guy, Can tell he’s deep and thoughtful. We didn’t speak too much (I kind of just babbled) but I felt the aura, the, chocolate, sound of music austrian spirit emanating from him. Ooh I want to go hang out on a mountain in a nice little cottage now I will have to schedule some serious daydreaming Tumblr time in the very near future.

I’m still hungry lets go somewhere, but where?

Will they make fun of me if I wear my apron? Does it look like I care? Mom those are the black pants you gave me they made me look like a server. That was my intention for some reason. A little PR girl here, housewifey there, what-e-ver.

FTS!

Our last joyride in colleague’s car. He sold it and was late collecting me cos he almost got a speeding ticket. That is so colleague worst luck ever with tickets. Gave me more time to work on my hairstyle.

Here is a list of the upcoming menu schedule for the Carretilla Inish in TO. Bake em away toys!

Schedule: TORONTO CARRETILLA INITIATIVE

June 9

12:00 PM, Distillery Historic District

“Austrian Potato Soup”

3:30 PM, Distillery Historic District

“Italian Potato Soup”

6:30 PM, Distillery Historic District

“French Potato Soup”

June 10

12:00 PM, Distillery Historic District

“Simple Potatoes with Salt and Butter”

3:30 PM, Distillery Historic District

“Potato Cheese”

6:30 PM, Distillery Historic District

“Tyroler Gröstl”

June 11

12:00 PM, David Pecaut Square

“French Potato Soup”

June 12

12:00 PM, David Pecaut Square

“Tyroler Gröstl”

5:30 PM, Berczy Park

“Tyroler Gröstl”

June 13

12:00 PM, David Pecaut Square

“Tortilla”

5:30 PM, Fort York

“Tortilla”

June 14

12:00 PM, David Pecaut Square

“Gnocchi”

June 15

12:00 PM, David Pecaut Square

“Gnocchi Leftover”

3:30 PM, Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens, 60 Carlton

“Potato Cheese”

June 16

12:00 PM, Evergreen Brick Works

“Austrian Potato Soup”

June 17

12:00 PM, David Pecaut Square

“Austrian Potato Soup”

Raymbo out.

cat fud

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fil and i traditionally celebrate valentine’s day a night early so tomorrow while you are masturbating yourself to sleep we will be fine-dining at a brand new restaurant. i’ll tell you where after the fact, anyway, don’t get me started on what to wear maybe i will wear a garbage bag or one of the new dresses fil hates the most how romantic. in honour of food and well, eating it, here’s a ton of food pictures from various nite’s out/in not before blogged with some other junk thrown in to break up the monotony. i guess i should go back in order from oldest to newest foodstuffs to go through my system, ha ha? oh and if anyone can tell me what my blog title is in reference to you get a prize. (mom you know this one, no telling)

veggie compost from that place on bloor by organics, i don’t know the name but you can select three dishes with a free soup or salad (get the soup) for like 5.99 and their spring rolls are amazing as is the tofu lasagna, the tomato sauce that comes with makes it. yes i can’t believe i am saying this shit either but whatever, david suzuki says you should try and eat at least one vegetarian meal per day so like if you only eat ONE meal a day i guess this be it (though this container was allison‘s i believe).

mine? i got one more for fil and we all pretty much shared.

brit chocolate beats ‘em all hands down.

the first time we hit the oyster bar with fil’s folks in the distillery, it officially goes by pure spirits. great food and they just rolled out a new menu (little m’s bud is their new sous chef and he is quite a talent) and i believe it’s part of winterlicious, is that happening still?

this is Ossobuco and it will make a delicious reappearance later on in this post, i tried to deter mara from ordering it cos fil’s dad wasn’t that floored by this, hers was way better.

had to put my fingertips in there to not wash this out with flash. i do not remember what it is but it was good, the angel hair pasta and sauce was very complimentary and light.

fil’s salmon did not rank so highly.

i’m wanting to say monk fish for some reason here but i’m probably wrong, feh, the presentation looks pretty.

fil’s stepsister brought back a ton of salmon from tofino that she caught and cured herself AND she’s vegetarian -_- that’s like hamburgers eating people or you know what i mean.

can you guess what this is going to be?

……? it was delicious.

huh what whoops.

looking through my pictures from this nite just now gave me a slight revelation or epiphany, i was in a shitty mood this evening and then looking at all my friend’s faces made me realise what the hell is my problem shut up i have nice people to talk to and spend time with stop complaining, basically, and pictures to show for it.

hi skids.

after taking down my art from grapefruit moon and spending two hours trying on hundreds of dresses sass and i were tired and famished, so was fil but he didn’t try on any dresses. i really wish i showered that day cos from here we went straight to sass’ to get ready and out for that dumb winter bash party.

fil’s quesildilla and not featured is the squeeze bottle of amazing jerk sauce. the food at grapefruit moon is so so so good i regret not having a party there but you know how infuriating it is to get everyone organized for a large sit down dinner with last minute cancellations, sorry, not goin’ there ever.

i’ve had this before, chicken something wrap, it’s tasty.

holy starch fest, i think i was pretty hung all day so i had all day breakfast and made an attempt at health in ordering my eggs poached (normally i’m a scrambled girl) and somewhere in there is my bacon (yes not healthy duh) anyway the thing about GFM is the homefries that come with EVERYTHING you order so if you’re doing a no carb thing you better make it clear not to have any of those guys touch your plate. also when it comes to toast i just eat out (ha) the middle buttered part and chuck away the crusts, i can’t say no to butter.

honey i shrunk the brats.

someone brought out the jager (yeeuck why do people assume it’s a universally enjoyed shot, barf barf barf) so we could endure this eve and then i finally danced in my huge dress and tripped all over myself, it was quite the show anyway point being my hair is totally destroyed.

seriously now, kilgour’s wings are the most underrated wings we have ever come across they must toss them onto the grill after they deep fry ‘em and they’re not puny either. do yourself a favour if you’re a leafs fan go there when the habs play the leafs and get in a fight with a frog please.

lululemon (haha sharpie calls it that accidentally too) actually, sweet lulu, ahh, sweet sweet lulu don’t get me started.

if you’ve never been you simply must, you get to concoct your own dish. my favourite combo is chicken/veg w/ fried rice, crushed black beans sweet basil and garlic it’s so smokey the black bean you have to try it.

i’m getting hungry.

unflattering lighting though so don’t plan any photo shoots unless you bring sunglasses.

i love modern bathrooms. i love places that make an effort it’s always a nice surprise to hit the head and be greeted by more beauty instead of clangy dingy gross stalls.

hi mara! here we are back at pure spirits.

how graceful is this pose jesus am i losing my touch DON’T ANSWER THAT.

’round the world via oysters.

we’re all lesbians at heart.

look who showed it’s mads and my amuse bouche.

this platter was insane. on the left is chicken liver then cinnamon raisons? pickled junk in the middle for the vegetarians, duck prosciutto (!!!!!!!) and short ribs with delicious gravy i forget what that was.

this is flooring me all over just looking at it again.

hi bekki, also not featured to my left was beth, cute girl, tolerant of my big mouth, win-win.

ossobuco again, phenom.

blurry special made risotto for beth.

showing her some pretentious seasonings, v nice, man we were so spoiled this evening.

short ribs with various shrooms and this blow your head off insane garlic whipped mash, show stopper for real.

pear something salad the trailblazers ordered ;)

what a greedy dick i ordered a caesar salad how necessary that move was. sorry, but bacon was mentioned in the description.

i think i ordered short ribs? whatever it was great.

the drunk skunks descend upon the shoe.

how awesome i looked the following morning.

probably drunk still.

then i tried to recreate the delicious of sweet lulu. we bought a jar of black bean stuff, it’s mostly just msg-laden and doesn’t hold a candle to my sweet lulu BUT i mix it up with some sesame oil and sriracha and blammo, still good. there’s little potatoes in there as well.

and because i am the nicest person you will ever come over to hang with i simultaneously made a separate vegetarian batch of pesto onion potatoes for allison and both dishes went with brown rice.

even though it made me cry i soldiered on through.

OMFG

this butcher on kerr street in oakvegas has amazing smoked beef.

ok wow that’s seriously it sorry if you feel like barfing now.

xoxoxo raymikins.

ps. sarah was first to guess what cat fud was in reference to, did you simply google cat fud?

BAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA watch this now can i have that kid?