Keri On Cars

Right now it’s Sunday 4pm.

I was last heard Friday at 5:30pm, and have been silent ever since.

Tweeted this Saturday, because it was true.

Nothing horrible happened to me, I’m okay.

I wouldn’t call it the best week I ever had, and it was maybe my worst Summer Solstice, the ‘getting paid to blog’ scenario has me exasperated….. I don’t know, just felt like being quiet and daydreaming and imagining a lot, so I did.

I went for a Morning Drive both days.

Finished two books.

Queen and Country by Greg Rucka
Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn

Thought deeply. Which means I sat a lot with my hand over my mouth, that’s my thinking position.  Made tons of notes.

Staying like this till I wake up tomorrow, then it’s back to normal, ttythen :)

In no particular order, here we go.

I want to drive the crap outta this thing. Played cars with my 6 year old BFF, easily the kid I like the best in the world.

He mailed me a portrait recently, see how he’s really highlighting my esophagus.

Here’s my esophagus in real life last week.

Quite like this outfit I put together; you already know I love skirt pants and fanny packs.

Then I got all dramatic in my hood.

Drove many many kilometres last week, stopped in a playground along the way. Sometimes you just have to escape your car, eh.

You’ve met this pal before, James. He’d told me his latest invention moments before this was taken, and it’s one of the best online business idea I’ve heard all year.  It’s so simple.

I can’t say anything more, for obvious reasons, but we laughed hard over it, you will too. If you need to hire a solid webshop, he’s your guy.

Great photo of Casie and I.

Look how mooooody  (I did not mean for this post to be so car-centric).

I was sitting on my hood watching the stars, thinking about dogs.

One of my top three favourite places in the world is getting one. I’m taking the change harder than the family living there, I think.

I wouldn’t call myself an animal fan. I recently randomly was in charge of a black lab for a couple hours, this is the first time I’ve walked a dog in ohhhhh seven years at least.

Lastly, last night I cheered on my fellow blog girls at the Crystal Light Purse Challenge Fashion Show, congratulations ladies! Looking terrific! Sorry about the grainy photos, they all came out like this, I don’t know why.

Left to right:

@ValTorontoGal @UrbanNativeGirl @CasieStewart @RaymiTheMinx

Held in the Design Exchange, which was originally Canada’s first Stock Exchange, learn more about this Art Deco wonder over at The Canadian Explorer.

Do you even know HOW many Canada facts I have stored in my head?

I can do this All. Day. Long.

Kay I gotta run, TTYL! xo Keri

Tuesday Ford invited me to test drive their 2012 Ford Focus for a day via a car rally.

They partnered us each up, that’s my awesome cohort Ryan Durrell in brown.

(photo by Morsel Photography Hi Jerry! Look I stole more of your photos!)

The day kicked off with Ford saying, “here, go run our car through that slalem course, hard as you can”. Oh reallllly?!?! I got this.

I made that thing fly, and below is me standing on the brakes, and tada, cones are prefectly intact. I told them I was surprised how well it took the corners. Torque vectoring FTW.

Remember that time I did advanced driving school? Exploring a Race Car (video)

Each team was given an iPod Touch to film their experiences, and then Ford handed us our footage from the day on a USB key.  So sorry for the poor audio.

Have you ever edited iPod or iPhone footage?  Ugh.  All that tall footage is tough to work with. And I don’t get it, why wouldn’t Final Cut talk better with .movs? Anyway.

How many horse power? Would you like a cupcake?

I learned that a horse is 14.3 hands high, anything smaller is considered a pony.

We stopped by the Canadian Car Museum , so many nice cars.  I will never call them whips :|

Here’s Lauren and I, ha.

Interesting fact – the Focus is 85% of each pound of material used to build the car is recycled material.

Then I gave a little lecture.

Thanks for a great day, Ford!

If you ever need me to test another car on a track, I can do that!

All. Day. Long.

Hi!

Had a great time at the rally yesterday, thanks again Ford!  It started with a slalem course, which of course I did as fast as possible, and want to do all day every day forever.

That’s Ryan Durrell, my teammate for the day, hey buddy!

The Ford Focus’ trunk is roomy.

I’ll tell you more about it soon, but for now, just some fast things.

Getting my hair cut today – Brennen Demelo Studio.

My home is also all polished omg so good. How people function in a home with stuff everywhere, I’ll never understand. My head becomes cluttered.

It’s really too bad about the mail strike.

As you know I LOVE mail. I even made a video that time, My Gift Idea to You.

Look how lit up my face below, holding my mail. On the right was what was inside the box, thanks again Vitamin Water!

The mystery continues as to why half my car windows won’t go down.

I read the manual, learned about fuses, changed the correct fuses, still nothing. My poor passengers are melting.

Ugh, anyone have any ideas, let me know.

Kay gotta run, have a great afternoon, TTYS!

Competition! Rally driving! Let’s DO this.

It starts at 1pm downtown, and then around the city in a Ford Focus, that’s all I know.

If you’d like to follow along on Twitter, follow this hashtag #FocusChallenge

I’ve posted below my Canadian Explorer intro.

Remember when my studio was my caaaaaaar? Ha.

I’ve leave you with this… it’s a screenshot from filming months ago.

Is this 60 km/h in reverse? Or me being dramatic?

I’ll never tell.