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This Week in Lizzife: HoHoTo, Morocco, House of Lords and my Big Red Bow
Dec 19th
A weekly trend, this is becoming! #Lauda
Here are some of the things that made me smile this week but didn’t quite make my blog – not because they aren’t blogworthy, but because I’ve barely had time to brush my hair lately let alone toss out primo content for anyone other than the hands that feed my bank account.
Pay me, laurenoutloud.com, and I will gladly spew delightfully off-beat banter into your heaving digital bosom all day long.
Hehehe. Bosom.
1. Hot guys & baby animals: I blogged all about this most fabulous of combinations over on my CosmoTV blog, but wanted an excuse to post some photos of said hot guys and baby animals right here because well… isn’t it obvious why I would want to do that?
2. MAYOR LAUREN REIGNS SUPREME: It’s true! You can refer to me as your Lordship the next time you see me at the brand newDavid’s Tea in the Annex. Foursquare says so.
This is my first mayorship ever so I’m pretty dang excited. SO excited that I made this graphic and Tweeted it to @DavidsTea.
Epic nerd win.
3. HoHoTO: Thursday night, I hit the Mod Club with hundreds of the city’s most Tweet happy dudes and dames for one hell of a party / proverbial circle jerk.
Hey, I’m not hating. I love having my ass kissed by people who barely know me and kissing the asses of people I barely know. Especially when it’s for a good cause. Why else would I go to Tweetups? (tongue-in-cheek, don’t freak.)
I wore a big red bow, a black crinoline, and 5-and-a-half-inch suede pumps that looked awesome in the mirror but sort of silly when I was tripping down the stairs due to my inability to walk for sustained periods of time in these shoes.
The guys who saw me bail did an awesome job of stifling their laughter long enough to feign concern. Miraculously, I was totally fine save for a little bruise on my leg. Cat-like reflexes. I haz them.
Over $61,000 was raised for Toronto’s Daily Bread food bank but, more importantly, more than seven billion photographs were posted online this morning.
I was lucky enough to be tagged (and twitpicced, too!) in some of them. Lucky because I didn’t even bring my real camera out.
I wasn’t feeling shutterbuggy. I was feeling to get my groove on sans rebel-round-the-neck. And that I did.
4. The abominable snowman has taken up residence in a shop window that I walk by every day. So many smiles.
5. The Toronto Christmas market. This would have been a lovely little jaunt through the Distillery District if it hadn’t been pouring rain.
We still had fun though – chiefly because we stumbled upon an ancient forbidden freight elevator and a giant gingerbread house made of REAL GINGERBREAD.
One of us stole a piece of candy from it. I hope the gingerbread police don’t read my blog. (Or that witch from Hansel and Gretel either… crazy betch.)
5. Photoshopping my head onto Troy McLure’s body for the vitaminwater canada blog. It was one of those “am I actually getting paid to do this right now?” moments. Those always make me smile.
6. The Holiday night market on Ossington was aight, if not a little bit vintage-wearing hipster ridden for my taste (not judging! I love hipsters – just not vintage. It’s gross.)
The vibe was cool but there were only a few booths at the market that really interested me. One was Bicyclette‘s (obvs) and the other was this two dude kissing booth:
They asked if I’d pay a dollar to kiss them. I told them that wasn’t going to happen, but that I’d pay a dollar if they would kiss each other.
We exchanged some witty banter and then I bounced. No kisses, but you never know what happened after I left… Maybe they were inspired to try something new?
Oh gosh, that’s weird. They were brothers!
7. Making faces in my new fur hat: I don’t think I need to explain this one.
8. The waiter at the awesome Moroccan restaurant we went to on Tuesday made me smile a lot for some reason. He had this funny accent that made it hard to understand what he said, which only made him SUPER hilarious to me. So many communication fails (“Ooooh pistachio custard!”)
The pistachio custard did not exist. My vegetable tagine was off the hook though:
Hitting up Second City afterwards for Something Wicked Awesome This Way Comes made me smile even harder. It was effing great.
This scene pictured below was one of my favourites. While all of the performers were incredible comedic talents, the three women were seriously out of this world:
#idols
9. Getting my hurr did at House of Lords was cool. Definitely not your typical salon experience. Gotta love a joint that has a fish tank and blares Aoki!
One of my friends from home works there now, so I went to get a trim and touch-up to hold me until I can see Adrian again (thanks Sam!)
The House of Lords legendary or something. The Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper got their hair cut there back in the day, and people used to line up around the block for an appointment.
This means that I am now cool by proxy. SCORE!
10. My new co-worker: Meet creepy Elvis bust.
F-Dee bought him at Honest Ed’s last week and he’s been watching over us ever since.
He’s given me several heart attacks this week, but I don’t mind. I like a little bit of danger in my day
Fancy a little bit of holiday-themed link farming? I DO:
The night before Christmas as told by cats
The fashionista’s must have accessory (PUPPIES!)
The bed intruder Christmas Carol
House turned into a video game with Christmas lights
Decembrow (not holiday themed, but still blogworthy-ish.)
The Ultimate John Cena fan video is definitely not holiday themed, but one of the best and most random things I’ve stumbled upon this week by far. Epic bob montage at minute 2:01.
I must now go to Santarchy and the “Lovable Badass: Artists on Artest” show.
Look for vids and photos of those adventures next week on one of my blogs. Not sure which will go where yet but believe you me, I’ll be Tweeting about it.
<3L
