As an adult, I’m forced to make the hard decisions. Like choosing between eating popcorn or chips and salsa for dinner, when I don’t feel like cooking. I know that whatever decision I settle on will change the course of my future in a major way. Have you seen the movie Sliding Doors, starring Gwenyth Paltrow? In the film, Gwenyth Paltrow's character is trying to catch a train. The movie splits in two—in one future she catches the train and in the other she misses it. Her life goes in a ...
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How to Have the Best Year Ever
New Year’s resolutions: don’t you just hate them? Many people make them, and never stick to them, or make resolutions that they think they should. I’m doing things differently this year; really focusing on what is most important to me. First, I started by creating a word for the year, and using that to guide me with my goals and intentions for the year. Along with the word of the year, I will be using several other tools in my life. ...
I Confess! Bikes, Fall TV, New Music, and More
This is a new weekly series all about what's going on on my end — what I'm currently listening to, watching, obsessing over and a confession, just for fun. I hope this will let you get to know me more and get conversations started on some of my favourite topics. Watching while I've been waiting for the new fall shows to start: Fargo The Amazing Race Canada Masterchef USA Loving this music: I'm listening to so much new music lately, that I have a new "playing this song on repeat" ...
Trying to Remember What City I Know You From
Weddings are only one of two events that really bring friends and family member together, unlike any others. Both occasions are ones where you can really judge who cares about you based on who does and doesn't show up (if they were invited to your wedding, that is). I'm in Calgary now, and have been for a week. I still have two weeks to go. With one of my close cousin's weddings happening this past weekend, I inevitably met up with my extended family that I haven't seen in years. ...
Dealing with my Restless Sleeping Habits with Zenbev Sleep Aid #Cbias
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and their client. I was asked to check out the Zenbev Sleep Aid to see how I could work through my restless sleeping. I have a comfortable bed (which is only a few months old), high thread-count sheets, and an ergonomic pillow. You'd think that I would have a fairly decent sleep, right? I've heard that you remember your dreams more ...
When Lemonade Keeps Turning in to Lemons — Getting to My Better Self
It feels like I've been saying the same thing for a long time — but, that's just it, isn't it? Not giving up on what you want to achieve and the future you see for yourself. . .it's not going to happen overnight and it's not going to happen if you stop trying to make it. Being on my own for the first time in my life has been really hard. It's been really up and down in terms of how well I've dealt with it all. The truth is, I just never know how I'll feel, as it's so easy for me to feel down ...
I’m Feeling Inspired
Are changes in circumstances blessings in disguise? Well, they can be. Sometimes, I feel like too much of the same thing makes me feel uninspired, restless and like I'm not going anywhere. That's just how I felt all those years when I was in university. I just felt like I was never going to graduate! Things have been changing for me and my life more often than I have time to record, and while most of those changes can be seen as negative or stressful, they are also opportunities. I'm feeling ...
Guilt – What is it Good For?
A guilty pleasure, something that we do even though we know we shouldn't, normally describes things like desserts, TV shows, music, or similar. Those are the kinds of things that I am fine feeling guilty about. Some guilty pleasures of mine include: Nibbling the chocolate from the outside of a Kit Kat bar, then eating and licking each layer of each wafer. *edit - this was when the dark chocolate Kit Kats were Vegan ...
Is Love a Fancy or a Feeling? Happy Valentine’s Day
Today is Valentine's Day and, on the surface, it may look like I have a lot less love in my life this year than I have in the past. I guess it depends on how you look at things though. In so many ways, I am more hopeful than I have ever been—good things are in my future, I can just feel it. I've been thinking a lot about love, naturally, wondering if love is a fancy or a feeling? I think it is both. What about you? Sometimes, when so much negativity, debt, stress and all that other bad stuff ...
The Zapping of My Creativity— The Hardest Class I Ever Took
I don't know if it has to do with being back in Vancouver again, or the recent announcement that a bunch of people's personal information and Social Insurance Numbers were stolen from Canada Student Loans, but I've been thinking about school a lot, lately. There are so many paths that my life could have gone down, even within my university career. I am and have been interested in so many different fields of study, that it was difficult to choose just one path, especially when certain things ...