Girly girl

Went for sushi with Julia today, then went tanning after and came home to meet up with our roommate Jennee.... I am a girly girl... I know this, but today I was out-of-control.... When Jennee came home the 3 of us went shopping... mind you I didn't "really" shop... I brought back an outfit that I bought last week when Julia's brother Ben (my brotha from anotha motha) was visiting and exchanged it for a cute lil dress :)

After shopping we stopped by the ol' faithful wine wrack n' picked us up some red red wine!
I had so many things in my hands that my butter fingers slipped and I dropped my bottle of wine right in the middle of the sidewalk.... Thank god the wine guy was really nice because he gave me another bottle for free! :)

So we then continued on to pig out on some yummy-ness while drinking our red red wine. Julia got lucky and we picked her out one sexy ass outfit and did the same for Jen. Tomorrow we're going to Vivoli the Italian restaurant where Juls and Jen work and then out on the town!

I'm so sleepy right now, I stayed up until 4 am doing manicures and pedicures for the roommates, I better take a nap to rest up for tonight.

I heart butterflies <3

We all know I love butterflies.... why else would I have them tattooed on my back....

I had to share this cute salt/pepper shaker with you.... because something so simple brought a smile to my face :)

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34287080

The cutest cuppycake yet....

I Know.... I haven't written in a million years, and yes so much has gone down in the past 2 weeks.... first off I'm not at The 10 Spot anymore, I was tired of being treated like I was new to the industry when I have been in it for 5 years, there were too many changes and I wasn't making enough money. I love all the girls and wish them the best!! I have some interviews set up and am particularly excited about one- but that's all a secret for now... will tell later! :)

I have a project that came to mind about a week ago and I've been thinking and thinking of it... Today I've been doing some research on it and I think it's something that might go down! But yet again it's something I'm keeping a secret until I have a sample to show... there's your first hit......It has nothing to do with my business... but maybe a mini one on the side? I'll have something to show you in the next week or so.... xx

Put up some Christmas decorations.... yes I turned into one of those people I hate that decorates for Christmas in November... and if some jerk face hadn't stolen my camera back in the summer I would show you a pic of my beautiful fire place :)......... If you love me and you're reading this- there's an idea for a Christmas gift... ;)

Okay so blah blah- wish me luck at my very exciting interview tomorrow! mwah

Love love loooovvve!

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At home facialin yo.....

Tonight me and the roomies had a lil hang time- facial bar night, we cleansed, exfoliated, steamed (with our faces stuck in pots of boiling water and towels over our heads) hysterically laughing of course. I did extractions on them and myself, once again hysterically laughing- apparently they can't handle a little pressure. We then put boosters and face masks on, again laughing at how silly we looked. Up next is to tone and moisturize, have a snack and watch our one channel because we're too ghetto for cable, we hid the Wii for our Halloween party and can't seem to remember where we put it. We sould have thought a head and gotten a bottle of red red wine, maybe tomorrow.
Tonight, I sleep like a baby :)

Kingston <3

I spent all day on the couch with my doggie (love the lazy days), he may be 3 pounds, but he can cuddle like none other :) Jennee and I cut his nails last night and I think tonight it's tub time!

Olivia's Shoes <3

I don't know what it is about these shoes but og my do I love love love them... the bitchy Olivia wore them in the last episode of The City, you only get a quick glance at them but it was quick enough for me to fall in love. I have no idea what designer they are but I'm sure they're a billion dollars and I would for sure break a leg or 2 tying to walk in the....but a girl can dream!

The nerve......

I HATE younger people who do not get up for the elderly on the bus/streetcar- that is all...

Me, myself, shopping, pizza and red red wine.....

Spoiled myself silly today! And loved every minute of it!

I slept in until 1pm, took the subway down to the ol' Eaton Center and bought myself a new leather coat (my old one was hideously stolen from some club errr some after hours, yes I was there and no I'm not proud) anyway this one is just as cute but it has a hood! Great for the rain which I learned today!

After trying on billions of coats I did a little drugstore shopping, girls you know you love your drugstore shopping and then headed to the dollar store for some bargin fridge magnets, light bulbs, dish soap etc. I then headed home, fed my doggie and went up the street to pick up some ingredients for home made pizza and a bottle of red red wine.

So I wasn't planning on cheating and I was going to make the pizza from scratch but it was already 6:00 and I couldn't be bothered to make the crust, so I cheated and got flat bread. It was still F'in DE-licious (tomato sauce, fresh garlic, red pepper, green olives, gouda cheese, smoked mussles and basil..YUM)...... oh and I had my red red wine with it tooooo...

Up next is a hot bubble bath in my amazingly deep tub WITH the jets on! and a delicious sugar body scrub....Then off to bed because I work bright and early at 8am..barf....

It's so important to take these days for yourself, I use to do them all the time and I always felt amazing, it's been too long and I was due, I'm making it a point to this once a week for myslef, because I just so happen to be worth it. :)

Love a little style and design...

Since my roommates and I have moved into our place we have been getting a billion flyers and most weeks we just let them build up... tonight I had had enough- while cleaning the house and organizing my art supplies I decided to make a no flyers sign but this also required me to rid of the existing flyers in my mail box.

I came across a catalog and totally fell in-love with this company! Not only is the clothing to die for but I love loved the photography! They have a website, check it out!!!

ANTHROPOLOGIE

Puppies and fuzzy bunnies....

My whole I life I haven't eaten meat.... by age 11 or so I got into the fish and around a year ago I started eating chicken... Someone fed me a fantastic chicken shwarma and I loved it, I slowly got to eating chicken.... first with no bones and only white meat... now I have no problem eating a chicken wing, until today... That feeling of "oh my I'm eating a bird" has come over me yet again and I think once again I need to be bird free, mind you I will always eat fish- I'm Scotian, it's in my blood!

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." --Albert Einstein

The great man said it himself........

LONG time comin....

SO Cam put the pics up a little while ago and put some protective lock on them so I cannot save them to my computer, and he has yet to email them to me due to sucking (jk Cam you're loved muchly)... but Jennee (the blond model) managed to save a few before he locked them down so I will use one as a link to the rest!! Click the link below to see them all! It's the "Time of the Season" album, enjoy!!!

Cam and Carmen's photoshoot

The way out...

I wish I could be reminded of this every minute I start to slip on my goals and my positive thinking... It is dead on- what I need to be doing....

"The way out is to work on being as well rounded as possible. Put in time to bulid a few quality relationships; take up meaningful hobbies; develop a latent talent; explore different sides of your personality. They'll remind you of who you are and help you keep your eyes on the horizon."

My two roommates and I purchased a 50 million dollar lotto ticket tonight! fingers crossed! Now how F'in sweet would that be!? The universe has been on my side these past few days, so you neeevvver know (let me at least believe it's possible!!)
Oh how I'm feeling the sweet sweet positive energy all around me , lets hope the universe helps me out with finding this second job! The next two days it's my mission, I've had enough of this being broke thing, time to make some dolla bills yall!

Home again, home again

Went home for a few days for Thanksgiving, it was short but sweet and to my surprise I couldn't wait to get back to Toronto. It's not that I don't love Halifax and my family and friends to death but being there reminds me of my past and I'm just so excited about my future that it almost made me anxious to be there.

I know I haven't posted anything since 1982, but last week I was sick as a dog that I couldn't even make it into work for a few days. On Thursday night I slept for 17 hours causing me to only get a 4 hour sleep on Friday night and on Saturday I went to bed at 9pm and woke up at 2am (roomate woke me up when she was doing some drunken cooking) to catch my flight at 7am and then had a 4 hour nap on Sunday. I totally skipped out on sleep Tuesday night, decided to stay awake until I arrived home in Toronto at 9:30am and slept until 5pm. So I'm a little screwed up in the sleeping department.

Soooo excited for Halloween! We're having a house party and I'm being cat woman, black leather gloves. whip and all. Hot mama! And my mighty 3 pound chihuahua Kingston is going to be my Batman :)

Hand's down...

So I was bored tonight, seeing as I've watched all of our DVD's and are yet to have cable... And I got into reading up on my zodiac sign... I came across this one posting that is so much like me I almost barfed when I read it...... Here it is.....

"You look for security and safety in partnership. You are the most caring and nurturing of lovers. Your lover is likely to be flattered by your excellent memory for all they say and do—in some cases, he or she could be intimidated as well! Sincerity from your partner is important to you, and you are attracted to people who you consider to be natural and genuine. You are the most intuitive of lovers, finding it easy to "read" your partner's character and feelings. As mentioned above, this can be flattering to many, and cause for concern for others! Which, of course, is fine by you, because the ideal partner for you is comfortable in his or her own skin. Anyone threatened by your "feelers" may not be sincere enough for you!

Appreciation, security, and tenderness are most important to you in matters of the heart. You work hard at accommodating the people you love, taking care of them in every way you can. Because you are not very comfortable with confrontations, you are prone to side-stepping problems. You are easily hurt, but you can work hard at concealing that fact. It is difficult for you to forget any kinds of actions that you consider betrayals on the part of your lover, but you are not one to run away from your commitments. You would benefit from expressing your hurts instead of letting them stew inside of you. In many cases, your partner may not even know that they've hurt you!

Your charm is of the understated kind, and you may not always know just how attractive you are to others! The truth is, no matter how you come across, you fairly ooze sweetness to members of the opposite sex. Of course, not everyone will find that quality attractive, but to those that do, you can be irresistible. It can be difficult for people to stay angry with you. This may be because you have mastered the "art" of playing innocent! You are especially attracted to neediness, and you might work hard at keeping the people you love in a state of needing you. Their dependency on you feeds you, making you feel loved, but you can have a love-hate relationship with that dependency over time. In some cases, Venus in Cancer people might wonder if they've created a monster! You do get off on taking care of your lover, often at the expense of your own needs. It would be helpful if you could detach yourself from some of the problems of your loved ones, even just a little, and recognize that you are not responsible for others' happiness. This concept is difficult for you to learn. You understand it, but living by it is a completely different thing. You observe your partner very closely, and the love you offer holds the rare quality of cherishing."

Is it really so bad that I like to take care of people? No but I really do need to man up sometimes and not be such a pushover! Which I have been doing wonderfully at lately I might add :)

Cage Fighters

Made the decision to switch locations from Queen Street West to our new Leslieville location. I'll be senior staff at Leslieville so I figured why not! It will take me a little bit longer to get to work everyday but hey everything will be bran new and shinny and we'll be offering a blow dry bar! So exciting! www.10spot.ca

Went on a few more dates this week with a certain someone... had a blast both times, ate some good Italian food, watched some good movies and enjoyed Toronto's art festival Nuit Blanche. It's held all over the city, you walk from destination to destination to view all kinds of different types of art. So fully stocked with our water bottles of boozey we set off on the town.

The one main stop we wanted to see ended up being a bit of a disappointment. There were cage fighters at 610 Bay street (which took us forever to find) but when we got there it was a bunch of half naked sweaty men in blind folds pretending to fight... no real action... slightly disappointing I must say but all and all it was a really good night. It got even better when we ditched our charcoal tasting Chinese noodles for some yummy street meat (I had veggie of course) and ran into some old girlfriends from back home and their friend. The 5 of us set out to see a few more stops until I realized it was 4am and time to go home.

I leave for Halifax a week from today and I cannot wait to see all my family and friends. My mission this week is to not spend any money so I have some for when I get there. Cam still hasn't finished editing the photos from last Monday night, but I'm hoping they'll be ready in the next couple of days!

Okee time to clean my mess of a house and take a night bike ride to the park ( yeah I'm a dork)

chiao-

Photo shoot!

Did lil photo shoot last night with my pal Camron! He still has to edit the pics but I'll post them as soon as I get my hands on them! In the mean time check out his flicker page!

-Cam's Flicker Page-

Dinner with friends and some green magic potion

Mia!

oh hieee

So on the most random whim I opened up this blog page. After drinking 11, yes 11 beer last night at a party I felt pretty useless and unproductive today as I lay in my living room eating take out sushi as an attempt to nurse my hangover. I hate feeling unproductive and lately that's all I've been. So it's time to kick it up 100 notches and get my life and my goals a movin!

I will be brutally honest and express myself as much as possible while sharing everything I find funny, interesting, exciting and just a plain ol' must tell.

I was recently dumped by someone that I thought I was in love with but now that I have spent time away from this guy I've realized that wasn't the case at all. I think it was more the idea of him, restaurant owner, photographer blah blah and a very good boyfriend. I think it was because I was use to jerks and overwhelmed by the fact that nice guys really do exist. So when he decided to call it quits deep down I think I was worried I had lost the only nice guy out there. Now that I'm back into the dating scene I've been out with some really nice guys and I've realized that's not the case at all. There are nice guys out there and one of these days one will love me.

In October 2008 I went in for my yearly pappy pappy test, it went just like the rest, awkward and uncomfortable and like always I expected everything to go smoothly, which it did until a few weeks later when I got a phone call asking for me to come in and have a meeting with the doctor. Oooh god, what could it be? but of course they couldn't tell me over the phone so I went in for my meeting. Turns out I had abnormal cells which is totally common, everything's fine, blah blah. Come back in 6 months, it'll either get worse or better. Well I was moving back to Toronto in May so I had to go back at 5 months in April. The second day I was in Toronto I got a phone call from my doctor.... "it's not good, you have to go for further testing." ummm scary! And of course I couldn't get this further testing for like 100 years (well July) so I had months of "what the hell is wrong with me!" In July I had a biopsy, sure enough it was the beginnings of cancer. They stuck me in for an appointment to get it lasered off . September 8th that's what they did. It was so worth the killer period like cramping I had all that day. It's crazy how fast it all came and went and how I had never thought it would happen to me. So I guess my point is get ya friggin pappy pap-skis done it's so worth it, it's only once a year. I'm sure you never miss that monthly brazilly wax do ya?

Just a little about whats been going on in my life, but for now bed is calling my name and I'm sleepy... nighty night!