All That Not Bragging Is Ruining Your Life

June 10th, 2013 in 30something, advice, because "guilt" is a dirty word, confession of the day, getting my smart on!, i should be a P.S.A., I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, it makes sense to me, just do what i say, learning, life lesson, mindful happiness, right on my sleeve, the less i worry the happier i am

If you grew up like many of my friends did, you grew up with a fear of sounding like Steve Urkle, getting a brain injury from not wearing a bike helmet and being viewed as a bragger if you touted your own accomplishments. Of course you’d smile in public, but any type of praise was dutifully pushed aside with phrases like “Oh thanks, I’m not as good as _________ (insert name of teammate) but I try”, ” I just got lucky”, “My team did most of the work” and/or ” Yeah I did okay”. It was on the car ride …READ MORE

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20 Things You Did You Should Be Proud Of

April 9th, 2013 in 1/2 funny 1/2 serious 100% important, 30something, lists, the last line is my favourite, the title says it all, this one is about you

1. Turning down that guy that everyone loved but you.

2. Surviving junior high.

3. Owning your dance moves.

4.  Being kind.

5. Your relationship with your parents. It may not be perfect, it may be the farthest thing from perfect but it’s yours. And whether you are still working on making your relationship better, there was a point that you tried to make it better and that is brave.

6. No longer feeling ashamed of your hair in high school. It was the style!

7. Voting in the last election.

8. Knowing all the words to the rap song …READ MORE

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For Jake, Martin Sheen & Myself

April 2nd, 2013 in 30something, adventure, hello universe? I love you, help, here is my heart, i know- we all LOVE him, i may write about the west wing forever, i promise this is cool, i should be a cheerleader, i want this, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, it makes sense to me, it's a good thing, it's a long one (twss), just do what i say, just say yes, karma is going to get you, mindful happiness, school, something I won't forget, sometimes you just have to leap, this one might be my favourite, when i ask you to do things for me
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I have a student in my class, let’s call him Jake. He’s (secretly) one of my favourite students because he tends to see the glass half full and is grumpy in the most endearing way. He struggles socially and spends a lot of recesses with me as he says “I don’t have friends because my brain has a hard time making some”.  He has big brown eyes and his shoe laces are always undone. Jake has a lot of anxiety issues and when I have a substitute at school, he’s so worried about me he works in counsellors office to help …READ MORE

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B.O.T.F.

February 5th, 2013 in 1/2 funny 1/2 serious 100% important, 30something, 98% of me thinks this is funny, adventure, and then i cried, and then i laughed out loud, i should be a P.S.A., introspection sometimes causes me to drink, it's a long one (twss), it's not you it's me, men, no i haven't gotten laid, single girl stories, something I won't forget, these are the things that happen to me, this one might be my favourite, what the hell

I went through a phase in my early teens when I was obsessed with jury selection (I mean, who DIDN’T have that phase?) and read every book possible on the topic. This was after the OJ Simpson case and I was convinced that the right jury would have REALIZED WHAT EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY KNEW. I became an expert on how to spot liars, identify psychopaths and establish who wants to wants to chop off your head and use it as a soup bowl so I was convinced I would be up for online dating.

I mean, isn’t that what it …READ MORE

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Letting go of Brad Pitt and other ways to be happy

January 30th, 2013 in 30something, advice, because "guilt" is a dirty word, confession of the day, hello universe? I love you, here is my heart, i should be a P.S.A., I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, life lesson, lists, love or something like it, mindful happiness, no i haven't gotten laid, p.s. i love me, Slyvia Path has nothing on me, something I won't forget, sometimes you just have to leap, the last line is my favourite, the title says it all, this one might be my favourite, when i say it anyway

If you don’t know me or haven’t followed my blog, you may not know this about me:

I was once very angry. Not outwardly angry- not slash your tires angry or kick the wall with your boots on angry. I wasn’t even punch a pillow angry. I was anger turned inward- a soul crushing sort of inner angry that manifested itself through debilitating depression that left me unable to get out of bed and at times, suicidal.

Well that was one hell of an opener. (I promise, it gets more light hearted…).

The hows and whys of how one gets …READ MORE

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Throw away your damn bucket list

August 30th, 2012 in 30something, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, it makes sense to me, just do what i say, let's still be friends?, oh look! i have opinions., self improvement, something I won't forget, travel, when I go all Dr. Phil on you, who needs a self help book?

I want you to think of the bucket list that you have. Whether it’s triumphantly displayed on your blog, written shyly in your journal or catalogued in the recesses of your brain right after the recipe for spinach dip your mother gave you, I want you to rename that list “Things I Wish To Do Sometime Before I Die”.

Not very powerful is it?

When death is your finish line, you’re running the wrong race.

Considering that you are a perishable item with an expiry date, we could go further and rename your bucket list “Things I Wish To Do …READ MORE

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Top Ten BiSC '12 Moments

May 24th, 2012 in 1/2 funny 1/2 serious 100% important, 30something, adventure, hello universe? I love you, i like scotch & table dancing, i went to vegas and drank a lot, i went to vegas and saw many tigers, i wrote this just for the picture, it was a dance dance revolution, martinis make the world make sense, people i like, something I won't forget, top 10
airport with kelly and katherine

1. The moment where I realized that not only would I be meeting bloggers at the airport, but that Kelly and  Katherine would be waiting with a handmade sign. And that within minutes, we would be pulling off artistic poses like this. Obviously Katherine and I are ready for our own Vegas show. Genius is a fire within us. It is why we blog.

2. The moment Amanda became my pusher and I went from this:

into this: “MORE ENERGY DRINKS! NOW LET’S GO SING CELINE DION KARAOKE! GET ON BOARD”

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You're The Same, Just Like Everyone Else

May 6th, 2012 in 30something, and now you might know everything, family, i love fragment sentences, I should be sleeping, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, introspection sometimes causes me to drink, it makes sense to me, life lesson, lists, this is where I grew up, this one might be my favourite

Growing up, I was friends with two really interesting twins. While I was rocking a mushroom cut and Club Monaco sweatshirt, these two girls were shaving their heads and wearing lots of mesh, camo and elaborate necklaces with snake charms. While my mom gave me tylenol for a headache, their mom practiced Reiki and ancient herbal medicines to curb body pains. My home was a standard homage Pottery Barn, their house was a collection of Star Wars collectibles, exotic pets and crystals the size of pre-schoolers. Sleepovers were an exercise in restraint as I practiced acting nonchalant as they fed …READ MORE

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