December 2010

Guilty Pleasures

December 30, 2010

Happy Holidays! I hope everyone is having (had?) a good holiday season! I’m still in BC enjoying the pleasures of being at home: hanging out with the people I love, drinking lots of good coffee, cuddling with my Mom’s cat, taking advantage of the super cheap vintage shopping & basically eating my body weight in really good Dim Sum. Two weekends ago [...]

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Sex Ed: Retail Style

December 22, 2010

I’ve been in BC for a few days now and I’m already having lots of fun. I’ve slipped into full West-Coast Mode – I’m sitting here at my Mom’s place in my Cowichan sweater, sipping on organic coffee that I just bought from the non-profit coffee shop around the corner. This morning I woke up to the sounds of seagulls. Life is [...]

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The Metrosexual

December 19, 2010

One of the things I was really excited to do once I arrived in Vancouver was to meet up with my friend Jean so we could celebrate her birthday together (last year, we celebrated over steak and Wu-tang-tinis and it was a lot of fun). So, last night I went over to Jean’s place where she was having a bunch of friends [...]

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Black Ice

December 17, 2010

I had all these lofty plans to blog 3-4 times a week this month, totally forgetting that December is always a crazy month. Between work, running around town trying to find the perfect gifts for everyone and making some time to spend on the couch with a tumbler of Bailey’s in my hand watching back to back episodes of Six Feet Under [...]

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Lovestruck

December 10, 2010

One of the cool things about writing a blog in Toronto is that if you put yourself out there & get involved in the online community, people will start inviting you to stuff. Over the past year I’ve been fortunate enough to go to all kinds of different events: book launches! movie premieres! fashion week! open bars! charity pool parties! Lots of [...]

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More Postcards from Home

December 9, 2010

I bought my ticket home to BC last night. I’m heading to the west coast on the 18th & will be there until January 2nd. That means I am only 10 days away from seeing my family, breathing in that salt air, hugging my best friend, hanging with other people I heart & eating my body weight in fresh seafood. Since I [...]

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Naughty or Nice?

December 3, 2010

Want a crash course in frugality? Try spending a year being unemployed, underemployed or freelancing. One of the positive outcomes that came from my year of underemployment (June 2009-May 2010. RIP) is that the experience transformed me from a champion impulse buyer to the world’s biggest tight-wad. I went from being someone who shopped almost daily & bought things on a weekly [...]

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