August 2011

Flashback: Skinny Dip goes Apartment Hunting

August 31, 2011

To celebrate Skinny Dip’s two year anniversary, from now until the end of September, every Wednesday I’ll be revisiting one of my favorite posts from the past two years. Here is my first flashback post. Why I chose it: I’m once again helping a friend who has just moved to the city find an apartment. After going to see a place with [...]

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My Blog is a Toddler

August 28, 2011

…and I’m a bad parent. On August 19th Skinny Dip turned two without me even noticing. I feel like this is the blogging equivalent of accidentally driving off and leaving your baby in the Wal-Mart parking lot. {Better late than never} In my defense, if you’ve been reading my Facebook feed, you might have noticed it’s been a busy 10 days. Between [...]

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Skinny Dipping….in my Makeup Drawer

August 25, 2011

It was a dark and stormy night in August and I was at home…..organizing my make-up drawer. I don’t know about you guys but, as soon as the end of August approaches I seem to go into an organizational frenzy. I don’t do Spring cleaning. I do pre-Labor Day cleaning. Even though I haven’t gone “back to school” in years, I still [...]

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Why Hairdressers are like Boyfriends

August 22, 2011

My hair and the City of Toronto have always had a rocky relationship. When I lived on the West Coast, I took for granted that I never had to spend much time even thinking about my hair. The moist, coastal climate meant that I always had a mane of full, fluffy, bouncy curls. When I moved to Toronto, my hair changed. Maybe [...]

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Skinny Dip in the News

August 16, 2011

I have the day off from work today & although I had all these grand plans to answer a million emails & write my heart out this morning, I’ve spent the majority of the morning lazing around reading a trashy novel that even I’m embarrassed to admit is in my possession (it may or may not be a book by another reality [...]

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Meet the Lelo Ella aka "Super Dildo"

August 14, 2011

Last week I was sitting at home doing some writing when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to a UPS guy wearing questionably short, shorts and reflective aviator sunglasses. “Are you Simone?” “Yes, that’s me” “I have big package here for you” MY LELO ELLA FROM EDEN FANTASYS HAD ARRIVED! I thanked him for the delivery and excitedly went back inside [...]

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Is Snooki….a Feminist?

August 8, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a review of J-Woww’s book “The Rules”. Not long after I published that post I was browsing around my favorite used bookstore and discovered a copy of Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s novel “A Shore Thing“. Let’s take a moment to digest this information – yes, Snooki wrote a book. Sitting on the shelf, it was like the [...]

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The Perfect….

August 4, 2011

Since I have some time off this week from work, one of my goals is to get “digitally organized” – this means cleaning up the files on my lap-top, creating folders for stuff & clearing out a lot of the posts I have saved in my drafts folder. Do you find that you start writing blog posts and then never finish them? [...]

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My Sexy Summer To-Do List

August 3, 2011

I love when I’m able to do giveaways for you guys but I’ve realized I’m really bad at announcing the winners! I just wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to Teacher Girl (of Teacher Girl Blogs) who won a copy of Lindsey Kelk’s “The Single Girl’s To-Do List”. I hope you enjoy the book! I’ve been feeling kind [...]

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