life stuff

Blood, Sweat & Tears

April 19, 2013

Over the past few years  I’ve poured my heart and soul into this blog, working on posts late at night, early in the morning, on lunch hours while I was still at my day job, blurry eyed and at times on the verge of giving up. There’s been blood, sweat and tears – but luckily not that much actual bloodshed, unless you count [...]

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How to Survive Fashion Week Without Looking Like a Jack-Ass

April 4, 2013

If you’ve been following my twitter or Instagram feed, you might already know that I spent March 19th-24th attending Vancouver Fashion Week and blogging for The Kit.ca. Although I’m not a fashion blogger, I’m definitely a fashion enthusiast and I have been fortunate to attend both Toronto and Vancouver Fashion Week several years in a row. Although Toronto Fashion Week is bigger, [...]

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Meet Our New Intern!

February 28, 2013

Lately, I’ve been having this problem where I wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning and can’t get back to sleep. I’ll get up to grab a glass of water and then I’ll lay in bed with a million different thoughts going through my mind. It’s like there’s a after-hours party happening in my brain and it sounds a little [...]

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How to Fall Back in Love With Yourself

February 26, 2013

One of the things I’m often asked as a sex and relationship blogger is “what advice would you give to single people?” I was actually asked this during the live relationship and sex chat I did for Sun Media a few weeks ago (which you can view here!) and I gave the answer I always give: take this time to work on [...]

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Things That Are True at 32

February 4, 2013

At 32 you do things that your 20-year old self  would have scoffed at. You spend time creating inspiration boards, setting goals, taking life coaching classes and getting excited about the book club you joined. You do these things because they make you happy. When a 25-year old Hipster calls you lame, you just laugh because they haven’t figured out that being [...]

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Never Drink Absinthe in the Shower & Other Things I’ve Learned from Travel

January 21, 2013

This post originally appeared on my friend Caryn’s blog a few months ago. Other than my story about getting hit on by teenagers, I haven’t really shared much about my former life as a travel agent. Since I really liked how this post turned out and I’m hoping to make travel a key part of 2013, I thought I would re-post it incase you [...]

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Life Liquidation, Zellers and Letting Go

November 21, 2012

Twelve years of living in Toronto, packed into 8 boxes.  After almost a month in Toronto spent packing, working and visiting, I got back to BC yesterday morning. These boxes containing most of my worldly possessions will be arriving at my doorstep in a matter of days. A year ago I arrived in BC and my 6-week visit turned into a year long stay. When these [...]

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Wooden Monkeys, Shoes and Getting out More.

August 28, 2012

When I moved back to BC in November following my break-up I knew I wanted a change. Correction: I needed a change. Desperately. I willfully gave up the fast pace lifestyle of Toronto that included a lot of open bar media parties, late nights and uncomfortable (but sexy) footwear in favour of living with my 60-year old Mom in “Sleepytown” – the [...]

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A Long Overdue Post about Portland, a Bus, Wine & More Wine.

August 23, 2012

Last week I was in Portland Oregon for 5 days. My sister was playing at a music festival in Portland over the weekend so my Dad and I decided to tag along & turn it into a family road-trip. I know what you’re thinking, “Two family road trips in one month Simone?! Are you insane?!” Truth be told, this road trip was [...]

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Things I Would Tell My 20-Year Old Self # 10 – Kate

August 1, 2012

I’m on vacation this week visiting my family in sunny Kelowna, BC. I’m trying to stay as “unplugged” as possible so I am really glad that Kate of Suburban Sweetheart  volunteered to write the next instalment of Things I Would Tell My 20-Year Old Self. Suburban Sweetheart was one of the first blogs I really connected with when I started blogging. Kate [...]

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