life stuff

Count Social Engagements, not Calories.

March 21, 2012

This post was sponsored by The Fresh Diet. As always, all opinions and details about my slightly disturbing Mexican take-out addiction, are my own. When it comes to “cooking for one” I  have a love/hate relationship. The upside to eating single: I can eat WHATEVER I want. The downside: I can eat WHATEVER I want. Although I usually start off with good [...]

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What Do You Really, REALLY Want?

March 18, 2012

If the title of this post sounds a bit like a Spice Girls song it’s because I’ve had “Wannabe” stuck in my head for a week. Do you remember the Spice Girls? As far as pop groups go, they were pretty cool. They were all about “Girl Power” & taking control of your life while in perilously high platform sneakers. Anyways… I’ve learned [...]

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Break it Off with Smoking. So I Don’t Have to Break it Off with You.

January 27, 2012

This post is sponsored by Break it Off  — a Canadian Cancer Society campaign designed to help young Canadians end their relationship with smoking for good. Today I’m going to talk about something I am passionate about: quitting smoking. “But Simone, I thought this blog was supposed to be about sex, dating, relationships and your obsession with shoes & overpriced hand bags?!” Smoking and [...]

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Go Easy on Yourself.

January 22, 2012

One of my favorite people on the internet – Carly from Crowning Venus – posted this video on her blog last week. I know most of you have probably already seen it since it made it’s rounds on Twitter and Facebook but I’m re-blogging it anyways because I love it so much. Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. Watching it [...]

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Inside my Bag 2.0

January 13, 2012

I don’t know about you but I never get tired of seeing what’s inside people’s bags. I find it fascinating what people carry with them on a daily basis. Maybe I am just totally nosy… I did a post about what’s inside my bag two years ago so I decided it’s time for an update. Meet my purse. I’ve been carrying this [...]

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Learning to Spend on the Right Things

January 11, 2012

I didn’t make any real New Years Resolutions this year (except for one: “Learn how to drive” – more on that later). I already have a long list of things I have been working on since November. One of the things I do want to focus on in 2012 is “spending money on the right things.” When I sat down in November [...]

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What Do I Have to Do to Get Sexually Harrassed in this Town?!

January 3, 2012

A few days before New Years I was walking through Chapters, browsing books when the song “Seasons of Love” (from the musical Rent) come on the store’s stereo system. I started humming along to the song’s chorus: “Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes…” It’s a beautiful song and while listening to it I should have been having a misty-eyed moment about [...]

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Up, Down, Turn Around. 2011: A Year in Posts

January 1, 2012

I saw a post like this on Teacher Girl Blogs and loved the idea. 2011 was full of so many twists and turns that I thought highlighting some of my favorite posts would be a fun & useful way of re-capping everything that has happened. Here we go! January: 2011 got off to a rough start with me bawling in front of [...]

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All I Wanted for Christmas Was Prince

December 23, 2011

… and I got my Christmas wish! Last Saturday my Mom and I went to see the Prince Welcome to Canada Tour in Victoria. Seeing Prince live has been on my bucket list for about 2 decades so when I found out he was coming to Canada (and my hometown!) I knew I HAD to go. However, due to some other financial [...]

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My Family, the Sitcom. Episode #2

December 13, 2011

Since I’ve been home in BC I’ve taken to writing down some of the stuff my family says  because they are pretty entertaining. Here’s a round-up of my favorites from the first 13 days of December. Enjoy the insanity! On this week’s episode my Dad’s BFF learns how to “LOL”, my parents get acquainted with UrbanDictionary.com, we discuss heated toilet seats and DIY hair-cuts, [...]

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