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The Next Chapter

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Hello all, It has been awhile since I’ve given an in-depth life update! Luckily for you, today is my first FULL day off since January, which means I have time to sit down and reflect back on everything. After finishing school in December and completing two (editorial and beauty) internships, not to mention a part-time job and other side projects. I can finally relax for a bit. The past few months I’ve aged myself by at least seven years. I don’t feel like I’m 22, which both scares and delights me. It scares me because I want to live my life as a normal young adult where I can act crazy, travel, and not have to constantly remind myself that I need to have fun while I’m still wild and free (even Taylor Swift agrees). This past year alone, I’ve grown-up a lot. I’m not the same person I was a year ago and I’ll be the first to tell you: growing pains are the worst. There were times I overwhelmed myself with questions such …

Summer List Update: Part III

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SUMMER 2013 GOAL! 1. Join a pilates class. 2. Make an ultimate summer playlist. 3.  Go to Wonderland and ride The Leviathan. 4. Completely clean my room and throw away/sell ANYTHING I do not need/wear/use. 5. Go on a picnic, basket and plaid blanket included. 6. Attend a drive-in. 7. Go to British Colombia and visit my friend. Must go surfing and whale watching. 8. Must visit the following restaurants: – BOOM Breakfast & CO – The Burger’s Priest  – Grand Electric  – Ed’s Real Scoop – Reposado 9. Visit the zoo. 10. Splurge on a high-end face mask at Sephora. 11. Buy a piñata. 12. Complete a cool D.I.Y project. 13. Be a vegetarian for a week. 14. Get a bath bomb at LUSH and take the ultimate bubble bath. 15. Get my hair cut. 16. Attend my graduation and have a picture of me throwing my cap in the air. 17. Create a signature summer drink. 18. Visit my cousin in Europe. 19. Compliment a random stranger. 20. Make a huge career move.

What Would You Say?

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I’d like to think I give pretty good advice. At least, that’s what my friends tell me. I always have something to say in every situation, whether it’s positive or giving some tough love. Even if I don’t have proper advice, I crack out my cheesy jokes and I can at least make them laugh. Or, I’ll get them ice cream, because everyone is happy when they have ice cream. I may not have been through a whole lot to know exactly how a person is feeling in certain situations, but I think I’m pretty good at getting inside their head and figuring out how to fix it or what to say to make them realize that not everything is lost. Until the other day. I was with my friend and he opened up to me in a way I never thought he would. He told me the saddest, most heartbreaking story about what’s going on in his life. Everything I thought was tough in my own life went right out the window. When he finished talking, …

Special Thanks From A University of Toronto Graduate

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I feel incredibly happy and proud for surviving the past four and a half years. I’ve had such an amazing experience at U of T and I’m so lucky to have had unbelievable support. My graduation ceremony was surprisingly well organized (it was only an hour) and our speaker, Tanya Mars, kept her speech short, sweet, and inspirational. The day was perfect to reunite with old friends and to officially have that expensive piece of paper in my hands. HONOURS BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE! *happy dance, happy dance, happy dance* I want to send one last thank you to everyone who have made my university experience incredible: – My loving family for dealing with my stress and mood swings during exam time. Also, big thank you for my parents for driving me to school every morning (special thanks to my mom for screaming “I LOVE YOU! HAVE A GREAT DAY!” every time I walked out of the car). – My friends, there are so many of you, I don’t know where to start. Thank you to those who …

Why I can’t leave my house and am restricted from old folks homes

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For a couple weeks, I haven’t quite been myself. I’ve been extremely tired, not really eating and energy level notably low. A couple weeks ago I started to notice I was losing weight, been getting painful migraines, high fevers at night and developing unpleasant blisters on one side of my mouth. It came to the point where I was upset all the time because I was in so much pain and was scared to know what my body was telling me. My mom finally took me to see the dentist, since it was the blisters in my mouth that was probably causing all the agony. At the dentist, they took a few x-rays, looked around and immediately knew what I had. Shingles. You’re probably thinking, “What? Don’t old people typically get that?” Yes they do, which is why I’m restricted from visiting old folks homes. However, it’s not uncommon for young people like myself to develop shingles as well. My dentist told me shingles come from the same virus as the chicken pox. Once you have …

Summer List Update: Part II

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SUMMER 2013 GOAL! 1. Join a pilates class. 2. Make an ultimate summer playlist. 3.  Go to Wonderland and ride The Leviathan. 4. Completely clean my room and throw away/sell ANYTHING I do not need/wear/use. 5. Go on a picnic, basket and plaid blanket included. 6. Attend a drive-in. 7. Go to British Colombia and visit my friend. Must go surfing and whale watching. 8. Must visit the following restaurants: – BOOM Breakfast & CO – The Burger’s Priest  – Grand Electric  – Ed’s Real Scoop – Reposado 9. Visit the zoo. 10. Splurge on a high-end face mask at Sephora. 11. Buy a piñata. 12. Complete a cool D.I.Y project. 13. Be a vegetarian for a week. 14. Get a bath bomb at LUSH and take the ultimate bubble bath. 15. Get my hair cut. 16. Attend my graduation and have a picture of me throwing my cap in the air. 17. Create a signature summer drink. 18. Visit my cousin in Europe. 19. Compliment a random stranger. 20. Make a huge career move.

Lost In Translation

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Vogue: June 2013 “There are times when you can feel your childhood ending. It can be the birth of a child, the death of a loved one. For me, that moment in the dressing room was it. The professional work ethic that had been instilled in me since I was a little girl was shocked back to life, and I knew that not only would this man prevent me from being able to do my job, he would prevent me from growing into the strong and confident woman I needed to become…ending relationships is always difficult, but leaving Paris broke my heart. It took years to disentangle the man from the city that I had fallen for, and I found that it was impossible to go back. When I finally broke down and did visit, it was with the American man I ended up marrying and our four-year-old daughter over Christmas, fifteen years after I had moved there…“why are we here again?” my daughter asked…”because,” I told her, “this is where Mommy grew up.”

Summer 2013 Update: Part I

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Guess who completed a couple summer goals in their first week. THIS GIRL! First goal crossed off was cleaning my room. It literally took me an entire day, but I had boxes and boxes of clothes, books and random childhood trinkets that I got rid of. I also got rid of the huge toy-box in my closet to make more room for my shoes. Weeeee! 🙂   Second goal I completed was my ultimate summer playlist (which can be seen by clicking HERE)! My favourite songs on the list are Could You Be Loved (You Never Know) by Audio Playground, Summer Young by Rascel Flatts and Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore! SUMMER 2013 GOAL!  1. Join a pilates class. 2. Make an ultimate summer playlist. 3.  Go to Wonderland and ride The Leviathan. 4. Completely clean my room and throw away/sell ANYTHING I do not need/wear/use. 5. Go on a picnic, basket and plaid blanket included. 6. Attend a drive-in. 7. Go to British Colombia and visit my friend. Must go surfing and whale watching. 8. Must visit the following restaurants: – BOOM …

Baked Zucchini Sticks, Library Books and Country Music

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Hello friends, I had the most productive Saturday! My friend Kristin came over and we baked breaded zucchini sticks with homemade sweet onion dip, recipe found by clicking HERE! Note: cut the zucchini’s thicker than shown, they will have more of a crunch and flavour! Also, we went to the library to pick out every country C-D they had and yes, we actually took out C-D’s from the library. Who goes to the library anymore? We do and we love it. I also picked up some books for when I take my long train rides to work. I’m the kind of person who judges a book by its cover, so they’re all girly and probably meant for 14 year olds. Just so you know, I’m hoping every Sunday I can update you on my week, like a five-minute life re-cap! I will set my timer and write for five minutes straight and let you know how my week has been! I’m about four minutes in now, so I have to wrap this up. This week is my last week …

Jessica’s Summer To-Do List 2013

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK, I look forward to this day all year! I have carefully compiled my list of 20 summer goals I must complete by the end of the summer! I typically complete the list, but last year I disappointed myself with being a few goals short. NOT THIS YEAR! I’ve made my list more realistic and hope you follow along on this lovely summer journey of mine. 🙂 Here was my list last year: https://jessicamoyblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/2170/   List will start first week of May and end first week of September! JESSICA MOY’S SUMMER TO-DO LIST 2013 1. Join a pilates class. 2. Make an ultimate summer playlist. 3.  Go to Wonderland and ride The Leviathan. 4. Completely clean my room and throw away/sell ANYTHING I do not need/wear/use. 5. Go on a picnic, basket and plaid blanket included. 6. Attend a drive-in. 7. Go to British Colombia and visit my friend. Must go surfing and whale watching. 8. Must visit the following restaurants: – BOOM Breakfast & CO – The Burger’s Priest  – Grand Electric  – Ed’s Real Scoop – Reposado 9. Visit the zoo. …