All posts tagged: life

I COMPLETED UNIVERSITY!

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YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! Today I wrote my last exam and finished university forever! Four and a half years later… Keep in mind, my brain is exhausted, so anything that doesn’t make sense in the post, just nod your head and smile. HOW DO I FEEL NOW THAT I’M DONE? Relieved. A sense of pride. A long time coming. People ask if I’m sad. I’m not. I loved university, but I’ve been ready for the “real world” for quite awhile. I’ve been anxious to leave my comfort zone and do my own thing. I’m ready. I know what I want to do and the direction I want to go in. I can’t stop smiling because everything I’ve dreamed of doing and hoped of being, I can do and be now. It’s an amazing, free, bittersweet feeling. WHAT HAS UNIVERSITY TAUGHT ME? I’ll take this question year by year. I’ll discuss the top 5 things I’ve learned each year of university, academically and socially. YEAR ONE: I learned friendships and relationships change and sometimes, as much as I want to believe it, they …

Ten things I don’t like but wish I did

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1. Basketball Growing up, I have memories of my hands being disgustingly covered with dirt and sweat from basketballs, and I hated that. Since then, I’ve always been turned off by the sport. I want to like it because I want to be able to slam dunk and casually dribble the ball through my legs like they do in Space Jam…but I just can’t. 2. Scrambled eggs I’ve never liked the smell or taste of eggs. However, once in a blue moon I’ll make sausage and toast and WANT to scramble some eggs because they’re easy to make and healthy for you, but I can’t get myself to eat them. They smell like feet. 3. Cats What a boring, vicious animal. All the do is creep up and bite you when you try to pet them. I want to like them because seeing pictures of kittens melt my heart, but I’m pretty sure they’re the spawn of satan. 4. Action movies My boyfriend has taken me to at least a dozen action movies. I would name …

I’M 22 TODAY

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I’m having the best birthday so far! My boyfriend got Cirque Du Soleil tickets for us last night (amazing!) and my mom is currently making homemade lasagna (my fav!) for dinner. I’m a spoiled, lucky girl today! 🙂 I can’t wait to see what I’m going to do while I’m twenty two (that rhymed). Apparently it’s one of the best years of your life! Big decisions, beginning of a career, new relationships, friends, adventures, and graduation! I have a lot to look forward to at this age and I can’t wait to share them all with you, XO Jessica

So you’ve had a bad day

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We all have our bad days. Right? The days where nothing goes right, no one seems to be nice to you, you’re sad, you’re mad, not motivated and you just want to lock yourself in your room, eat Nutella covered double chocolate chip cookies and call it a night. I’ve been feeling this way all week. The first week of school was the worst. From now until January, I know I’m going to be in a permanent state of stress. This anxiety. This sickness in my stomach that I’m not where I’m supposed to be. I walk through the hallway of my school and it doesn’t feel right. I feel foreign. I sit in the classroom and have this intuitive voice saying, “you don’t belong here…” It makes me upset. It makes me question myself. It makes me uncomfortable, restless, worried – pretty much anything but happy. Most of this unhappiness comes from having to pay thousands out of my own pocket to attend these classes I don’t particularly like going to. Don’t get me wrong, I truly do …

How I did on my summer list

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I didn’t complete it. 😦 Tears are forming because it’s the last day of summer and I told myself to FINISH THIS LIST – but, as you can see, not all these goals are in bold. Such a disappointment. However, considering my unexpected full-time internship and part-time job in the beginning of the summer, I did a pretty good job! The bolded are complete… 1. Spend $50 on Summer apparel. Pshh, this was easy. 2. Buy fabrics and design a summer collection.  I re-arranged this one, but I crossed it off  because I DID make a shirt and some shorts, but unless I hired little sewers who can work from my room, I didn’t have the time to make more. 3. Attend a live-taping of the The Marilyn Denis Show. Meh, I’m not too sad this didn’t happen. I did see the studio this summer, can I count that?  4. Make a summer playlist. Will post playlist when made. This is practically the first thing I did once my final exam was over! 5. Go to …

Everyone loves a haircut and a heart to heart

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Hey all! I went to the BEST hair salon today in my hometown. My hairdresser and I had this 30 minute heart-to-heart on how I should travel when I’m young and experience all the culture I can before I start my career, get married, or have kids. He was from Cuba and said he went to school for business because his parents forced him to. Then, when he graduated, he handed them his diploma and said, “now I’m going to do what I want to do.” He travelled all over the world, cutting and styling hair – perfecting his trade. He finally came to Canada (not knowing a word of English) and started his own business. Now he’s incredibly happy and loves what he does and the people he works with. What an inspiration. He told me about his adventures of spending an entire year in Paris, a year in Spain, and…practically every where else. He’s been everywhere in the world EXCEPT Asia, and is forcing me to go to “live it up for the both of …

Man, I love summer

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Katie and I took a road trip to Cobourg Beach today! Magazines + watermelon + country music + gossip + sunshine = PERFECTION! As per usual, a wonderful day with the best friend! 🙂 We also saw Katy Perry: Part Of Me and…um…I’ve never cried in a movie theatre before – so why did it take the KATY PERRY movie to make me bawl?! I had pretty low expectations for the movie in general, but it was surprisingly WAY more entertaining and showed a side of Katy (as cliche as this sounds) I’ve never seen before. A vulnerable side. The part when she was about to go on stage and she started to break down because she was starting to miss Russell (who she probably hasn’t seen in weeks), so her friend handed her a necklace Russell gave her and she put it on.. ok that sounds lame, but if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know how depressing that scene was. WAH, it makes me sad thinking about it. I’d be one of the first to admit – I’d see …