Sharpen Your Knife

Back at it again, this poor old blog hasn't kicked it yet. 

I just wanted to come on here and do some feelings venting, and such. You know how it is.

So maybe I've been seeing someone? A boy?!
Ok, we hung out twice. But you can't blame a girl for wishin' and hopin', can you? So yeah, there's that. Big changes in this little dreamer's life.

However, I'm happy to report that the rest of my drama has calmed down significantly. Thank goodness. Family business has settled a little, work has both decreased and increased at the same time; not sure how that happened. Love life stuff has kind of shifted. 

I guess that's it for now, I've lost my train of thought. Or ramble, I guess you could say. So now I'll just leave you with my music selections as of late, which will tell you more about me than I ever could.

MUSIC PICKS FOR RECENT WEEKS: (Favorites)
Fall Out Boy - new album American Beauty, American Psycho
"Irresistible", "Favorite Record", "Centuries", "Jet Pack Blues", "The Kids Aren't Alright", "Immortals"

Imagine Dragons - new album Smoke +  Mirrors
"Smoke + Mirrors", "Gold", "Polaroid", "Shots", "Hopeless Opus", "I'm So Sorry", "Dream"

Hozier - "Take Me To Church"

Walk The Moon - "Shut Up And Dance"

The Weeknd - "Earned It"

Sheppard - "Geronimo"

Ok Go - "I Won't Let You Down"

Ellie Goulding - "Love Me Like You Do"

I Did A Thing

I bought a  new computer. Yep. It will be on it's way to me 2 days before my 23rd birthday. The one I'm currently using has lasted me just over 4 years but you know it's bad when you avoid shutting down your laptop because you don't think it'll turn on again if you do. 

I thought that buying this new computer - while necessary - might give me a little of that retail therapy high I'm used to, but I guess I'm too depressed for that. Things have been getting worse. 

A few conversations have thrown words around I can't ignore.

The only question is - can I be brave?

These Are The Days

Busy, busy, busy.

I am here with a new iTunes card, and therefore new music, and freshly applied holiday-red nails with festive snowflakes added to them. They're pretty cute.

Today's earworm:

"Yellow Flicker Beat" - Lorde for the Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1

It's becoming increasingly apparent that I need a new phone sooner rather than later. We'll see what deal Rogers can drum up for me. My poor little iPhone's battery barely lasts 12 hours now. I need to charge it every night. It's beyond inconvenient, and it begins to worry me that it'll die before I can upgrade. 

 

World Is Changing

First of all, if you haven't seen this yet please go listen to it now:

Nick Pitera never ceases to amaze me.

On to less important ramblings.

I lay on the couch tonight with animal surrounding me, the Christmas tree alight in the corner, sipping vanilla Smirnoff on ice. Yes, vanilla flavored, because I am a lady 20-something who likes her alcohol to taste like something else.

If I'm being honest with you, internet, this last month or so has been an odd and particularly hard one for me. 

I continue to fall into a haze on more than one occasion. Someone will ask me a question and I'll retort with a bite more severe than my simple intention. I will be offered comfort, love, and understanding, and I turn my back. I am given an opportunity to voice my opinion, and I say the first thing on my mind which is often not what I wanted my first words to be. I lose time. I lose sleep. I lose memory and I lose thoughts.

I spent the early part of the month reeling from what was a combination of sudden knowledge of something that happened in my personal life, as well as something very pivotal that happened at work, as well as the death of someone who has been very close with our family of five growing up (not to say that he is not also important to the rest of our family, being one of my dad's younger siblings). So while this month began with loss, emotion, pain, and ultimately, pushing through, the feeling of hazy manic depression has crept back. And this time it's here with a vengeance. 

Some days I have no appetite. I will go the entire day consuming nothing but coffee and water. Other days, I have 3 meals, constant snacks in between and still I am constantly hungry. Other days still, foods that normally would not upset my stomach suddenly do now. 

Lately I've been having what I call vegan cinnamon almond oatmeal. I recently found some certified wheat-free oats and I pour some into a bowl, the amount depends on the bowl and how hungry I feel. I've never been a good measure with pouring things into bowls. But I digress. I add some brown sugar, a healthy dose of cinnamon, some ground ginger, then hot water. I mix that up and add lots of almond milk - I have always liked my oatmeal milky - and some raw almonds on top. It's sweet, it's a little spicy (not spicy hot, but spicy with the cinnamon and ginger), it's hot and it's comforting. 

 I've also been obsessed with hot chocolate - yeah, okay, it's not vegan and it's probably more processed sugar than one should consume. But I don't know what it is, I just can't stop having it on a daily basis. I could live off hot chocolate.

*shudder* Vodka has a good kick sometimes. Ice and vanilla kill it a little but not completely. Where were we?

Ah, yes, the latest obsession with chocolate. I swear, our clients are so good to us they're killing us slowly. Why doesn't anyone ever bring a veggie plate as a Christmas gift, huh? Thankfully because of the whole gluten thing I've managed to avoid most of it, but it hasn't stopped me getting into the Lindor truffles, among other things. But those Lindor truffles are my weakness. They are seriously so amazing.

I am almost completely done with my shopping now. As much fun as it is shopping for other people (and I really mean that), it'll be nice to finally call it done and start wrapping. I'm going to pick up the last few things tomorrow - a few chocolate gifts for friends of the family, my landlord, neighbour, and nail tech. 

Does anyone else listen to music just to feel better?

My go-to "I'm sad and want to dive deeper" songs:

"High Hopes" - Kodaline (really anything Kodaline, but this one always gets me)

"Say Something" - cover by Victoria Justice and Max Schneider

"Hallelujah" - Rufus Wainwright

"Someone Like You" - Adele

"What The Water Gave Me" - Florence + The Machine

"Just A Dream" - cover by Sam Tsui and Christina Grimmie

"Ma Memoire Sale" - from Chansons d'Amour, sung by Louis Garrel

"Walking Backwards" - Sam Tsui

"Belief" - Gavin Degraw (stripped version)

"A Thousand Years"/"Jar of Hearts" - Christina Perri

"Give Me Love" - cover by Max Schneider

And on a completely different note, random songs I'm loving right now:

"Try" - cover by Max Schneider

"Love Me Harder" - Ariana Grande and the Weeknd

"Blame" ft John Newman - Calvin Harris

"Thinking Out Loud" - Ed Sheeren

"Ghost" - Ella Henderson

"Centuries" - Fall Out Boy

"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" - Rufus Wainwright

"Magic" - Coldplay

"Sweater Weather" - The Neighbourhood

"Monsoons" - The Puscifer

"Chandelier" - Sia

"Troubles" - U2

"Often" - The Weeknd

"Blank Space" - Taylor Swift

"Angel in Blue Jeans" - Train

"Kill and Run" - Sia for the Great Gatsby

"Grey Area" - Sam Tsui

"Little Lion Man"/"I Will Wait" - Mumford and Sons

"The A Team" - Ed Sheeren

Alright guys, I think that's enough for one night. I'm going to finish my drink, wash my face and try to sleep. I wish you all the best for the end of the year if I don't post on here before then. Merry Christmas and I hope your 2015 treats you well.

xx

Cleanse Day 4/5: Making Adjustments

Good afternoon, internet people!

So on Day 4, I was reminded that I have a birthday dinner to go to this weekend, and while I know how to work the menu and have something as clean and veggie based as possible, the timing falls on the last cleanse day. Also, weirdly enough, I was way too hungry yesterday. So what i decided to do instead was a 4.5 day cleanse, so I could do this birthday dinner (not my birthday, btw). 

So yesterday I actually had 8 juices rather than 6, which worked out because it ended up being a bit of a longer day. This way, too, I wasn't getting hungry later in the night and end up eating something because I ran out of juice. I spaced it as normal, and drank more water of course to compensate. 

Today (day 5), I have 4 juices to space over the morning and afternoon. So that's my plan of attack for today, it seems to be working so far. This may be considered cheating, but it's the only way I could do all the things I intended to in the first place. 

I'm proud of myself for making it this far. Tomorrow I'll be posting my overview and thoughts about the cleanse in general, anything else I experienced, and if I would do it again!

Thanks for reading! xx