Literally and figuratively.

This past weekend we drove up to Blue Mountain resort, which I didn’t even know existed until this year. But it was really cool! It’s set up like a little town, with shops and roads made of rock, and of course; the mountains. The little rocky roads reminded me of Ireland so I liked it a lot, of course.

We ended up riding a roller coaster down the mountain which was really cool, and then we ended up hiking up the mountain. So that’s two mountains under my belt in a lifetime, and at this point I just need to find one more to make it 3! The trail up seemed to last forever and ever and ever, and we decided to climb it spontaneously, so we had no water and no proper hiking clothes, but we made it to the top! Then we got a free gondola ride down the mountain, and it was a bit wild to see the mountain we had just scaled. We then went into town for dinner and drove around a bit.

When we got back to the resort we ended up waiting over an hour for new room keys so we could get into the hot tub. It made me think about whether this employee was earning his salary, making customers wait over an hour for their request to be filled. He took so long that we only had the hot tub to ourselves for maybe 10 mins before a group of (you guessed it) 17-18 year-old people decided to jump in and get nice and loud. Would we have been able to have the hot tub to ourselves if that man had not taken over an hour? Yea, for sure.

Now it’s Tuesday morning and back to reality, and my figurative mountain, which is so much harder to climb than the actual mountain. This week is not as busy, other than a test Friday. Next week I have a test Tuesday, both my high school exams Tuesday, a test the Wednesday, and a test the Friday. The week after that I start working every free second I have; then midterms start and don’t end until mid-July. I feel like I’m at the bottom of a huge mountain and I have to start climbing, not like I have a choice anyway.

I’m also not sure if I’m going to keep my makeup account on Instagram for much longer, but that’s a whole other story.

Until next time!

O

It seems like such a long time since I’ve been on this blog, and so much has happened since.

On the social media front, things are going better than I could have ever imagined! I’m already at 1.6k followers (how did that happen!!) and I have Sephora Canada’s Instagram page liking all of my makeup looks and replying to my comments! I’ve had Butter London leave me a comment after using their mascara ONCE and best of all the creative director at Anastasia Beverly Hills liked my comment!!! All these things are happening that I never even thought was possible for me. Another new piece of news that I haven’t posted yet is Influenster is sending me a Voxbox! I’m going to be trying and reviewing some Kat Von D mascara, which is so exciting!

School has been fun, we are learning so much so fast. I have at least 1 written test per week so between the high school and that I have my hands full. I can’t wait to start client days but I am nervous about practicing on real actual people who are 100% judging how well I’m doing. I (so far) have been getting high 90’s on all of my tests, so as long as I keep it up I should be on track to graduate with honours. I’m hoping! I also finished the coursework so my high school business course, so once I’m done that exam I officially have 2 more courses left until I get my diploma! It’s crazy to think I’ll be getting two different diplomas in 2019 as long as I pass everything.

I did start a new job too which is why I’ve been busy and not blogging, but I am hoping to write a bit more. I love the job. It’s not too people heavy and it’s getting me some good admin skills. I think I have one more training shift before I start my regular schedule. Everyone that works there is super sweet and I’m really liking it.

The only wild thing is this guy who threw his smoking cigarette into our building then flipped me and the other receptionist off as he left. He totally had come from the weed shop across the street, so I’ll have to keep my eye out for people like that now. I sprayed so much Febreeze in the lobby I finished a bottle. Sometimes I think about how someone can think that throwing a cigarette into a building (a fire hazard too) at two girls who he’d never seen before who did NOTHING, is a good idea. People like that need to be stopped.

I’ve got a couple exciting weekends coming up, so I know I will have lots to write about in the coming weeks. Quoting Nailed It, “I’m just going to keep on keeping on.”

-O

Hey guys i’ts been a while! I know the title probably has you wondering what I’m about to write about but I wanted to fill you all in on some other stuff that’s happened first!

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Milton outlets. All was good and fun until we didn’t check the weather. I wore a light shirt and lighter coat because London was nice and sunny, and Milton? It was snowing and windy. So you can imagine I didn’t have too much fun walking outside in that weather. On the way back though we did see a car heavily on fire on the side of the road, and as we passed it I could feel the heat radiating off the car so that helped. All in all though the outlets were nice but there wasn’t any amazing sales I found that made me buy anything.

Another thing coming up is my wisdom teeth surgery, May 10 *cries*. I am happy though to be getting it over with. My surgeon seems really thorough and definitely like he knows what he’s doing so I can’t complain. He did look over my X-rays and point out that my jaw locking isn’t from the wisdom teeth, but from clenching my teeth in my sleep, and my retainer isn’t enough protection. I was really happy with my dentist for not telling me that when he took x-rays 8 months ago, or gee I don’t know when I was in his office this month? Really nice. Another thing that he pointed out from my x-ray that was even obvious to me was that I have a deviated septum. So now I know why I have all these breathing issues. And it’s not a tiny thing you can really see it in those x-rays. So I guess I should thank my dentist again for not telling me twice over because its gotten worse. Look at all these things I get to look into now!

In school this week we got to do two new things: full body massages and extractions! The body massage was very relaxing to be honest and I don’t mind doing it. Our teacher was great too and just made us laugh about the idea of touching people’s butt muscles so it was way less awkward then it could have been. After going to the gym I’m ready for another one! Extractions are also fun to perform, but to get? I wasn’t a fan. Now this is where that deviated septum comes in. The teacher was so excited to extract all the gunk from my nose that she really got into it, which was cute to see her so excited. However, she’s holding my nose back and pushing and my one nostril is smaller than the other so guess who couldn’t breathe? Me. I had water running down from my eyes and she pushed right through. I think next time I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen. On the plus side though my pores are so soft and empty and it feels great.

Last thing I want to talk about before getting to the topic from the title is our road trip to Stratford yesterday. We for sure have to go back when it isn’t cold and when things are open. Who closes stuff down at 4pm on a Saturday?? Stratford, apparently. We did drive around the city and get a snack so it was a nice way to take in the sights and I’m excited to go back. I drove home too and I think it was the first drive my mom wasn’t backseat driving the whole time or holding onto the door like she’s about to die. Which she never is. I’m also 99% sure I’m more confident at driving than she is too.

So now the thing that has been bothering me. Common sense would tell anyone that if a stranger online messages you, that’s a red flag. And common sense also tells you that you don’t know who is on the other side of the screen. So I wonder to myself why random men on the internet think it’s a cool thing to message random girls with creepy messages and expect these girls to fall in love with them after 2 minutes of messaging?? Because it’s not, and they need to stop.

Now that my account is at 867 followers, this seems to be a daily occurrence, these weird men messaging me. Most of them live halfway across the world, and over half can’t speak English or just don’t care about grammar. Before it used to not be every day and they’d be easy enough to get rid of, I’d say no and they go away. Then a few would keep sending innocent enough messages but I’d have to block them. Now it just feels like a video game, the more I get rid of the worse and creepier they become! I’ll tell you about a few different stories that just made my jaw drop.

First off, this old guy who began the conversation with “Hey beautiful girl.” So already I’m going on ready to vomit, like this guy could be my grandpa. So I always ask these people if I can help them with anything business related, because I’m not about to turn down free makeup. But generally I already know what these guys want. So after not responding this guy tries to VIDEO CHAT me. Thankfully my phone was turned over so I didn’t even see the attempt until after but I was shocked! In no way is it a good idea to video chat a total stranger. I’d never had that happen before so that was a new low. I took that guy right off my page.

Then I had one who got offended by the fact I was straight with him. He sent me a couple hello messages nothing weird yet, then the bomb, “you’re cute.” So I ask, anything I can do for you? I feel like that’s a good neutral question to figure out if they’re a creep or just using the wrong PR method. This guy says “well sorry for the inconvenience, bye.” and sends a sulking emoji that he unsent a second later. Because yea if you leave it does not bother me you were a creep to begin with.

If I thought that was bad I had way more coming. Yesterday I got a dude who I asked if I could help him business-wise after he sent me the “You’re cute” message and he said no. Case closed right? Wrong. Then he has the nerve to ask me, “Can I make a video call?” So I say no, obviously. Case closed again? Oh I wish. This guy sends a crying emoji and asks why. Well I had no problem telling him he’s a stranger. He comes back at me with the idea that this video call is for business because I need to help him learn English. When I tell him I’m not a teacher he lets me know I have no respect for him…. then sends me a picture of him, like that’s going to change anything? Because he’s ugly, first of all; and still a stranger!!! So I sent him a nice worded message about how he isn’t respecting me by trying to force me to call, and that since he isn’t here for business, he needs to stop. Can you guess what I did next? Blocked him.

This last story is my personal favourite because it was the one that made my jaw drop the hardest. A real gem. After asking this guy if there’s any business I can help him with, he actually says yes and asks how to increase followers and learn English. So after I answer those questions he says “you’re cute and sweet.” So I ignore and put my phone down. So when I pick up my phone again it’s only been about 15 mins since he first messaged, and there’s like 6 messages waiting for me. “You’re sweet,” “You’re cute,” “I love you *insert 10 emojis*,” Two video chat notifications, “I want a relationship to get to know you.” AND a pic of him he unsent two seconds later. So um who says I LOVE YOU to someone that quick?? What a CREEP! So I ignored that until I went to bed, and in my exhaustion I sent “I’m not interested” and forgot to block him. This morning dude doesn’t get the hint and when I pick up my phone there’s a message saying “why are you so sweet.” Immediate block list.

So the point here is that men need to stop. There is nothing cute about what they do. And even as I wrote this another guy was trying to start. They take the fun out of running an account because they harass, and like a video game once you get rid of one they come back more difficult to handle. And there’s so many of them! They are honestly too much and ruin my day. I bet my blocked list is going to get wildly long by the end of the week.

Anyway, until next time!

O

I know it’s only been a few days since I’ve posted on this blog, but it’s been an interesting weekend.

It all started Saturday morning when I was trying to locate my Morphe palette that I didn’t think was delivered. After a few emails I realized- my parents never check our mailbox, so it’s possible it was in the mailbox and not delivered to our porch. In an excited rush I ran with the mail key to find it….in my PJs. I’ll tell you I’ve never walked so fast in my life. The ice was still frozen on the road and I waddled so fast, checking every yard to make sure no one could see me waddling along avoiding an icy fall in my blue PJ pants and over sized gray sweater. Thankfully, no one saw me and my package was there so it wasn’t a waste of time. And it’s so pretty so totally worth my time. I also totally thought I’m part of a suburb now running to the mailbox in PJs at 9am on a Saturday. Good times.

Saturday afternoon though I found the cutest Tommy Hilfiger shirt at Marshalls with my mom, so that brightened up my day. I used up the last of my $100+ gift card but my aunt was nice enough to have given me another one so I still can get another one if i want!

Saturday night I almost fell asleep during the Maple Leafs game because some people kept saying the time was really an hour ahead because of the time change, so at 11pm my brain now decided it was really 12am. Good times.

Sunday I actually felt better than I have since a hard decision was made. And while I’ll never forgive some people for lies they said about me, and the doubts they fed, I feel a lot better. I laughed so hard at lunch I thought I was going to throw up my strawberries. Which after feeling sad for a long time is a surprisingly good feeling.

Sunday afternoon we ventured out to Sarnia to go to the mall, because we are extra and needed a change of scenery. I ended up finding a Kylie lip kit and those white boards I love for my room, so even though the mall was small and a bit shady, it was a nice time. Mom cracked me up big time after she suggested a pair of “jean shoes” for my dad. I don’t know when she thinks jean shoes are EVER going to be in style. Ava is on a ton of sleepovers this week so I know she will get a kick out of that when I tell her.

Parent of the year award also goes to my dad on Sunday, because he took us across the border to the States just so we could have dinner at Olive Garden. I had some pretty good lasagna (can’t rival bisnonna’s!) and those breadsticks are to die for. I also got to pick up some white chocolate Reese Cups so that was cool too.

That ends my post for today, until next time!

O

Retail therapy is definitely a thing.

These last few days have been a wild wild roller coaster. And honestly there’s a lot of new routines that are going to take a ton of adjusting to. But I’ve got lots to keep me busy, school 4 days a week, 2 new high school courses and an exam. I’ve got upcoming trips to look forward to as well! Where is Blue Mountain anyway… no one seems to know.

The biggest mood lift, sadly, has been all the new stuff. I mean, who doesn’t love packages arriving at the door?? There is NO better feeling than seeing that box on your porch. Even though you know exactly what is in that box, the feeling of ripping it open and getting excited after waiting days or weeks is like no other. Don’t fight me on that.

This week I have 3 new packages! The first one to come in was my ABH Riviera palette and that’s the one I was most excited over. The packaging was SO pretty, and I used it today and LOVED it. I’ve also hated the way iPhone cameras make me look so not symmetrical and ugly so I only ever use the Instagram camera to take selfies for posts. Today though for fun I decided to test out the iPhone X camera, and WOW. I highly recommend the portrait mode, it works wonders! I was shocked over the quality from my phone, who would have thought?! 10/10 anyway for that palette.

The next thing was my new phone case and I love that too! I had a rough day at school so coming home to that was so nice. My phone looks so professional now and also somehow bigger?? But better. The case is my new favorite thing.

The only stress is the most recent eye shadow palette I ordered said it was delivered but it was NOT. And my email to customer service didn’t send…. so that’s nice. I hate wasting money and have been scammed too many times, so here’s to hoping that it comes. Morphe seems like a decent brand so we will see.

The thing I did for myself today was deleting my other Instagram page. I made a new one but I needed the fresh start, 350 followers was great number wise, but when I got thinking, there was so much stuff on there I don’t care about or need to see. So this new one I’m going to build slowly, and have only a VERY select amount of people on there. And Ava the Instagram spy will be all over it for sure.

That’s the haps people.

-O

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton