#POST 29

Yet Another Blog Facelift

Expect this year I have a plan. I've actually written a list on this amazing app on my phone.

I need to show you this app. It’s called Colour Note and it saves my life on a daily biases. I found it in the Google App Store but I’m not sure if its available for iPhone users.

Here are a few screen shots I captured:

This is what it looks like when you open the app

I use this just for notes, but you can use it as a calender. Also, it archives for you and it can be synced with your computer! 

The Note section gives you the chance to make a 'Text' or a 'Checklist' and you also have the  option of locking your notes!

This is what I wrote on my list. W can hopefully expect to see these in the new year! Also, when you've completed the item, when you click on it, it crosses its self out! I just forgot to cross something off so you can see it.

It can also be organised in a few different ways. Because it can be colour coded, and  locked the possiblites are endless!

It’s pretty straight forward and all kinds of awesome and hopefully will help me get my but into gear, blog wise. 

#POST 28

Pull The Plug Presents! 

So I listen to a radio show every week, yes a radio show. Not a podcast, or a live U-Stream, just plain Jane old school radio. It plays all acoustic music from 10 PM – 1 AM. I actually look forward to it every week and try my hardest to never miss a show. The best part is the lame talking that usually makes me want to kick kittens when the music isn’t playing is actually hilarious. There are no advertisements that make me want to avoid their products and no annoying promos. Just hilarious stories, intro-jingles and sometimes if we’re lucky; live music. Last Saturday, they had a live show and it was amazing. Live acoustic music is just—amazing. I can’t even describe it. It’s so true to the soul, whether they’re singing from the heart or singing for the fun of it. It’s such a welcoming environment I love it!

Here are the very few pictures I took of the night:

                                                

Shannon Bryan [@xoradioxo] and Mike Hawkins ‏ [highwayman3] and Myself

Melissa Reyes [@munchiixo]  and  the wonderfully talented Jaclyn Vanhappen [@jaclynvanhappen] and Myself

Jaclyn Vanhappen [@jaclynvanhappen] 

Paul Federici [@pfedmusic] and Melissa Reyes [@munchiixo]  

Little City

Justin G [@jurego], Justin Briner [@jbrines3], Myself and Melissa Reyes [@munchiixo]

Justin Briner [@jbrines3], Myself, Justin G [@jurego], Melissa Reyes [@munchiixo], Shannon Bryan [@xoradioxo] and Mike Hawkins ‏ [highwayman3]

Paul Federici [@pfedmusic] and I 

Crazy Fans with Little City

Sorry for the topsy-turbi-ness off the locations of the photos....

#POST 27

I thought I would share my favourites from Tumblr. These are the ones that I have saved from the website and  are now slide showing accross my laptop.I have no idea where they actually came from...

#POST 26

FASHION | THE PLAID AND THE FALL

Can I just take a minute to say, 'Why HELLO plaid, you just seem to fit in with everyone!' 
Well I think that a great jacket, jeans and the versatile plaid shirt can be a great asset in any situation. And plaid in the fall? Ugh, there isn't enough words in this world to describe how much I love this combination.

This is Mike, in a plaid shirt, a gorgeous fall jacket and some ripped jeans.

If you don't think that fall is not one of the most beautiful seasons, you need to leave my blog right now. Fall is so beautiful and has such a warm welcoming feeling to the season. Also, fall fashion was always my favourite.

If you noticed, yes this is legit--Mike here is wearing bedroom slippers. 

It’s an interesting trend I've been noticing at the college. Pretty much everyone wears their slippers as if they were actual shoes. I was very ‘um…what the hell?’ at first, but after you get used to the idea its not actually all that weird. I mean if you live in residence, would you really need shoes? Some kids show up to class in their pyjamas, and we’ve come to accept that; to be honest I rather someone show up to my class in bedroom slippers verses their pj’s.

Anyways, back to this picture. This was taken right outside of the college doors. It was a wonderful day to take pictures so I thought I would take advantage of it.


 I don’t know if you can see it, but Mike here is also wearing a ‘I Love Boobies’ rubber band bracelet.

The bracelet is part of the ‘Keep a Brest’ campaign by LoserKids clothing.
The bracelet is part of the ‘Keep a Brest’ campaign by LoserKids clothing. The bracelets really go with everything and anything, I even have one. They come in a ton of different colours and are great for everyday wear. It’s very gender friendly and for a good cause, why not? If you want to buy one of these baby's go HERE! You can also get them at your local mall at most Boat House clothing stores if you live here in the wonderful province of Ontario.

Now I don't remember if I had talked about it here, but we did this little shoot on the Fanshawe campus. There is a lot of open space and trees at Fanshawe. It was a lovely surprise to discover these landscapes for future photo seshes. I mean, he looks like he's in the country out in the middle of nowhere! Fanshawe for the win! 

Follow Mike on twitter! @michaelkalpakis 

#POST 25

She blogs, I blog.

I just skimmed through the various posts of my dear friend Melissa. Can I just take a second to comment on how awesome this girl is? She’s made this health plan to work out and loose a few stray pounds; but her goal isn’t to lose weight, it’s to feel good about herself and be a better healthy version of herself. The world needs more Melissa’s—seriously. Now of course, I haven’t skinned her blog in forever so I went back a few posts and she did a lot of venting.

 It makes me want to vent via blog. And so this is a bitch post—buckle up!

So let me start off with the usual drag story of boys. Boys are yucky. Boys are gross. They make me want to wash my hands at every sink I happen to come across. Tell me, why am I attracted to these….creatures? Ugh.  So every time I come home from London, I’ve been hanging out with a friend of my Ex’s.  Before the question pops into your mind; no my ex isn’t aware that we’re hanging out together, nor do I care if he’s aware or not.  To be completely honest (here I go admitting secrets to the internet) it was my friendship with this guy that had a strong factor in my breaking up with my ex. He’s good looking. Like way above average in my books for Cambridge kids. And he listens to what I’ve got to say AND responds. Strange? You bet. And every time I come down I find myself wondering if he’s free and wants to hang out (we live literally three seconds away from each other). I always have such a great time with him, and we’re always laughing and having an actual-not forced conversation. I never have natural flowing conversations with boys that I have nothing in common with. He teaches taekwondo and is literally the polar opposite of me. It’s weird. I kind of do have a thing for him (I defiantly just cringed in my chair a little bit there) but I would never in a million years try that theory out. We live in two different cities, and I have difficulty maintaining relationships with my friends let alone a..ugh…significant friend. It would just be all sorts of awful. Now usually, that’s the end of that. But, its not. At Fanshawe, there is a kid who my roommates want me to date. It’s a guy from their program; he’s a few years older than me and very cute. But, we have nothing in common, and trying to have a flowing conversation without joking around every few seconds is like pulling teeth. He’s always physically hurt, which is weird. He’s currently going through his second or third process of implanting false teeth. And he’s had an obscene amount of stitches. There’s just always something physically wrong with the kid. Um, can you calm down and not get so drunk that you need to be hospitalized for a minute? I could work with that, I really could. The thought of having a significant man-friend is so appealing which is really the only reason why I’m sticking around to see if it goes anywhere. It’s awful, I know but I do think about him from time to time. Ugh, I wish I could just not care about any of this kind of stuff just like the beginning of school, where being single or taken was not even a thought that would cross my mind. Well that’s my little run-on-sentence on boys.

Now, my grades. I suck at school, I really do. I can’t study and I really am not concerned with missing an assignment. But I should be, because these assignments are worth so much! Ah I was I was normal, and you know, gave a fuck about what I was doing. Take now for instance. I should be studying for the two midterms I have coming up. Instead I’m blogging about how I’m going to fail because I’m not studying. I really should be more concerned but I can really think about right now is the fact that I’m tired and kind of hungry. Really hungry actually. God I want food, food fixes everything.

Tacos would be great.

#POST 24

I haven’t blogged in a while. I guess I should start up again! So I’ve spent about a month in college now and trust me, when they say college changes you, they meant it. I feel…more like a slut really! Not in the way I dress, but in the way I’ve been acting. Ah well, if there ever was an appropriate time to slut up it would be now. I’m pretty sure I’d just got a high five from my favourite How I Met Your Mother character Barney for that comment.
 Although, since starting college I’ve seen an obscene amount of boys peeing, none of them unknown (unfortunately) to me and trust me I wasn’t trying to take a look! Fanshawe is pretty awesome, mainly because of this amazing find though:

Yeah, that shit is real Potter Heads, the Deathly Hallows will follow you erry’ where! The inner nerd in me completely flipped out upon this discovery in one of the cafes in the school. Let me tell you I was so stoked and my poor friend Dave was just so confused. Oh well, I know some people who would find that incredible, like Biltmony Maxamillion. (She did find it amazing for the record.)

My program is amazing! It’s so close knit. We went camping for a full week up in Musokoa in the first few weeks of September. It was amazing! Now let me tell you, being brown town, I don’t get out of the house a lot. I absolutely loved this kind of ‘camping’. I would have been so stoked to go to a place like Pinecrest, or similar to it. I made some really great friendships there that I won’t probably ever forget. Our group made these ‘burn bracelets’. The group leaders (2 years in my program) bought a giant rope, cut them long enough to wrap around our wrists and then fused them together with a lighter. Yes, you’re thought process is correct; they were lit on fire, while on our wrists, after they cooled off though they looked really cool.

The point is that they wouldn’t come off and that us as a group would always be connected by these bracelets. Of course being the small thing I am, I slipped mine off to shower and what not.

 It really changed some people too. The last night, there was this talent show and the shyest kid in the whole program came up along with Nate, (a kid in my class who is unaware of how socially awkward he is, but we all love him anyways) and they rapped up a storm in front of our entire camping family! It was incredible! The rap was god awful but the fact that he came up to do it, and the reinforcement from Nate was just heart-warming. When they were done, we cheered like the Beatles were on stage for him. He came back on stage a few seconds after and said, ‘We should all just have one big hug.’ Something you gotta know about Rec and Leisure kids, when you say group hug, we mean group hug. All 150ish of us ran up to hug this kid. It was so inspiring and amazing just to witness and be a part of that!

So far, I’m loving the college life! Maybe I’ll do a fashion post or a food post next time! I’m stoked regardless.

POST #23

FASHION|THE VERSATILE DRESS

My first outfit post! So I have no idea how to articulate this type of post, but here I go trying...

So this is Beth.

I had Beth stand around my condo area; in about next to nothing as I took pictures of her with my crappy blue camera. Said camera is now missing, by the way. Anyways, I had her in one outfit the entire ‘shoot’. She was wearing a dress that could be worn to literally anything be it fancy, or just to hang around in. So this post is basically about how you can take one piece of clothing and recycle it for a few occasions.

For a fancy outing with this dress, I paired it with a thin grey belt, a few random black and sliver bracelets and a cute little pendant necklace, oh and killer heels. The heels are silver, but are reflective with the light.

This was the only picture I could get with the full outfit...

I personally think that the thin belt makes it a wee bit classier. The belt was bought at a hardcore catholic thrift store for 50 cents. You could pair this classy version of the versatile grey dress with any colour of bando/thank top. I personally liked the blue on Beth so we went with that for the 'shoot' but I would go for a more neutral colour for fancy events.

                                   

So as I said, the shoes were quite reflective, so when I tried to take a decent picture of them they looked green due to the grass. They are actually silver. I these shoes would would work great with a pair of dark skinny jeans or with cute short bold coloured summer dresses.

Another great accessory is a great leather jacket. This jacket looks great as a fancy jacket as well as a stylish everyday wear. Which brings us to the mix up, the everyday look version of thus dress.

Everything looks sexier with a leather jacket!

From Fancy to Chillin, just like that!

So for the hanging out version of this dress, I traded the heels for some ankle boots and the thin belt for a thick one. You could also work this with some leggings and flats. The combinations are really endless with this dress really.

So the accessories for this more casual look are these fabulous ankle boots:

And a thick belt:

 I feel that the thicker belt just seems more relaxed, less constriction and a lot more fun than a thin one. You could even play up the colours and styles of the belt. Depending on how you're wearing the dress, a belt can make a huge difference. For example, a shine-tasic belt while going clubbing would look way better than a nuetral coloured one would look. Belts are often the key to transforming outfits from Plain Jane to Dannng! 

So the last thing I would like to say about this photoshoot with Beth, is her makeup.

All I really did, was made giant <>'s to the corners and creases of her eyes with a black eye shadow blending with a brown towards her nose, then filled in the insides with a fun reddish copper colour to make her eyes pop a bit. A bit of eyeliner on the lid of her eye and mascara later, she looked ready to rock and roll!

Anywho, I would like to take this second to thank Beth for putting up with this silliness. She does make a far better model than I do though!

Doesn't she?