ah. [rolling eyes whilst realizing a rant on why one has not blogged is now irrelevant and over played]

so on that note, I have to share an email I received mentioning all of the amazing sample sales going on here in Toronto over the next couple of weeks. * [Click on the image for more details]

I was lucky enough to make it up to the RUDSAK sample sale on Thursday and walked away with a coat I admired when I was [slightly] more broke. My dear friend Lisa saw the coat before I did, tried it on, and to her dismay I yanked it off of the rack and tried it on as well. While she stood there frowning at the results thinking she could not pull of the look – I happily marched over to the full length mirror to check myself out. I begged and pleaded with her to spin around in the coat that looked amazing on her, but she insisted she could not pull it off. LISA!! Now you will just have to borrow mine.

I had a very busy weekend filled with road trips, movies, friends, wine, laughter and delicious foods. I must admit that I am always exhausted after my weekends, but I have the best of times with the people I spend them with. Speaking of these people, Christmas is just around the freaking corner and I have sworn to myself to not step foot into a mall [you'd think shopping in a mall would be difficult for a recovering shopaholic], but not to fret – because my lifestyle is [er ... was] lush, the companies in which I spend all my hard earned money in now are 100% online!!

I am willing to spend the shipping costs knowing I did buy the right items for the right people, this also prevents me from picking out things for myself – [ wait - no, it doesn't actually, I collect 10 items in my "shopping cart" and through process of elimination and guilt - remove these items ]  THE POINT IS … I am learning.

Slowly.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!! [well ... at this rate I need to say it now]

As with every other excuse comes a story … so how about this one.
If you know me, [outside of twitter] you know that I am consistently getting myself into trouble.  Not trouble with the law, [although I suppose it has happened] but more life lessons-kinda-trouble. These lessons have included many many things, one of which also doubled as a harsh reality check.

This reality check-of-a-lesson was a car accident I managed to mangle into to. Thank GOODNESS nobody was hurt [just my ego & my car ..]. In saying that … my ego and my car both currently hate me, one has gone to the dump [not my ego] and the other is on hiatus … probably laying on a beach in Maui, fucker.

Because of this accident it has put a ton of things into perspective for me, like “why the eff am I living in a city I no longer love?” or “why am I paying to live somewhere when I could move and save” or “is this really where I want to be in life” … [you know] those types of perspectives.

With these questions came answers, answers that [like most of the time] I drive head first into. [*please note: being impulsive, to me, is a good thing. I am not one to sit wishing, and hoping for shit to happen, I do everything, and I mean everything humanly possible to get the shit I want done, and done right]. So when I say I made the decision to buy a new car and on a whim I mean I did buy a new car on whim, then signed a contract, only to realize it wasn’t the best idea for the dollar, so I called the dealership, plead insanity and got out of the deal. [Only to head on over to another dealership that offered me a better car, for a better price, for a better everything!!].

Among the crazy that is my life I have noticed a trend in my evenings, fashion, fashion, and more fashion. You’d think I’d be dead … but no, I am very much living a high. The Women’s Post fashion event for Women of Baycrest was last Thursday, and my dear friends were truly amazing and inspiring at the job they did organizing this fantastic venture. I can honestly say they took my breath away.

I wore a 1960′s GO-GO dancer razor back hand sewn silver sequin dress, it fit like a glove, and everyone wanted to put there paws on it. I looked fabulous, and felt great, which was a huge plus because not only was the venture amazing, but the attendee’s were amazing as well, and I was lucky enough to be introduced to the majority, such a pleasure!!

Besides being downtown, my weekends are still spent up north, the horrible rainy weekends have deterred me from shedding my layers in a field for a few photo’s so I apologize, this weekend, however, will be full. So keep checking back!!

P.S the “KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT” is to encourage me to fight through this cold I seem to of JUST come down with, instead of crawling into a hole and dying …

WHAT I WORE
JACKET: Danier Sweetheart
SHIRT: Rachel Roy
JEANS: Lucky
BOOTS: UGGS [I didn't know I'd be taking photo's this day ...]
SCARF: Love Quotes