jobs and grown up life

how's it going everyone?

as some of you may know i've been rather unsuccessfully searching for a job. i thought i wouldn't have any problems finding one seeing as all the university students have left for school and high school students are at school during the days. but it seems i was wrong with that assumption. WHERE HAVE ALL THE JOBS GONE!?

i'm still on the search but in the mean time i'm literally doing nothing productive during the days. my parents are cool with it and say it's actually a great opportunity for me to sit and think about what i actually want to do for the rest of my life since most people my age don't have that opportunity. my sister for example didn't go to university but got a job at my mom's work as a general admin. right out of high school. she's worked her way up to office manager which is amazing but she is really unhappy at her job! it pays her bills but she wishes she had gone to university or college so that she would have had more opportunities to try something different. she also moved out at 16 and has had two homes, mortgages, and other such bills to pay for which i never really experienced. when i left for school i was 18 and i came home to visit rather often and my school bills were basically payed for through a scholarship and my granddad's help (thanks granddad!). my sister had help from my granddad for her houses as well since that wouldn't be fair if i got money for school and she didn't. but it was still a struggle for her to stay afloat. it is just funny to see how our different choices have put us in such different places right now. the funnier thing is, we're both jealous of each other right now! i wish i had a job to make some moolah and she wishes she wasn't working so she could test the waters with different job options. although my parents are cool with this, i think my grandparents are panicking a bit haha they're concerned for what my future is going to look like (40 year old me living in my mom's basement is probably what's floating around their heads). so, that, my sister should be thankful she doesn't  have to deal with.

a couple days ago i actually had a great entrepreneurial idea. it's a secret for now though muahaha;) anyways i've been like a mad scientist in my kitchen experimenting with different things. if it turns out, which hopefully it does, then i'll share it with you guys. i hope to sell it when it's perfected:)

stay cheeky!

past travels part 3!

i'm back everyone!

although i have called this post "past travel part 3," the trips that i would be talking about in this post, i have already talked about with you guys (exuma and las vegas) as well as Spain but i thought i'd spare you from the boredom. so i thought that i would use this post to tell you guys why i'm boring you all with these stories of the trips i've taken in the past.

my intention with these posts was not to brag or tell you about all the things you are missing out on, but instead i was hoping to encourage you to travel. you will never find anything more exillerating and satisfying than trying new things in new places, seeing new faces and living a different way of life - even for just a little bit!

the world you live in is so much more amazing than you can even imagine, why not explore it? i just got home from arizona last night, after staying in las vegas for a week prior to that and during the drive home from the airport i looked around at the city i have been living in for my whole life and i realized just how, well, boring it is! of course there is no place like home, but i've come to realize that there are so many interesting places surrounding me that need to be explored!

my family and i stayed in sedona, arizona for the past week and i can honestly say that i have never visited such a beautiful place before in my life. everywhere you look there are these amazing burnt red mountains encircling you. whilst in arizona, we visited a place near our rental home called the devil's bridge. i thought this was just an interesting name for a trail, but i later found out why it was named so. this "hike" was  much longer than we had anticipated and you could say we were a tad ill-prepared. with no water, no sunscreen and blistering heat, i'm pretty sure we all thought we were going to pass out and fry up under the sun. but after about 2 hours of walking (yes 2 hours!) we reached the end of the hike and made it to the devil's bridge, which a number of fellow hikers who passed us by had told us we "had to see!" i then realized why this trail was named devil's bridge.

when we got there i was totally blown away, all that walking and thinking that i was about to die was completely off my mind and worth it after seeing the view. i turned around to my mom and said 'isn't it amazing that we could've gone on living our lives at home, never have come on this trip and had no idea that this place was even here?" it was breath-taking.

all in all, you'll never know what's out there if you don't go out and look for it! travelling is truly eye opening.

hope everyone had a wonderful last two weeks and is ready for the month of september!

stay cheeky :)

Tuesday Blues

I'm writing much earlier than I usually would today, I woke up feeling a little distraught. Actually this whole week I've been feeling a bit out of sorts. I keep having those dreaded late night "I can't sleep so I am going to examine every aspect of my life" thoughts and frankly I'm driving myself a little insane. I keep thinking about where my life is headed, if I like where it's headed, what I'm doing with myself right now, what job I'm going to have, what job I should be looking for...blah blah blah. Honestly, I feel quite lost. Also, (here comes my crazy cat lady talk) my cat Homer has been really sick the past two days, I have suspicions that someone in my neighbourhood isn't too fond of cats and might be leaving something out for him that might have made him sick. But, I am hoping those suspicions aren't true! Anyways, I'm keeping an eye on him and hoping he gets better sooner rather than later. I digress, back to my depressive talk, I know that I am not the only one who has these lost, out of sorts, rampant thoughts and that it's really just a normal part of life. We're all trying to figure out the meaning of life and our purpose in this life even if we don't want to admit it! So, I thought I would share some music with you guys in case you're feeling the same way as me lately. Music is always my go to thing to calm myself down and bring me back to reality. It's universal everyone gets music, right?

Mree will forever be my favourite singer she isn't very well known as far as I know but she's f****** amazing. This song in particular can calm me down and bring me back to reality even when I'm in my most distraught state. Do your ears a favour and LISTEN.

Dallas Green is absolutely amazing as well, and from St. Catharine's Ontario, which is where I went to University and close to my hometown. He is so genuine and you can hear this in all his music. His voice is angelic. What makes a man is one of my favourite songs of his. 

Daughter has a lot of awesome songs, Medicine, Candles and Youth are my favourites. They have such a subtle yet powerfulness to them. I always listened to her when I was pulling all nighters trying to finish 5,000 word essays while away at school, glad those are over with and glad I had Daughter to help me through!

And last but not least, Bon Iver! I can't show you some of my favourite songs without mentioning Bon Iver. Every song Bon Iver has ever done is the s***. Actually just Bon Iver himself is the s***. His songs bring me to an instant state of calm. Some of my favourites of his are Holocene, Stacks, Towers, and Love More. Love More is actually my favourite favourite which is why I chose the link for that song but also I noticed a lot of people have not heard Love More by him, it seems to have slipped through the cracks a bit which saddens me because it's so amazing! So, if you haven't already heard it, take a listen. 

Have an awesome rest of the week everyone, stay cheerful and stay cheeky!

xo