New Beginnings

So far, I have high hopes for 2013. I've already started making changes, have you?

My Next City Affair

 I am now in possession of a one way ticket to Toronto and limited artistic skills

I’ve gotten pretty good at leaving. At packing up a season’s worth of clothes, saying goodbye to a season’s worth of friends – which is always the part I dread – and heading to the subsequent destination. Next week will be my seventh move in the past year and a half including three countries in Asia, and three cities in British Columbia. It’s a life full of new beginnings and a lot of opportunities to either get lost or find myself, whichever I prefer. 

Now that my arrival plans are finalized for my Toronto trip, excitement is finally beginning to work its way into my mind. Being at home for the past month has been relaxing and comforting and just a bit distressing; I’ve caught up with family and old friends, picked up forgotten habits, and had time to hear myself think. Nonetheless, I’ve been going stir crazy half the time. My motivation dissipates when I don’t have something to keep me going. The thought of my new downtown apartment in Toronto and a new job working with Elite Model Management makes me feel like I’m back on track. 

Despite my ticket being a one way purchase, I plan on returning to BC in three or four months after my affair with the east. I did promised my parents I would not fall in love in love in Toronto and stay there but I make no promises, my heart is not in the habit of listening to me and I may just fall in love – either with a man or more likely, with the city itself. Although, it will have to be pretty outstanding to replace Vancouver or even Tokyo in my heart. 

A Typical New Year Post

Because every new year needs new goals and new words

The more I read, the stronger desire I have to write. I’m not talking about reading endless Facebook statuses or flimsy Cosmo articles or even mandated textbooks, but instead I’m talking about the consumption of thoughtful musings and witty prose. So as tempting as it is to tiredly curl up in my faux fur blanket and watch endless reruns of Friends or One Tree Hill, they do nothing to inspire me. They instead cause me to yearn for a New York apartment or a sappy unrealistic relationship where everyone is capable of saying exactly what they need to. I will alternatively take to books and blogs where I can get my literature fix with a smattering of photos and a taste of fashion mixed with clever words. And since this is the start of a new year (hello 2013) I suppose this is a resolution of sorts.

I resolve to read more and watch less and to create rather than vegetate. 

This blog stands only to benefit from this new regime and if it falls back into neglect, well someone please nudge me because I tend to get lazy. Cue awkwardness of my previous post being from last spring.

Currently Reading,

Back articles on Man Repeller, a daily dose of Tyler Knott Gregson, musings of A Bit Coquettish, and A Time In Between by María Dueñas