Dream Girl

Dream Girl

February 17, 2019

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Did you know that in a typical lifetime you spend an average of six years dreaming? Research has actually shown that most people have several dreams every night, we just rarely remember all of the details from each dream. I definitely remember dreams often, and dream more than people I talk to about dreams. Keeping a dream journal makes me happy as my brain is trying to figure something out while I slumber, and vividly imaginative dreams are my bread and butter, a true delight to try to decipher. 

Something that I find interesting, is that I have no solid evidence in my brain that makes me confident to say I dream in colour. I know with the description of what I am thinking while dreaming is overly colourful and bright, but the visions I remember are muted. 

Sometimes I even dream up outfits to wear, or really retro styles that I then interpret and try in my day to day styles. I strongly believe that I mute myself down on a daily basis because of where I live (not adventurous with style or colour), but my mind at night is flooded with colourful ideas that inspire and delight my soul.

Will you be my Valentine?

Will you be my Valentine?

February 14, 2019

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I have never been overly infatuated with Valentine's Day. I show my love to others all year round! To be honest, if I wore a mood ring daily, it would always show that I was in love. A highlight of Valentine's Day was when my schoolgirl crush snuck a Valentine in my decorated paperbag at my desk, and it said he thought I was cute. His name was Alex, and I kept that Valentine (I actually still have it in my hope chest!) and taped in on my bookshelf in my bedroom. I was in Grade 4, and was so in love (or my idea of love anyway). I had a lovely Valentine's Day experience in 2014, when my partner decorated his bedroom with a million red and pink balloons, roses, candles, chocolates, a stuffed bear and a beautiful card. He baked me a red velvet cake, and cooked me a delicious dinner. Those are the two major Valentine's day highlights of my life. I definitely admit to enjoying the availability and abundance of cinnamon hearts and seeing men (and women) bringing bundles of roses home to their loved ones. My plan for Valentine's Day this year is to treat myself. I am going to have an evening of self love. It may include an overly expensive bath bomb, an all natural hair and face mask and pink wine. It's important to show others love, but my first love was myself. It's important to show yourself  the same love and dedication as you give willingly to others! So this year, I'm going to be my own Valentine.

Catch Flights, Not Feelings

Catch Flights, Not Feelings

February 1, 2019

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I would much rather wander, and spend my life creating adventure in my daily life than settle down into a routine. Only boring people get bored, and I refuse to have a "normal" life. I want to be wild, unpredictable and wander the globe. I want to meet interesting people, make friends and fall in love with beautiful things. Basically be unapologetically fearless in the pursuit of chasing my dreams.  Challenging the status quo, if you will. The world is my oyster, and I should be diving for pearls.

I have never been afraid to eat alone, go to the movies alone, live alone, shop alone and travel alone. I actually cherish my alone time more than I'd like to admit. It makes me feel lionhearted in the fact that I have absolutely no issue buying an international flight and spending my time exploring a foreign place all by my lonesome. I'm always looking for love, but I don't find it in people often. If I find it in a person, it's because they make me feel encouraged to fulfill all my dreams and they fill me with joy. I've given up on finding love in a person, I don't think I have what people are looking for. I am desperate for a change of scenery, I am tired of having excuses fed to me and I am not going to waste my life waiting on a man to make time for me. If I'm not a priority now I never will be, but I know I will be a priority on my flights when I need peanuts or a lemon water. I do always manage to find love in places, and in beautiful things. Apple blossoms in Paris in the Spring, mango trees in the Philippines, the dry heat in Arizona and the hustle and bustle of New York City - they all invoke the feeling of love. I can fall in lust for an evening with a person, but say farewell in the morning. I know what I want in life, and have no qualms in taking a 15 hour flight alone to find it. It makes my soul explode, and my insides feel like stars are bursting when a new travel idea comes to fruition.

I'm going after what I want in life, because I don't want to look back on the time I had on our beautiful Earth and feel like I wasted it, or that I "should have" taken the leap and changed my life. I want to say "Yes! I climbed Taal volcano all the way to the top" and "I got bit by a brown recluse spider in the Philippines while eating mango in an outdoor cafe and took a weird pill from a doctor when I was paralyzed on the right side of my body".  I don't want to live a life full of regret, with the "I wish I saw the Grand Canyon". One day, I will have grandchildren or maybe I won't, but either way, I will be able to speak of adventure and interesting things I have done, instead of wishing I took that leap of faith.

I'm living for moments like waking up at 3AM with the intention of driving a rental jeep so I can hike to the top of a volcano to watch the sunrise above the clouds in Haleakala, planning how to surf for the first time in Lahaina. For days I planned to watch a movie or read a book, but decided last minute to go visit a pineapple plantation. I don't have the bandwidth to factor in someone else's feelings or plans into my life right now because all I want to do is LEAVE. I want to escape the ordinary. If I want to go, the ticket is already bought. No restrictions. No small print. Just me, and the world. I'm happiest alone, because I am falling in love with my own life.

The Colour Yellow

The Colour Yellow

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A question I love to ask people is "what is your favourite colour?"

I think you can tell a lot about a person by which colour they gravitate towards. Is it a warm colour or a cool colour? A specific shade? Personally, my favourite colour is yellow. 

I love how yellow is so bright, and cheerful. It can light up an entire room. It sets my soul on fire. If you think about it, the great giant yellow sun lights up the entire planet with warm sunshine that lets trees and flowers grow and animals prosper.

Vincent Van Gogh thought that by consuming yellow paint, it would create happiness inside him. I want to show you how beautiful the colour yellow is, in a way you may have forgotten to notice because they are commonplace things that we can advantage of looking at everyday.

We need more yellow. 

Sunflower Fields
Fall's Changing Leaves

Bananas

Lemons

Sunshine

Bumble Bees

Buttercup Flowers

Rubber Ducks

Chicks

School Buses

Rain Coats

Night Lights

Woodstock the Bird
My Vespa, Daphne
The Inside of a Pineapple
Banana Popsicles