The Bizarre Things I Love To Eat: Exhibit A

According to my family and friends, my eating habits are a little on the strange side.
My younger sister likes to recall with disgust the night I went trekking through the woods with a spoon and a tube of Pillsbury cookie dough in my jacket pocket, just in case I needed a snack. My mother often laughs at the fact that I will eat a can of peas for dinner, yes, just a can of peas. Today though I will be talking about one of my favourite little concoctions, one I like to call 'peanut butter yummy crunchy.' It consists of a bowl of cereal mixed with a few tablespoons of sugar and a tablespoon of peanut butter. Now the technique is important here. You take your spoon with the peanut butter on it and dip it into the cereal so that you get a nice coating, then you dip it into the sugar so that you have a nice sprinkling of sugar on top of the peanut butter and cereal. Voila! Peanut butter yummy crunchy, so easy and so delicious.
As you can probably tell from that particular recipes, I have a bit of a sweet tooth... well probably more along the lines of a sugar addiction. I don't recommend eating this every day but it does have some nutrition in it, you get some protein from the peanut butter and depending on your cereal (I am using Rice Crispies here) you get some fibre too. Give it a try, you might surprise yourself and actually like it.

Just another lovely Friday night at Winners...

This is a post for all of the parents out there, yes I am attacking parents! Just because you have learned to tune out your young child's obnoxious screaming and crying, it does not mean that the rest of us have learned that valuable skill.
Here is a quick tip... if you are out shopping and your child starts to scream at the top of their lungs, that is your cue to exit the store until your child calms down.
Last night after school I went to my shift at Winners and I nearly had an aneurysm. Kids, everywhere; all screaming and crying. One delightful little chap decided he was going to cry/yell constantly, he did not break at all! Do you think his loving mother, for the sake of everyone else's sanity removed him from the store? No, no she did not, she proceeded to shop for the next hour and forty minutes with her toddler screaming the entire time.
I am sympathetic, but it seems to me that if your child feels the need to yell for almost two hours, he is really not happy about something and instead of checking out the latest style of jeggings you should find out what that issue is.
Another quick tip, the display fixtures are not jungle gyms. They are not safe to be climbed on and in fact sometimes fall apart. Please pay more attention to where your children are playing in the store because if you are careless enough to let them play on the suitcase display you should accept responsibility when a giant piece of luggage falls on your child instead of blaming the store.  I can not count the amount of times I have had to ask kids not to play on the shelving units, purse displays and metal underwear rack while their parents are obliviously shopping near by. Next time I am letting them play and if a metal bar that is loose falls on their heads, don't say I didn't warn you.

P.S. I am not an Ogre and I do not hate children.

CreCom life

So, it is the third week of college and so far I have very mixed feelings about being back in school. Don't get me wrong, the Creative Communications program is great, it is challenging and thought provoking and the Red River College campus is beautiful. It is college life I am having a hard time with.
I honestly feel like I am back in grade seven; the painfully awkward kid who has no idea how to talk to people let alone make any friends. I don't know what happened, I grew out of that faze and high school life was great. Maybe I have just been away from school for too long, maybe I have reverted back to my twelve year old mentality...whatever the case It's not fun.
I walk into each classroom and look around at all the other students, chatting away with each other, laughing and having fun. I don't know how to interact anymore so I just sit by myself or sometimes with the one person I have felt comfortable talking too. It's not like I haven't tried to fit in but every time I try to talk to people I feel that they are disinterested in what i have to say and I fumble around nervously. As of right now I have kind of given up on the whole making friends thing and am focusing on the work. I may try again later... I may not.

How to get sexy bedhead waves

First day curls

During the ten years I spent with Panache Modeling agency I picked up a few really great beauty tricks, some of which I will periodically share with you, yay! Today's trick is for "morning after waves", very unfussy curls that will look great for days, great for the students who are strapped for time.
First you start by adding a little bit of mousse to clean, dry hair and then wrap big sections around a curling iron and hold for only a few seconds. Run your fingers lightly through your hair to break up the curls a bit and 'Voila", you are set for day one.
The next morning mix a little bit of your favourite (preferably good smelling) conditioner with some water in a spray bottle and spritz it lightly over your hair. Using your hands again, scrunch up your waves to create a tousled effect and then you are good to go! The conditioner not only adds a bit of texture to your waves but it nourishes and adds a light scent to perk you up throughout the long school day!