People are growing up all around me.  My best friend-since-I'm-three is pregnant - she and her boyfriend are thinking of buying a house together.  One of my closest friends is gay, and a terminal one night stand kind of guy - he's in a relatively serious seeming relationship.  My friend Jess, who I met in grade 10, just got engaged.  One of my ( Read more... )

I sometimes wonder what questions I would ask if I were given the opportunity to speak with some of my favourite famous people - say, if I wrote them a letter, or if they were on a call in radio show.  I've decided to make a list, in case I ever do get up the nerve to write a letter or something (though I doubt they'd ever respond - they probably ( Read more... )

Sometimes, for no real reason, it just hits me:  I am incredibly lucky.  I may whine and complain with the best of my suburban friends of this generation, but despite school being tough, money being tight, and life getting complicated, we really really are the lucky ones ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's only mid January.  I feel like it has to be at least the end of March considering how down and tired of cold gray days I am.  I need sun, I need to be able to go for wandering walks, and I need to see flowers, damnit ( Read more... )

Well, we've made it to 2010 - new decade, only two years to apocalypse.  It's all very exciting - and it makes me feel a little old.  As we watched the ball drop last night, sparkling wine in red plastic cups and people leaning in for a kiss, all I could think was, 10..."This is really happening!" 9..."Wait, stop!  I'm not ready!" 8..."Is time ( Read more... )

When it rains, it fucking well pours.  My mum always tells me, "Verena, the universe will never throw at you more than you are capable of handling.  If something happens, you are able to handle it - otherwise it wouldn't have happened to you ( Read more... )

When relationships fail, or things go to pieces, it's so easy to blame the other person - he never listened to me, he didn't know me, he didn't understand me.  It's easy to find reasons to explain it even in a non-blaming way - we didn't want the same things, we didn't have anything in common, it just wasn't the right time ( Read more... )

I'm so torn still about my non-boyfriend - is good enough actually good enough?  I was actually almost convinced that I was done with him, because he's very very clingy and needy - it's definitely more cage like than anything I EVER want, nevermind too much too soon.  At the same time though, today he left an honest to god bouquet of roses on my ( Read more... )

I feel like I should be singing the Dandy Warhols, as I sit here ( Read more... )

A cup of coffee, laundry in the machine.  Incense burning, and music playing.  Plants watered, and dishes washed.  A long bath, and comfy clothes; a rainy day, just for me.  Hard to go wrong with that ( Read more... )