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Packing for a Domestic Trip

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Pit stop along the side of the road in Jasper National Park. I couldn’t help but wade into the beautiful blue-green water lake and reach out to those warm rays of sunshine above the mountains.

 

While planning my trip to Edmonton to visit my cousins, I compiled a list of must-haves while travelling on a domestic flight with Air Canada, within Canada, and it’s been fairly easy to sort out. I have a serious problem when it comes to condensing my wardrobe into just a personal item, a carry-on bag, and a single luggage; in fact, I’m notorious for going over the weight limit. This trip however, I absolutely refused to pay any extra baggage fees for my unnecessary over packing. This is why I limited the number of things I allowed myself to bring by making a list that I could not exceed. However, because there was about a week during my stay that we were on the road travelling through Alberta, I needed to pack a few extra things due to a lack of washing machines.

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Veg Food Fest 2017

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Working the Vegetarian Gourmet tent. (From L to R) my brother Alex, me, and Chantal Bekhor, founder and chef extraordinaire of VG.

 

I have been planning on attending Toronto’s Veg Food Fest for years now, always interested in any place that offers the chance to try new varieties of food. I have been wanting to go vegetarian for several years now, spurred into the decision to move toward a cruelty-free lifestyle thanks to my friend Alexandria. When 2017 was approaching, I decided that I wanted to be fully vegetarian by the end of 2017. Though I have had some difficulties in maintaining a vegetarian lifestyle living at home, I’ve managed fairly well to do so when eating out and cooking for myself. It’s actually a lot easier than I would have thought, especially with Pinterest offering countless recipes catering to exact dietary needs and desires.

 

This year, as if by some divine intervention, I had the opportunity to go to the Veg Food Fest not only as a spectator, but as someone able to work one of the best booths.Read More

Some Alberta Travel Photos

After a long and stressful few months with my old laptop, I finally bit the bullet and invested in a new MacBook Pro, so that I can do all of the writing and video editing I need to do on a laptop that doesn’t make me want to die of exhaustion (yay)!

 

In honour of this terrific change in events, I’ve finally been able to upload and begin editing the thousands and thousands of photos taken on my trip to Alberta and Nova Scotia, as well as my photos and videos taken around my own city of Toronto over the summer. I’ve decided to share a few of my favourites from my time in Alberta with my cousins. Read More

Do You Wish You Could Return to Moments From Your Past?

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Do you ever wish that you could return to moments from your past? Through the recent years of my life, I’ve learned to pinpoint memorable moments as they are happening and to savour them like a vintage wine, or a chocolate covered strawberry (or a 10 piece McNugget meal) so that I can more easily elicit the exact sensations that I was feeling as they were happening. Maybe this isn’t necessarily a good thing, as I often find myself distracted with memories, replaying them a thousand different ways, often including all the potential ‘alternate endings’ that they may have had. Most times though, I just reflect and let the memory sink in, settling into the familiar emotions I experienced while I was living them first-hand.

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Pixar Exhibition at Edmonton’s TELUS World of Science

 

I had the pleasure of going to the Pixar Exhibition at Edmonton’s TELUS World of Science on the opening day: Canada Day. This video shows just a small amount of the number of things you can do and see while in the exhibit. I would highly recommend it to anyone in Edmonton, or anyone living in a city lucky enough to have this exhibit featured!

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Positive Thinking

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I mentioned in my post this past Saturday that one of the crucial ways I set myself up for being a successful person is a ‘no-negative-crap’ mindset. It’s one that took me quite a while to really conquer, but two of my closest (very no-nonsense) friends were the ones that instilled it in me one afternoon after they both agreed that I had been wallowing around in self-pity for too long. I remember thinking during that conversation: Why do I hold on to complete nonsense for no reason whatsoever? Why do I insist on dwelling on things that only make me sad? When they told me that it seemed as if I liked torturing myself with these negative thoughts, I had this epiphany.

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On Success

A photo encompassing my best accomplishments: travel (in Paris), writing (experiences and photos to contribute to my blog/vlog), and utter bliss.

I knew I wanted to write today’s post on how to be successful, but I wasn’t exactly sure how I would go about approaching the topic. The more that I thought about it, the more I started thinking of the different areas of my own life where I am successful, or where I have the potential to be. Really, each ‘thing’ needs its own steps (of sorts) to be acknowledged, in order for it to come to fruition. I decided to reflect on my own personal successes that I’ve triumphed over in the past few years, and give a rundown of how I came to be where I am at this given moment. I’m going to focus on three specifically, to keep this post short(ish) and sweet.

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