Almost midterms!

Hello all!

How are all you lovely people this fine Sunday afternoon? Personally I'm procrastinating on writing an essay, but what would college be without staying up until nearly 3 am writing a sub par essay because you've just given up on caring? My favourite is the digression of a college essay, beginning is strong and completely awesome, and as the redbull kicks in it slowly gets worse and worse until you type your closing sentence, read it over and go "well it's done..". Something I've learned to do well since the beginning of university. I haven't really helped myself either. Going out twice this weekend when I should be studying and writing my two essays all due Wednesday. 

My weekend started Friday night by going to the second last night of igloo fest! Man gonna miss this event until next year. It's a pretty cheap night if you take the STM and drink at home. And I'm all about cheap!

And I must say I felt hella cute when I went out. Even though igloofest requires ample layers of clothing, I still felt cute until the sweaters and coats! 

So here's my "I feel cute as shit" selfie. I know how badly you all wanted to see it. But last night! 

Last night, was the celebration of my favourite twins birthday! Maria and Dimitri have been great since I moved here. I got my much needed girlfriend as well as a good guy bud. One thing I miss about home is my boys, I've always had a lot of guys friends and that's something i don't have here so when we all go out it's always fun! In true Greek style we drank ouzo and went to a Greek bar.

Never thought alcohol and some Greek dancing could be so fun. Even though the dancing looks way easier than it is! I ended up taking a very expensive cab home instead of waiting for Dimitri to 

drive us, but hey now I know how much it costs to go from Avenue Du Parc back home, so life lessons, right? Still constantly impressed that two weekends in a row I've been able to get myself home strictly speakig french. It must be the alcohol. 

So! I'm quickly approaching midterms, the next 3 days are crazy busy. 2 test and 2 essays all before Wednesday. Heading to yoga tonight to relax myself before I get down to my stress. Then Friday I'm off to Cuba!! Let the count down commence! 

 

Song of the week: We Are Tonight - Billy Currington 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIB_s_7dcw

Have a lovely week! Good night good morning good afternoon but talk to you soon! 

Super Bowl weekend 2014

Hey guys!

I'm horrible I know I'm sorry. I've been so busy. I leave for Cuba in just under a week, I have an essay due tomorrow that I haven't even started. I'm so busy, and I swear I was hungover for days and days. But here I am.

Friday night I went to a 1920s party! There was swing dancing and lots of alcohol. Everyone was dressed up and it was great. I hung out with a bunch of polish people, and when they found out that yes I am polish too, they realized I could keep up with thgere drinks. I didn't have an empty hand after that. Man drunkenness to a holy different level let me tell you. 

Friday night was the second time I've ever gotten emotional because I was drunk, but thank god I didn't do that in front of anyone. My worst offence of the night was calling my best friend that lives 9 hours away at 330 am. Just to say I miss him. I could've been worse so hey, points for not being "that girl"!! 

Nothing like sitting in bed at 330 am eating McDonalds, getting mad at a boy for reasons I can't remember, crying because I was so so mad, and then calling my bestfriend "cause I miss you and just really need you right now". Man we all have a night like that right?? 

It was my friends birthday weekend, so I'll blame it on that. The weekend came to a close with a handful of friends and watching the superbowl. I met a new really funny guy and I hope we can be friends. That's one thing about Monteal is that I don't have a lot of male friends and that's something I miss.

Song of the post Bruno Mars - Treasure

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPvuNsRccVw

Can we comment about how disappointing that game was?? I watched the entire game, and Bruno Mars was fabulous, but that was the highlight of the very boring game. What did you think of the Super Bowl? Comment below.

Oh well it's been fun guys, until next time. Good night good morning good afternoon but talk to you soon.

A little party never killed nobody

Hey guys!

So this week has been a tad on the boring side, just doing the school thing. I think I've pulled a muscle in my stomach because I've been so ridiculously sore from my ribs to my belly button that it keeps me awake at night. I can't even call it sore it feels like I'm being stabbed in gut repeatedly. So I'm going to try to head back to the gym today after taking two days off, because I seriously need to go for a run. But hey I said I was starting at 153.7 (I think?) I'm now solidly at 149.3 so I'm happy with that, gotta keep those results coming!

Tuesday night I went to see the Canadiens play with my favourite twins. They're turning 19 on Monday so this was like my birthday gift to them, a winning game against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Perks of living in Montreal pretty much everyone loves the Habs, especially the guys. See male on left, my new love hate hockey buddy. Love because we love the same team, hate because he is constantly making fun of my favourite player. I mean come on Brier isn't that bad!! He even scored last night against the Bruins, and yes I took every opportunity to text said hater, and have a "ha ha!" Moment.

Hopefully I can carry the tradition of taking them to hockey every year for their birthday cause it was fun! 

Tonigh I'm headed out to a 1920s party. It's called the "Fuck Prohabition party". I have everything I need but shoes and a head band. Biggest struggle of all: my shoes are all black and my dress is light pink. I'll go on my search later today hopefully I'll find something cheap and pretty. There's a pair of shoes at forever 21 that could work but paying 40 dollars for cheap shoes doesn't sound too great.  Pictures to come!! Here's to bringing out my inner Gatsby.

In true Gatsby style, and because the soundtrack to the Great Gatsby is my favourite album. 

Song of the Post: 100 dollar bill - Jay Z 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAESe4Dc0HY

Good night, good morning, good afternoon but talk to you soon. 

Igloofest 2014!

Hey guys!!

Ah I love Montreal in the winter! I mean when it's warmer than -40 it's a pretty good time. Well Montreal is always a good time I've found, but I had one hell of a time last night! Me and two of my friends ventured down to Vieux Port (old port), and went to Igloofest! Nothing like a nice outdoor rave to heighten your sprits right? http://www.igloofest.ca/

Igloofest is this massive rave that happens 4 weekends in a row here in good old mtl, from Thrusday-Saturday it is a huge party! It's also nice that it's a 18+ event, so you never have to guess if that guys is just an older looking 15 year old (very common problem here). 

Aside from the piles and piles of people, being outside at night and dancing while sipping back your alcoholic beverage of choice is really really fun! 

So after some great #mtlmoments I will defiantly be going back, hopefully before this years event is over. And I'm now also a proud owner of the offical Igloofest Beanie, the hats I've been seeing all over town and wishing I had one. I gotta say there's nothing like being a student in Montreal, so many amazing things! All the time!! 

Song of the post : Alive- Krewella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-gYJBsln-w
Nothing like a good part song!

 So after my crazy night, that included meeting the cutest boy ! More on that at a later date if anything happens that is. Sunday is just going to be catching up on school reading for the week, and going to my yoga class later tonight! Gotta get that fitness on! 

Have a wonderful couple of days my loves. Good night, good morning, good after noon, but talk to you soon!

Love, Kate 

Live music! Oh yes!

Hey guys!

So through my sickness I have come out alive! Thank god, I was getting really sick or being sick. What would life be like if I didn't get sick at the beginning of every semester? It would be wrong, of course. 

Last night I showed my embarrassing side and went to the Cody Simpson concert here in MTL. Being one of the oldest ones there aside from the moms, I got my drunk on and had a great time. Yes I actually had fun at Cody Simpson, maybe it's the blonde hair or the Aussie accent but man I love me some Cody Simpson. Or if I had twitter #noshame ok maybe a little shame. He was ridiculously good! I haven't been to a concert in a really really long time, since August actually (seriously I hate this broke student thing). But one thing about me is that I live for live music. 

And the opening act!! Plugin Stereo, super super great he wrote my favorite song Truly Madly Deeply, not the 90s one the newer song performed by One Direction. Super nice and really cute I got to talk to him in between sets and it was pretty great. 

So that was my exciting night. And now my first yoga class is upon me later tonight. Not going to lie I'm very nervous! I haven't done yoga in nearly a year it's probably going to be hard but I guess the best way to get back in is head first. I've been trying my hardest to take care of myself, eating clean and working out daily. I'm really sick of feeling disgusted when I look in the mirror so it's time to make a change. 

Song of the post 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwD4eJGxPc4

Oh Darling- Plugin Stereo (the lovely man I met last night) 

Good night, good morning, good afternoon, but talk to you soon!

Love, Kate

Living the Montreal life

Hey guys!

So how have you been recently? My life is falling back into place ever so quickly and that makes me so so happy. Last night some of my friends from Ontario were in town so I took them out to show them what living in Montreal is really like. For the first time I stumbled home, literally stumbled my way into my appartment and made a bee line for my bed. I didn't actually get home until almost 4 am. But thank god for 24/7 A&W, my savour. Drunk food is something I wish I had discovered sooner, seeing as a nice greasy Motza burger combo at 330 in the morning truly does help your hang over. 

Alas my first 4 day weekend of the semester is coming to a close with me on my couch catching up on everything stored in the DVR. I'm still not sure how I ended up being so lucky that I only have classes 3 days a week, the rest is time for myself, at least until about a month and a half from now when the school shit starts hitting the fan. A full schedule and only 1 exam once again (thank you god) will only mean that March is going to fucking suck with all my final assignments. 

I guess because I haven't read any compelling article recently and the drama that my small town had is fading in to the distance, I can bring now to my blog my passion for books. Right now I'm currently read The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort. I'm only about a hundred pages in but holy shit! This book is seriously great I have to keep reminding myself that it's a memoir and not complete fiction, that this guy lived like this about twenty years ago. Crazy, seriously crazy. 

Song of the Post 

Move- Little Mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwD4eJGxPc4

Well guys have a great couple of days! I might need to rearrange my post schedule but I'll try posting more from a mobile browser than my actually computer. Post in the comments below! What are you reading right now?? Any recommendations? 

Goodnight, good morning, good afternoon but talk to you soon.

Love Kate

Life reorganizing itself

Hello all,
I know my posts lately have been pretty brief and full of some hard emotions. This loss, clearly, was very hard on me. I do have some good news, my life is starting to readjust which I am so so thankful for. Dark times feel 100% longer than happy times, and I just can't live like that.

I'm back at school, and holy crap books this semester are ridiculously over priced! Goodbye 500 dollars of hard earned money, it was nice that you took shelter in my bank account for such a short period of time. So with my 14 required texts purchased, and tuition paid, I'm accepting payments now for the "Kate wants to have fun this semester fund". Being a broke student blows, but I have had my moments of brilliance making my few dollars stretch. Maybe Prince Charming is sitting at the next bar I go to waiting to shower me with free alcohol. A girl can hope.

So finally my few words about New Years Eve! NYE 2013 was fun, but the place I went to was full of out-of-towners. You can defiantly separate Americans from Montrealers. Not in a bad way of course. Who am I kidding Montrealers know how to handle their liquor, many others, do not. I guess you could say that comes with our legal drinking age being so low.

SO 2014, be good to me!!! 2013 was pretty great, there no denying that. I worked a full time job, graduated from high school, started university, moved to Montreal, hit up an amazing music festival this summer, and got my license (not in this order). Among countless other small victories in 2013, I really did enjoy the last year. 2014 had a rough start, but I do have hopes that things will be picking up. So far I'm really enjoying my classes and scored Thursdays and Fridays off, yes! Talk to me in a couple months about how I'm loving my classes, I'm hoping I have the same excitement.

2014 has so far brought me a new love interest, and some big big plans for the summer months. Also my spring break trip to Cuba is only 34 days away! I hope you all have had a pleasant first week of 2014, what are you looking forward to this year? Post in the comments below!! I'm also attaching a selfie for the first time, here's my face y'all!

Song of the Post
White Walls - Macklemore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PLifPUIuic

Goodnight, good morning, good afternoon, but talk to you soon.
Love, Kate

The Last Few Days

Hello all.
If you haven't noticed by now, my home town and I have a very love hate relationship. Now that my time here is coming to a close, I'm wishing for a little bit more time. At the same time I know that most of my internal struggles will be coming to an end once I leave here. Last night I went to a party that I was very unwelcome at, and that's one thing I don't miss about this town, as you can read in my pervious post. It all goes back to everyone getting into everyone's business. I hate that with a passion. Personally me not being welcome at this party was a little outrageous because the thing that caused my heart to be sad over Christmas shouldn't cause me to not be welcome with friends. But that's just my opinion.

Last night was awkward at first. The only person that I wanted to speak to wouldn't even look at me. That's probably one of the worst feelings I've ever encountered, someone not being able to look at you. His reasons are some that I don't understand, but I understand myself, and I understand how horrible it's feeling to not be able to just say 'lets be friends and go back to the way it was before'. With time I want this to fix itself, I know that I'm going back to Montreal leaving things in a mess, but I have to trust that things will work themselves out, right? I'm wondering if that whole saying is just to keep you sane, or if it's really true.

So with only two days left here, I'm torn. I want to stay, but I want to leave. This sucks. This song is what I'm trying to use to heal myself. I guess I have a lot of experience trying to heal myself.
Song of the Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4URCe40Y0sI

I guess if I'm going to give a summary of my time at home it has to go a little like this: Home will always be home. Things cannot be changed sometimes and it tears me apart. I'm going to miss my friends more than ever, because I'm not back here again until May. I hate saying goodbye. I've said so many goodbye's recently that its something I keep avoiding. I'm also excited to start my new classes in about a week, and I hope this semester goes by as quickly as the first one did.

Before I go I'm going to leave you with this, a photo of how things get 'fixed' in my town. I hope you understand my frustrations.

Good night, good morning, good afternoon, but talk to you soon.
Love, Kate

Merry Christmas 2013

Hello my few readers, and Merry Christmas. I'm sorry I'm a day late posting, but Christmas day doesn't leave a hell of a lot of time to blog. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, with al the presents, food, and family time we could all hope for. If you're in Canada, more specifically, Ontario, Toronto region, I hope you were one of the lucky ones with electricity. I spent my Christmas in Brampton, Ontario where we were one of the few to have power, very very thankfully. If you don't celebrate Christmas, I hope you enjoyed the holiday that you do celebrate.

So was your holiday happy and jolly, or was it filled with that family holiday drama. Personally I was internally dealing with drama, but my family was good. My family some how is that family that doesn't fight and piss each other off. I know it sounds unbelievable but its actually true I'm ridiculously lucky. I was dealing with things with my father, and some rejection from something that shouldn't have made me sad. I think when you combine two sad things at the holidays it makes it almost melt down worthy. My heart was sad during Christmas 2013, my anxiety was high, but I'm truly thankful that other than some internal conflicts that I had a good Christmas.

One thing about this winter break thing I hate is spending this expanded period of time in my home town. Some things never change, one of them is this town. I could paint a picture but I'm sure if you've ever lived in a small town you could get the gist. But for the sake of those who don't know what I'm talking about here's the 3 things that I can't stand about my small town (& small towns alike)
1. Everyone knows everything about everyone. Remember that one time you got to drunk and embarrassed yourself? You might not but everyone you know will tell you about it for years to come.
2. The smallest things cause everyone to freak the fuck out. You kissed an ex of someone you were never friends with? You're a fucking home wrecker, get out.
3. Literally nothing changes. That person that got that job in wal-mart in high school and goes to community college? Still works at wal-mart.

I'm sorry for the rant on the small town. No sorry I'm not I'm just really sick of this place and miss the anonymity of the big city. Montreal, Monday I'm back and I've missed you too much. Truly guys I love my friends here, but some times your friends aren't enough to keep your mind away from the drama that is always present in a small town.

Song of the Post:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlFEJ-Ctpjc
I know I usually offer an explaination, but this song just makes me happy.

Good night, good morning, good afternoon, but talk to you soon.
Love, Kate

Passing Classes, Yes!

Hello lovely's of the inter-webs.

Let's all do the Saturday before Christmas dance. Christmas feels like it came extremely fast this year, I can't believe its on Wednesday. But I got an early present this year, some of my grade FINALLY got posted, and look at me ma! I'm a passing University kid! I've never been one to be proud of marks in school, but apparently paying for it and working my ass off gives me incredible amounts of pride.

Anyway, I've fallen back into my at-home schedule, and I'm actually enjoying it. I've been to busy to actually realize how much I hate this place. I spent last night at a small house party, with some long lost friends, and it was actually a blast. Honestly before I went I heavily considered no showing up, but I dragged my best friend along and we had a lot of fun. Hashtag hangover. I can say for sure I haven't missed the waking up at 5 am feeling like crap after 2 hours of sleep because of alcohol. That's got to be one of the best parts of living in Montreal, drunk food is always just a stumble away, and you feel a 100% better in the morning if you eat a burger before bed. Maybe that's just me?

Since I'm in this feel good state, here's a feel good Song of the Post:
Anything - Hedley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Dmilr2T10
If you haven't listened to these guys before, take a listen. Some seriously great Canadian music here.

Before I go to curl up in my onesie, I want to call attention to, two things that have really resonated with me in the past couple days.

First off, I wanted to write a little something about the death of one of my favourite author's, Ned Vizzini.  If you haven't heard what happened, here's a link to an article published yesterday about what happened: http://tinyurl.com/ogwdrw4 . Ned was one of my beloved author's. I can glance to my left side as I sit here and type this and look at his books on my bookshelves. I've always loved to read, and my love of reading has turned into what I've decided to study in University. When I read Ned's It's Kind of a Funny Story, something really stuck with me. Mental health is just as important, if not more important than physical health. Ned wrote the book about his brushes with mental health problem's and his stay in a psych ward. When I found out he had died I was very upset. In all honesty, the death's of authors hit me harder than death's of any other kind of 'celebrity' figure. I hope you rest in peace Ned, this world will miss you very much, and your talent for writing beautiful novels.

My second thing I wanted to discuss was this video I watched about two days ago. I think that modern feminism is something that needs to stop being laughed at and taken more seriously. I'll discuss this video in my next post, if I receive any feed back, but take a peak, you might find something very interesting out.
http://www.upworthy.com/stop-asking-where-young-feminists-are-they-arent-unicorns-they-exist-in-fact-here-s-one-now-re2-6e?c=ufb1

Okay, so I'm going to leave you now after this obnoxiously long post. I hope you have a wonderful couple of days, if you decided to come back, post a comment below, about anything I've touched on today. Seriously guys I want to hear from you!! As always,
Love, Kate

Hey, Hi, How's it going?

So it's been a week. Second posts should feel more natural right? Well first off, I've decided once a week is too little, so now I will be posting on Saturdays and Wednesdays. This past week has been incredibly stressful and busy that I've wanted to post, but like to stick to my words.

Exams are done!!! YAY. The stress that ensued me during the last week was a little ridiculous, considering how easy I found my exam. Needless to say, I'm incredibly happy to be home, relaxing, and to be putting my first semester behind me. From Montreal to Niagara Falls, I'm back in the home land for an entire 2 weeks, which is the longest time I've stayed since moving day back in August. The oddness of falling back into my home routine of working, seeing high school friends, and having a hundred percent too much time on my hands is taking some adjustment, but I'm sure I'll manage.

So with my first semester behind me, I've looked back and realized all the interesting thing I've learned since I've moved to Montreal and experienced university. These are a couple things I've learned :

• "Ladies Night" doesn't mean free, or even fun for that matter
• The left side of the escalator is not for standing
• Halloween, is indeed the funniest, and sloppiest time of the year
• Alcohol always tastes better when it's free
• Breaking Bad night was the most important night of the week
• It's okay to get ridiculously drunk while watching hockey (GO HABS GO)
• Missing a lecture, will never ruin your life

I'm certain there has been more discovered, but this winter-break-not-thinking state has taken over.

So while I'm sitting here in my high school bedroom, I'm racking my brain as to what will bring you, my favourite people of the inter-webs, back to my blog. Then it hit me in the face, music. Music is my favourite thing (aside from an open bar), also it is something our generation connects with. So a new feature of my blog: Song of the post.

So here it is my Song of the Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUOKe1P-SY
Being home has brought me back to my country roots, and I really can't get enough of this song.

So I'm leaving you now. But not to worry, if you're actually enjoying any of this, I'll be back on Saturday. For now, please post in the comments below, what your can't get enough of winter break song is. Thank you once again for visiting, I hope I have sparked an interest.
Love,
Kate