day 22. TEE! OH!

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

a photograph of the town i live in.

here's Toronto (downtown), Ontario, Canada.
pretty sexy, huh?

day 21. favorite resto.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a photo of my favorite place to eat.

for someone who loves awesome food, i suck. i can't give you a photo of my favorite place to eat because sadly, i don't have a favorite restaurant. this is probably because i'm always craving something else, so there's no one restaurant that can hold my attention for too long... kinda like how i am with boys. LOL! just kidding... kinda.

but i do i have a consistent food love in my life and that's SUSHI! i'm sure if there was a restaurant in Toronto with fantabulous sushi that would be my favorite place to eat!

so instead, here's a photo of my last meal during my August 2010 visit to Vancouver, BC at Matsuyama. Sushi is so awesome in Vancouver! it's inexpensive and so fresh...

day 20. i do?

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

my dream wedding

ahhhh... this one is an easy one...
i don't have a dream wedding.

never given this subject much thought
since i'm too far from this stage in my life.

one step at a time baby. gotta find a dude first...

personal news shared impersonally

imagine this...

you're a pretty good friend of mine. we've known each other for almost 20 years. and you find out i'm engaged at the same time my 950 friends on facebook do?

i wonder if my parents would mind if i told them about my engagement via text?

how about if i asked you to be part of my bridal party through twitter?

or...

how about if i was pregnant? would you care that i was expecting and only found out when i updated my status on facebook?

our twenty years of friendship lumped together with people i may have only worked with for less than a year... people who i may have only seen less than a handful of times... people i may never see again in person for the rest of my life... you're grouped in together with all of them.

call me old fashion, but that information about me i consider very personal, very important - they're one of the very few milestones i'll ever experience in my life... that information is very near and dear to my heart and I DON'T WANT ALL 950 facebook friends to know about it at the same time my family and close friends find out about it.

i really believe my very good friends and family deserve better than that.

maybe you don't agree with me. and that's fine. we're all entitled to our own opinions. i just think those people who have been there for me my whole life and who will forever be there for me, deserve at least a phone call when i share with them some of the greatest news of my life.

day 19. a pet.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

a photo of an animal i'd love to keep as a pet.

some animals can be cute and all, but there is no animal in particular i want to keep as a pet. it wouldn't be fair. who's going to take care of the pet?

i live on my own. i'm never home. a pet is basically a baby that stays a baby forever. you have to clean up it's sh!t. feed it. give it attention...

yea... i can't imagine doing that everyday! (i'm just sayin, so please don't hate on me!)

day 18. then & now.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a picture of me from last year + this year + how i've changed since then

in honour of this post, i decided to put up photos of myself from 2009 and 2010 wearing the same dress, the same sunglasses AND the same shoes. LOL!

THEN

- semi-employed
- often somewhere else other than Toronto
- carefree, relaxed and happy
- fatter :P

NOW

- i have a full-time job and a part-time job
- toronto-bound, unable to travel as much
- heartbroken, fairly stressed and confused
- skinnier

this post was extremely difficult to write because it's resurfaced emotions i try so hard to lock away. now that it's written, it's pretty apparent that i'm the opposite of what i was last year. wow, many (little) changes but i'm not sure it's for the better (except for the job status and the skinny part...). they say things happen for a reason and i have to trust that they really do even though no big things ever happen to me.

time goes by very quickly and i need it to slow down. i'm running out of time to meet someone, to gain momentum in my career, to own a home, to travel the world, to eventually be a mom, to happily spend the rest of my life with that guy...

i'm a natural planner but not when it comes to me living. all this time i've been living in the moment and waiting patiently to see where fate takes me. but now i'm doubting my life strategy and possibly regretting how i've lived my life. have i been wrong all these years? here i am, sitting in the sidelines as i watch everyone around me and eat their dust.

day 17. last purchase.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a photo of something i last purchased

it wouldn't be fair if i only posted one photo of the last item i purchased. to be fair, i HAVE TO post three. that's because my last purchase was a pair of 3-in-one boots! what a coincidence that this prompt lands on the same day Leeshi asked me to tweet photos of my boots. therefore, i'm photo ready for this post.

style #1.

style #2.

style #3.

for awhile i've been wanting to buy a pair of not-so-high heel boots for fall/winter. these are the EXACT heel i was looking for AND they're 3 styles in 1! i'm in love with them... it's definitely meant to be!