I posted this last week on my blog, but it seemed to fit pretty well with the theme here, so I decided to do a little double dipping.
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I have a bit of a secret– I’ve never really dated.
As I’ve remarked before, my adult dating history has been marked primarily by either being in a relationship, [...]

My 10 year high school reunion is this summer. Facebook groups have been formed and dates are being thrown around.
I find this both exciting and a little petrifying.
Unlike seemingly the rest of the world, I didn’t hate high school. 
(My last years of elementary and first years of junior high were a whole ‘nother story. My [...]

It is hard not to cringe at my teenage self. Sometimes this is because a photo of my unfortunate one-side-is-longer-than-the-other hair cut emerges, or I remember the time I wore silver lipstick to school, or I find my old green vinyl jacket. Other times, it is because of my affinity for PDAs.
I don’t think I [...]

So I’m reading these books.
Maybe you’ve heard of them. They tend to overuse words such as “smoldering” and “breathless”. There may be some undead creatures. And lots and lots of pining.
(The Twilight saga, for those of you residing under rocks.)
And I can’t put the damn things down.
The skeptic in me still has a running sarcastic [...]

It must be hard for our parents to admit we are adults, to some extent. I know I get freaked out by the fact that the kids I used to babysit have jobs and go to the bar, so I can only imagine what it is like to see those milestones being surpassed by the [...]

So this is the New Year
And I don’t feel any different.
These lyrics always seem to get stuck on my internal monologue’s repeat this time of year.
Every year, I always expect there to be a little spark of something when the clock strikes that fateful second of midnight, just as I do when the clock hits [...]

Happy holidays!
After a series of winter tire related mishaps and a treacherous icy night drive through the mountains, I have made it back to my small hometown. It is in the middle of a cold snap, so I’ve had no excuse not to sleep in and spend copious amounts of time baking Christmas goodies. I [...]

I posted this on my blog a few days ago– but it seemed too perfect in scope not to post here, too!
Perhaps by virtue of our Canadian and career-ist nature, the bulk of my friends did not rush into wedded bliss right after high school. Sure, there was the one couple who married essentially when [...]

This weekend was my office Christmas party. As we sat at the end of a long table filled with co-workers and spouses, a co-worker of mine came to speak to us. To put it into context, he and I have known each other very casually for several years, but have gotten to know one another [...]

I’m not too sure when I became the resident expert on cohabitation.
It could be that, seven months into living in a new apartment with my guy, I am still deliciously giddy about the notion of waking up to him every morning, and he still finds me bearable and perhaps a little cute, despite my tendency [...]

As I washed my hands amidst a bunch of girls clad in lycra chatting on cell phones, I found myself thinking of a post I’d written about a year and a half prior about my experiences at the very same club. About how I’d spent more money than I would ever hope to in one [...]

Probably one of the biggest points of agreement we can all have about our 20s is that they are bloody busy.
Perhaps it is this pressure to “have it all”, but I frequently feel I have demands flying at me from every direction. Career demands are hurtling at me from one end, family pressures from another, [...]

As the post below this one made clear, grad school isn’t always sunshine and lollipops. I’m afraid this is one of those times. As such, I’m playing cop-out blogger again, and leaving you all with another old favourite from my blog. I thought it may be something our brainy readers could sympathize with.
I’m afraid, Bloggie-Land, [...]

This was originally posted at my blog this summer, hence the dated Batman reference. As an aside, I haven’t seen him since.
Every six to nine months, The Ex and I decide that a catch-up coffee is in order.
This time around was brought about by a text message I sent after seeing his apparent twin on the [...]

“Have you met the new girl they just hired?” she asks. 
I shake my head.
“Apparently she’s some ridiculous supermodel or something, and a bunch of your co-workers are freaking out it.”
I turn to her boyfriend, my co-worker. “What’s the story?”
I know we are hiring new people, and they had been conducting a number of interviews over [...]