I have a huge issue. As you can see from my previous post of what I wore on Friday. I’m basically wearing the same outfit – different scarf, same hat and jacket.

I have fine hair. It’s not thin (or so says my stylist) I have a lot of it, it’s just fine. I refuse to wear winter hats during the cold weather due to a bad case of hat head.

I finally found a hat that suited me, and also didn’t give me grief. That is, until I took the bus to work today and I wore my hat for an hour straight. I took my hat off, and immediately felt the back of my head where I have two crowns to feel for any gaps. Sure enough, the darn tootin hat I was wearing has separated my fine hair again on the back of my head, making me look like I”m going bald.

Thankfully I was making a huge enough deal about it at work that people ended up trying to fix it for me and told me not to worry about it. Because they know I’m not going bald. lol

Oh Monday morning issues.

By the way. I took the bus this morning, for the first time since getting my car in October 2009, as my Boyfriend is gone to my mechanic to put my snow tires on for me. It’s funny, when you don’t take the bus for ages I wonder if people realize that I got a car. Maybe they just think I died. Or quit my job. I recognized a man who took the bus with me every morning. I never did speak to him when I was a regular on the bus. But he definitely recognized me this a.m. Staring a bit too long at my face trying to think of where he recognized me from, I’m sure.The buses have changed since I haven’t been on them in a whole year – they even have fancy Quoizel lighting inside.

Stay tuned for this evening as my contest ends at 10pm EST.

Don’t forget about my YouTube channel and my other website.

An “outerwear” outfit of the day. This photo was taken on Friday just as I was leaving work. Thought it may be cute to post up here as well.

In the striped bag? My tahari boots. I refuse to wear them outdoors if it’s wet out.
In the lululemon bag? My lunch!

I wasn’t always a hat fan, but this season I went into an Aldo accessories free standing store and picked up this loose fitting hat. The sales girl even explained to me how to wear it, lol. I love it!

I’m going to have to take the bus to work this morning. Since I’ve switched offices, and my Boyfriend is more closer to the mechanic than I am — I decided to let him take my car in this morning to get my winter tires put on. Therefor, me having to take the bus. Eee! Exciting.

Psst, it’s Monday and are you on the hunt for any cute bridesmaid dresses?

I would just love to spend a handful of months just walking and people watching around the streets of Toronto. Especially the uppity fashion district on Bay/Bloor.

A couple of weekends ago the Boyf and I attended a wedding at one of the University of Toronto halls and spent the next day walking around that particular part of Toronto. I decided to be a tourist and take a few snap shots while I was gazing at the stores that I dare not step in for fear that I wanted to buy a $2,000 Prada purse. Don’t want to be tempted!

I only wanted to go to two places when we were on our mini-vacation getaway to Toronto, and that was Sephora and Anthropologie.

I’d rather go to the Sephora up on Bay and Bloor area because it’s never as crowded and overly busy as the one in the Eaton Centre. The Eaton Centre one always runs out of products that you want to buy too. Plus, at the Bay/Bloor Sephora location there’s always someone to help you. I wanted to get color matched for a couple of foundations, but didn’t want to buy anything because I like getting freebies while ordering online — they give you the option from 9 different samples and you’ll always get to pick out 3 to receive with your order when you do so online.

Going into Anthropologie is a trip in itself. It’s a pretty expensive store, but you need to really love the place to buy things full price, or be on vacation in Edmonton (ahem). I headed straight to the sale rack to see what I could find. But then I overheard one female say to her mother, dressed in a faux (or was it real?) fur vest, freshly highlight hair (oh that so wasn’t real) looking quite expensive herself “Ahho mah. Mutha, I can’t get over how reasonable these prices are in here!” While she was picking up a cardigan and flicking it back down. After she put the sweater down, I pounced over to see what she was looking at, and how expensive it was. $148 for a cardigan! LOLOLOL. I laughed quietly right then and there. Of course the Boyf was with me, so he overheard and I wasn’t actually laughing like a lunatic by myself.

After I was done picking up the (Twist Of Fate) cardigan which was on 60% off its original $138 price tag that I tried on in Edmonton but was too pricey to purchase…

… we headed back to the hotel (ooh la la Marriott has nice rooms) to pick up our car and drove home. (Psst to see me wearing the T.O.F. cardigan I wore it in last weeks OOTWW.)

Ohh what a nice quick getaway to a foreign expensiveville Yorkville.

What are some of your blogging pet peeves? Most of these topics I listed doesn’t bother me incredibly much, but it’s a fun way to subliminally get messages across to people, right? :)

• Long blog entries, especially if you don’t have a sense of humor or something interesting to say.
• Multiple blog entries with no photos! I’m a visual person. I love pictures! (Well, no gross eczema pictures please)
  
• Too many posts in one day. I knowww. It’s a pet peeve of mine, yet I do it as well!
• Huge blocks of text without any paragraphs. Please hit enter.
• I have a few sites that I love to comment on, but rarely do because of the security feature they have on their comments section. If I have to enter a code in order for my comment to get verified, I’ll rarely comment. If you’re worried about spam, there’s a feature on WordPress called Akismet Stats. It catches all your spam so you don’t have to use that double-comment feature.
• People who comment on giveaways and say they love your website or the giveaway that I’m doing. Yet they don’t comment if it’s not a giveaway! This is my hugest pet peeve of all. I get SO many commenters just on a contest, and they never visit back! How inconsiderate. I absolutely despise this one.
  
• Bloggers that just use their website to complain. I’ll probably not follow your blog because of this. I also really dislike bloggers calling other bloggers out. I ‘unfollow’ their blog right away when that sort of thing happens. I like happy, content people! :) Remember, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it at all.
  
• US only giveaways. Waah! I’m Canadian, let us in on the goods!
• No “About Me” pages. Those are so informative, or just fun to read. Blogger profile or blogspot.com often doesn’t have this feature, which is incredibly annoying.
  
• Ignoring spell check. Grammar and punctuation doesn’t bother me all that much. But please learn the basics on how to spell definitely without an “a”, and use the correct your, you’re, it’s, its … etc.
• Partial feeds on Google RSS. I dislike clicking on websites to read the whole entry, I want to read the post faster through my e-mail. If I like what I read, I’ll visit your site then
  comment.

What sort of things annoy you? Minor or major! Comment below and let me know :)

Living in an apartment building in the summer? Completely fine, especially if you have your own air conditioner set up. But in the winter, well that’s another story all together. It makes me miss home. I grew up having a fireplace in the two out of the three houses that I have lived in my entire life. When I’m ready to buy my own home, there’s only a few things that are a must for me to want to purchase it 100%. It should very well have a fire place. I don’t want one of those built in / plug in one’s either. It has to be real, use real wood, and be a real hot fire. Nothing beats coming in on a cold winters day and set the fire place (doesn’t that make you want to eat a popsicle right now? It’s so hot out!) and seriously just sit and relax in front of it all night long. So nice. Of course you’ll have to have a gate put up in front of the fire, like a cast iron one like my parent have. Especially when my Irish nephews come to visit. Don’t want their little fingers in the way. Best way to keep kids safe!

Another great thing (but isn’t a huge must for me) is having a portable hot tub in the back yard. Well, it doesn’t have to be portable, because quite frankly I didn’t know that hot tubs could be portable. Aren’t those amazing to jump in any time of year? Have a little soak and a little drink. Feed me grapes!

Clearly, I’m in the mood for a little vacation. I’m dreaming up all sorts of fun little ideas. I want a house!

Few leftover pics taken during Easter Weekend. Had to plop them somewhere, may as well have them on my website, ya?

Look at him smilinggggg!

Totally pooped at the end of our walk. Sitting on his own! rofl.

Since he was sitting, thought I’d take a picture of myself too. Should have smiled. But these sunglasses poke up when my cheeks rise, hahaha. You understand, right? Plus people wear huge sunnies like this to protect their peepers (aww RIP!) from premature aging. (click here to learn more about eye creams)

This was before our Easter Sunday walk. Tee hee.

Give me your honest opinion on these sunglasses. Are they too big for my face? Most sunnies are. Tell me the truth. In this picture, they make me look like I’m wearing grannies. But when I look in the mirror, they seemed fine?

Little nap time with the pup?

Okay all. Photo post is done! Bye!!

I just had to share some adorable (and funny) photos that I recently received in an e-mail! I only picked out a couple as most of only made me grin a little. But these are my top picks:

I haven’t been on the computer much. I’m trying to get Alfie to pass his Level 1 Obedience School class (he hates the “stay” word, but is quick with the “come” command). We’re bringing him to two extra classes before the final one on Monday evening. Maybe I should feed him some hgh pills to calm him down. KIDDING!!!!!

My goodie bag is overflowing and I can’t keep up!

Lovin’ it. You will too…

Just wanted to excite and perhaps tease you all a  bit that I have a few more giveaways happening after my High Sierra one is over. Hint? One of them involves Lululemon. Isn’t that awesome? Stay tuned, keep reading and commenting, and I’ll be a happy blogger. :)

• Ebay is bad. It makes me SO anxious as to what I’m bidding on that I refresh the auto-matic countdown every few minutes to make sure that I’m still signed in, and I’m still the highest bidder. I don’t want to lose! I hate it when people bid with 14 seconds left, and I can’t re-bid because I’m slow. I hate ebay. Also? Why do my hands sweat?
  
• I read a lot of websites that I subscribe to via RSS through gmail subscriptions. I read a lot of websites, but I cannot comment on most of them as they’re usually blocked at my workplace. I often forget what sites I have to visit in the evening, so I can comment – if I’m feeling like a keener, I e-mail myself the URL + comment I want to add lol. So it’s not that I don’t read your website people! I just can’t comment, because my brain is all over the place in the evening and really don’t want to log in!
• I’m still on my winning streak with another win from Jeanine’s contest! Ow ow, keep’em coming ladiiiies.
• Occasionally, I break out – rather than going to a dermatologist, I found the best acne treatment at Shoppers Drug Mart. Anything that has Benzoyl Peroxide = works wonders over night!
  
• I like it when it rains outside, or when the snow is fresh on the ground, and I look in my rear view mirror, to see my tire marks on the road.
• I also like stepping on fresh snow, and then turning around, to see the tracks I made.

Don’t forget that you still have 6 more days to enter my smashbox giveaway.