Is there any way to pull off that gorgeous hair in real life, or is that like contouring and only for fancy red carpet occasions? Do non-famous people do that with their hair?

What if you know all the words to “Good Morning, Baltimore” from Hairspray?

Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth in all their glory. The wrestling ring got a little wilty by the end of the night, unfortunately. This was from our beach/wrestling themed reception we had before getting hitched in the Caribbean. Best tasting cake my mother ever made.

I guess I’m doing it backwards (but I regret nothing). I find most onions to be too strong in flavour, so I replace them with shallots in most recipes.

I think for most people, there’s like some sort of lady-fun trade-off. I can scarf, hat and hair (I hair so good I was basically a stylist for my rugby team when we had to get fancy) but goddamn I can’t heel, lipstick, wing my eyeliner or tell a story without cussing. I cheat by wearing kitten heels and hope no one…

Seriously, what is it with the people of Ottawa not getting pumped up at rock shows? We traveled there to see The Black Keys (They blew our minds. Everyone go see The Black Keys.) and we had a moment of realization during the show while danging our holes off that we were surrounded by non-dancing people. Who doesn’t…

I pretty much wept through the first hour of the show. So did my husband, and that was his 3rd time seeing him. “Oh god, are we Beatlemania?”. You’ll have a blast though - his catalog is so vast you’re really never sure what he’s going to play next, and he’s still got it in a way that say, Bob Dylan doesn’t anymore.

That moment before Paul McCartney busts into “Maybe I’m Amazed” by simply stating “This is for Linda” and you realize that his music was never the same after she died. Apparently that’s always how he intros that song, but man, she truly was his muse. Also, a man that age playing that hard for 3h straight is nothing to…

I was in a wedding party once that insisted I get acrylic nails (they were all estheticians so it was free). At the time I worked at a dairy farm. Making them understand what "short nails" meant was a nightmare :( I ripped two nails off basically the moment I walked in the barn. In short: that shit hurts - how do you…

I don't see anyone wearing Birkenstocks. Now I'm the old who wears those to festivals? Dang.

My anxiety needs the outside/nature time more than the calorie burn. A shit day is completely turned around by a minimum 10 minute walk that includes trees or some body of water. A full day hike can make me feel amazing for a week. There’s studies coming out now saying that nature time can be as effective as meds for…

Currently 6 mos pregnant, and the only reason I can sleep at night is because of this pillow:

Well Canada has indeed been accused of being polite by other countries fairly often :P

That’s not always true. A lot of the animal dissection labs I was in got their specimens from the abattoir. A lot of the animals that would have died anyway (old age, injuries, whatever - once we got to dissect an emu that ate a ball of twine - it was the class that determined COD), or were being culled by farmers…

My mum had me when she was 16, and from the day I figured out that particular math she always told me that I was the happiest mistake she ever made. She also shared with me that she was told that you couldn’t get pregnant the first time you have sex. I’m all for early and thorough sex-ed now, because while her and Dad…

Ugh. The old coots are a big reason why we got married at a tropical all-inclusive resort. If you can afford it/want a vacation, come vacation with us. No gifts please. To which my mother says "but what if they want to give you something?" so I told her - "money for home improvements". The old coots still hated it,…

The experience I had during my first mushroom trip is one of the best of my life. It was peeking behind the curtain of life as I knew it, and seeing how awesome (in the true sense of the word) it really was. When I'm stressed or anxious, that day is the 'happy place' that I go to, years on. Acid just made me feel…

This is why we got married on a resort in the Dominican - very little planning and you get a whole week with your favorite people :) It rubbed some family the wrong way, but I can't see why not extending the fun for a whole week in the dead of winter in a sunny locale (we're Canadian) wasn't the most preferable thing.…

Isn't there something wonderful about traveling on a bus with both male and female rugby players after a game, trying to out-gross and out-do each other with new, unknown and old verses to these songs? Because really, that's the point. None of those lyrics reflected what any of those people were like (I've never been…

My main make up battle is dealing with the under-eye circles, and the absolute best thing I've ever used is the Benefit Boi-ing concealer that came in the How To Look The Best at Everything kit from Sephora. I bought the kit to use as my wedding make up, but each of the products by itself is awesome for everyday use.