happy labour day y'all!

I hope everyone had a good long weekend! As per usual, my weekend was busy and full!

Have you been following the facebook and twitter updates on good deeds? If not, here's how they've been going:

Day 6 of 365 - Be kind to yourself. I did this the only way I knew how...I bought new underpants! YES!

Day 7 of 365 - Send one of your grandparents a photograph. Mine are all dead, so I took a picture of Joshua and I and sent it to both our Moms, since neither of them had a picture of us together.

Day 8 of 365 - Forgive someone (for a minor resentment that's been bothering you). I'm sure we could all this a little more often. It's hard to think of one and than go to that person and forgive, especially if they aren't really expecting it. I ended up forgiving Joshua for a little incident that happened on my birthday night. He apologized and we both said our "I love you's". It felt good!

Day 9 of 365 - Choose the longer walk home. Well, it just so happens that if I take the longer drive home, I pass by my cousins place. So I packed some movies and food and went for a famjam visit after work.

Day 10 of 365 - Send a friend a beloved book from your shelf. I was pretty excited for this one! I knew the book AND the person....went to grab the book and it wasn't there. Seems though I do this deed often. So, I cheated and went out to buy the book again, just to send it away.

Day 11 of 365 - Treat Yourself. I thought this was hard. Then I realized I treated myself by not really worrying about it. I bought a coffee, I made my favourite sandwich, and I had a low key date night with Joshua and his friend HB.

Day 12 of 365 - Take your neighbour's trash bins in off the curb. Unfortunately, this happened on the holiday monday, so it didn't work out too well. I also live in the country and you don't see your neighbours bins too often. I did my party by picking up some trash at the labour day event in the park.

Day 13 of 365 - Leave your change in the vending machine for the next person.
So I don't usually have change on me, but I did today! I went to the vending machine at work to purchase myself a soda pop and put an extra dollar in the machine for someone else's purchase.

I hope you've been following along, and if not, give some of them a go now!

Take care and be happy!

one good deed a day

So like I said, I started my good deed project. And so far it has been a fairly smooth journey. Im thoroughly enjoying everyone who is also following along with me.

The deeds so far have been as follows:

Day 1 - Smile at a Stranger.
Have you met me? Mission accomplished! I decided to up the ante and smile at everyone in the grocery store and also say good afternoon. For the most part it was well received, though some people just avoided eye contact.

Day 2 - Become an Organ Donor.
Disappointed. I was already an organ donor, but after a discussion with Joshua and an email with the Trillium Gift of Life Network that deals with the transplanting of organs, I learned that because I have slept with a man I am considered to be in the same category as IV drug users and those who are frequently incarcerated....Yeah, I wasnt too happy about that either.

Day 3 - Add Money to an Expired Meter.
Check! Thanks to Joshua going into town for me! Talk about true love!

Day 4 - Talk About What You're Grateful For.
I told Joshua how much he means to me and I let my family and friends how grateful I am for them. I also am very grateful for the life I have.

Day 5 - Pick Up Some Trash.
This one I try to do on a regular basis as well, but I decided to focus on Skeleton Park by Joshua's neighbourhood and take the time to pick up some trash around there.

So far its been fun and rewarding! I hope the ripple effect is working.

Let me know in the comments below

Heeeeeere's Johnny...rather Jason.

I'm Back! Welcome me!

I know that it has been a while and as per usual I have no excuse, but life.

Quick update: still employed with the government, Joshua and I are madly in love, family is well, and though I still have my lows, life if pretty freakin' sweet.

Im excited to be back, and what better day to start than the day before my birthday.

I purchased a new book to talk about.

It's a Journal that I got on sale! Holla! It's called "One Good Deed A Day" by A BUNCH of people. It was basically created by a pile of people who want the word to be a better place. Each page has a deed to do; whether its for a stranger, someone you know, or maybe just taking a well deserved good deed for yourself.

Starting tomorrow, I will open the book to the first page and perform each deed in order. I will write the date that I completed the deed (hopefully daily) and write a reflection on what I did, who I helped, and/or how I felt. I will also be posting daily on my facebook page to get the deed out there and hoping that friends and followers will take charge and bring positivity to the world.

The opening page says, kindness is contagious. So I ask, will you catch what I have?

absence makes the heart grow stronger?

It does right? I think it's true...but lame! You know what also makes your heart grow stronger, spending more time with the ones you love. And unfortunately, I have been neglecting you all! Life is busy, but I should always makes time for my blog. It's been over a month since my last post and even then, I was doing poorly. Starting today, I am going to try to get back into the swing of things! Which is silly, because after tonight, my schedule is completely crazy and hectic! Oh well, Im ridiculously organized, so I will just have to make the time! 

Miss and love you all!!

happy thanksgiving.

It's Thanksgiving here in Canada and I have plenty to be thankful for; my family, friends, a job, a roof over my head, someone special in my life, food, water, and many more things that I could list on for days. Instead of boring you with that, I decided to share a couple of photos from this past weekend:

The apple pies that I made for my family dinner on Sunday.

Apple Pie #1

Apple Pie #2

The centerpieces that my cousin Kathy and I attempted to create for our dinner on Sunday

Centerpiece #1

Centerpiece #2

The flowers that Joshua bought me on Saturday night. 

We werent going to get to spend Thanksgiving together, so this was quite sweet.

And because I'm funny, I like to celebrate any holiday to it's fullest, here is the dinner I made for myself tonight. Just Jason. Lone Wolf Thanksgiving!

So to the rest of you out there, Happy Thanksgiving! 

Please be thankful for the many joys in your life!

Especially the ones that are taken for granted.

nipples.

are weird.

That's pretty much it. 

Also…why are female nipples sexualized/blurred out and males aren’t? 

My challenge for you is to take the time and fully stare at a nipple. Yours, someone else's, I don't really care, just take about 5 minutes of your day and fully get in there.

The varieties!

Anyways! Happy nippling!

Dear Gram.

Yesterday was the 4 year anniversary of my Grandmas death. I always try to look a the positive, so I wasn't too upset, but I couldn't help but get a little emotional.

I was thinking about my home and how much she would have loved it. I even thought about how great it would have been, because she probably would have asked to be my room mate when I was looking! Talk about an amazing time!

Then I started to think about how she was always wanting the best for me and couldn't wait for me to find someone who would make me so happy. Now that I have Joshua, it makes me disappointed he wasn't around sooner. Is it weird that I want to take him to the grave site to introduce them to each other? I don't think so, but I'm weird like that.

Luckily, she lives on in my memories and through all the kind words of others. Those who know how much she meant to me always send me kind words that day, so it means a lot to me as well.

On a side/related note. I went to her grave yesterday to clean it up a bit and leave a penny for her thoughts, and I found another penny had already been placed there. Now I'm on a mission to see which family member or random friend does the same as me! I love it! Does anyone else leave a penny in the cemetery when you got to visit a loved one? I'm intrigued, is this a normal thing? Details!