Category Archives: failures

Neither a supermodel nor a super model, but one does what one can.

A few months ago my friend Tisha (you might remember her amazing bags that I got to review last year) asked me if I would try on a skirt she had made and take pictures in it and give the … Continue reading

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Promising Blogger Shredded to Death

25 January 2010 Alberta, Canada Twenty three year-old blogger and promising young novelist, Camille Archives of Archives of Our Lives, died today after struggling through the popular twenty-minute workout DVD, Jillian’s 30-Day Shred. According to the last blog post she … Continue reading

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I’ll have Try with a side of Success, please. Mmm…this Success is delicious. Thanks, I made it myself.

I didn’t set any official new year’s resolutions this year, because New Year’s Eve sneaked up on me and by the time it rolled around, I was loading up tissue after tissue with enormous amounts of snot, declaring my hatred … Continue reading

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She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an “L” on her forehead.

***Because this is an even-numbered year and because I’m sick of waiting around for life to grant me with success, I have decided to take this year as an opportunity to enter every contest for which I am eligible.  The … Continue reading

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If This is Life, I’m Off to a Real Bad Start

Some of you might be aware of the fact that I live my life, overwhelmingly, through guilt. I eat what I eat (or don’t eat what I don’t eat) because of the guilt I know will invariably come when I’ve … Continue reading

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The Anger Games

This holiday season has passed just a bit too quickly for me. I don’t feel refreshed and rejuvenated and ready for another semester; instead, I feel downtrodden and slightly more exhausted than when I left Canada a week ago. But … Continue reading

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Chaos

Method to the madness.  An organised mess.  Carnage.  Call it what you will—it is my reality. As an aspiring writer (I hate those two words put together like that—they only reinforce the fact that I am not yet a professional … Continue reading

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