Day Fifteen! - 30 Day Challenge

What is your zodiac/horoscope and if you think it suits your personality

I am a Cancer and YES! I think my sign suits me very well. I follow @ZodiacFacts on Twitter and there are quite a number of things about Cancers that I have to retweet or nod and say YES!! How did you know?! lol. I am a Cancer and I Love It!!


What about you? What's your zodiac sign and do you think it suits your personality?

Relationships

Disclaimer: I am no expert...heck I don't even have legit experience lol. I'm just talking (well typing what's on my mind). If anything doesn't seem to flow, I apologize. I'm a bit of a scatter brain at times.

I came across this website Facts About Boys and found some of the things I looked at a bit interesting. My good friend Ashni posted on her blog (Struggles of the Strong) asking why do guys start getting into a girl and then plap just stop calling and the Facts gave some good indicators to know when a guy has rejected you (I find rejected such a harsh word, but that may be because it happened to me lol). I found it quite humourous actually, that the first indicator of you've been rejected is "he stops calling you/returning or replying to your messages." Okay. Wow. Ouch. Slap in the face much? Yea, it is. I don't get why people aren't open and honest. What if I'm a bit slow and suffer from Delayed Reaction Syndrome and hence pick up on these things a bit later than other people?!? Why can't you just say hey I've got what I wanted, I'm out. Or conversely, I'm just not that into you anymore.

Sometimes I think it's easy for me to say that because I'm a lot tougher (at least in my mind) than a lot of other girls who can't handle the harsh, point blank truth. I don't really like people watering down things or buttering it up. Sometimes the cold hard truth is best. So maybe there's some guy out there who's reading this shaking his head saying these women don't know what they want. It's not that we don't know what we want, it's just that we're all different lol. How does a guy know which woman can handle to point blank truth, and which one can't? Sigh. I guess you pay attention and see how tough they are. But that entails actually paying full attention to them, getting to know them, and that still might lead to pity for getting so far along and then ploop, dropping them. Relationships are complicated. And some people are snakes.


Well that's all the blabbering I'll be doing today. What are your thoughts on my randomness (if it makes any sense at all :S I need to work on that for real). How do you decipher who to be frank with and who needs to have tricks and pointers thrown at them?


The Empress

Day Fourteen! - 30 Day Challenge

What you wore today


Well, I didn't have to go to work today so for the majority of the day, once I got out of bed I just has on a wrap, tied around my neck and secured with a belt. Later on in the day I had to shoot a video so I wore an army green fitted cargo pants, grey V neck shirt, denim waistcoat (dressed with some badges). I was going for a kinda military look.

Day Thirteen! - 30 Day Challenge

Your opinion on your body and how comfortable you are with it

I have my issues with my body but generally speaking, I adore my body. The stretch marks, moles, hairs, birthmark, curves and lack there of. I love myself and my body. Surely there are things that I wish I could have changed, or I wish were different (well not really) but still, I've grown to appreciate the vessel I've been given and because of that I understand that there are things I don't like but I don't let it control me. If it's something I can change for example - get more toned - I change it. Go to the gym, etc. If it's something that will either require a lot of work or money or cannot change, I just leave it alone. If anyone doesn't like anything about me....BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! You thought I'd care? Ummmm no! It's mine. My body and if you don't like something don't look at me! lol. I think the obsession with being perfect instead of being natural is ridiculous. I love me (8) just the way I am!!!!! (8) And you should too ;-)

The Empress

Day Twelve! - 30 Day Challenge

Five guys whom you find attractive

In no particular order:

Idris Elba

Marlon Palmer - follow him on Twitter @ThatDudeMCFLY. He's so funny and real! Fabulous guy!

Vybz Kartel

BAHAHAH!!!! Kiddingggggggggggg!

Al Green...he's got one of those baby faces

Dwyane Wade (yes I know a bunch of people who are mad right now lol, but oh well!! I think he's attractive. What can I say?!)

Last and by no means least (he's so delicious!! I wished so badly to see him as a guest judge when I went to see So You Think You Can Dance Canada...but alas he wasn't *sad face*)

Nico Archambault - Season One Winner of So You Think You Can Dance Canada!!

So, give me 5 men/women you find attractive

Day Eleven! - 30 Day Challenge

Your family


What about them? I love my biological family. And the other families I have been adopted into are awesome as well. That's about it lol.


Your family...what would your answer be?

The Empress

Day Ten! - 30 Day Challenge

Put your music player on shuffle and write the first ten songs that play

• The Weeknd - Wicked Games
• John Legned and Brandy - Quickly
• Adele - Take It All
• India Arie - The One
• The Cranberries - Linger
• Notch - Nuttin A Gwan So
• Sedale - Nah Stop Whinning
• Ricky T - OK There
• Gwen Stefani - Harajuku Girls
• India Arie - Ready for Love

What ten tracks came up on your music player?

Day Nine! - 30 Day Challenge

How important you think education is

Wow! Do I have enough time or energy to talk about this? Way to tired for it, but I've gotta answer the question!!

Okay. So I'm assuming that the writer of this list was thinking along the lines of traditional education. I  think traditional education is important because it helps you attain success within our society. The limitations that traditional education has is the biggest problem with it. I think education should be free and not so bloody expensive! Something that will take supposedly take persons from poverty to not even riches but comfort is very restricted. I also think that when getting an education, do what you're interested is and you will go far, but that doesn't mean that whatever you do, even if you're not into it can't be useful at some time.

All in all (and I do apologize for the crappy post), I think education is important, and if you have the opportunity to get an education in something, take it. You never know when you may be able to use it.

How important is education to you? And how did you perceive this question?

Day Eight! - 30 Day Challenge

What you ate today


In order

• two chocolate truffles (yes...I had chocolate for breakfast)
• cesaer salad (no I'm not trying to make up for the chocolate I ate...I was just really hungry and wanted something substantial)
• chewy oat and chocolate Fiber One bar
• chocolate-raspberry tea (in case you didn't know, yes I am addicted to chocolate)
• Quaker Cheddar Crispy Minis
• pretzels
• 7 Up
• rice, salad and stewed chicken

Yes, I know....*hangs head in shame* What I eat is terrible!! Where's the calcium?! Where's the dairy? =( I'm going to work on that

What did you eat today? Do share!

The Empress

Day Seven! - 30 Day Challenge

Five pet peeves 

Oh boy...what to choose. Some of these I've spoken about but hey, I'll mention them again!

In no particular order of hatred, 5 of my pet peeves:

• Guys with their pants half way down their thighs. See I don't mind part of your boxers showing...BUT THE WHOLE THINGS?!?! Really? sigh. Moving on
• Dirty bathrooms. Just..just disgusting. If you're using the toilet, flush. Don't get it on the seat, or the floor! Oh gosh...moving on!
• You're on the bus or in a building and someone is having a conversation via text/bbm/whatever on their cell phone and they have a ringtone/sound for when they get a message. The phone is in their hand and it's still making a sound...CONTINUALLY!! Every two second ding ding ding dong. ding ding ding dong. ding ding ding dong. PUT IT ON SILENT!! ARGGG!!! That's a big one. My phone is 95% of the time set to Phone Calls Only - it rings only when it's a call. And trust me when I tell you noone calls me. Sigh. I just. Can't. Hate it.
• People who refuse to be open minded...Case in point - a number of international students tell you international students are not rich. You still don't listen and keep say nah nah they're rich because they're paying $17 000 a year for tuition..................Do you know what a student loan or a double mortaged house or land is?! LISTEN TO WHAT THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE TELLING YOU ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO TO GET AN EDUCATION!!!!! Sigh. That's just one example. I'm not even going to talk about more.
• This one's pretty simple - having wet socks. I hate wearing sneakers/runners/whatever you call them and my socks get wet because it was raining heavily or I stepped in a puddle. Wet socks are not fun times.

Those are five of my pet peeves. Do you share the same ones I do?? What are five of your pet peeves? Leave a comment below!!

The Empress