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Over the Garden Wall Cosplay test. See you on Saturday, emeraldcitycomicon!

C&C Cosplay Canada: facebook / tumblr

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Making my friends feel better, one stupid pickup line at a time

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Fact: i make the best get well cards for friends whoes hearts get broke

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How to get over past mistakes

1. Remind yourself that everyone makes mistakes, does things wrongs, and has moments of regret. There are no perfect people out there. In that sense, you are just the same as everybody else.

2. Remind yourself that “that was then, and this is now”. You can’t turn back the clocks and change what you did, but you can be a different person in the future.

3. Allow yourself to experience and name the feelings you are struggling with (regret, guilt, shame, disappointment, embarrassment, sadness, etc.) – then make the decision to let those feelings go. In the end, it’s unhealthy to become attached to them.

4. Ask yourself what you can learn from the situation. What would you do differently if you found yourself in that situation again? How can it change the person you are now (so that you feel better about yourself)?

5. Recognise that failings and mistakes are part of the growth process. It’s inevitable that you’ll encounter obstacles, challenges and failures throughout life. Don’t let that stop you from really living life.

6. Remind yourself that “it was what you did, it’s not who you are.” Don’t allow any single event or experience to define you. You are more than – so don’t let that become your identity. Don’t let it determine your destiny.  

7. Give yourself the gift of a new start. Forgive yourself, let go of the past, and with confidence move on with your life.

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For the past five years I've been sending and receiving emails to/from myself. Sometimes they are long passages detailing big moments or big fears. Other times its one liners telling me things will be okay.

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I've been thinking alot of the items we own and the items we leave behind. What if you had to choose one everyday item to represent a person. What would it be? For my mum, it would be her stopwatch with the broken rewind button. She was old school when she worked in broadcasting and kept this around long after she had to reset it with a paperclip after every use. To this day it's still all buiness and never looses a second. My dad would be his frist pair of glasses that I wouldn't be shocked if he made them himself. The glass is cut uneven and they sit a little lopsided but the edges are smooth and its all surprisingly light. They aren't neat or pretty but he looks very sweet wearing them as a geeky teenager. These items were made to last but I feel like most of our everyday items are so temporary and single use it would be hard to associate and link a personal history to one thing. We replace. We don't grow attached. If you had to pick an item to represent you, would you have an easy time choosing? #history #family

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Leftovers from new years eve

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Snowing in Toronto

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Morning routine

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Holiday reading

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Anyone else on?

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"Rape Joke" 

Our alumni is currently a finalist in Brave New Voices 2014. We are honored to have been part of such an amazing young woman’s journey. Rhiannon is now tackling social justice issues and we couldn’t be more proud.

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It’s been over a decade since American psychologists Leaf Van Boven and Thomas Gilovich concluded that doing things makes people happier than having things. “To Do or to Have? That Is the Question” was the title of the study they published in 2003 (PDF), and it’s been cited hundreds of times since.

Many people now recognize that spending money on, say, a plane ticket for a vacation is more satisfying in the long run than purchasing a new television for the same price. But happiness studies keep evolving, and social scientists continue to find new ways of understanding precisely how our economic choices affect well-being.

A new paper, this one also co-authored by Thomas Gilovich, hones in on another difference between experiential and material purchases: how people feel before they make these purchases, when they’re simply entertaining thoughts of booking flights to the Caribbean or going to the movies, or thinking about shopping for clothing or jewelry.

Gilovich and his colleagues asked subjects to think about either an experiential or material purchase they were planning on making very soon, evaluate whether their anticipation made them feel excited or impatient, and rate the overall pleasantness of the anticipation.

The researchers also conducted a separate study in which they polled 2,226 adults on their iPhones at random times to ask whether the individuals were, in that moment, contemplating any future purchases (and if so, whether the purchase would be experiential or material, and whether they associated the thoughts with markedly pleasant, exciting, or impatient anticipatory feelings).

You Should Spend Money on Experiences, Not Things - CityLab

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Politeness has become so rare that people mistake it for flirtation.

Unknown (via perfect)

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that moment you realize that yes, you are in fact mable