This year has been a journey for me. I started writing this entry in May, but things have changed a lot even since then. I have a son who was singled out as having some behaviour issues in school, which I won’t go into detail about, but they led to us making doctor appointments, and getting referrals for autism evaluations. The process led to me ( Read more... )

On September 26th, 2015, I got up on stage with my improv troupe, YUM, and delivered a 90 second monologue about how I’d bingewatched seven seasons of Supernatural in the previous five weeks (you can watch the clip below, if you’re interested).

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I’d started out just wanting to catch up on the series before season 11 started, but that only required ( Read more... )

This post is part review, part personal commentary. I turned 32 yesterday, and my gift from my husband’s parents was a ticket to see If/Then at SHN Orpheum in San Francisco. I really enjoyed it, and it brought up a lot of reflection and thoughts for me, so I wanted to share some of them here. Please note that there may be some minor spoilers about ( Read more... )

"Oh yeah, I forgot you're white," my Indian friend said to me last night as we were enjoying drinks at a pub ( Read more... )

This is a totally improvised conversational video blog post about the history of my personal nicknames.

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It was your typical hour between the therealljidol elimination results post and the new topic going up. I was chatting to a fellow contestant and we were commiserating about how close we came to being eliminated ourselves.

Then:

comedychick: topic
comedychick: fucking what? o.O
joeymichaels: noumenon?
comedychick: what does that mean?
joeymichaels: ( Read more... )

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My husband tells me that sometimes I am too honest to the point where I just sound rude. Whereas it's my opinion where I would rather have someone tell me something that they might think is rude than assume the worst. I'm very perceptive when it comes to picking up on people's attitudes, body language and what they don't say. So when someone ( Read more... )

I have now been a mum for 10 days. After a conversation I had with my dad yesterday, I have felt inspired to share my views on motherhood and womanhood in today's society.

I was born into Generation Y. Generation Y is still very young, considering I'm one of the older kids in the generation, and I'm only 23. I, however, don't believe I'm ( Read more... )