Self-Actualised Me

An mildly weird person's journey to self-fulfilment, genuine happiness and making her dreams her reality.

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Best. Familiar. Ever. #catsofinstagram #tripodcat #tuxedocat #catladylife https://www.instagram.com/p/B9QGGbjHj_Z/?igshid=10xdv0f3l2f8s

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These boys made me feel like a Queen. 🤣 #landscapeontariocongress2019 #kawarthacustomcutstone #theseboysareawesome (at Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbewNuFn_t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nwm067wl691q

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Had a nice hiking day on Tuesday with a new friend! If you haven't explored Mount Nemo Conservation Area I totally recommend it. As you can see, we climbed through a lot of fissures we found along the hiking trail. Stumbled upon the Dsrk Door to the Paths of the Dead too. Luckily, life is good and I have no need of ghost army. Carried on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #hamont #mountnemo #hiking #winterhiking #wheresthesnow #ontario #newfriends #lotr #eridnimrais #shadowhost #nerdalert #mygeekisshowing (at Mount Nemo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrnI-scl9s-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1trfgwgwwyt9d

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Second year going to @soundofmusicfest with this stud. Had fun trying samples at the #lcbo tent and posing with @worstyj! The only thing that would have made this birthday gift better would have been some @eve6 merch and for their set to have never ended! I hope I can see them perform again! All the other bands, Tonic, @everclear, Rainbow Butt Monkeys (Finger 11) @therejects, @simpleplan @sublime were incredible and I hope to get another chance to watch them perform again! 😍 (at Sound of Music Festival)

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IT'S VOTING DAY!!! Anyone who knows me knows I find nothing - literally nothing - more exciting than civic participation! Be present! Be active! Participate in society and know that you are sharing your voice with political parties on what you value most! #gooutandvote #noexcuses #changeforthebetter #HorwathFTW #andreahorwath2018 #ndp #wwjld #vote #orangecrush2k18 #ontarioelection (at Hamilton, Ontario)

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So much has happened since my last post! Kinda hard to decide where to start so I'm doing a photo dump highlighting the last few months of enjoying the wonderful spring season that has come to Ontario! I started working for a great company so half the photos are related to the maintenance work I have helped with. About to start working on some install projects and I couldn't be more excited! Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season as much as I and @worstyj are!

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These moments make my heart explode. 😻💕🤸 . . . #catsofinstagram #oldmancat #19yearsold #grandpacat #sly #sylvester #mr.sly #mycatshavetoomanynames

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Happy New Years to everyone from me and @worstyj! Here's to hoping 2018 is a more prosperous than 2017! 😗💞🎉

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The last two days I have spent trying to find closure with one of the most influential people in my life. You hear it often throughout life that you should make time for the people you love and care for most and many of us make silent promises that we will. But life gets busy and complicated and you're forced to make tough choices and sometimes you just end up being selfish. You skip out on going over for tea that afternoon to grab an extra shift at work. You cancel those plans for lunch because you haven't had a day off in awhile and just want to spend the day in bed or with friends or catching up on cleaning. This past year I have been so caught up in trying to get ahead, facing setbacks and then trying to get back to a financially stable situation for myself. I have been so caught up in myself that I let quite a few opportunities to make some last memories with her slip by. That will hurt for a long time, maybe forever. Being with her the past two days, getting to hold her hand and kiss her cheeks gave me some solace. I was able to apologise and I was able to spend time with her one last time. I wish there would have been more Skip-Bo, I wish I could see her produce more art - she absolutely loved to paint, and I wish I could hear her no-nonsense spunky attitude when she was feeling particularly stubborn about something. I will miss her showing me around her garden and indoor plants. I will miss her shoo-ing Mormons and Jehovahs away from the door every weekend. I will miss her big early morning breakfasts and Saturday garage-saleing. I will miss the 30's club group hugs. I will miss and cherish all the wonderful time I had growing up around her. She was the Matriarch of my family to me. She'll always be the Pearl in my heart, I will always miss her, I will always love her and I promise to be more vigilant in not letting work and my personal life take away making memories with family henceforth. RIP Grandma Pearl I love you. I love you. I love you.

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So this is the obstacle I got stuck with my left arm wedged in the space between that pipe across the top of the ramp and the actual platform you climb up onto before starting your descent down the other side. 😅 It took @worstyj holding me leaning my torso back off the ramp to keep my arm straight and another volunteer pushing against the pipe whilst Luigi pulled like a beast to wrench me free. Whole process was 5-10minutes and luckily nothing is broken, just a wee bit banged up lol. Very interesting experience at #MudHero2017

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Some of the photos taken for #MudHero2017! I'm officially in love and addicted to obstacle runs! That was the most fun experience I have had all summer. Its tiring and I learned a lot about what kinds of training I need to focus on for the next one so that it's easier to endure and complete. I completed every obstacle but I was unable to run the whole way because of the number of steep hills the track included. I should have included the different Hamilton stairs locations into my training much more than I did. Thank you, @worstyj for being such an amazing partner and for being apart of this experience with me! You helped me train and prepare for this and I doubt I would have done so well or had as much fun without you.

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#MudHero2017

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How to wake and annoy a Tripod Mew: Leave the sound on so you hear every snap being taken. 😽✌

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Training on the Kennilworth stairs for #MudHero. Got some really nice photos while running along the trails. 😊✌

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Cats are lovably weird. Shes passed out in that strange position. Its so incredibly hard not to smoosh her with my love....! #catsofinstagram #catsofig #furbaby #tripodcat #floofy

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Day 4 of Week 2: Raw Food. Week 1 finished on a very good note. I felt more energetic again and started running and exercising again. I wake up more easily and feel and know the difference between thirst and hunger. I've lost 6lbs. Week 2 has had its own challenges. It's been difficult to come up with genuine raw dishes. I eat a lot of kale salads. I've had more spring rolls (and learned -duh!- that rice paper is not raw) than I ever planned to with homemade peanut sauce (totally amazing but again, learned that natural peanut butter is not raw) l. So a friend was nice enough to allow me to drag him to #rawlicious for dinner. It was tasty, but I find #RawAura does raw vegan food much better. I'd like to learn how Rawlicious makes the onion bread for the sandwiches. That was really neat and tasty! My creative juices haven't been flowing as much as I had hoped this week. I still make protein smoothies and juice to supplement my diet this week, so I am still, for the most part raw, but I am not living up to 100% whole foods. If anyone has any suggestions for raw food dishes to get me through the rest of the week - and to start Week 3: Raw till 4, please share! 😍😀 (at Hamilton, Ontario)

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20lbs to go! #justthebeginning #weightlossjourney #nopainnogain #noexcuses #motivated #inspired