Birthdays

On my birthday I had dinner with a few friends at the Drake Hotel in downtown Toronto which is something that I've wanted to do for awhile. It was also a dinner to celebrate a birthday for a friend that had a birthday earlier on in the week. The place was very nice and the music they played added to the relaxed atmosphere, we had our meal at the sky yard tunnel.

Sky Yard Tunnel

I ordered the mushroom gnocchi which tasted amazing, if you're ever in downtown Toronto and like mushrooms you should definitely try it out. I was feeling under the weather, so I wasn't able to finish my meal. I ended up leaving early with John. I also forget to take pictures of the food until I was ready to leave oops. 

Tastes better than it looks

The whole event was harder to set up than I would like to admit but, in the end it all worked out. Since the Drake is in a part of the city that I haven't explored yet, I was very grateful that I met up with John and went down there with him and my other friend. Or else I would've gotten lost for sure. John also gave me a beautiful bracelet fit for a princess on my birthday. 

 I bought John two pairs of dress shirts for his birthday. I figured I would get him something that he would use regularly, that's also different from the stuff he already owns. I also guessed his size and got it right so I was very pleased with that. Johns birthday didn't go smoothly at all I ended up not going to his party because of a major telecommunication issue (the cellphone towers stopped working), I ended up having dinner elsewhere and going home. I gave him his gift later on this month. He liked the gift and said that I gave him the most useful one this year.

What did you do or have planned for your birthday this year?

New Music

Artwork by Erin O'Malley

Okay so it's been more than awhile since I've written. I intend to write again in the near future, I've just been working so much. I was looking for some new music on Soundcloud and found this really cool tune by Tajan & fwdslxsh called 'Beautiful' on the Soulection channel. This song is very catchy once you get into it.

You can download 'Beautiful' by Tajan & fwdslxsh here on the Soulection Soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/soulection/tajan-fwdslxsh-beautiful.

New Job Follow Up

My last post was about the process I went through to get my job at Value Village. Here is my follow up post, my first official day of work was today, I basically just organized the sales floor for most of my shift. I did have to chance to help a few customers look at jewelry which was the most exciting part of my shift besides break. The most tedious part of the job is making sure the clothing racks are in order because there are three managers on at the same time and they all have a different way of doing things. So I was very confused. By the end of my shift I was just so relieved to be on the bus heading home. My feet are hurting so bad from standing 90% of the time. My first day coming in to work was this wednesday but I won't count that as my first day, because I was just watching training videos and doing quizzes for most of the time which took five hours to finish, and I had to stay back later and organize the sales floor. A major positive of this job is that it motivates me to aggressively look for another one. As I am writing this I am in bed waiting for my food to digest so I can sleep, I'm so sure that this whole post seems a bit like an incoherent rant, but I just figured that I better right it now. 

New Job

For the past few months since I have been looking for a summer job, summer's pretty much over but luckily I got something to do. I applied to Value Village online about two months ago and forgot about it. Then three weeks ago I got a call about my application, and was invited to a group interview. The group interview was pretty uncomfortable for me since; I didn't know what to expect and being around other nervous people, just makes things worse. However interviewers liked me and gave me a date for a second interview. Which was a one on one, it went fairly smoothly and I was much more at ease. The interviewer seemed pretty pleased with the way I handled myself, when he told me to make a hippy costume in 10 minutes. I apparently made the best costume he'd seen all day. He told me that I would find out within two weeks if I got the position or not. Unfortunately there was a big mix up with my references and I thought, I wouldn't get the job. However in the end after that was ironed out and a third interview with the district manager I was offered the job a day later. Last friday I attended the orientation which was just standard company policy review, paperwork, tours, and basic information. I start my first official day tomorrow as a sales clerk. The only thing I am on edge about is working the cash register. I am severely horrible at math and I am pretty sure I will be super slow at counting change. I guess I will just have to see how it goes since I won't be on cash for a week or so. Hopefully their cash registers are super easy to use. Also out of all the people that were interviewed which was about two groups of eight. Only three people showed up to the orientation, I'm not sure if I should feel good, or worried.

Will Trap Be The New Dubstep?

  I've been listening to dubstep since late 2009 when it was fairly underground to North Americans, and kept listening throughout it's rise to popularity. I first discovered the genre from listening to Zomby, while his music is not considered dubstep, I somehow found out about it through him and from there I discovered artists such as; Skream, Caspa, Benga, & Burial. The genre gained noticeable fame throughout North America in late 2010 however, the sound had evolved into something that sounded nothing like the stuff I had been listening to earlier on. Especially Skrillex's music which pretty much just sounds like one big computer malfunction. Since then the genre seems to be less popular than it was before, and I think a new genre will take it's place in the foreground of popular culture. I am predicting that genre to be trap, it has the same bass heavy qualities, but the tempo structure is completely different. Even though dubstep is declining in popularity I will keep listening to it. Below are a few tracks from both genres, you can compare the two genres for yourself.

My Top Four Picks From The Body Shop UK

The Body Shop is one of my favourite companies, I always try to purchase as many of my beauty products from there as possible. They do not test on animals and have been campaigning against animal testing in the EU for 20 years, which has paid off since animal testing is now banned in the EU. They are now campaigning with Cruelty Free International to end it worldwide. Click here to sign the pledge

Here are a few of my favorite items from The Body Shop
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New Set Up On Soundcloud

If you're into witch house/trap/experimental/electronica this is for you. If you don't know what any of those genres are give it a listen.