All work and no play!

              It’s that time of year again. For those in university or college, this is the crunch time of final exams, yikes! So before we can enjoy the freedom of summer, we have to experience hell first! This is a very stressful, busy, and demanding time of year for most people, and with such large responsibilities to think about, people forget to take care of themselves! I thought id give you all a few tips to help clear your mind and keep healthy during such stressful times.
1. Sleep: getting the right amount of hours of sleep, especially during this time, is crucial. You’re putting a lot of strain on your body & mind so it’s very important to replenish all that used energy by getting a sufficient amount of sleep. 7-8 hours would be optimal. If you have a hard time sleeping when you're stressed, try drinking camomile tea. Not only does it taste great, but it helps relax your body and mind. Some of you may think you don’t have time to sleep; however, putting that much stress on your body and not sleeping enough is definitely detrimental to your well being. Your body can only handle so much strain!
2. Eat healthy: Your body needs all the nutrients it can get during these times! Try to stay away from fast food, although it’s tempting when you have minimal time, it’s very detrimental to your well being. Instead, chose foods that help fight fatigue; such as, nuts, spinach, whole wheat, , yogurt, dark choclate, etc. There are plenty healthy & tasty alternatives to the yucky fast food options!
3. Drink plenty of fluids: water water water! Make sure you keep hydrated because it will help get rid of those nasty headaches you may be getting. If you need to get your quick fix of caffeine, try green tea instead of a fancy mocha shmocha from starbucks. Not only is green tea cheaper, it also gives you enough caffeine to keep you alert with a bonus of various health benefits. 
4. Work out: Even if you work out for 10-20 minutes a day, it’s better than nothing. You’re putting so much strain on yourself that working out for a few minutes a day will help you feel less stressed, and happier. Exercising releases endorphins, and endorphins make you happy! So work out!
5. Don’t procrastinate: For whatever reason, we all seem to do it! But lets get real, if you didn’t procrastinate so much, you wouldn’t be freaking out right now! So study a few hours every day whenever you have a chance. Instead of watching a movie with your best friends, stay in and get a head! Im writing this entry while in class…. Perhaps I should take my own advice, haha!


I know everyone is stressed out, but you have to remember to take care of yourself because your body & mind can only take so much! Study study study! When exams are over, it will be well worth it. Just remember, summer is around the corner, suffer now so you can play later! ;)


-Good luck everyone!

Fun in the Sun

If you’re like me you love summer more than anything, and are overjoyed by the thought of its arrival. If you’re also like me, then you’ll spend most of your summer wasting your time by watching TV or playing on the internet. Before you know it summer is over. I found this this was my problem and it makes the happiness of summer descend. STOP DOING THIS. I’ve decided I’m going to give you a few ideas to keep in mind when you are sitting inside watching a re-run of a show you don’t really like, or looking at the fun other people are having on Facebook.              

1.       Read a damn book. You may think you’re not a reader, but you just haven’t found the right book(s). The Hunger Games—good stuff right there. If you’re a hopeless romantic go with the classic Nicholas Sparks book. I strongly suggest the book The Guardian by him. Phenomenal. Go outside to do your reading. Try going in your backyard, front porch, or at a friend’s house while tanning—anything to get outdoors.

2.       Don’t be a loner. If you’re doing nothing and your friend is doing nothing, well go ahead and do nothing together. That may fuel you to actually do something fun.

3.       Crafts. Hit up Pinterest for some ideas on fun crafts that you can do. I usually look on that website and think “Wow that looks fun and moderately easy to do” but I never actually do it. Be better than me and do it.

4.       Go for a bike ride/rollerblade/walk. Get out and be active. Go find a nice trail or somewhere with some nice scenery and take it all in.

5.       Try new places to eat, preferably with a patio. It’s always fun to discover new little lunch places. You never know what you’ll find…potential goldmines there. If you don’t feel like eating just go for drinks with your friends during the day.

6.       Get up to date on what your city has to offer. For example, in Windsor, our art gallery is free on Wednesdays. We can go there and become more cultured for free, it’s a prefect deal.

Enjoy the beauty weather while it lasts!

How to be the Best Drunk Ever

The weekend is fast approaching so I thought I would give everyone some pointers on how to be the funny happy drunk that everyone loves instead of the shitty crying drunk that everyone wants to punch in the throat. I know both routes pretty well so I thought that I would be the best person for this...

First things first you need to go in the night with a positive attitude. In your head, I want you to be thinking "I'm being funny tonight. I'm going to be drunk and everyone is going to worship my free-spirit and fun-ness." It's okay to get a little cocky at this point. After you have sufficiently reassured yourself of this it is time to spread the word! Last weekend I did this by sending a lil text to a friend I was going out with that said "Can't wait for tonight! Let's be funny drunks!" Everyone needs to be aware that this is the goal of the night and ultimately it will get you pumped up for all the fun things you're going to do once the night begins. I get that I sound a little bit like a faggot right now but just bear with me.

Next, I want you to drink tequila. I've tested this theory numerous times and I can honestly say that tequila never sets you up for a bad night....especially when you're chasing it with pickle juice. Steer clear of your vodkas and other hard liquors. Vodka tastes like ass anyways. If you're not down with tequila, which I know many people aren't, your next best bet would be beer. Beer also never fails. I suggest either bonging or shotgunning it to an upbeat song.

Finally, I want you to act upon every dumbass thought that enters your head while you're out and already sufficiently wasted. A personal example I can give you for this is kicking a guy in the nuts while on your friends back and then shouting "IM A FIESTY MIDGET!" Other ideas include screaming at the top of your lungs for no apparent reason, convincing people to buy you drunks because you have a disease and only have a couple days to live, trying to pay cover with 5 cents Canadian tire money, and stealing random people's belongings from the bar such as jackets, cell phones, purses, or whatever you can get your hands on really...

So there we have it ladies and gents! Call me biased but I would say these tips are pretty much foolproof.... ;) Added bonus if you implement them for St. Patty's day as well......

CHEERS :)

Throwback Songs of the Week

Here are some songs that you may have forgotten about, and really shouldn't have.

Nelly, P. Diddy, Murphy Lee: Shake Ya Tail feather

Del Amitri: Roll to Me

J-Lo and Ja Rule: I'm Real

 

 

 Barenaked Ladies: One Week

 

Smash Mouth: All Star

Bucket List For The Girls

Hello march! Well, our group of friends likes to maximize the fun as much as possible when we go out, and one of our great tricks too achieving this is a bucket list! We create an outrageous list of things to accomplish during an evening (e.g.: convince someone that we are famous). The bucket lists gets everyone excited to go out and also gives everyone some goals of the night. 

Guidelines to making a crazy bucket list:

·         Make the goals as outrageous and ridiculous as possible!

·         Plan the list for more than one-night (like all of summer or a trip somewhere), this way you have more opportunities to get all the goals done, and you can add along the way

·         Make a funny title for the list, just incase you get caught attempting to complete the list, tell them you are trying to completing the “Ball so hard London list!”. They will probably be too overwhelmed or confused to understand, and just walk away.

·         Although the goals are outrageous, make sure they are realistic! You don’t want to try to strive for something that is impossible to achieve or even illegal.

·         Make some competition with it (this always makes everyone want to accomplish the goal even more). E.g.: say a goal is to find/get money from strangers, what ever friend at the end of the night has the most extra cash gets to collect all the money from everyone else!

·         Have fun! Don’t take it too seriously; the goal is too create some good fun for the night. If you don’t complete the goal, don’t worry and try again next week!

Stuck and cant think of anything else to add to your list? Here is some of our ideas:

·         Ask someone: “where’d you get your pants from? The toilet store?” or yell “I’m in a glass case of emotion!”

·         Teach someone how to parkour (The Office style)

·         Play an instrument downtown

·         Dance with a “creepy” old man

·         Get someone to give you something (anything)

·         Play the movie quote game with a stranger

·         Single a man out, make eye contact, and sing to them (journey is great for this)

·         Break something

·         Steal something off the street

Hope you guys have fun with you list!

Tips on How to NOT Make People Want to Punch You Through the Computer Screen:

•  Please read carefully. This is in regards to uploading pictures on facebook. When doing so, for the love of social networking, please avoid those Photoshopped colourful headings on your pictures. To those that have no idea what I’m talking about… Example would be putting things like “sexii”, “hot mami”, and “Angel girl” in hot pink glowing letters all over the photo. Facebook is not lava life or any other dating chat line so please avoid soliciting yourself.

•   Another one mostly directed towards girls. I’m sure a lot of you know exactly what I’m talking about when I refer to “duck faces”. Puckering and sticking out your lips in photos does not make you look attractive. It’s as simple as that people. Ducks are definitely cute… but you are not a duck. Sorry to break it to you. If you engage in this activity, you’re definitely being that girl

•   Taking mirror pictures of yourself in your bathing suit. Or Guys taking pictures of themselves flexing with their shirts off. You’re being “that” girl/guy that’s doing far too much on full blast.

•   Putting deep and/or sexual lyrics in your facebook status. If you’re engaging in such activities; let’s be real here, you’re more than likely doing too much. If you enjoy posting lyrics in your status, I suggest you sign up for twitter. Even then, please make sure to hashtag things such as #Imlame #Doingtoomuch #beingTHATperson before or after the lyrics. Here are some examples of what not to do:

•   “grab somebody sexy tell em’ hey… give me everything tonight!”… I’m simply confused, are you mugging someone? I didn’t realize facebook/twitter was a night club.

•  “You take my hand and drag me headfirst, fearless.” classic Taylor swift lyrics in the status. Yes I understand, you’re all so fearless.

•   When you post things such as “Yo whats everyone sayin’ tonight?”, “bored, someone wanna chill?” or “wuts good 2nite?” (and I'm being generous with the spelling there) you’re setting yourself up for misery. No one will respond to you and you’re going to end up looking like a huge lou (loser). If you’re bored, pick up your phone and text/call a friend.

Every Day I'm Hustlin'

Hello everyone! Pretty excited to be writing my first blog on this lovely Friday afternoon. We’ve been talking about starting this thing for quite some time now and the fact that we’ve all managed to get off our lazy asses and actually write something is a huge accomplishment if you ask me….if there’s one thing you all should know about me and my friends it’s that we are the definition of procrastinators. The only exception is when there is alcohol involved…there is definitely no procrastination when it comes to us and drinking, I can promise you that. But anyways…back on track here. Actually, nevermind. I’ve decided drinking is a good topic to talk about. 

So I don’t know what everyone else does on a Friday night but the usual for me and the girls is to hit up Abars…yes, that was not a typo. Not only do we usually go to Abars once a week but we actually LOVE the damn place and enjoy our time there (unlike all the under-agers who go there because it’s the only place their shitty fake ID will actually work)...and for those of you who don't know what Abars is....well, shame on you. We usually like to set goals for the night and a popular one lately has been to get drunk and hustle people at the foosball table…now this may seem absurd to you but we’ve been practicing a lot lately and I challenge anyone (except those crazy fuckers from last weekend) to play us. Best 2 out of 3. If we lose I can at least promise you’ll get an entertaining game out of it…

I think we’ll leave it at that for now…opponents for foosball are welcome to come and get embarrassed any time! Cheers!