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My Wish to a Shooting Star
By Jenny Wilson Last Sunday night when I was driving back to Toronto, I was looking up at the sky and saw a streaking greenish light. At first I thought it was a plane, but then it disappeared, and I realized that I had just witnessed a shooting star! I just saw a chunk of space rock burning up in the atmosphere hurtling toward the earth. Obviously my first thought was ‘ well that was cool’ and then I realized that I got to make a wish. Who knows if this is actually a real thing? Odds are that it’s not real and nothing will happen, but I was not…
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Being Single on Valentine’s Day
BY JENNY WILSON Everyone’s favourite consumer holiday is just under a week away: Valentine’s Day, or for those of us who are a bit more cynical, Singles Awareness Day. Now I could lie and say that Valentine’s Day doesn’t bother me, and most of the day it doesn’t, but there’s always one point where I just sit there and think “I’m not allowed to celebrate this “holiday”.” And then I end up consuming more chocolate than two couples put together. I’ve never been able to truly celebrate the holiday as it was meant to be celebrated because I’ve always been single. Unless you count my grade eight boyfriend, but let’s be…
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Saturday’s reflection
BY JENNY WILSON It’s a Saturday night and I’m sitting in my apartment watching some documentary on famous crimes in history, writing this blog and munching on dry cereal. I know, my Saturdays are pretty wild. I’m also busy snapchatting one of my childhood friends. She’s up north with my family on a snowmobiling trip. It’s something that we do every year as a trio of families. I wasn’t even a year old the first time my parents strapped me into a baby Arctic Cat snowsuit, trucked me up north and plopped me on a snowmobile. I haven’t missed a year since. We always go with the same two families,…
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Dealing with uncertainty
BY JENNY WILSON Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s the new year, or maybe it’s because it’s my last semester as a student ever, but lately I have been freaking out about the future. Go to school. Get good grades. Get a good job. Get married. Buy a house. Have kids. Sounds simple right? Follow the plan and you’ll be fine. I’m following the plan, but I don’t feel fine. What happens if I don’t get a good job? What if I’m stuck in minimum wage retail forever? What if I worked so hard for all my school, but there are no jobs at the end of it all? How…
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Being the “bigger girl”
BY JENNY WILSON It’s a new year —bring on those unrealistic fitness and weight loss goals. This past year it’s been all about the challenges. Squat challenge, abs challenge, push up challenge etc. I admit I tried the squat challenge, but I didn’t follow through to the end of it. I simply forgot all about it. So how do you actually make sure those new years resolutions actually stick? I’m not a fitness expert, or a nutritionist or anything— obviously— but I do know what worked for me. I was always the “bigger girl”. Big boned is what everyone used to call me. Taller and thicker than other girls my…
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Going home…
BY JENNY WILSON It’s 9:30 PM, it’s freezing outside, I’ve got two big boxes, my purse, and my lunch pail in my hands and I’m rushing to get to the crosswalk before the light changes. I’m done a 10-hour shift working at the mall during the Christmas season and I’m on my way home. Not home to my apartment. I’m going home, back to my hometown. Back to Norwich. I haven’t been home since Thanksgiving, but I have two days off and I’m not staying in Toronto when I haven’t seen my family in what feels like forever. They don’t know that I’m making the trip home. As far as…
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Wanna be friends?
BY JENNY WILSON When you’re young, making friends is easy. You just walk up to a girl playing in the sandbox, plop down beside her, grab a shovel and say ‘hey, wanna be friends?’ and just like that, you’re friends for life. Doesn’t matter if you have anything in common at all, you just happened to be in the same sandbox at the same time. My best friend and I weren’t really given a choice in the matter of our relationship. Our mothers were best friends and therefore we thought we must be as well. We are different in almost every way imaginable, and if we had met today, we…
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New Kid on the Block
From country mouse to city slicker BY JENNY WILSON I always imagined my life would be like Sex and the City. Of course, I’ve never actually seen a full episode, but from what I do know, it looks like the sweet life. I wanted to be the lady strutting through the city, wearing four-inch Louis Vuitton pumps; I wanted to go to lunch with handsome, intelligent men and have fancy cocktails with my girlfriends. But as of two months ago I was still living in my parents house on the farm where I grew up. It’s about as far from the high city life as you can get—but I…
