Current topics of interest: Nachos, the texture of Harry Styles’ hair and why I will NEVER pay anyone to yell at me while I ride a stationary bicycle.

So I’ve been told many times to start a blog, you first need a subject; or at the very least a theme or starting point on which to expand. And I have always buckled under the weight of trying to pick that ONE thing. That one thing I want to do as a profession; the one thing I want to write about.

I thought at one point it would be travelling. I have travelled alone multiple times and written extensively while travelling. It’s easy to be inspired when you are looking at something new every day, meeting new people, readily absorbing perpetual new experiences. The issue with travelling is that the writing stops when the travelling does (see any blog post that references me being BROKE AS FUCK).

So when I resigned myself to staying in one place for more than a year, I was advised that I should think of what I spend money on most, outside of groceries and clothes, and write about that.

The answer was about as subtle as being hit in the face with a neon sign. Music! Of course! I love live music. I have spent years immersing myself in as much of the Toronto music scene as humanly feasible. Dive Bars are my castles; this city is inundated with venues thick with history, where the beers and concerts of the past literally soak the walls.

The problem is, like in my professional and personal life, I don’t want to be just one thing. And I don’t want to write about one thing. Music is part of my soul and I guarantee it’s a theme that will run through any of my writings, but my mind also jumps from so many topics of interest that I feel like I need eight arms to constantly reach up and pluck ideas out of the air.

Yes I love music, and yes I love visiting other parts of the world. But here are other things I find interesting enough to want to write about:

1. Why eating healthy doesn’t mean you should feel guilty occasionally wanting to lather yourself in nacho cheese and take a dip in pizza town.

2. My love/hate relationship with the gym, heavily weighted in hate.

3. Rules for successfully cohabitation with a significant other so you don’t end up looming over them in the middle of the night seriously considering smothering their face with a pillow.

4. Why I’m a little sad I missed the Tinder bandwagon, for the entertainment value alone!

5. Steps to getting over a breakup: i.e. the delicate art of acting like you don’t give a shit for an extended period of time.

6. Having a boyfriend and why I don’t drink whiskey anymore (a HIGHLY correlated scientific study).

7. Unguilty pleasures (Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, animals in costumes, Big Shiny Tunes 2, still believing Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the best written television shows of all time, YouTube videos of the top 10 television kisses of 2014…and 2013, repeat back to 1999).

8. Why I think future humans will look back on spinning classes and equate them to some ancient Chinese torture activity, like foot binding or enemas.

9. Nothing good happens after 1am and other tips for not pissing off your adult significant other.

10. Zac Efron’s arms.

11. Harry Styles’ hair and how it defies gravity and a list of the things I would do to touch it.

12. The best Mexican food in Toronto, and in North America, and in the world…and now I’m face planting into a burrito.

13. A guide to eating at a restaurant while simultaneously exhibiting some form of basic human decency and minimal respect for the human being serving you, AKA the art of eating and not being instantly loathed.

14. White girl activities and kale salad and every other cliché I partake in other than spinning class.

15. Cooking lessons courtesy of Emma Gillies. Otherwise known as, “How to make an entire Thanksgiving meal in your microwave in 20 minutes or less.”

16. Why everyone who jogs needs to stop acting like they’re the only person to ever take walking to the next level.

17. Why every pregnant woman needs to stop acting like they’re the first human to ever combine chromosomes into another living, breathing sometimes-cute being.

18. Dog/cat Instagram accounts captioned in the first person and why I will make fun of them extensively but still Google search “Cat dressed as Yoda” every major holiday (because have you SEEN that thing?!)

 

In short, I decided after much deliberation and numerous bouts of insecurity, that I started this blog for myself because I actually really just enjoy putting my thoughts on paper. As the above makes clear, more often than not these thoughts are completely inconsistent, hugely random and at times probably completely contradictory.

No use trying to fight it; I’ll always be the girl who samples every type of ice cream flavor before she makes a decision.

I’ve given up trying to be one thing, or choose one thing.

This blog is unobstructed access to the inner workings of my brain. And that my friends, is a terrifying thing.