The Other Side of Nuit Blanche

Yesterday I wrote a post about volunteering for Nuit Blanche for my uni's blog, BlogUT (I attend the University of Toronto, fyi). I haven't posted anything here in a while but I'm working on some stuff :) I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the content on both blogs because it might be property of BlogU, so I'm just going to place a link and hope you guys will check it out :)

---> The Other Side of Nuit Blanche <---

Oh and I did pacman nails the other day. Whatdaya think?

Springtime, I love you ♥

I'm not to sure when the official start to ♥♥SPRING♥♥ is, but I'm going to say it was yesterday. Why? Because I lost an hour of sleep changing my clocks so it had better be for a good reason.

But anyways, today is the nicest and loveliest day it has been in a long long time. All last week was rainy and dreary and cold. Actually, not rain, but rather falling slush, through which cars drive and splash you :( But today made up for all of that!! The sun is shining, the birds chirping, not hats or mittens required! And I like it.

I decided to embrace it a bit and do some errands (really just one and a mini, completely unnecessary, shopping spree). I had to return some books to the library so I headed on the streetcar to enjoy the sunshine (I know, it's inside, but it's better than the subway). I went to pay fines. Ridiculous fines!!! 50 cents a day per book!!!! WTFudge!!! 3 books + 3 days over due = $4.50!! That's, (once more), RIDICULOUS!!, considering I just came from a library system where it was only 10 cents a day :( But I paid it, because I'm a good child.

Then I did a bit of nail polish shopping, spent a bit too much money, and realized my familia is right, it's a bit of an addiction. But I enjoy it, and none of us have yet to die or be hospitalized from the fumes. So there: justified.

If you feel like reading something and you have no clue what, I recommend The Associate by John Grisham (♥ him). Good read, although I am currently in the process of completing it myself. Well, I hope you guys are having a beautiful, lovely, super-fantastic day!!

♥ Turtles

Because Franz Ferdinand makes any day THAT much better ♥♥♥

El capital

Long time no post. I've been kinda busy. And while I'm not one to blog about my life, cuz it's terribly unexciting, I will this time because things have happened.

Earlier this week I got my hair done, but due to frustrating circumstances, it took ages (literally days), but I was on reading week and didn't really have any plans so ultimately it was okay. Its black and blue and twisted, though from a distance, it looks like I have locks o_o.

The exciting fun stuff happened at the end of the week. Because my friends attend university and not college, we have our winter reading weeks at the same time (colleges are next week I believe).  So we decided, why not go to O-town (Ottawa)? Four of us live there and I had visited last October and it was fun. Three of my friends decided to go, with two more coming the day after us (nine in total in Ottawa).

It was fun. We didn't do any sighting seeing stuff, but just hung out. And when you haven't seen your friends for months, that's enough. We were really looking forward to going with the school's French immersion club to Montreal's Nuit Blanche. I've been to the one in Toronto for the last three years and they have all been excellent. I went with friends who were on this trip and we all had good things to say about Toronto's so we had high expectations as said those who heard our various stories.

It was kind of a let down. We were, admittedly, kind of tired and it was really cold, but it just wasn't as good. The main issue was that everything was spread so far apart, so it was really hard to find things. Another thing is none of us knew the city (unlike Toronto, where we are all relatively familiar with the terrain). But we did still have some good times :) Though Montreal will be receiving a strongly worded letter.

Some highlights:

• FRIENDS of course :) mes amis sont fantastiques  et vraiment drôles :P


• Poutine. LEGIT POUTINE.


• Hull/Addiction….Google it


• Fast and Loose (the show)


• Nail marbling/acetone overdose


• The Roar of the Shrimp


• Nuit Blanche


• Paper Towns (so excited to read!! - I got it from a friend)


• Random jokes that I forget but I'm sure someone will remind me of later :P

So pretty awesome weekend over all. My money's gone, I got 6 hours sleep, I'm hungry,  train's delayed, I won't get home for another  5 hours or so and I have a French presentation tomorrow morn at 9, but c'était le fun :)

- Turtles ♥

P.S. Some photos! They're from Nuit Blanche, like the only time I took pics

note: this was written around 6:25pm

The Perils of Polish

Random post ahead...

Recently, while scanning the videos of YouTube, I happened upon a "water marble" nail art video...and then the addiction started. Literally, an addiction. I spent probably about 3 hours that day (just over a week ago) watching these videos by MySimpleLittePleasures. For some reason, YouTube would not let me subscribe to her videos, but thanks goodness for me, she has a blog!!!!!!! AND links to other nail polish blogs :D It's been non-stop ever since. I'm subscribed to only two of them (Polish or Perish is the other), but trust me, daily searches about collections and availability in Canada have been occurring.

Why is it an addiction and not just a new hobby? Well about a 1/2 hour after I finished the videos (I was hungry and I had to eventually start an assignment due the next day), I tried the water marbling. It's the randomest thing of life and it took me two hours to get it looking decent but I was hooked.

This was after a day  and my first try (don't mind the doodles on my hand)

Two days later, I had a four hour break in between classes and hopped on over to Zellers. I couldn't settle on just one colour so I bought three (that's a lot for a broke child like myself). Then before my next class started, I had done another set. This time red and silver. And once more two days later, this time red with a thick pink sparkle over.

O gosh, I'm in love ♥♥♥♥

Last night i did it again. This time: SPONGES!!! Silver and blue with a pink sparkle tip. My bro thinks I'm sad because every time he sees me I'm reading up on the latest OPI collection or what colour Zoya looks best against your skin tone :D. I'm pretty sure I've inhaled enough acetone to seriously affect me later in life.

So I know, random nail polish blog, but I HAD to get it off my mind...If I come up with any splendid and creative, I'll post it :)

Next post will be legit. PEACE!!

- Turtles♥

p.s. my hair is now partially blue (no more green for moi)