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It’s that time again! Finding a dress this month wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be- while April was amazing, since then the prairies have become extremely cool, cloudy and rainy. I went thrifting four times to no avail! I think everyone was too cold to be pulling out their summer clothes….but when they do I will be there!
{bought new for $55}
So here’s the thing: Sometimes I’m not very good at being a girl.
I’m good at a lot of the parts of it, but looking well pulled together and cute in the way I dress isn’t really something I do on a regular basis. I’m kind of relentlessly awkward. It’s a good kind of awkward – a Hel Looks, vaguely boyish, confident kind of awkward that I’m really comfortable in, but this summer I want to have a more in my closet than skinny jeans, cardigans and t-shirts to draw on every day.
Being vegetarian has always been pretty easy for me, especially since it’s what I grew up with, but over the past year I’ve gone from being a healthy vegetarian who watches her protein and vitamins to a carb-etarian who lives on potatoes and pasta. I’ve tried to be healthier, I participated in a six week health blogging challenge and focused on making progress with my habits. But all winter I knew that how I was eating wasn’t healthy, and I had to get back to viewing my healthy vegetarian eating as something fun and manageable instead of as a hassle.
Unless you follow me on Twitter you might not know that for the past year I have been living car free. Last August when I had just started my little blog, I posted about my “Commuter Challenge”. Mister’s lease was coming up, and having a second car seemed a little extravagant. I was working and living centrally so we made the decision: Mister would take my Dodge Caliber & I would give up having a car.
I’m quite fair, and my relationship with The Tan has always been a little tenuous at best.
In the summer I’ll come home with pink arms and nose from walking to the bus, which will go on until August when I stop turning pink, my we-were-Ukrainian-peasants-working-in-the-fields-four-generations-ago genes kick in an I am suddenly washed over by a deep sandy tan. Then in early October all the colour that has slowly accumulated in my cheeks washes clean off in one sitting and I’m back to a very pale & slightly pink square one.
The past few weeks, fiancé and I have been having a car debate. At the moment we have two cars – a 2007 Dodge Caliber (my baby!) and a 2004 Pontiac Grand Am that is finished its lease next month. Suddenly talk of buying the car out has been at the forefront of my mind while I try to ignore as the sinking feeling that buying out the second car gives me.
I'm Kyla- a twenty something web designer & full time creative business owner, friendly introvert, thrifting addict & vegetarian foodie. I live in a tiny house with my husband Jesse and very small (very bad!) dogs, and am passionate about handmade, living simply, organization and making my time stretch so I can fill it with all the projects I have whirling around my mind.
This is my personal blog where I share stories from my life, lessons I'm learning through living with GAD, being self employed, results from my kitchen, and inspiration that makes me swoon.
