National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

Hey guys!  If you missed the announcement somehow, I’ve moved the blog to a new site, Apples and Porsches.

Today’s post is a list of resources for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. I wanted to make sure that any stragglers here got a link over.  It’s too important to miss!

Edited: February 24th, 2010

Movin’ on Up!

It’s with immense pleasure that I’d like to announce my new site Apples and Porsches!

After a long time to think and some great chats with some great ladies, I’ve decided to move my digs.  While it’s been an invaluable learning experience here at JTP, I set up some expectations for the site and for myself that I’ve found to be not only naive, but completely useless.  I’ve gotten a bit of perspective and decided to make some changes.  I needed a new home with no strings attached (at least in my mind) – somewhere I can really be myself.

So update your bookmarks!

Thank you all for sticking with me and being so awesome.  I’ll see you on the other side!

Edited: February 11th, 2010

Retrospective – 25

Yep, that’s me – calculator in-hand at two.  An omen of nerd-dom that should have been heeded.

Today is my 26th birthday.  At 4.20am (go ahead, make some jokes), February 2, 1984, I poked my lil’ peanut head into the world, stuck my tongue out at my mother, and promptly became a joyous pain in everyone’s ass.  It’s been a good ride so far.

Every birthday I like to take a look at the previous year and see what I’ve done, how far I’ve come.  This is what Year 25 held for me:

  • I married my amazingfantastic husband
  • I moved to Oshawa
  • I held my job for the 6th full, consecutive year
  • I discovered the wonders of the blogsphere
  • I started Jaka’s Tea Party
  • I helped define and found a new social movement
  • I started collaging again
  • I branched out into new media
  • I read 17 books
  • I got my first pap in 3 years
  • I started growing out my hair with its natural colour
  • I began manymanymany new and exciting friendships
  • I supported and loved my family and old friends
  • I fell many steps back on my path to self
  • I felt the absence of spirituality in my life
  • I worried about moneyworklovesexfutureeverything
  • I gave in to crushing panic and euphoric joy
  • I had to decide if I could afford to cure my cat (I did)
  • I maxed out my credit card
  • I stayed home instead of going to the biggest social event on my calendar
  • I attended the last-ever Bad Film Festival at the KCKPL
  • I traveled to Mexico for the first time
  • I went to Disneyworld!

In all, it’s been a fairly quiet year.  We’re so far away from our family and friends out here that not much happens in my life.  Even my introspection has come to a standstill (which bothers me immensely).  A lot of amazing and huge life changes happened last year, for which I am immensely grateful to the universe, yet I look back and feel that I could have done so much better on a personal level.  I could have done better by myself, could have been more in touch with and respectful of myself.

Here’s to Year 26.

Edited: February 2nd, 2010