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Posted on April 4, 2015

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I've been really trying to suck it up and not comment about the weather but this right here put me over the edge. ❄ My sister @chantall_samuels888 sent me this and now I feel some type of way. Lol at all of the Torontonians saying "bundle up" with their WEAK -20° C. #soft #softerissues Apparently its 2° C in Calgary? ❄ It's been -29/-30° C with the windchill for at least five out of seven days this week. Ottawa is the coldest capital in the world right now. Again. For the second year in a row... and there's a snowstorm coming.🌨 ❄ I think I've been tested long enough in the firey furnace of frostbite and I have come forth as gold. I'm ready for warmer temperatures. ❄ But no worries -- Jesus and I had a good talk (read: monologue) and we both agree that this is not His will for my life. 🙌🏿 #fixitjesus

How I basically feel about the #gillettead: 🧑 "But on social media, one man called it 'a condescending ad from a company that relies on men buying their products.' Another wrote that 'being a man is not a disease nor a pathology,' adding that 'it is grotesque to repeatedly ascribe collective guilt onto half of humanity known as men.'" 🧑🏻 Like "how dare you market products to us and ask us to exhibit human decency?" 😂 👨🏿 This sounds like #notallmen or what people of a certain hue say when they hear words like "white privilege" and "white supremacy." #alllivesmatter 🧑🏼 Reminds me of when people boycotted Nike and #ColinKaepernick by cutting out the check mark/swoosh from their clothes. 🧑🏽 Newsflash: Nike and @gillette already have your money (but if you insist on being a fool, please dispose of your razors safely). 🧑🏾 It saddens me deeply that people are more upset at being told to be morally decent than they are about #racism and #toxicmasculinity. It bothers me that this ad is seen as divisive -- and not by just a few people on the fringe. 🧑🏿 If you are offended when an ad or campaign challenges your privilege, ask yourself, "Why?" 👨 No one is saying that there is anything wrong with being a man -- unless you define masculinity as denigrating others. Then it's problematic. You may not ascribe to toxic masculinity but you do benefit from patriarchy and #maleprivilege. And if you do not *actively* do your part to question your privilege, dismantle toxic masculinity and use your privilege to protect and promote the voices of the vulnerable other, you are part of the problem. You are complicit. Silence is complicity. Be offended. 👨🏻 So this ad basically says what we've been saying since time immemorial and definitely since #metoo: #dobetter. 👨🏼 We only ask that men do better because we know that they can. You have the potential to be better men.

#howharddidaginghityouchallenge #howharddidpubertyhityou Call me a bandwagoner. 🙆🏿‍♀️ Chantall and I often talk about how I've actually aged backwards and how proud of me she is that I no longer dress like Ellen White (*Adventist joke*). 🙆🏿‍♀️ For the longest time people thought that I was older than I was. It didn't help that I was full-figured, mature, and an old soul. Everything changed when I turned 25. Now people think I'm younger than I really am. While it is completely ok to look your age in this youth-obsessed world, I really don't feel like I look like someone who turns thirty one in a few weeks. 🙆🏿‍♀️ The beauty of being a late bloomer and peaking later than others is that late blooms tend to be the best blooms and the longer lasting blooms and it's a bloom that you can actually appreciate. I sometimes come across the profile pic of someone who peaked in high school -- people who were considered "hot" back then -- and well... #mansnothot anymore #petty . 🙆🏿‍♀️ The picture on the left is my first display pic ever on social media (I joined Facebook back in 2007). It was taken when I was working at the @jamaicagleaner and the reggae artiste formerly known as #BabyCham decided to drop by. (@thecham -- for all you youngin's, before there was #babyshark there was Baby Cham.) #yuhwantapropafix #vitamins (as in, "vitamin s." Only real fans know. Tee hee hee). 🙆🏿‍♀️ Since then, I've learned that texlax/texturizers are not for me and makeup is not a sin. I've developed my own sense of style and I (*FINALLY*) know what best accentuates my figure. I eat better and exercise daily and finally got a hold of the acne that plagued me in my youth. 🙆🏿‍♀️ I don't look like what I've been through. And even if I did, I'm learning to be ok with that.

#throwbackthursday #flashbackfriday My grade one teacher with whom I still remain in contact on Facebook reminded me of this book I was featured in when I was six years old (so, if you are counting, almost twenty-five years ago. She held onto copies of this book for 25 yearssss 😲). If I remember correctly, a publishing company wanted to do a photo shoot for a few children's books and needed kids and so I and a few others were selected. 👩🏿‍⚕️ I've never liked animals, so I don't remember being thrilled about being chosen to be the veterinarian, but growing up, I had always wanted to be a writer and a doctor -- a "people doctor" to be specific and an OB/GYN to be exact. I was always interested in sex, reproductive health and women's health, and I naively thought, "I like science 👩🏿‍🔬, I have good grades, I know what a vagina looks like 😺 and I like babies 👶 so it'll be a good fit." 🤦🏿‍♀️ 👩🏿‍⚕️ But then I took high school chemistry... 🔬🙅🏿‍♀️ and I volunteered in a medical centre with some OBGYNs 🙅🏿‍♀️ and I volunteered at the hospital (where I was born!) 🙅🏿‍♀️ and I quickly realized that medicine was NOT for me. So then I decided on law 👩🏿‍⚖. And I studied that for a few years (read: many years. Too many years...) and then I realized and finally admitted to myself that I didn't want to be a lawyer after all and so here we are -- advocating for women and promoting health, not through medicine but through lifestyle intervention. 👩🏿‍⚕️ When figuring out what to be and do with this precious life of ours, the possibilities may seem endless. It's a pity that young people are so often pressured to pick a career path so early, and are not encouraged to explore the possibilities and discover who they are before committing to and settling on any one thing. Luckily, what we do does not define us: "Whatever you choose to do, you will always be *you.*" 👩🏿‍⚕️ Funny how things from our past often come back and preach to us in our present. 👩🏿‍⚕️ N.B. My eyebrows were on fleek and I never appreciated them.😫 Oh six-year-old Simone, appreciate your eyebrows because when you grow up you will have thyroid disease and your eyebrows will thin out.

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I'm spending #newyearseve with my neighbour Sarah. We were supposed to go to her church for watch night service but service is cancelled on account of freezing rain. Instead we stayed in and cooked a delicious vegan meal together -- vegan poutine with cashew cheese, ginger lime tofu, veggie burgers and a salad with white balsamic vinegar. To top it all off, we made pumpkin pie and I brought my "nanaimo" bars for dessert. It was restaurant quality food . 😍 Then we prayed over our vision boards and new years resolutions and sang psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. 2019 will find us on our knees, decreeing and declaring and ushering the new year, praising our awesome God (this caption was written with Sarah's input, 😂 lol).

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