Got a Job. And. Don't I look exactly like Natalia Vodianova??? 2012

Old Post form 2012. 

Hello Again!!

I got a job :) Today was my first day at work. You know those annoying guys who keep calling your home phone and offering you stuff? Now I'm one of them.. Except that I'm not that annoying, since I only call to announce that you are getting free gifts and only do that if you completed a survey.
It's amazing how much people dislike gifts! I mean it's not much of course, just your choice of a 2-3 days stay at a hotel at any location of your choice in North America from Kingston to Hawaii or a rice-cooker.. but still better than nothing! And all you have to do to get one of these is to listen to a 45 minute presentation and tell your opinion on the product the company is trying to sell.. No need to buy anything! Just an opinion! People are so secretive these days. At the beginning many of them are interested, but as soon as they hear that someone is coming to their place with a short presentation  99% immediately say no-no and some even tell you not to ever call them again!.. Just listen to that presentation-stuff and get your free hotel reservations or a (multipurpose) rice-cooker! You don't even have to go anywhere, the gift will arrive at your door with the representative whose gonna make a short presentation.. and I'm sure if you don't waste those 45 mins of your life on that presentation, you are going to waste them just as purposelessly on something like a TV show or pointless Internet browsing anyway (except in this case you won't even be rewarded for it!)..
I'm not getting too excited about the job though, today was just fun training, I even got one booking, but the catch is that if I don't start getting at least 3-4 bookings a day in the next couple of days they will dismiss you..
Btw I have another job interview too.. AND a Montreal modelling agency appointment. Again all of those offers came almost in one day, after a week and half - long silence. I felt so bored and.. unwanted those whole two weeks!.. No part time job, no real modelling.. and then in one day literally it all changed. The offers just cascaded on me. One day I get two messages on my answering machine - one employer called me to set up an interview on Monday, and a Montreal modelling agency too on Wednesday-- Ok! Then the next employer calls the next day and says they want me to  start working! This time IMMEDIATELY! So now I already have a job AND an interview on the same day AND a modelling appointment in Montreal. the next day. Oh! and my two paid modelling assignments I booked a while ago also happen to be scheduled for this coming week!! WHY DID IT ALL HAVE TO HAPPEN AT ONCE? WHy can't things ever be just a tiny bit spaced out in my life..Why is there always this perpetual all-or-nothing scenario happening..?

BTW don't you find i look like Natalia Vodyanova? I think she is responsible for introducing the eastern-european look and showing that it's beautiful..

Here have a look for yourself- don't we look like twins :)

Btw I am now on Twitter! Please follow and I'll follow you back too!

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Cheeky Blonde. Miss My Blonde Days

Cheeky Blonde! 

Sometimes, randomly and unexpectedly, I get the urge to go blonde! And I do not mean simply the highlights, but the all-over, white bleach-blonde look; the look that is, incidentally, so unpopular in Canada, but to which I, at intervals, develop this strong irresistible emotional pull! And I think I even know why that is! This blatant bleach-blonde look bears strong associations in my mind with my trips to Russia, the trips that are always fun and enjoyable. Unlike in Canada, where people tend towards "conservative",  more-or-less natural (or supposedly natural) highlights, Russian women are not shy about the blatant, blazing, all-over bleach-blonde! Well, to be completely fair, the "naturalness" and the aesthetics of the Canadian-preferred "highlighted" look is not without question, especially when performed on dark brunettes; in this case it often materializes in the form of multiple greyish streaks interspersing the dark hair, and so comes across as merely a profusion of grey hair on one's head rather than the intended sea of subtle well-blended sun-gilded tones.



This very famous model for instance, perfectly illustrates the charm of plane white, platinum hair with a bit of grown-out roots showing. So effortlessly perfect! Always edgy and fashionable! 

Unfortunately, for me right now, all those speculations right now are just theory, the days when I changed my hair colour at the first hint of the desire, or even just out of boredom, are over. It took too much effort and self-control to let my natural colour grow all the way from tiny roots to just below-the-shoulder length, so any such radical transformation is absolutely out of question now. 
So I guess, all that I have left to do, is simply enjoy the photos of other people with these daring shades of blonde, my own old pictures among them, while leaving my own hair alone, in its natural light brown colour...

Here are some memories in pictures of the fearless blonde days:

This Fall... 2012

Fall 2012.

This year, for the first time, I have found myself anticipating and enjoying fall. Could this be a sign that I am, myself, becoming older and calmer and more serene? 

This year, for the first time in my life, I couldn't wait for fall to arrive! Yet, all of my life, up until now, fall has always been my least favourite season: Its arrival inevitably brought with it feelings of sadness and boredom. In contrast to summer-- the time of fun-- in my mind, fall has always been associated with bleak, gloomy, monotonous days.

But this year, quite surprisingly, the arrival of fall has brought about completely different feelings! This fall has been all about a sense of peace and relief from the hot and fast-paced summer days. And I have been waiting for that! Finally, as the weather got cooler and the leaves began to turn various shades of red and yellow, I felt a huge sense of content and a kind of peaceful happiness..

Fall was always my grandmother's favourite season. She found summer tiring, even exhausting and always waited for the arrival of the temperate and subdued days of the fall... As a child, I could never understand her. (My favourite time of year, in those days, was late spring and summer.) In fact, I thought my grandmother had to be joking whenever she expressed her dislike for the summer season: How can one not enjoy the sun, the brightness and the energy that it brings? It is the time of year when one can finally cast all the heavy, warm layers of clothing and feel alive and free! My grandmother would reply that I could not understand her because I was still so young, and that, when I'd get older, I would most likely see how she felt. I told her that would never happen. 

This was many years ago, and my grandmother has since passed away. But, many years later, at the arrival of this fall, having caught myself for the first time anticipating and enjoying this season, I vividly recalled my grandmother's own particular appreciation of it. For the first time in my life, I now find myself feeling exactly the way my grandmother had described.. Now, I think I understand. Summer has its fun moments, but its heat and its general energy does get tiring after a while, and it is only now that the calm and the subdued ambience of fall has settled in that I feel truly happy and at peace with myself... Could this, then, be a sign that I am finally getting older, calmer, more temperate and poised?