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why I stopped blogging

It has been almost two years that I have not blogged.

There are several reasons why I stopped:

-It is time consuming. It is like having another job.  Especially when I was doing a blog a day.

-At times I am not living in the moment.  I am thinking "what from this event will I blog about...do I have a good pic to go with it?

-people used my blog to keep in contact with me.  And I guess this is true now more than ever with social media but I resented the fact that they knew what I was up to yet I had no idea about them...and there was no reaching out to get in contact unless I was doing it

-originally I was hoping I could earn funds doing it ( YMC  YummyMummyClub  I got paid...once )but realised that the genre changes quickly and I am no computer geek/savant so it is now like a photo album/virtual scrapbook for all our memories

-Am I too open? I always claim I wear my heart on my sleeve but my life has many people in it who get pulled into my blog.  I also share stories that can be very"open" PPD  becomes more like a Dear Diary...

-Apple iPhone stopped supporting the Blogger app.  I can no longer blog via my phone, so now it takes writing my posts in my Notes then emailing them to myself and then cut and pasting them into Blogger on my Chromebook or laptop (again there maybe a faster way but I am not knowledgable...)

43 that's ME!

A lot of these still looking to check off:


Here are 43 things I would like to do:

1) Spend more time with people I really really love. ✓

3) Write more

4) See Adele in concert

5) Get more defined muscles

6) Be hairless

7) Make porta potties pretty

8) Be healthier

9) Be in a Hedley video

10) Have more followers (social media-wise)

11) Write permanently for YMC

12) Get a new tattoo--really: fix the robin on my shoulder

13) Keep my hair at the length it is now

14) Sleep in more - very hard for me to do:(

15) Swim more✓

16) Travel to Australia

17) Travel more in general

18) Go to the circus school in Montreal

19) Go ziplining again

20) Have a lavender farm

21) Create art

22) Own an old truck, Jeep and maybe a Bugatti

23) Cook better and enjoy doing it

24) Therefore: Do more cooking classes

25) Make a difference in a parent's life

26) Give my kids more great memories✓

27) ....and the right advice

28) Travel in First Class

29) Do a train tour up North in the territories or in BC

30) RV across Canada

31) Ski Whistler

32) Sleep through the night

33) Read more✓

34) Relax better✓

35) say what's on my mind

36) Swim in an ocean✓

37) Go see Elle King live

38) Run another triathlon and 1/2 marathon ✓

39) Get my Victimology diploma

40) Go to Bali or Bora Bora or Iceland or Greenland 

41)  Cry less and be regulated 

42) Be on the Amazing Race

43) Own a dwarf goat and meet the PM

My Secret Beneath

My Secret Beneath: Men's Briefs

Men's Underwear are More Comfortable Than You May Think!

by Robyn Smith

I wear men's underwear.  Only two people know this secret; my husband and my coworker. 

And now you. 

I'm not talking about a pair of men's boxers worn to bed at night, but men's tightie whities worn during the day. Although I actually prefer coloured as opposed to white. This is not so shocking as a man wearing women's panties; right? Or is it? Are you disgusted or revolted?

Why Men's Underwear?

It began during my first pregnancy when I discovered they covered my expanding belly and the ample rear I had developed. Truth be told, my backend has always been ample which could be why I continued wearing the underwear after my pregnancies.  And for the record, no my husband and I do not share the underwear, he just happened to buy some that did not fit right for him and now they are mine.

Here is why I continue to wear them:

The briefs cup my cheeks ever so nicely and because they fit provide such a nice fit under my cheeks, I have no panty lines. This makes them great to wear with athletic pants.  And as a mom I spend a lot of time in athletic wear even when I'm not working out.

They are thicker; so they add a little more warmth when needed during the winter months.

Along with the coverage and warmth; they are oh so comfy; especially when you are relaxing at home after a hard day of work.

Is wearing men's briefs for everyone?  No, probably not. If you enjoy your g-string and thong; then don't try them. While I can't wear briefs with all my pants, I have worn them under a skirt. I have even thought of submitting a more girly; sexy design to a major Canadian athletic company for other women who wear briefs beneath.

Even after announcing my secret to the world, I will probably continue to wear men's underwear but at the same time, in the back of my mind, I always wonder what would happen if I got in an accident and they had to cut my clothes off.  What would they think?

But then I remember the old adage and know that it doesn't matter...so long as they're clean.