sunscreen and surf wax

it has been a whiiiiiile since my last post wow! i went home last week for madison's baby shower and i was able to be home for a week so it was really nice, i actually had time to see everyone unlike easter weekend. the shower was so fun, she got so much cute stuff!

madison wearing sunglasses my mum bought her :P

that week i also hung out with my girls, had a bonfire, snuggled my kitteh and sat outside on our lawn in the woods and worked on my portfolioooo! it is all done, printed and ready to go for portfolio night on thursday coming up. sneak peak: sophiehebert.ca ;) also, i was featured on their ready to shine section, cause i filled out some questions when i bought my ticket... check it out! http://portfolionight.com/9/archives/5303

hmm what else... got back on monday, worked tuesday and then wednesday i spent the day with my friend from school victoria (@VictoriaSturges) in kensington market. such a nice day, thought it was going to rain but it ended up being super sunny. friday i went for a nice walk by the lake. i even had to put sunscreen on it was SO sunny and hot. i loooove the smell of sunscreen :)  that night, i slept over at my sista-from-anotha-mista jenn's (@jennkeenaner) she had never seen harry potter 7 ... i know right? lol so we watched that and ate caramel rice cakes yummmm! preparing for our saturday adventures. 

we woke up and had some brekkie and hopped on the bus to boardsports. for those of you who don't know, i love surfing. i went in halifax last summer, and i can't get enough of it. jenn is the same way. so boardsports outings for us are both fun and depressing. i ended up with two bars of mr zogs sex wax (cool-cold) and a billabong wax comb complete with a trusty bottle opener, and jenn ended up with the wax and a rashguard to match her catch surf beater board she is getting for her birthday! this thing is super rad and i am so stoked to borrow it haha at 46' with a single (removable) fin, you can skim it, bodyboard it and once you get really good, you can even stand on it and use it as a little surfboard. sooo fun! affectionately nicknamed 'frankensurf' 

 

came home, made a sweet dinner and now im just chilling. start work full time on monday so i must achieve maximum relaxation this weekend before i start the getting up early-going to bed early routine. gaaaaah. at least i get weekends off yay! so anyways, i just needed to ramble for a bit and now im done. 

portfolio night on thursday, i will definitely be doing a post about that after its done, probably on the weekend. hopefully i will meet tons of people, most of who i will already be following on twitter haha, and get some feedback about my book! wish me luck :)

hope everyone is enjoying the weather! 

peace

soph

ps my cat is cwaaaazy

listening: bird flu - M.I.A

itube, youtube!

sooo a while ago i started a youtube channel with the hopes of video blogging my final year of college and the intense-ness of job searching and all those lovely things that come with starting out in the "real world". my page was looking pretty empty without any vids, so today i just decided to do a quick lil thing introducing myself and the purpose of my channel. anyways, it is pretty thrown together, unrehearsed etc and i sound like a 10 year old boy, but it gets the message across :P anyways, check it out and subscribe to my channel yo!

happy summerrrrrrr!!!!

ps claritin sky writing (live claritin clear today) downtown = super cool! fearless client what whaaaat! anyone know which agency did that?

check it out

http://www.youtube.com/user/sophieh1231

listening: tremendous dynamite - eels

wanderlust

ever since i was a kid, i made plans. to do lists, weekly schedule plans, and as i approached the tender age of 12, a plan for my future university, life in the big city of toronto and a glamourous career as a fashion designer. we all know how that one turned out haha. needless to say, i absolutely love where i ended up, and i think it was a blessing in disguise because advertising is definitely for me! 

i think that all this planning is finally catching up to me. while i still am a huge sucker for lists and dreaming about what award winning ad agency i'll work for after graduation, i find that lately i have this sort of 'cabin fever' thing going on. i do love toronto a whole heck of a lot, but i feel this need to move. yesterday, i googled ad agencies in hawaii. looked into getting a working visa for the united states. craiglisted apartments in santa monica, and their approximate walking distance from cp+b's santa monica (LA) office. what's going on?! california dreamin' baby. i don't even want to live in the states, i mean, i love canada, but i am drawn to the beach, the warmth and the sun. every time i see a california tourism commercial (betty white is so cute in them!) i just feel like i belong there. nevermind the discussions i had with my lovely cousin and her husband, who live in san jose, when they came down for christmas. it just seems like the place for me. maybe i don't need to move there, but i definitely need to travel. it's movies like eat pray love and into the wild that make me just want to drop it all and get away from here. i just want to forget about everything and go to places i've only seen on tv, and the occasional time when i google street view them lol, and experience new culture and see how different people live. 

maybe it's that college "finding yourself" phase i'm going through, but i seem to be much less concerned with my future and figuring it all out before it happens, and just giving it the time to let it happen. don't get me wrong, i am stoked to work really hard on my book and get a wicked job, but maybe i just don't have to stress about it so much anymore, and that whatever is meant to happen will happen. maybe i won't start working the minute i graduate, which has been drilled into our heads since high school. i feel like we were put on this timeline in high school, and if you deviated from it, you were frowned upon. i think it's taken me this long in a creative learning environment to realize that maybe that timeline isn't right for everyone, and that it is okay to do your own thing. try as many things as you can. if it doesn't work out, you learn from that experience and move on. who knows? maybe i'll take a year off after school to travel, get that cabin fever out of me, and come back to toronto to work. maybe i'll get a job right away. maybe i'll move to south africa and shark cage dive and catch sweet waves in between my days as a copywriter. i've come to realize that that is the beauty in life, you never really know what is going to happen, and as hard as you try to plan for it, you just gotta go with what it throws at you. hopefully it will be something exciting :) 

sorry for that huge rant, i think it is all this free time on my hands that has given me tons of time to think about things, and i just needed to get that out! is this wanderlust cabin fever thing just something i'm going through, or do a lot of students near the end of their programs get that too?? is it a creative person thing? does everyone have this urge to explore the world? i mean, there is only so much you can see through other people's travel photos ;) 

soph

listening: you and i - ingrid michaelson