Bell Let's Talk

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Today, for every tweet using #BellLetsTalk, Bell donates 5¢ more to #MentalHealth initiatives: http://t.co/qsyUzIANKq pic.twitter.com/Brc2eaT3Dz
— Bell Let's Talk (@Bell_LetsTalk) January 28, 2015

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Bell Let's Talk

Their 5 ideas on things you can do not just today but everyday! Let's keep the talk going? 

What you can do to end the stigma

Bell Let's Talk

So today in Canada it's sort of a Mental Health Awareness day - called Bell Let's talk.
Today Bell (A Canadian cellphone company) 

• Tweet using #BellLetsTalk
• Share of the Facebook image
• Text message sent* 
• Mobile & long distance call made* (the calls & texts are only applicable with Bell plans) 

The idea is to start a dialogue and encourage people to try to open up about Mental Illness. The four pillars that Bell  let's talk actively support are 

• Anti Stigma 
• Care and Access 
• Work Place Health 
• Research 

And today the 2015 Bell Lets talk campaign is encouraging people to take 5 very easy steps that they can do daily to help work towards ending the stigma that is still very much an Issue within the Mental Health Community. 

• Language Matters - Words can both Help & hurt so pay attention to Which ones you choose to use.
• Educate yourself - There are still a lot of misconceptions, misunderstandings and unfortunate Myths that still exist about Mental Illness. Educate yourself on the issues as much as possible. And most importantly please if you are feeling alone, please, seriously look up how to get Crisis help via something like Google. There are things like Crisis LInes/Hot lines and other things you can turn to when you feel completely hopeless! 
• Be Kind - small acts of kindness can go a long way towards making a big difference. it can be as simple as Smiling at someone! 
• Listen and Ask - Sometimes the best things you can do is Ask & then truly listen! 
• Talk about it - Create a dialogue not a debate! 

I challenge you to to try implementing a few of these things within your own daily lives! And of course I encourage you to help the Cause and tweet and share the Facebook Picture (I will try my best to give links to everything. 

5 ways you can help

Today, for every tweet using #BellLetsTalk, Bell donates 5¢ more to #MentalHealth initiatives: http://t.co/qsyUzIANKq pic.twitter.com/Brc2eaT3Dz
— Bell Let's Talk (@Bell_LetsTalk) January 28, 2015

December 2014 Update

CHRISTMAS 2014

I think the time has come... to SAY GREETINGS HUMANS

Hey what's up, I'm Chelsea and I'm from Canada! I love MOVIES & the movie industry in general. My dream job would be some type of Entertainment Media job like Movie Critic. Having said that though I do think that being a movie critic would perhaps take my joy out of movies. 

Anyway I am from a Small town (Born and raised) Love movies, devour books and enjoy the fine arts. Including and not limited to Dancing like a maniac in my home and singing (preferably where no one can hear me.) However I'm going to contradict myself with my last statement.

 I LOVE ACTING - mainly  Theater and acting on stage (have loved it since I was 5 & in my first school play.) I have become pretty involved with my local Community acting group, having acted in 4 plays with them since my first Play way back in 2008 - where I played a Postulant Nun as part of the Nun's  choir in the Sound of Music.  During which time I learned LATIN. Meaning I learned to sing in Latin. 

This past fall I had the privilege to be cast in my first Principal Role with the group where I played another Nun in another Musical (HEY look progress after 6 years with the group.) I had the honor to Play SIster Amnesia in our production of Nunset Boulevard (Part of Dan Groggins Nunsense Musicals.) IT WAS a ROLE that I truly connected with for the first time and truly became the character. It was also an experience I loved working with a close ensemble cast of 4 other extraordinary women to support me during our time together! 

Another thing I do really enjoy is the world of Special FX Makeup Artistry. I think it's such a unique career and experience, I feel it's it's this really cool way to show case your artistic skills.  Especially since the master pieces you create are not exactly tangible in the sense that unlike painting a picture (for example) your art won't remain forever. At some point it will disappear like when the person you just made up finally takes off the makeup. The exception being of course if you made a mold/Body cast/facial cast. 

I myself dabble in the art of Special FX Makeup and particularly enjoy the Gore/Horror/BLOOD play sub types. I sort of turned to Special FX makeup one day as a last ditch effort of self therapy. In the past I had a lot of problems with Self Harm and since messing around with this messy yet exhilarating Hobby I have been clean of Cutting since 2012 & free of self Harm since 2013 when I quit burning myself with matches. 

I am completely self taught and learn from Google, Instagram, and Youtube but for the most part I whip out my mish mash of Halloween makeup & HOUSEHOLD stuff, and just go for it without really trying for a particular look. My favorite time of the year for my Makeup is Halloween time (September - all the way to December) WHICH I fondly take part in Chelsea's CRAZY MAKEUP challenge & set out to find all the Makeup Contests & participate in as many as possible. And oddly enough I am not half bad as I have numerous small time contests (Like Shout outs on Instagram which may not mean much to people but when you get shouted out for something your crazy passionate about and LOVE doing, it's amazing.) Plus through instagram I built up a network and follow MUA (that's MAKEUP ARTISTS) from around the world whose work I admire & some of whom admire my own Makeup creations in turn. 

To date I have actually won 3 prize related Contests with regards to my crazed contest entering Obsessiveness.  Twice I actually got the aforementioned Prize (A Makeup Bag/brush bag & MAKEUP from last year) and this year I got a book about life planning (Not as interesting) but it was for a week day Daily entries contest (meaning you could enter every day until end of the month or you were finally crowned winner) albeit the contest was pretty tiny (I'm sure they quit getting entries after the first week or so) but I came across it near the end of the month and JUMPED on the chance to enter it (OBVIOUSLY.) 

Currently I'm eagerly awaiting the results of the final contest I entered in the 2014 Halloween Season (Which the deadline was in December like I want to say the 6th/first week) and I ended up creating a LOOK on the day the entry was DUE, managed to do a look, film clips/take pictures and upload my entry within like 3 hours. Not to mention I managed to also take off my makeup (FULL blood face) and go to a local HOCKEY game within that time frame (best record for me.) 

AUDFACED is like one of the first Special FX MUA's I found and actually followed on Youtube after stumbling on her Samara Morgan from the Ring Makeup! I loved hearing about her following her dreams and working towards her goals of FX MUA. However my favorite part of her channel would be her yearly Halloween Makeup Contests! The sheer amount of talent that always came from them was mind boggling - so many creative and talented people out there both Amateur & trained! Whether it was as an contest entrant or just a Youtuber FAN FOLLOWER - we all connected with her Halloween videos. She always made the Contests cool & themed and she herself PUT lot's of effort into filming the contest videos (usually dressing up in her own theme.) She's such a fabulous Makeup Artist and I love how she's stayed true to herself, hasn't let anything get to her head (Like YOUTUBE with her 6.8 million channel views/60k subscribers and her numerous popular videos.) 
I think she's stayed pure with her Youtube journey both as a person & a professional. And it's nice to see.  

Anyway I'm a BIG FAN girl of her's and that makes me even happier to say that the final contest I entered for the Halloween Makeup season this past fall was her 2014 HALLOWEEN Makeup Contest. In all the years I watched her/eagerly awaited the yearly contests, I never once imagined I would ever find a day where I entered an Audfaced Halloween contest. However after saying What the heck and taking the chance I did it (Albeit I did in the not so great way of entering very last minute as I already stated) but now no matter what I can say that one of my first Special FX MUA IDOL's has looked over and seen my work (Even if it was just that one video/look) and that means the world to me! 

SO there now you know 2 kind of big things about myself and I'm sure as time goes on I will keep posting here because I've found writing to be kind of helpful for my life at the moment. And like the somewhat Anonymity I get here. I CAN RAMBLE ON FOR AGES here where as on YOUTUBE I really have to return to my old throw back "Vlog" type videos where I kept my ramblings to under 5 minutes & usually did 1 takes... Lately I tend to just ramble ON AND ON AND ON and then because I did that I have to refilm it and then sometimes I TALK EVEN longer. And then I have to write all the clips into my notebook (I call it the idea/filming/producing [Since I have to take like technical votes of length/clip number] so I can co-relate it on the COMPUTER. lol. and also LONG VIDEOS suck because I think I have the crappiest internet connection when it comes to crap like uploading because one time a 7 minute video took 9 hours (no JOKE) to successfully upload to the Tubes of You (& I of course)  

I CONTINUALLY have a huge LADY crush on the Samsung Galaxy Cameras. basically it's a Digital Camera (and the specs of the camera keep getting better with each model - so far that's 2) that is a HYBRID of a CAMERA & A TABLET with ANDROID operating System inside the CAMERA! MEANING I CAN FILM - and UPLOAD to the YOUTUBE without having to go through the dreadfully tedious tasks of FILMING ---> uploading camera content to Computer (and now for some reason my computer tends to reject my photo's from my camera like 9 times out of 10 & it takes multiple times of either logging off/shutting down to get it to successfully transfer the files... OR IT does the annoying thing where it will like upload 5 out of like 100+ files and then I have to go through the renaming (and I try to name my files like December 2014 or get specific like say December 2014 SLEDDING/XMAS etc meaning I have to have 2 different files for the same bloody set of photos... 

PLUS there's always the fear that YOUTUBE will be like my computer and reject my file after waiting hours on END not letting the computer shut down/letting others use it BECAUSE YOU CAn't LEAVE this freaking upload screen (wth youtube get with it... let us escape the window confinement.) 
I mean if I had a tablet it would be like the camera and I can upload straight to YOUTUBE minus the computer/cables/uploading.) 

ANYWAY now you know even more about me. I LOVE cameras/videography/photography..... I have for quite some time now... WAY back when my dad had a BRICK for a digital Camera I remember I was either demanding photos or stealing the camera which is how it went until like 2006 & I finally got my own camera! usually I'm a Sony Cyber Shot GIRL (2 beloved cameras) but the past two times of buying a camera (within 2 months of eachother at the time) I choose a ruby red nikon because i SAW WIFI AND WAS LIKE OMG MY DREAM camera only to be mislead into the idea that it wasn't wifi parsay but could latch onto and "Send" files to phones/tablets using like blue tooth or something? 

Anyway my Phone (I LOVE IT regardless of my next statement) hasn't had like full storage compacity since I bought it in 2012... I bought my first Android - HTC S1. LOVE the phone however daily curse the dummies who SAID HEY let's not let our phone have expandable memory - wouldn't that be amazing (Amazing said no one ever...) I MEAN other than lack of memory the phone is AMAZING and to me has yet to be truly outdated (the screen hasn't cracked regardless of surving my Nannying Days & toddler adventures, even a hOusefire couldn't kill it - mind oyu it wasn't in the room as the fire... so) 
Besides a few tiny nicks in the hardware/case, and weird faded paint thing (WHICH I blame on the constant casing I used to put it under...) and a year now being free of a CASE & screen protector.... IT's ALIVE. And the camera specs are still fantastic imo as are the screen & even the computer part of the phone... Speakers suck though & So does phone calls... ANYWAY 

BACK to my camera - since I got it pretty much I have never been able to transfer more than two pictures through "WIFI" to my phone because obviously Digital Camera photos are like freaking van gouhs FILE SIZE wise and it's like trying to fit a Van Gough into the Mona Lisa Frame (which I've heard is small) 

ANYWAY I have thousands of pictures of everything & anything! In Highschool alone between like grades 10-12 (Which I took twice due to not having enough credits to graduate) I took like 15,000 pictures! I take artsy pictures, took lots of myself (been doing makeup as a stress reliever thing for years tbh just not the whole BLOOD/GORE/HORROR aspect - back in the day it was like today I'm going to turn myself into a GEISHA using my most Geisha like clothes, creating crazy buns, and USING BABY POWDER for my white face base. 

SO YEAH WOW I covered a lot here. THANKS for listening or reading or really just thank yuo to this BLOG & WRITING space... I really needed to just RAMBLE tonight! 

Cheers & until next time You bloggy bloggers you (or you creepy creepers) or my friends whom I have no clue got to my blog! 

HAVE A WONDERFUL Night, Morning, Day, and time wherever you are and whatever you are doing 
~Chelsea 

Random Ramblings about how I'm over flowing with Scottish Pride

You know what I should be doing instead of you know deciding to go all Hard core whilst celebrating ROBERT BURNS day because you know Scottish Pride?
1. Creating a comprehensive Social Media strategy plan (That's actually a legit responsibility I have at the moment that will probably have to be done sometime in the next month/month and a half) [SIDE note I'm probably going to take this plan and if everything works out work on it further and  present it to the Board during the AGM and make a case to start a Social media position on the board.]
2. Script work because I think that's something I just straight up love and also currently kind of sort of have to do, mind you I have till April.
3.  or working on my life which would be February Calendar/Goal setting, working on my own social media, and life planning (WHICH I have a lot of choices to make atm to be honest)

YOU KNOW WHAT I am doing though I'm just searching up the hundreds of Robert Burns/ Scottish Related recipes that I COULD sort of probably never ever have time to make TODAY, but hey I'm planning ahead for what I CAN MAKE next year right? EACH year make something different.

However I can more or less just MASH several recipes together because food/basic ingredients are more or less the same. Like I can make one EPIC vegetable MASH thing combining Tatties/neeps (Which are apparently essential to a Burns Supper) and I've found a vegetarian Haggis. BOOM then just have to either pick a Soup or combine everything and MAKE AN EPIC SOUP, and then make some Scottish Bannock, and then yeah pick 1-3 dessert theme recipes and create the EASIEST thing in the world which is OATCAKES (literally I made these several times last year albeit slightly different each time dependent on the reason as to why I had to make it)

Basically today will be all about vegetable prep like peeling/chopping/dicing/cubing/grating  & then SAUTEING/frying/Mashing  (because a vast majority of the things are catered around several main vegetables being prepared 4 different basic ways & then added to the various dish.)  Boom the veggies then are basically either ROASTED/FRIED/or boiled. BOOM there we have the MAIN ROBERT BURNS veggie Dishes.

the rest are pretty much Baking convection (bread/cookie etc) or stove top such as Boiling/steaming whatever I do to the pudding, then basically candy making which is letting some stuff in a PAN get SUPER freaking HOT and pouring it into respective dishes without either burning myself, burning/ruining the pan, or over heating the stuff.

SO YEAH that's my day.
Sometimes my ADHD gets the best of me. I make plans to make plans to create schedules to create to do lists to try to follow through & MY BRAIN IS JUST LIKE YEAH NO FORGET that JUNK let's spend hours on END doing ONE THING but DOING IT HARDCORE.

So Scottish PRIDE ADHD mode made me go HARDCORE for RECIPES that I may or may never ever actually make. ANd this is has been RANDOM RAMBLINGS with chelsea folks

Life Stories & how they continue on even after you die

I've sort of come to this conclusion several times over now in the past several months... You know sometimes your life story simply ends with no rhyme or reason - other times you foretell the ending before it happens. You've read the story before. It's not unexpected but it's not without bitterness. However the true comfort is that just because your life story has ended doesn't mean it's truly over. It will remain within the libraries that your loved ones carry with them. A collection of moments, experiences and encounters. So long as there are people here who still remember you and pass your story along, it never truly dies. It still exists, it's perhaps ended but people will still read it and remember it.

 — feeling incomplete.

Loss of people especially people you never expect to lose and secondly you never realize how much they meant to you upon their passing. It's like a puzzle and no matter what you do you'll never have the pieces. They are gone - and I will will likely never get them back. Loss brings so many emotions regret mostly - of missed chances and opportunities and of questions that will likely never get answers. However you sit there with your incomplete puzzle and you treasure the pieces you do have - the picture it does create albeit not fully.

Grief is such a tricky thing to try to explain let alone to begin to understand. With it comes so many things. It's like this unwanted Pandora box that you didn't realize would impact your life to such an extent. I will probably dig up my early posts about loss of loved ones that I wrote on the other two occasions that I came face to face with death earlier this year

I wish more than anything I could bring the people back I lost however I cannot do this - no one can. We must try to move forward as best we can even if we don't even know how that is. We have to try to find the lessons that each day bring us be it ones we never wanted to learn or those we so patiently spent mastering.

Life or at least ourselves are very much like magnets without the positives and the negatives we cannot live in one piece. We need a little bit of both in order to grow. We have the power within ourselves to attract things and dispel them at our own choosing.

So right now though it seems impossible I'm going to accept that today was another unexpectedly tragic day but there is something here to learn from - to grow from

You know sometimes your life story simply ends with no rhyme or reason - other times you foretell the ending before it happens. You've read the story before. It's not unexpected but it's not without bitterness. However the true comfort is that just because your life story has ended doesn't mean it's truly over. It will remain within the libraries that your loved ones carry with them. A collection of moments, experiences and encounters. So long as there are people here who still remember you and pass your story along, it never truly dies. It still exists, it's perhaps ended but people will still read it and remember it.