Oh, for the love of... Joe!

I'm going to reveal a big secret about myself today on The kind of way I observe things: I am a gigantic Joe fan. What is Joe, you may ask? Well, Joe is one of my top favourite clothing shops - yah, you know the one, tucked inside many a Superstore, with some floating out there on their own as well.

Within my shopshot (heh, heh, get it, instead of earshot?!) there is one at Queen's Quay, one at Don Mills and Eg, one at Forest Hill... and you know, they kinda all fill the bill.

But, when one goes a little further out of the GTA, say, towards Kitchener, Ontario (just steps from the bustling 'burg of Waterloo--my hometown) the biggest, best, most glorious Joe can be found at Highland Hills Mall, at the corner of Highland and Fischer-Hallman roads.

This store is the mothership. When I was back in Waterloo for a week stint earlier this month, I ventured into the store early one morning. I wouldn't be long, I told myself. I was used to whipping through my closest Joe (Don Mills and Eg) in about 15 mins when I'm in TO. But, really, when you're in this Joe, you're going to need to allot yourself about TEN-15 min. blocks of time.

This Joe has it all, the Men's, the Women's, the Children's, the workout wear section, the loungey section, an extensive shoe and flip-flop section, an intimates section, if you will, outerwear... what am I leaving out here!? They really got it all. And I even told a couple members of Team Joe just how I felt about the amazingness that is their store.

So, there you have it. That's a little blurb about Joe and how fondly I feel about the place. Oh, and the stuff in it, too. Share your Joe story with me!

Welcome, me.

Last year, when I was a student in the Corp. Comm. program at Seneca College, blogging was a topic often punctuating our class discussions. But I really had no interest in them.

People seemed to yammer on about blogs and blogging in such a mundane, entirely bland fashion. I absolutely did not see any of the merits whatsoever of keeping a blog. There are so many out there, I thought, and they all seem boring; I did not want to be one to fan the fires of boredom.

But recently, after hearing Joseph Thornley (C.E.O. of Thornley Fallis) and Julie Rusciolelli (President and Founder of Maverick Public Relations Inc.) speak at the CPRS event, 360 Degrees - All Things Connected, I kind of instantly took a shine to blogging. From two avid bloggers who sang the praises of keeping a blog, I got the right perspective I needed to make me see that blogging can be all its cracked up to be! Thank you, Joseph and Julie, for your brief, but inspirational talk :-)

So, here I am, in all the glory that is me. Stay tuned for some useful insights, and things that might very well not be useful at all, but things you'll be glad you read after you have done so. Maybe.