Ridiculous Girl

Top 20 New Years Resolutions for 2015! Enjoy :) 1.  Wear less red lipstick. 2.  Don't swear as much. 3.  Don't listen to Guns N Roses as if they just released new music yesterday. 4.  Stop wearing track suits and UGGs like....everyday. 5.  Do not eat Nutella from the jar anymore (Even though it is THE most delicious jar/spoon snack in the entire universe). 6.  Start working out.  7.  And stop calling the walk from the car to the mall a "workout". 8.  Try a more delicate laugh.  One that is less like a hyena or donkey and more like a sweet, little chickadee. 9.  When nervous, do not bite nails. Instead, try a yoga inversion pose in which you hang upside down at your waist.  Even if you are in a public place.  People won't judge.  I'm almost sure of it. 10.  Read books that are not only found in the TEEN section of the library. 11.  Watch the news.  And not just the Life & Style Weekly updates that get posted to your Facebook

"Mishi?  Is this where Indian Motorcycle used to be??"  I ask my sister while pointing out my cab window. "LODZ!!"  Mishi yells my name angrily in Polish from the back of the cab.  (It's pronounced "ludge")  "STOP asking where Indian Motorcycle used to be!  You do this EVERY TIME we come to Toronto.  EVERY TIME!!  NO, that's not where Indian Motorcycle used to be.  It was on the other corner.  You sound SO OLD right now!" I sit back quietly in the passenger seat. I can feel the cab driver looking at me but I don't turn my head towards him.  I will not give him the satisfaction of looking back. I rest my elbow on the cab door and rest my chin on my hand.   "It was a really good club."  I whisper quietly. After a few more seconds, Mishi and her friends burst out laughing. Yes, perhaps I am "dating" myself by reminiscing about my party-girl days and the old nightclubs I used to frequent in To

It was 8 years ago that my Dad passed away from cancer. I'll never forget the day that he left us.  December 14th, 2006. After months and months of pain and suffering, it was inevitable that my Dad was not going to survive this horrible disease.  Not only had the cancer taken away his energy, his muscle tone and his strength....but it had taken away something worse.  His spirit.   His last week was spent in the palliative care ward in the hospital and there wasn't a moment that he was left alone.   In the last few days of his life I had grown numb.  I knew what was happening and I didn't really want to face it, so I had blocked off my own emotions in order to look strong and happy whenever my Dad laid his eyes on me. We had slept in my Dad's hospital room almost every night for that last week.  We made beds by putting the lounge chairs together.  Our discomfort was nothing in comparison to what my father had been going through for the last few months, so w

As most parents can understand, when you have children, your home suddenly becomes a disaster zone.   It starts off filled with playpens, high-chairs, boxes of diapers, swingy-chair thingys, and any other massive space-taker that comes along with having a baby in your home. But as the years go on, and the large baby items make their way to the local donation centre, then your home becomes inundated with toys, books, electronics and random "stuff".  In my case, pink and purple stuff. Because I find myself so busy tidying up this stuff, in addition to the million other things I need to be doing every week (such as writing my fabulous blog), I find that the things I used to get to around my house are being completely ignored.  Things like sweeping, vaccumming, putting laundry away and organizing are all going out the window.  Come to think of it......I WISH that the dust and dirt from the floors was going out the window...that would make life soooo much easier! Anyw

My cousin just had a baby.  A gorgeous little boy.  Her first. While texting back and forth last week, she said something that immediately brought me back to month 1 with Lola..... I'm only NOW understanding what spare time means when you're a mom! I know EXACTLY what's she's talking about. I remember all too well what it was like to go from no baby in the house....to "what the hell just happened here???"! -------------------------------------------------------- January 2009 It was 3 weeks before my due date and I was getting ready to bring a new fabulous child into this world.   I was pretty confident in what it was going to be like to have a new baby, even though it was my first.  The nursery was finished, my hospital bag was packed and I was rocking a new short hair do. I was going to be a super-stylish mom.  Like Angelina....or, Heidi, or Gwen!   I was soooooo excited! There was only one teeny-tiny thing that kept bugging me

The next 20 Ridiculous Facts about this Ridiculous Girl.   Enjoy :)   61.  After a summer long visit to Poland when I was a kid, I forgot all of my English.  One afternoon, after we got back to Canada, Mama overheard me trying to talk to some kids in Polish on my street.  I soon became the laughing stock of our neighborhood :(   But don't feel bad, eventually I learned English again. 62.  But....I'm pretty sure that's why, to this day, I continue to mess up common English sayings.  For example, instead of saying "Not the sharpest tool in the shed", I will say "He's like, not the sharpest pencil.....no wait....nail?....in the .......toolbox??  Oh forget it!  Sayings are stupid." 63.  I'm extremely claustrophobic.  Once my kid tried to go down a tube slide at an indoor play park, but once she got to the top, she was too scared to go down.  I had to go up and rescue her.  It didn't go well.  Let's just say that the

Last Sunday, I joined my best friend Mandy for church.   The message was about raising your kids so that they would eventually grow up to be kind, intelligent and good people.   Mandy and I listened intently trying to memorize every word in hopes that one day our children would become adults that wanted to spend time with their parents. In my mind, this was not an easy thing to do.   I take my parenting role very seriously and for the most part, I think I'm pretty good at my job. But sometimes I get completely consumed with the everyday struggles that come with my position.  The tantrums, the emotional ups and downs, the energy......oh, the energy!  The Energizer Bunny has nothing on my kids.........NOTHING!   Some days it is nearly impossible to keep up with them.  I've spoken before about collapsing on my couch shortly after I put the kids to bed.  Some nights I am even too tired to treat myself to a glass of wine.   Can you believe that?  Too tired!! For W

You all know my struggle with working out right?   My struggle being that I don't want to work out. I will pretty much do anything to stay out of a gym environment, similar to a cat who refuses to take a bath.   But for some reason, I always look forward to my next yoga class.  I go at least twice a week and I'm starting to get pretty good at it!  I can almost do a headstand! And my flexibility and strength have remarkably improved!  But as with any exercise, there will always be challenges.  And new things to learn.  And you may just get yourself into a compromising position that you don't know how to get out of. Just recently my yoga teacher said something to the class while I was struggling trying to get into triangle pose.   My legs were shaking, my hands were sweating and I just couldn't seem to get the position right.  I just wanted to get into the pose and stop struggling. I was getting very frustrated. My