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Til we meet again.....

I started Ridiculous Girl 4 years ago.   I never thought that anyone would actually read my stories.   I wrote because I loved to write.  The thought of one day having thousands of people read my entries every month never crossed my mind in the slightest. -------------------------------------------------------- My road in the blogging world had a bumpy start.  Shortly after I started, I needed to stop writing to deal with a very unexpected separation.   I needed to figure out how to move forward.  I thought that taking a break from writing would help me.....but in fact, it wasn't until I started writing again that the real healing would begin. Each time I sat down to the computer, the words and ideas just flowed through my fingertips.  It was effortless and healing.  I felt a sense of peace and happiness in sharing my stories and my life with you. And with each story I told, I saw that people were reading.  People were following.  People were sharing.  And

Ridiculous beauty.

My top 10 beauty tips.   Enjoy :) 1.  I do steam facials.  I boil a pot of water, put my face over it, put a towel over my head and let the steam do it's magic.  And then I realized, why go to that much extra effort when I'm very often already boiling veggies on the stove almost everyday?  So I have recently starting doing broccoli steam facials, corn on the cob steam facials, sweet potato steam facials....... Effective....and delicious :) 2.  Having read up on the benefit of moisture for my body I filled buckets of water and put them in random locations around my house during the cold and dry winter months. I thought I was quite brilliant until I found several barbies in my buckets.  Apparently the kids thought that I had set them out as Barbie hot tubs :/  Like Barbie needs ANY more beautifying!? 3.  I have recently started doing a technique that my sister taught me.  The 30-second face lift.  I massage the muscle between my ear and my chin for

Boys will be boys.

As I'm sure you all know by now, I love to dance.   I mean....I REALLY love to dance.  Anytime I am invited out to shake my tail feather, I will almost always go.........unless I have my girls that weekend.  And then I will not go. Because another thing you should also know about me is that I need at least 10 hours of sleep immediately following a night on the town for my body to recover.  And that is totally impossible with a 3 year old who thinks it's hilarious to wake her Mommy up at the crack of dawn >:( It should come as no surprise to you then that when my sister invited me out to go dancing with her and her friends for her birthday, and also conveniently the same weekend that the girls would be with their dad,  I was already trying on all of my stilettos while texting back YES!! Not only do I love to dance, but I also love the party scene.   There is a certain energy that comes with being out in Toronto for the night.  It's like an electric hum th

Leo doesn't workout.

I know what you're thinking.   You're thinking "How's your new job going Leo?  Are you enjoying it?  Are you still the Queen Bee of Faxing?" Thanks for asking guys!   Work is going great.  I really, really like it.  And yes....I am STILL the Queen Bee of Faxing.  One of the other girls tried to steal my title last week, but no luck.  She has no clue how fast these fat fingers can fax.  (say that 5 times fast!) Anyway, somehow, I am balancing all of the aspects of my life.  Work ($), kids (cuteness), house (ughh), court (ew) and personal (yay).   I'm not managing them perfectly.....but I'm still managing.   But the one aspect of my life which I have totally neglected and put on the back-burner since I started my new job is working out.   Wait....Leo doesn't work out.  Let me re-phrase...." the occasional walk and yoga class ". You all know my love of yoga right?  Well, I have not been able to squeeze it in anywhere.  My