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Top 20 things you don't know about me ;)





I know what you're thinking.


You're thinking, "Hey! Ridiculous Girl!  Remember when you used to do your TOP 20 things we don't know about you?  Remember how funny those were??  Why don't you re-post the first one?  Just in case your new audience has no idea what we're talking about!"

Guys.......that is an EXCELLENT idea!!
And now.......(drum roll please)....... for your reading pleasure..... the very FIRST Top 20 Things you don't know about Ridiculous Girl.  Resurrected from 2013!!  
It's an oldie....but a goodie ;)
Enjoy xo


1.  Once I fell asleep on my arm and I lost the feeling in it.   When I woke up, I saw an arm beside my head and I started screaming.
I thought there was a dead body in bed with me.
2.  I never lose socks in the wash.  Never.  This is something you can't learn.  You must be born with such a talent.
3.  I hate when people have "flip-up" garbage cans under their sink. You can't access your garbage properly.  It's stupid.  I will take my sisters garbage out from underneath her sink and leave it in the middle of her kitchen....just to prove a point.  
I'm pretty badass.
4.  I love slalom water skiing.  I usually sing out loud when I ski.  It's very often a Madonna song.  I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person who can "Vogue" and water ski at the same time.
5.  I have very poor circulation.  My hands and feet are always ice cold.  I sit on my countertop in my bathroom and warm my feet in a sink full of hot water every night.  
I only fell off the counter once.
6.  Everything gives me a headache.  The sun, the wind, the rain, low atmospheric pressure, ragweed, pollen..... I'm what they call "environmentally challenged".   I stay indoors from April 1st to November 30th....depending on if it's snowing or not.
Because snow gives me a headache too. 
7.  I push in my snaggle tooth in hopes that one day it will just magically be aligned with the other teeth.  Unfortunately it hasn't happened yet.  
I'm still hoping though....
  

 8.  Almost all of the ligaments in my left knee are torn.
Hmmm....there's nothing really funny about that one!?  
Kind of sad actually.......sniff......
9.   The lead singer of Our Lady Peace asked me out when I was 23.  I said no because I was in a "long-term" relationship.  I didn't regret that because I knew that my boyfriend Dan and I would be together FOREVER!! xoxoxoxo
We broke up the next month. 
10.  I can't lie.
11.   On long car drives, I must change sunglasses every 1/2 hour otherwise I get a headache from looking through the same lenses. 
Hey....that could be a cool metaphor for life....."Try looking at the world through your Dolce & Gabbana's instead...."

12.  When I laugh really hard, I start to sound like a wild goose. 
Many people have told me that it's actually VERY sexy. 


(no one has ever told me that it's sexy)
(Oh wow....I guess I CAN lie!??)
13.  I only have 60% hearing in my left ear.  I don't know why?  I blame it on Guns N' Roses music.  But I have no regrets.  
Best band EVERRRR!!
14. I love ping pong.  I practised every single night with my Dad after school when I was a kid.  We used to have tournaments at our church.  I will challenge any Catholic-church-attending-Polack.  Or Asian.


 15.  I love frogs.  But I don't want to touch them.  I just like to stare at them.  Back in my university years,  I went camping with my boyfriend.  He knew I loved frogs so he caught one and put it in the canoe with us. I started screaming, jumped out of the canoe into swampy waters, and swam back to shore.   
We did NOT have a romantic hotdog bonfire that night  >:(
16.  I have a keen eye for animals at night.  On the way to the cottage, I can spot a fox or a raccoon or a porcupine at the side of the road a mile away.  
I know.  
It's a gift.  
17.  I can't do a somersault.  
18.  I talk to myself all the time. I'll have an entire conversation while unloading the dishwasher.  Once my daughter caught me.  
That was a tough one to explain.
19.  I have a huge flower tattoo on my back.  I cried when I got it.  I asked the tattoo parlour to turn off their heavy metal music and put on meditation sounds instead to calm me down.  I was asked to never come back.

20.  My mom always packed me the same lunch everyday in gradeschool.  Liver pate on carraway rye with Polish mustard.  Who eats liver pate when they're 6 years old???  
This Polack did.

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