The year was 2000. I was 24 years old. I had a huge job in a pharmaceutical company and was quickly heading up the corporate ladder. During the week I busted my ass at work, which meant I made the rich corporate big wigs even richer (insert eye roll here). It was very stressful but I worked damn hard every day to prove myself. But on the weekends, well….. the weekends were a different story. The weekends were my escape. After university, my best friends and I quickly became infatuated with the Toronto nightclub scene. It was the perfect escape for us. The music, the people, the clothes, the dancing…..it was all so grand, so loud and so fun. Completely the opposite of our corporate lives. We just craved it all the time. We couldn’t get enough! You can imagine that going back to work on Monday was just awful. Not only was my body still filled with Red Bull and Vodka, but I swear that I could still feel the pumping of the music’s ba
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a huge movie buff. I watch movies ALL of the time. And it’s entirely not unusual for me to get “hooked” on a movie that I absolutely love, and then watch that movie every day for weeks in a row. Yes, I said every day. Every, single, day. That’s ridiculous you say??? Well…….of course it is! I am Ridiculous Girl after all ;) Anyway, the movie that I am currently hooked on is called “It’s Complicated”. A delightful comedy released in 2009 which stars the acting geniuses Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. I regularly “troll” through TV stations to see which movies are coming up and which I need to tape. As you can imagine, I have quite the plethora of fabulous movies on my PVR ready to be enjoyed over and over …..and over again. I’m sure you can also imagine how devastated I was when I switched from Rogers to Bell last year and I had to hand it my PVR which was fil