Ridiculous Girl

In honour of this Sunday's SuperBowl....here's a throwback blog :) (And good luck to Lady Gaga ....who NO DOUBT will kill the half-time performance xo)   Enjoy ;) In the last 10 minutes of Sunday's 49th Super Bowl championship, by overcoming a 10 point deficit, Tom Brady brought victory to the New England Patriots with a 28-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks. Sounds like I know what I'm talking about right?   Well I don't. I have no knowledge of football whatsoever.   Yet, for some strange reason, I cannot go a single year without missing the Super Bowl.   The excitement and adrenaline of the match combined with the best concert of the year is enough to have me hooked on a sport that otherwise never interests me. And once again,  I know absolutely nothing about football.  Absolutely nothing...... ----------------------------------------------- Fall 1996 "Hey Leo!  Wanna join us??  We're going over to the fie...

Every person comes to a moment in their lifetime when they realize that they have to let go of certain things in order to move onto the next chapter. Especially when that next chapter is having kids. Kids are amazing, but sadly, parents have to give up A LOT in order to give their children the life that they need and deserve in order to grow up to be healthy and happy.   For example, you can no longer live on pizza and chinese take-out when you have children.  You actually have to feed them HEALTHY foods.  And let me tell ya folks...it's a royal pain in the ASS!!  If I could only tell you how many times I have cursed while chopping cucumber and celery slices for my kid's school snacks at 11pm at night.   Grrrrrr  >:( Anyway, I know that there are tons of parents out there who have had to sacrifice their own little luxuries in order to provide for their children. For some dads, it's giving up on those week long fishing trips with the boys. ...

Dating after a divorce can be very tricky. I've realized from many of my friends - both guys and girls, who have gone through a brutal separation - that there are varying degrees of dating intensity and dating timing after a break-up. There are the people who immediately jump into another long-term relationship.  These are the people that either luck out and find their soulmate right away.....or they just can't bear the thought of being alone for even a second. Then there are the ones who date a different guy or gal every few months in hopes of finding that next right match.  But sadly each one that they find doesn't suit their desires, so they quickly move on to the next suitor.  With very little time spent alone. And then...... there's me. The girl who was jaded.   For those of you who have followed my blog for the past 4 years, you know that after my divorce, I went through a very dark time.  And during that time, I guess I subconsciously clo...

Once there lived a beautiful maiden named Ridiculous Girl.   Ridiculous Girl lived in a small and humble townhome in the suburbs in Ontario, Canada with her 2 lovely and rambunctious daughters. Most days Ridiculous Girl was happy and boisterous, and just as exuberant as her girls. But lately, she felt different and out of sorts.  Her energy had just...vanished, and she often found herself staring off in the distance waiting for something.  But she didn't know what? One cold December afternoon, she stood bundled up and shivering with her hands and chin propped up on her shovel handle as she lightly kicked the snow with her right foot. There was 2 feet of snow under her, and it continued to come down, but Ridiculous Girl was just way too exhausted to even think of moving any of it off the driveway.    When her neighbour, from across the street, looked over at her, she sighed out loud. "Sighhhhhhh...." When he ignored her and went back to shovel...