RATE IT! It's Not About the Nail

Think men and women have trouble communicating?

This Funny or Die video 'nails' it (yes, that pun is intended!).

It's Not About the Nail - watch more funny videos      

I'm back!

Hello. Remember me? After a few years where family concerns had to take precedence, I am BACK and I have a lot to share in regards to pop culture and all the fun products out there that put a smile on my face (and hopefully, yours!).

I hope you'll come along for the ride!

RATE IT! Virtual Weight Loss

Ooh, it sounds very scientific and 'Minority Report'ish... but there's no reason to be scared (trust me).


Please check out my latest article for Best Health Magazine's website:


Virtual Weight Loss: Can You Shed Pounds Online?


Can you? I'm not the only one who says you can! 

RATE IT! Happy Birthday

File under shameless self-promotion...


Lose That Girl is two years old today!


Not any wiser, or richer but definitely sillier. 


Please partake in any rich chocolately treat that you see fit to help mark this milestone.

The Heart Does Break

Hello... faithful readers & occasional visitors.

I'm so sorry to have disappeared quite suddenly a few weeks back (I must thank Blogger's automatic posting feature for making it appear somewhat that I was *here*). It's not in my nature to just *vanish* -- since I typically hang out here each & every day for a spell, and I feel my absence should be addressed ever so briefly.

I tend to keep my most personal moments private & refrain from writing about them on my site but life as I have known it -- forever -- has changed drastically for me. My beloved Mum died almost three weeks ago after a year long battle with lung cancer. My family & I are devastated and the painful process of resurfacing to our "normal" lives is proving difficult. "Normal" will now be forever changed and I think it might take awhile for us to all find our way. I haven't had the heart to write since, but I'm hoping that this first post back on the other side of normal might help me find the path that I had started...

The most routine tasks are tough right now, and I'm not shy in saying that I'm looking for solace...somewhere, anywhere. I have been trying to read a new book called 'The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning' compiled by Jean Baird and George Bowering (published by Random House). It's a collection of personal recollections of renowned authors on the loss of a loved one. It's painful to read and I can see my own situation mirrored in the prose, especially within the moving "Her Great Art" by Jill Frayne about her wonderful mother, June Callwood. Frayne writes, "we're different without her...June was the centre and every distance out from her has shifted, every axis on a new tilt...I'm a different woman with my mother gone. Less brave, more ordinary. If this is grief, it feels like vertigo, a kind of motion sickness. I'm making myself over, without my mother. Now that she doesn't call me, or put flowers in my room, or settle an appraising eye on me, I'm not who I was...".

It's too early to say whether this book will help me deal, but at least it makes me feel like I'm not alone in feeling so lost right now.

I'm hoping to find it in me to post more regularly soon - at least Blogger's automatic posting function will make it seem so. :)