About Me

I am a “thirty-something” mother of none (unless you include my 3 “min-pins”). I’m originally from Montreal Canada (born and mostly raised), but moved to Florida in my early 20′s.

While my friends and family remain in Canada, I have forged new friendships in the U.S. and return home roughly once a year when I am craving a taste of home, snow and delicious Poutines! (sidenote: Nix that. OMG have you seen the cholesterol levels in that dish? ACK! And to think of how many I ate, in college. *whoa!*). Sure… pure deliciousness, but it’s “death by cheese & fries”. No more for me. *pout*

My husband and I own and operate our own business (with the help of our employees, of course), but I thoroughly enjoy my hobbies and they help keep my “workaholic-ness” (is that even a  word?) at bay.

My number one hobby is reading. Anything from paranormal to contemporary (especially bad-boys and rock stars). Hey! Everyone needs a guilty pleasure. When I first started”power-reading”, I felt the need to talk about the books. You know… go over every little detail, sigh over the latest “hero”… *squee* a little. But my book friends were few & far between & my husband could only humor me for so long (he knows more about vampires & bad-boy heroes than I think he cares to). Plus. He’s not very good at squee’ing.

And so this blog was born. It has helped me connect with so many authors and readers, and I’ve read stuff that I love and will remember forever.

Lily’s friend Ray (who made her “baby Lily” banner on her blog), sent me a cartoon version of baby me!

I’m an admitted “girly-girl” who usually likes anything in the sparkly and/or pink realm that makes me go “oooooh preeettttty”. (*embarrassing admission here*: I’ve been known to trip over my own feet walking past sparkly thingies). *sigh* As I was saying… I like candles that smell like dessert, stiletto heels, sugary treats and vodka martinis (especially together). Also, I’m a fashion freak.

But I do have another side to me that prefers horror movies (all kinds, but my favorites would be Asian horror) and heavy music (mostly metal) over romance flicks and pop (not always my thing). The dark brooding gritty characters that need to be redeemed to the bubbly or altruistic ones that are already there.  I frequent both sides of the “pink” and “black” realms equally.

Oh. And I also collect a particular 80′s toy sensation – the “Cabbage Patch Kids” (another guilty pleasure that creeps many of my friends out). Yep. Dolls.  And reptiles. Well I don’t “collect” those, but you know… I keep ‘em.

Hrmmm… reading this back again, I see this could make for a very creepy horror movie on it’s own – Vampires, snakes and dolls. Yup – perhaps I am a little “off”…

Oh and…if you ended up here while searching for the WWE Wrestler / Diva “Maryse” who shares my name, I am obviously not her.