Unstoppable Gals

We love tattoos.  But we have our limits.  Here's our tattoo story: Guik Do you remember your first tattoo? I certainly do. It was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. When I first thought about getting a tattoo, I was with Karine and another one of our friends. We were 15 years old and badly wanted a tattoo! Of all the things I could have wanted in my 15-year-old mind, it was a bar code on my neck. Was it a “thing” back then? Maybe it was the year The Matrix came out? Well guess what…. I chickened out! Not because I didn’t want a tattoo but because didn’t trust that the tattoo artist was good enough to do those straight lines. When I turned 18 (1999), wanting a tattoo resurfaced. You would think that I would have done more research by then, nope. I remember walking into the tattoo shop and talking to this guy that looked like Snoop Dogg (probably stoned too). I didn’t really know what I wanted but I...

Ever scrolled through dating profiles? They can get real creepy, real fast. It seems like some of them strive for originality in all the wrong ways and others are just naturally lame. Either way, we’ve looked and laughed. Here are the best ones we’ve seen so far.  Semi retired from training thoroughbred horses…I guess you never fully retire from that profession because you’re never actually working. Also, was it too difficult to add some type of punctuation? Or are you semi retired from that too? Let’s get this straight. You’re on a dating site but you don’t want a sexual relationship, you’re unreliable and you sleep at your “best friend’s” house several times a week??? Well, good luck finding someone who won’t mind being your last minute call up when you need to talk because your best friend is busy. You sound like every woman’s dream man! And why would you put an S to the word libido? Do you have many? And yet all of them are low? Maybe you should get r...

Are we the only ones struggling to stay in shape ? It seems like ever since we hit the mid-30s, exercising has become more of an aggression to our body than anything else. There was a time when we were in excellent shape. Crossfit, obstacle races, circuit training, weight lifting, you name it, we did it. It was very gratifying. The more we worked out, the better we felt both physically and mentally.   Now that we’re 37ish, things have changed. For one, we have injuries pretty much everywhere on our bodies. You know how we use to tease old people for having a bad back or faulty hip, karma’s a bitch. You need proof? Here goes… Karine I haven’t walked normally in years. According to my doctor, a life’s worth of working out is already starting to show long lasting effects like tears and arthritis. Due to pain, I’ve been walking with a swag making people think I’ve got some kind of attitude problem like I’m from the hood. FYI, Ottawa has no hood and even if it did, I...

A day in Karine's head when she's PMS-ing Morning: OMG! I can’t go to work like this. My stomach hurts so bad I think I’m going to be sick. Hey, maybe I can call in sick. Does this count as a sick day? I’ll just go have breakfast first and see if it passes. OMG, I’m so fat. I shouldn’t have breakfast. Maybe I should do that intermittent fasting thing. Or maybe I’ll just have one little chocolate croissant. Maybe two. Well, I already ruined my diet for today and I’m already fat, so I might as well eat the entire bag or else I’ll be hungry before lunch. At work: I hate my job. I hate people. I hate everything. I just want to get into foetal position under my desk and cry. After work : Have you not noticed how dirty the cupboards are? How can you walk past these cupboards everyday of your life and not notice the spilled coffee from last week or the drops of yogourt that splashed everywhere when OUR daughter dropped her bowl yesterday!! How can you live like this? T...

Warning: This is not a feminist post. We are simply referring to a woman’s right to not have children on the basis of societal change and acceptability. Oh shoot! Maybe this is a feminist post. Oh well! Don’t get your panties in a knot!  The lifelong question. Should I have children? There was a time when women didn’t have the possibility to even ask themselves that question. Why would they? They were only meant to carry children and perform household chores. Thankfully, most people realized that women are not defined solely by their capacity to reproduce (I say “most” because we all know someone who knows someone who still thinks that we’re in the 1920s). We have a choice! The question is: How do you handle that choice?   Karine’s thoughts Too many people don’t ask themselves that question often enough. Once those babies come popping out, there’s no going back. Trust me. I tried. Seriously, I love my kids. When teachers and parents asked me what I wante...

W elcome to our blog of Unstoppable Gals. We thought we’d start off by introducing ourselves. Guik (left) and Karine (right) in Bucerias, Mexico in February 2019.   My name is Karine. I’m the one on the right. I’m a 37 year-old mother of three ranging between the ages of 8 and 12. I’m married to my college sweet heart and work full time. It’s a busy life. It sounds perfect doesn’t it? Well it is…most of the time. Sometimes it’s hard, frustrating and exhausting. Sometimes I want to strangle my significant other and run off to Mexico where I can give massages to strangers on the beach in exchange for tacos and tequila. A girl can dream! Thankfully, I have my bestie, Guik. I can live vicariously through her. It’s a pretty sweet deal. She goes out, she meets a ton of people, she wines and dines, she tells me all about it, I daydream while I’m doing homework with the kids and she pays the bill. It’s a win-win situation.   I would describe myself as an impulsive, animal lov...