Me & Ryan Gosling are taking a break

Sad news, guys. Ry Ry and I have done some soul-searching lately, and decided that we need to take a bit of a break.

DON'T WORRY!

Everything is okay! We're still in a Lifelong Relationship That is the Most Significant Relationship in Anyone's Life Ever, we're just both really busy right now, and he feels like all the extra attention he's getting from these posts is too distracting.

Plus, I was running out of pictures to share from our life together. Give us some time to re-collect ourselves and make some new memories. I promise, Ryan will be back.

This does mean that the last Me & Ryan Gosling post will be the last one for a while.

I hope that your hearts will go on.

Here, here, let me help. Here is Ry Ry being hilarious and adorable with Tyler Labine on Breaker High.

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Me & Ryan Gosling that time we tried to start a family dance troupe

People have gone crazy for those videos of Ryan Gosling back when he was a dance student in shiny silver pants, but that wasn't his first foray into joining a dance team. Way back in the day, we teamed up with my siblings and cousins to form a family dance troupe! We were gonna be STARS - but then the rest of us decided that was way too much work and left it to Ryan, who carried the torch like a champ.

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Me and Ryan Gosling going ice skating

Here's a shot from the time Ryan and I went ice skating. This was right after Vancouver had the Olympics, and we decided it would be really fun to go check out the fancy skating oval they built. It was really just like skating around in circles, but Ry Ry got a kick out of it.

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Me & Ryan Gosling, just trying to read

Here's a fun throwback! I think this is around 2002, Ryan and I were chilling (with a cat, of course). I was just trying to get a little reading done, but dear sweet Ry Ry doesn't really like attention being elsewhere. He was so cute, can you blame him?

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Me & Ryan Gosling measuring how big my face is

Sometimes when you're posing for a group photo with Ryan, he'll decide he wants to measure how big your face is. Hilarious, Ry Ry!

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Me & Ryan Gosling getting touristy in London

You might think that being a lowly regular human person in a lifelong relationship with someone like Ryan Gosling, means that you're always the one running all over the world, following them from place to place, lest you never see them. Not so! Ry Ry is very devoted and actually comes to me more often than I come to him (he can afford more plane tickets than me, after all). About ten years ago (yikes! Time flies!) I had an extended stopover in London, and my sweet guy came out just to see me! (Awwwww!) Here he is getting distracted by some fans while we paused to take a touristy photo.

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Me and Ryan Gosling celebrating the royal wedding

Ryan and I are big fans of the Royal Family, so when Will and Kate got married, naturally we had to go for a high tea and celebrate! I surprised him with a replica of Kate's engagement ring, and Ry Ry got so excited about it, he insisted we take a picture. Look at his face, like a kid on Christmas.

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Me & Ryan Gosling, that time he crashed a stagette

The first time you have a friend getting married is pretty exciting! You even get to plan your first stagette ever! Ry Ry was so excited about the occasion, he insisted on coming along. No matter how many times I used the words "girls' night", he was not dissuaded, so finally we compromised: he crashed the party for a quick photo op with the bride, and then we moved on. It worked! Party on.

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Me & Ryan Gosling being very serious at the movies

I am very bad at not smiling on purpose. Sometimes, my friends and my dear Ry Ry decide that they want to see me try to frown, and the result is generally something like this. This particular instance, Ryan was unimpressed with my efforts. He thinks I can do better, but he is just blinded by the high esteem in which he holds me.

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Me & Ryan Gosling playing catch

Me and my guy Ry Ry like to play catch - we just play it a little different than everyone else. I yell "CATCH!" and then jump and he has to catch me. It works about 35% of the time.

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Me and Ryan Gosling at Fan Expo

Last week Ryan and I went to our first Fan Expo! Basically a convention of all things nerdy (fantasy, sci fi, comic books, anime, etc.), it's a sweet time for those of us who like to indulge our dorky selves. We wanted to dress up, but had to pull together last-minute costumes. I went as River Song from Doctor Who, and Ryan grabbed his lute and called himself a traveling minstrel. I still think he should have worn his Roman Gladiator costume (doesn't he look like Rory - also from Doctor Who?)

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Me and Ryan Gosling taking pictures or people taking pictures of us

It's customary before heading out to a fancy event, to take a photo with your date in your fancy garb. When you're going out with a friend, then you do the nice thing and take pictures of each other, maybe at the same time. Ryan always looks sharp, so we're covered in that regard.

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Me and Ryan Gosling Making a Scene

This was New Year's Eve .... I'm going to say ten years ago. Maybe more. Ryan and I kept it low-key, hanging with a few friends at their home, dancing around like silly people, and generally enjoying life. Yay life!

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Me & Ryan Gosling having some Halloween fun

Ryan and I just love Halloween, and in honour of the creepiest holiday of the year, here is our creepiest photo yet. You'll notice that Ry Ry is a master of posing and working the light, whereas I just get too close to it and look all washed out. Alas! We can't all have a lifetime of experience finding our light on set. Happy Halloween, everyone!

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Me & Ryan Gosling in Tofino

A little while back the Prime Minister of Canada was photographed shirtless a bunch in Tofino. (Tofino, for the none-Canadians, is basically as far west as you can possibly go in our country, right at the end of Vancouver Island, it's a surfing getaway spot). A couple of weeks later, Ryan and I headed out for a friend's wedding, and he kept his shirt on most of the time. Ry Ry is classy like that.

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Me & Ryan Gosling on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve! It's a time for friends and fun and for my guy Ry Ry to make my friend laugh her face off by doing some sweet dance moves in the background.

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Me & Ryan Gosling playing California kick ball

Ryan is really into team sport activities, so years ago when my friend was doing a California kick ball party for her birthday party, he was all over it. Turns out, for Ry Ry, being "all over" a sporting event means standing on the sidelines and looking adorable, while the rest of us play the game, but you know what? He's really good at it.

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Me and Ryan Gosling meeting the PRINCE!

Last weekend, Will and Kate (you know who I'm talking about... right?) were in Vancouver! I am a dorky royal-lover and so naturally I roped a couple of friends into waiting in line for a few hours so that I could shake hands with a person who was born into wealth, luxury, and power for no good reason except a rather violent family history. Ryan was in town, and like a good little Canadian boy, he gets pretty excited about the royal family, too.

The best part? Everyone was so excited about Will and Kate, no one even NOTICED that my Ry Ry is also famous! He experienced life as the rest of us plebes do, if only for a few hours. Now if only he could smile nice for the camera. (SIGH.)

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Me & Ryan Gosling at a Birthday High Tea

My friend Natalie and I have birthdays that are close together, and so we go for a birthday date as our birthday presents to each other. This year we did high tea, and Ryan stopped by for a quick birthday surprise. Don't worry, Ry Ry knows the value of time with friends and didn't stick around for the whole thing, but he did arrange for them to bring us special birthday treats!

(And just in case you're thinking that he is grabbing my boob in this picture, rest assured, Ryan is a gentleman. He is shielding the candle on my tray from the draft in the room.)

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Me and Ryan Gosling finding our zen on the beach

Recently Ryan and I went camping on Vancouver Island. It was so beautiful that I instantly found my zen. Ry Ry, on the other hand, wasn't so sure where his was located.

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