100 Things About Leah

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Leah! As you've never seen her before...

1. I live in Calgary, Alberta. I moved from Guelph, Ontario in May.

2. I work in social work, although I am not a social worker and never will be.

3. I work with mental health and some days I think dealing with my clients will make me go crazy. It happened today. They drove me crazy, and now I have problems

4. I feel bad for you, because if all of us do this then you will have to read 500 things about Five Blondes.

5. I am “living in sin” with my boyfriend, and despite my Catholic family and Catholic upbringing, my entire family is okay with it. Even my grandparents – thank you!

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Jan

3

Taking the party down a notch.

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As I mentioned in our Years in Review post, one of my resolutions was to find cheap/free fun things to do in Calgary. This has many purposes – to help out my bank account a little, to get away from the partying lifestyle that has been the last five years of my life and to have more purely fun experiences that help me to get to know the entirety of my city better, and not just what pubs are good (Joyce on Fourth) and what bar to go Wednesday after work that has the most cute guys (ahem, the Metropolitan Grill on Eighth ave).

Here is what has been brainstormed so far:

Go to/rent movies (this may seem like a giveaway, but honestly I don’t go see many movies or rent many either)
Go for a walk with my best friend twice a week (Calgary has beautiful walking trails downtown along the river)
Tea parties
Glenbow Museum (and if this is enjoyable, others as well)
Go up the Calgary Tower, both during the day and at night
Go to the mountains (Banff – Erica lived there for one winter!, Canmore, etc.)
Go showshoeing or cross country skiing (you can rent equipment in Kananaskis for a low price)
Visit Bragg Creek
Board game nights (Settlers of Catan is hands down my fave, but I need more awesome TWO PLAYER games)
Visit my best friends sister and brother in law for free meals and to fawn over their newborn
Go to real estate open houses (you know, check out our options in case either of us decides we can afford to buy a house, and check out our options)
Volunteer somewhere
Cook/bake together (i.e. I will take any excuse to eat chocolate chip cookie dough)
Have postcard writing nights to help us to be better long distance friends (I think this one is my favourite)
Go to the library (I am a book worm!)
Buy a cheap secondhand guitar and learn how to play it
Use my new Wii Fit twice a week

This is where you come in – I am looking for your suggestions! I am not necessarily looking to take up a new hobby (i.e. Erica – don’t suggest knitting) but what do YOU like to do with your partner and/or best friend that could be included on my list? I appreciate your recommendations! THANK YOU!

Also – One little comment I left awhile ago really paid off! You must check THIS awesomeness out. If you want, skip to the 1:20 mark to see the goodness.

Oct

20

When is a good deed really a good deed?

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Tim (on his birthday last week): I did a good deed today.

Leah: I’m so proud of you!

Tim: I bought a bum a beer.

Leah: Oh…

Tim: He said it was his birthday too and I told him that if he could prove it then I would buy him a beer. He showed me his ID, so I really had no choice.

Leah: Celebrating birthdays, one bum at a time.

Would you have bought the bum a beer on his birthday? What about a joint? What about a crack rock? Is there really a difference if each of which is feeding an unhealthy addiction?

(Just for the record, I would have bought the bum a beer too.)

Jun

7

Tagged, by Leah.

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Bonjour all my friends and family, and greetings from the West of Canada.

I will write a totally, awesome, picture-filled post once I can figure out where my camera cord is, but for the meantime here is my tagalicious blog.

What was I doing 10 years ago? I was 11. That means I was in between gr.’s 5 and 6 (approximately?) and that is the summer my family took a trip out East. We drove to PEI and back with our camper, visiting fun and exciting things along the way like my mom’s cousins in Maine, the Bay of Fundy and Anne of Green Gable’s house. It was the first time I broke my baby toe (tripped over a rug while packing up the camper) and my second ever bee sting (right smack dab on my broken baby toe while running to the bathrooms in a campground in New Brunswick). That summer I got a new backpack, which I absolutely adored. It was navy and white striped, canvas material and had anchors on it. Erica got a hat that summer that was, sorry Eri, pretty ugly and it costed her $26.50 and we all made fun of her for days but she loved it and wore it forever.

What five things that were on my “to-do” list for today.
1) Spy for lynx’s and cougars outside my bedroom window (Tim and I were staying in Panorama, B.C. and saw one right outside our bedroom window the morning before) which was done periodically between 6.45am and 8.45am.
2) Clean the condo and check out. And not forget anything there. I always forget at least one thing.
3) Drive back to Calgary and watch for wildlife on the way (we saw two bears, many deer and a moose on the way back.)
4) Pick up Tim’s dry-cleaning with him in town.

5) Hang out with my family in Elbow Valley. We played Cadoo with cousin Ethan, and BrainAge with Aunt Lisa, Uncle Jez, and Ethan (I got the highest score out of everyone – 1032 which is pretty good in this house), Tim and I cooked dinner for everyone, drank wine, had good conversation, played MORE BrainAge, did dishes, called the Pub and talked to all my friends, and now I am getting ready to go to bed after a nice relaxing shower.

Snacks I enjoy? Popcorn, cookie dough, aaaanything with chocolate, dry cereal, Oreos dipped in milk, and chocolate milk and pepsi to drink.

Things I would do if I was billionaire? NEW WARDROBE! For sure. I would fly my whole family and friends to El Mango Moon in Costa Rica, then to South Africa then Australia and pay everyone to come and hang out with me so they could take time off work and just have fun and relax and be cool. Then I would pay Vera Wang to help Mom make Erica’s wedding dress and all of our bridesmaid dresses. Then I would buy me and Tim a verrry nice car, perhaps a Porsche Cayenne, or a hybrid SUV. I wouldn’t buy us each one because I like it when we go everywhere together. Then I would buy my Mom and Dad a convertible, maybe a Bentley if they wanted or a BMW. Then I would buy my all of my sisters new (or old) cars. I would donate A LOT of money to the Sexual Assault Centre where I worked this past year, so they could do some amazing things for all the women in Guelph. I would also donate money to the Gerontology Students Association at UOG so they could have an amaaazing year. I would also hire Jessica Claire to do Erica’s wedding photography. I would do a lot of other cool things, like hire the Dixie Chicks to sing at Eri’s wedding, and maybe Rascall Flatts and ACDC for the Stag and Doe. Okay, apparently I would throw Erica the hugest, most amazing wedding ever that even Prince Harry would want to come to. Lauren – he can be your date!

Places I have lived. Thorndale, Ontario; Oakville, Ontario, St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec; Guelph, Ontario; Nakina, Ontario; Llano Bonito, Costa Rica; Calgary, Alberta.

What types of work have I done? Strawberry field worker, Marlene’s cashier and beer seller extraordinaire, front desk and pro shop worker at our golf course, Beer cart and kitchen staff at the golf course, I did banquet catering for a local caterer, a nanny for my cousins in Oakvile for a few summers, Cook at a fly-in fishing lodge for a summer, I worked at a day camp in Quebec for a bit of a summer, Server and Bartender at Le Duck, worked on the family farm “sloppin’ hogs,” and as a Public Educator at a Sexual Assault Centre in Guelph. Oh yea, I was a snowboard instructor at Cobble Hills. Probably other ones too that I forgot about already.

That is it my friends! Untill next time, keep fit and have fun!