Oct
15
Can you define your life in six words?
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I don’t know about some of the other fiveblondes, but my favourite website is Postsecret.com, and two of my favourite books are the two Postsecret books I own. Every weekend I (unlike most people) get excited for Sunday to roll around so that I can jump over to Postsecret.com and look at all the new secrets!
Even though I will always love Postsecret, I’ve found a couple of new sites/books kind of like it! One is Six Word Memoirs. This is a site where people post about their lives in SIX WORDS! It could be a part of their life, or something they’ve experienced, but I still find it fascinating! While I was looking at the Postsecret book on Amazon, it recommended me a book (don’t you love it when they recommend you books?). This book was called “Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant To See”. This is by far the cutest book EVER! It has original pictures of love letters from random people that were found in random places around the world. Some of them are even on things like cocktail napkins, and some of them are heartbreak, like the word “liar” written 183 times.
Hope you enjoyed these books/sites, because I LOVE them!
Anyone else have any books like these that they love? Share!
By the way, I should probably STOP making blog posts in order to keep away from studying. I have a feeling it won’t be very helpful to my successful university career…
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Oct
14
Voting day!
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Today is our election day in Canada!
( 4BlueEyes )
This is a reminder for all Canadian’s out there to GO VOTE!
Let your voice be heard.
Thank you, love the fiveblondes and all other Canadians.
Sep
26
Sunday at the fair
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My Sunday at the fair was a funny one. As usual I went to the community centre to help with the registration for the baby show that my aunt organizes. Mic and I love signing up the parents and babies so we can see all the cuteness! This year we knew a few babies so that makes it more exciting. Scott (my husband) came up and said he wanted to pre-register a baby, for 2012 (ummm we have to wait that long?)… haha funny boy.
We had one mom register that said something a bit odd, she didn’t want to go up with the baby (she also had a 2 year old with her), but wanted her sister-in-law to bring up her baby and her SIL’s baby! And these babies were only 3 months old. I asked the mom if she wanted me to look after the 2 year old, but she said no, she wanted to look after him… umm okay, if you think your SIL can handle 2 babies up there, then okay! Then my aunt talked to her and offered me to go up with the baby… and she said yes! I felt like a fraud walking up there (all these moms went through so much, and I get handed a baby and say, okay go on up), and it was pretty funny, considering it is a small town and I knew there would be lots of talk… ‘one of the blonde girls has a kid??’ It was especially funny when I was up sitting on the stage, next to a friend when I see Scott’s parents walk in. I gave them a little wave and laughed, and had to wonder what they were thinking.
Then when I was up there I realized I didn’t know the babies name. Luckily I was sitting next to the babies aunt, so I sheepishly asked her… umm what is this babies name? Gosh I’m a bad mother! It was quite the experience! My aunt took a picture so if she sends it to me I’ll try and put it up… it probably looks pretty funny. At some fall fairs, the point of the baby show is to find the cutest baby in town. Not at ours! At our fair the judges award every baby with a prize based on their looks, outfit, or personality.”My” baby won the biggest flirt award!
After all that fun was over the rest of the day was pretty normal.. as usual I took more pictures and walked around with Scott’s parents and then met up with more friends to watch the demolition derby.
Car show
Shiny chrome!
View of the fair
Taking a picture of Erica, taking a picture of me... did you actually take it?
A rather smoky moment!
Demolition derby
Kate and Scott
After watching the demolition derby the fair was over. I can’t wait till next year’s fair!
Have you ever been to a small town fair? What’s your favourite part?
Sep
17
Stayin’ Sane in Cowtown
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There are a couple key elements that continuously keep me goin’ when I am so far away from home, and all the fun that comes along with hanging out with the rest of the girls. Luckily for me, I get to live with the first (and most important) one.
And although this boy is my best friend and my rock, I must add that he is also the first one to drive me absolutely mental. Case in point (point in case? I never remember the correct order):
Tim has of late awarded me with a very umm … endearing nickname. I am no longer “Leah” or “Lee,” he will only refer to me as “Ramekin” or “Rammo” for short.
Tim: “Ramekin, come sit with me on the couch and be my beer holder”
Somhow I agree to this, and while on the couch (while holding his beer) I reach to cuddle with him and he is shocked
Tim: “RAMMO - that wasn’t part of the couch deal.”
WHAT! I actually put up with this business? Well, yes folks I do. Don’t ask, though. Don’t ask me why - for that I have no asnwer.
My friends are also keeping me sane. Quite honestly, I don’t have very many friends in Calgary - you could say that I have two. But I am looking at my amigo situation as a case of quality over quantity, and Nat and Andrew are two of the best friends I could ask for out here. The kind of friends that love to celebrate the good days just as much as they love to commiserate with the bad ones. 
Packages from home also make me deliriously happy. Who doesn’t love presents!?! I was having a pretty crappy week at work last week, and it was like people just knew. On Friday alone, we got a package full of treats and a nice card from Tim’s Mom and Dad AND a girl at Tim’s hotel found a leftover box full of Gillette Venus razors and Covergirl LastBlash mascara and sent some home with Tim for yours truly!
So, so random and so awesome. It gets even better! On Monday, I got a package from my best friend Stef with gifts from Germany, where she had spent the summer. A cookbook to record all of our fave and made up recipes and a spoon holder for our stove - how did she know that was exactly what we needed! It honestly was, Stef I thank you, Tim thanks you and so does my stove!
And I cannot lie, I have been doing a lot of shopping lately. Calgary has a lot of really great Winners and everytime I spot a new one I haven’t been in I have to go check it out. Have you ever noticed Winners plays a lot of melancholic, depressing music? Once the song they were playing was making me soo sad that I dropped all the stuff I was going to try on and bolted outta there before I cried on the fitting room attendants shoulder. Well, today I found a Winners on my way form from a job training I was at and found this amaaaazing Calvin Klein dress. At first I wasn’t so sure but when I got out of the fitting room with it on this woman stopped me and was like “WOW! That looks amazing!” How can you ignore a statement like that?! With a price tag of $79.99 it wasn’t expensive for a dress, so I bought it. I immediately regretted it, as just having purchased a plane ticket home and paying for a conference for work (they will reimburse me someday…) I KNEW I shouldn’t have bought it. I told Tim I am going to return it, but what I really did was call Nat and ask her to find some place/occassion to go where I can wear the dress, and that way I have no excuse but to keep it! That, my peeps, is what good friends are for.
Tell Tim that I must have it! I don’t know if you can tell, but it is all like stripes (tiers?) or black satin and I swear it was made for me.
Lastly, my family. It always seems to boil down to that when it comes to us girls. I have been trying to make sure that I “do the rounds” and visit everyone that I can, and being with them makes me so happy. I do see my moms sister often, as she lives right here in Calgary and she did let us live in her house for a month when she was in France (so, so awesome) and it’s handy that her and her husband share similar interests as me and Tim. Namely wine and hotels. My cousin in Red Deer, Jon, is in a band and I dragged Nat along to see one of his concerts a while back.
That, my folks, is my life at the moment! It’s nothing too crazy exciting, but it’s what keeps me going on a day to day basis.
And girls and friends in London/Guelph: DECEMBER 16 - 28 is when the party returns to Ontario!
