Jun
26
An “I Love You” I Will Always Remember
Filed Under Calgary, cars, love, personal, relationships | 4 Comments
Tim and I have been in a relationship together for two years, seven months, and nineteen days, and approximately sixty-five thousand kisses. We are a pretty affectionate couple, and tell each other how much we love each other about seven or eight times a day, give or take a million. I will always fondly remember the first time he told me he loved me, but recently I had someone say those three magic words to me that may have even topped the first time he whispered them to me. It was … get ready … his mother! My possible future mother-in-law. I wouldn’t say that Tim’s mom and I are especially close or anything - I mean, I think she is a wonderful mother, and a great and very kind person and has never been anything less than supportive of me and Tim, but having lived two hours away from her while in University, topped with the fact that I don’t spend too many holidays there (because I can’t bear to leave my OWN family) .. well let’s just say that Tim has been to the Bontje farm on many many many more occasions than I have been to his.
The morning Tim and I took off on our adventure of a lifetime together, Tim’s mom, Maria, made us a big brekky and had some of her best friends over to say godbye to Tim (and me, I guess!). Well, by this time the car was jam-packed, we were prepared for the worst gas-mileage Tims ‘94 Mercury Grand Marquis had EVER gotten, and Maria leaned over to me and asked me not to murder her son, but to be patient with him as he has yet to realize that I am always right, and told me that she loved me then gave me a huge big loving welcome-to-the-family hug. And I, well I just just stood there dumbfounded while fighting back the tears. But I gained my composure, returned the love and hugged her back really hard. It was such a special moment, one that I will always remember. If Tim and I ever take the big walk down the aisle (alongside Mic and Kent), I can know that my new family will love me and treat me just as well as my current one.
As soon as we drove away I turned to Tim and said “YOUR MOM JUST TOLD ME THAT SHE LOVES ME!” Typically male, Tim looked at me confused and said … “So?”
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Jun
17
Didn’t I suggest that last year? I love it when I’m right.
Filed Under life, relationships | 4 Comments
Yesterday evening after D and I finished dinner, D suggested that we head to Masonville (Masonville is a local shopping area). Never one to turn down shopping, I confirmed that we’d be making my requisite stop at Starbucks and off we went.
The weird thing was, he wouldn’t tell me why we were going, or exactly what he was shopping for! OK, actually this is not all that weird. As I am always the passenger (dear MTO, when will you re-instate my drivers licence? ), he’s generally the one to make decisions about where we are going when we are heading to go shopping or do errands. If we’re going grocery shopping and he turns right off our street I get really confused - why are we going to the grocery store that’s twice as far from home as the other one? Oh - you’re getting your hair cut too. THANKS FOR TELLING ME!
Based on the direction we were going, I assumed that we were headed to Best Buy to search (in vain) for the Wii Fit that will be my belated b-day gift to him. As we were driving into the parking lot his body language was kind of strange and he parked halfway between Best Buy and a sports store. YES! I thought to myself. We’re going to look at bikes!
I’ve been bugging him to get a bike since last year when I got mine and have been suggesting it this year fairly often. We like going for walks together, but D’s best friend (and best man!) bikes a lot and I think D wants to bike with him, and I know he wants to get into better shape (not that he’s out of shape, but he stopped growing vertically a long time ago and lately has been growing, um, horizontally).
D is a ‘look, then buy’ kinda guy so we came out of the sports store sans bike, but I hope that by the end of the month we’ll be hitting the trails together. I can’t wait!
Does anyone else bike or otherwise stay fit with their significant other?
Photo by denniskatinas
May
20
FiveBlondes is going National!
Filed Under Calgary, Family, Work, cars, dreams, leah, relationships | 8 Comments
I have put off writing this post because it always felt so far away, but time sure does creep up on you sometimes. A little while ago, you may recall that I was questioning life choices after graduation. Well, decisions have been made and now I am about to follow my dream boy across the country to the beautiful city of Calgary! The car drives out next Tuesday, May 27th. We are road-trippin’ our way across the nation to our new home for the next year. Lucky for us, I have amazing relatives out west who have already invited us into their homes until we find our perfect place to make into our home. Today was a bittersweet day, because I finished my last day at my current job (professional barmaid, bartender, petal, bar wench, whatever those crazy Europeans come up with at the moment), and have left my amazing coworkers and bosses at My Favourite Pub.
Currently I am deciding what Calgary-Leah will be like … I thrive on change and actively pursuing new and exciting adventures.
Hometown friends - there will be some sort of gathering chez Bontje farm on Sunday, so pop on over if you have time! I will keep you updated concerning times.
P.S. Don’t forget to vote for us!
Apr
30
Movin On Up
Filed Under Work, life, relationships | 6 Comments
I’m really happy to be able to write this today. This has been a great week for myself and D, and also for Five Blondes.com! This afternoon I got a call from D’s boos - which immediately had me worried because I figured the only reason his boss might have to call me is if something BAD had happened. My heart was in my throat. He spends a good amount of the day driving from call to call, so I thought that he had been in an accident. Then, his boss went on to say “I’m here with D…” and asked my what I would think if the company were to offer him a full-time, permanent position!
I just about jumped up and down yelling “Yes! I would love that!” D has been working for this major company (he doesn’t want me to blog about his personal details and I respect that) on contract as a technician for over 1.5 years. He truly is one of the best technicians they have on staff - numbers don’t lie! In fact, he is one of the best techs in Canada. His boss loves him and told me that they are making an exception for him. He’s exceptional 
What does this mean for us? Aside from job security for D, he’ll be getting a company van in a few weeks and will no longer have to worry about mileage on our personal car or moving parts in and out of the car every weekend. We’ll get benefits, which will help pay for my prescriptions. We are now in a much better position to buy a house (!!) and start a family (!!) - the wedding is 367 days away!
On the blog-front, the great Google gods bestowed a pagerank of 4 upon FiveBlondes.com yesterday. I couldn’t believe it! Mom’s website, Couturesmith, is PR3.
Finally, I want to know if you’re on Twitter. I am! At first I decided to keep it separate from my blogging activities, but I’ve had a change of heart. You can find me @ericablonde. I’m having a lot of fun getting to know some of my favorite bloggers even better and keeping up with the latest news on the social media / SEO / intrawebz front. I’m the kind of person who likes to be standing in the middle of a crowded room listening to everything going on around me. Sometimes that’s what Twitter feels like to me.
Finally, I’m thinking of writing some book reviews. I’ve been reading a LOT lately and have discovered some fantastic authors that you MUST know about. I’m excited already!
