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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!
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Oh girl, you cannot return that dress. And if Tim thinks you should after seeing that photo of you wearing it? He’s not the guy for you
That is $79.99 very well-spent dollars.
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Wear it to work!!! Guess not but you’d definitely get more wear out of it.
I say keep it!!!
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I think annoyances are reality of relationships. Passion goes both ways, both good and bad
But I completely understand…
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I loved this post with all my heart and soul… We will find many occasions to wear the dress from December 16-18! It is gorge and so are you.
I always liked the word ramekin too.. good pick Tim. Kent’s weirdo nicknames for me are Palumay, Palume, and Palumeface.
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I second the Ramekin vote. I love that word as well. So many things to make with them!
Keep the dress. It’s your money! I got in trouble the other day for buying new shoes and a new dress. But I hadn’t bought anything new in FOREVER and my argument was that I shop 1000 times less than when I wasn’t married, so he shouldn’t be mad!
Excited for when you come home! Cowboys night for sure!!!
It appears that I was sadly MIS-informed when someone told me you would be here for Thanksgiving. *sigh*
Counting the days, my dear.
Cute nickname! I love when you write stories about Tim because I can picture him doing whatever you write, such a funny boy.
That package of kitkats made me want chocolate!
I was baking a pie last night and was watching So you think you can dance Canada and they were in Calgary so I thought of you. I feel like I am writing an email to you, full of random thoughts.
All right! Thanks everyone for the positive comments, so far it looks like that dress is mine, all mine. Unless one of you girls want to borrow it in December, in that case its yours for the day.
@Ben - you are so right, it’s those little wierd quirks that make me love him more.
@Kate - the other day as I was leaving the house to meet up with Nat he was crouched on the island pretending to be a pteradactyl and making dinasaur noises. WHAT?!?! Who is this boy?
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Heyyy, London/Guelph? Who am I?
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You would be filed under London - also meaning Home. I assume you are coming home for Christmas?
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That is one gorgeous dress! And at $80 it’s definitely a steal!!
obviously im coming home for christmas! thanksgiving too! And that dress looks awesome!
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Keep the dress Leah, it looks amazing and you can wear it to our place on thanksgiving…a tad fancy perhaps but throw caution to the wind.
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