What I can’t live without.

As per the 20sbblog carnival, and with it being my turn to blog for NaBloPoMo, I introduce to you not just a thing that I can’t live without, but a person.

Coincidentally, this person is also having her 22nd birthday today! This is Stef, who has been my best friend since I was three.

When we were children, Stef and I lived 10 minutes apart. We would play dress up (she had the most awesome dress up clothes), we would go to each other’s school dances,  we would play Nintendo 64, and would always go camping every summer with our families (our Mom’s also happened to be best friends).

We would tie bars of soap to our feet with elastics and jump on her trampoline with the sprinkler on underneath.

When we got older, Stef’s Mom moved their family away from the farm and to our nations capital to further her career, so started the family road trips to Ottawa.

I couldn’t live without her so far away, and I was so happy when she came to the same University as me.

Then I moved to Calgary, and can you believe that I didn’t see Stef for 14 months? She got an internship that brought her to Calgary (did I mention how absolutely brilliant and sought after this girl is?) and we got to be inseparable again for a few weeks.

I love this girl, this magificent woman who is there for me in joy and when  I just need to cry.

Happy Birthday Stef!

I just can’t live without her.