The blurry fadeaway...

Alright so where did we leave off? Oh yeah we left off a month ago with a blurry fade away. Well better late than never. So here goes.

Back in Jr. High I wasn't the most popular girl in the world although I am sure you already guessed that. I had a few close friends and we had a lot of fun. One of my friends [Megan] introduced me to a new student. He just happened to be a member of our church and had a few classes that were the same as mine but just at different times. So when I was leaving a class he was going in. I immediately developed a HUGE crush. I loved red-heads and what was even better was that he had an English accent! I was immediately head over heels. Needless to say countless sleepovers were spent discussing this cute new student [Matt] who had just moved from England.

As the days went on I finally got my chance to start hanging out with Matt. We became good friends and he asked me to go to our Grade 9 Graduation with him. I was ecstatic! It was a dream come true. We had a lot of fun, talked quite a bit [which was new for us even though we had become friends because believe it or not Matt was quite shy -- I know what you are thinking "Yeah right" but it's true really!]

After that night we talked a lot, hung out in a group quite a bit but nothing really happened. Then came Grade 10. Matt met Mitch [His best friend to this day] and things changed. We stopped hanging out in our group, I got new friends and so did he. We were still friends but not in the same way. At the end of Grade 10 my parents dropped a huge bomb on me. We were moving. Not just a little move, as there had been plenty of those in the past, but a huge move, almost to the opposite end of the Country. We were moving to Ontario, Guelph to be exact. My first thoughts "Guelph, what kind of a name is Guelph! It sounds awful!" and I held on to that thought all the way across the Country and for quite a few months after that.

So Guelph wasn't all that bad, I met some great people, made some great friends and became particularly good friends with one of the girls in my ward at church, actually we became BEST friends. She has stuck by my through thick and thin, but that is another story.. we are supposed to be talking about me and Matt!

Anyway quite a few years and boyfriends later I was finishing up College in London Ontario. I went to Fanshawe for Dental Hygiene and worked extremely hard to get good grades and Graduate on the President's Honour Role (I am a nerd, what can I say, granted English was not my best subject as I am sure you will notice). I finished up school and moved back to Guelph where my parents were still living and searched for a job. I didn't have to look long before my parents informed me that they were moving to BC (I of course was going with them, Ontario still wasn't home even after 6 years). I figured this move would get me at least a little closer to my true home, Alberta.

So on to the move, this wasn't a first or last for me. In the few short years we lived in Ontario I moved 3 times. Living in Calgary we moved 3 times as well, before that in Edmonton I can't even remember how many times we moved (but believe me it was a lot, I mean I moved twice in Grade 1!) Onward we went to the beautiful Kelowna, BC. It was gorgeous, summers were hot, the mountains were beautiful and I got to live at home rent free. Life was pretty good! But then came Winter. Now I don't mind the cold or the snow but the cloudy overcast, I mind! I hate not seeing the sun for months at a time, sure it keeps the city warmer but I would rather have the cold!

So I looked for a job in Kelowna and with no luck, I settled on a job working for Suzy Shier. It was retail and the pay was decent and it helped me have something to do in this small little town where I had zero friends. I slowly became friends with some Young Single Adults in our ward and I even dated a few boys but I still didn't love it and really didn't feel like I fit in. So after months of looking for work in my field and countless nights spent sitting at home I decided it was time for a move. I looked online for jobs in Alberta and found quite a few. It all seemed to be working out perfectly, I could live with my grandparents and transfer my job at Suzy Shier for a bit so that I still had income while I searched for a Dental Hygiene job. So there it was, after less than a year of living in B.C. I was moving.. again... But this time to the place I still considered home!

So I packed up my tiny little VW Golf as full as I could get it and my Dad drove me out in the middle of Winter to beautiful Calgary, Alberta. As soon as I got there it felt like home. I settled in to my Grandparents house and my job and continued my search for a Dental Hygiene job, after all that was why I moved here right? After months of searching for a job, making new friends and reuniting with old ones I met a boy. And not just any boy, a recent RM whom I had known since I was 14. He was just as cute as I remembered him and after only one unofficial date I was smitten. I thought about him all the time, I tried to be around him (I mean if he didn't like me too he would have considered me VERY clingy) I tried to play it as cool as I could but it was HARD!

Our first time hanging out was with a group of friends. I knew another guy named Matt and had been spending time with him because he was fun and we were friends and got along well. He invited me to go to Elbow falls with him, Matt Whiteley and Mitch (Matt's aforementioned best friend)

And that is it for now because I have A LOT to do! More to come in a bit! (Hopefully less than 1 month)