Calgary is where my family is - my life line, my home, the comfortable surroundings of the mountains from my front porch swing (it's like a scene from a country music video, I know..) I think though, if I could just move my family and my entire house - including my re-vamped room - to a nice little ocean view lot in Victoria I could quite happily leave Calgary behind.
It has grown too much for my likings, it is chaotic and hectic with construction sites everywhere. I crawl along in traffic each morning and everywhere I look there are creepy men with hard hats staring into my car (they only like me for my trendy white sunglasses that make me appear hotter than I actually am). It is all a bit too much for me. I used to complain about the gridlock at the mackenzie/cedar hill stop light on my seven minute drive to uni. When I got there Benine and I would quietly judge the hippies in their birkenstocks and dirty clothes. I would bitch about the lack of quality shopping. But now, in hindsight, I miss victoria more than I imagined I would. I know there will never again be couches strewn across my front lawn, there will (doubtfully) be eleven documented police visits to 4033 Cedar Hill Road. The neighbor's crazy hedge won't swallow me up when I am drunk, the pallet fires won't be missed by our 'hood...
When I return to life back on the island in September it will be different. Different in the kind of way that I won't be wondering "how did I make it out alive?" Which is a good thing, I am certain. But hopefully, that home-y feeling will be waiting for me. Hopefully that "gridlock" will have sorted itself out and a few new stores will have resulted in the hippies cleaning themselves up - I somehow rest assured that will not happen, but it is okay, I can live with that.
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We got a QuickSilver store. Which I have decided that I am too old for, based on first impressions.
Dammit.
We are also fairly excited about our new MEC....which is mostly for hippies...and quasi-hippies that like spa treatments, luxury hotels, and kitten heels, like moi.
The only store that we could use here in Victoria is a Zara. Other than that...Calgary and all its crazy one way grid like traffic can suck it.
I think my brother would prefer you were in Victoria too ;)
Maybe we could write a letter to them, whoever "they" are and request a Zara in Victoria, also, I would like to add Abercrombie to that list.
Really though, everything in Victoria is better, especially your brother!
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