June 2000

Steph is both my good friend and roommate. Sometimes it’s pretty hard to be friends with someone and live with them at the same time. Steph and I seem to get along just fine with out to many confrontations. Steph used to live with another friend Melissa and they didn’t get along so great. She had lived with Melissa for only a couple months, and by the end of that time, there were just about ready to kill one another. As hard as Melissa was trying to work for a couple days in Mayfair, Dan never allowed it, but something better came up. Melissa was offered a promotion over in Vancouver and she jumped on it, which left Steph homeless. Steph asked me if I wanted to move out with her, and I thought the idea of having a roommate was great. 

We both went flipping through the newspaper looking for 2 bedroom apartments. I had phoned about 10 different places, and we decided to look at one that night. The first one we found is the one we took. We love this building. It’s got everything you need… those little niceties such as swimming pools, saunas and such. The only thing we don’t have yet, is a phone… a problem were planning on correcting very shortly… if this page is online, it’s because we finally got the phone line.

Steph is awesome to drive around with, her and her friend Becky. They always seem to come up with conversations that no ordinary human could possibly conceive of. I don’t mind her driving around, she always puts tons of fuel in my car.
 

The first time I saw Steph is when I was out working in Martins store, and this pretty girl walks in and into the back room, and I turn to Martin and ask "does she work here or somthing?" The next time I worked with Steph was when I volunteered to help do Martins inventory… Martin was totally for the idea… but Steph wasn’t. She had never done inventory and felt my help wasn’t that essential. Man, did she ever change her mind after that day. 

The inventory was kinda interesting… Martin wanted it all done, by having two people walking around the store reading off numbers and the girls inputting the numbers into the computers. Melissa and Chris took the telephones and left Steph and I with really crappy walky talkies. Both Steph and I got really frustrated using them and it was the least Melissa could do but brag about how fast her and Chris were getting everything else done. Towards the end of the night Steph got to use the phone with Chris… and Melissa got to use a walkie talkie… after that night Melissa said she would never recommend any customer buy these walkie talkies.

A few things I do know about Steph… She is a people person. She can’t stand being by her self for any length of time. That in it’s self is a complete opposite from myself. She loves her dog Storm very much. Storm is a friendly Pit-bull that likes to growl at me whenever Steph isn’t around. Steph prides herself on not being a totally unreasonable person. She looks at scenarios from all perspectives, and tries to figure out what’s best for her, and then other people. Steph isn’t big on meeting new girls… But loves her friend Becky, and likes Raelyn. Oh Yah, She also likes REALLY big beds, I've never seen anybody have a bigger bed then her. He bed is 15'wide and about 7' long. it take like 6 pillows from one end to the other. 

Steph is like an absolute worst case scenario drunk. She loves to party, clubbing and dancing but finds it way to easy to spend way too much money, way too fast. One time Melissa, Steph and I all got into my sisters car and Steph was just a howling away about the most out languish things, something about getting Becky. Melissa was taking care of her much the same way a mother takes care of a 4 year old and Charlene was just thinking “write off.” That’s Okay thou… the next day at work, Steph and Melissa pointed out the observation of one-day seeing my sister in her car just a singing away to herself…. Yah…. My sister likes to do stuff like that.

Anytime I spend any real time with Steph, were always picking up or dropping off Becky. Becky and Steph seem to have a very platonic relationship going on. They love to watch movies together, and they love to hang out with one another. The two of them have allot in common and I can see their friendship common ground. I took both Steep and Becky up to Royal Roads once so I could get some pictures of them. Steph liked the picture on the left so much, she said it would be okay to put on the Internet..