When Peyton is not ready, she is surprised.

James & Gareth Winsor, Kayla Elaine Eaton, Lacey Dionne Bryan, Kyle and Parker Trimp

Yellowknife is somewhere I’ve been taken to settle down. I’ve been taught to live life in the North. Everyone knows everyone, and everything there is to know about them. You can try to hide to hide things about yourself, even though there really is no point to it. Sooner or later people will find out. I like to try new things, new hair colors, new peircings, new houses, new pictures, new clothes, new friends, new shoes. Everything. My parents have been pretty easy going about letting me do so. One new thing I fear them not letting me try is living in a different world. I say world instead of province, or city because to me it would be a different world. Different people, different streets, different timezone, different postal code = different world. Knowing me I would build up excitement inside, and I would pretend I wasn’t scared to move at all. When the day came that I would drag my suitcase to the trunk of my 4Runner, I would want to curl up, be stubborn, and forget I ever thought about leaving my small town. Right now I feel like Regina is where it’s at, Regina is all the rage to me. Maybe not to my parents, but to me it sure is. 

People say that up north, during the summertime we never lose our sun. They say it never goes down. That may be true in some cases, but for me it’s a whole other story. These past few summers living here all MY sun has been doing is setting.  The reason being people trying new things. Packing up thier over priced YK houses and moving away to warm, old-people cities. It all started the summer of 2002 when my oldest friends, The Malmstens’, moved to Kelowna. It seems as is they started the fad. After them came the Cooks’. My favorite hockey coach, and best eater I know. A few years later came James and Gareth Winsor. I become a Winsor Twin fan last year during Annie rehearsals. James was Mr. Warbucks, and I was little orphane Annie. YC came around and as Jasmin and James were attached at the hip all I had to do was mope around with Gareth. My parents loved him, as did I. I knew he was moving way before I ever thought of making myself his favorite. It didn’t matter though, what mattered was the monthe that he had left with me. I made the best of it, only disagreeing with him once. Me and James were still perfect friends. James, Jasmin, Gareth and I called ourselves the trio, even if there were 4 of us. We went camping, we went to Edmonton, we made cake,  had birthday parties, and we even ended up having to say goodbye. June 19th 2006, James and Gareth drove out of the school parking lot as all us fans stood and waved goodbye. I felt as if it was a rather dramatic ending of the school year, but I also felt like it was a much needed ending.  A week later one of my best friends Kayla Eaton moved to B.C. I remember walking up to Shell one night and seeing her mom standing in front holding her slurpie crying. Wow, I thought. Yellowknife, why do you stink so bad? I hugged her and said bye to Kayla with all the same people that cried for Gareth and James. Just hours after Kayla left I was informed that my best pal Lacey Dionne would be moving to Halifax in 2 days. Boy was I dreading this stupid summer holiday…

 Summer was normal, Mara Lake, Kelowna, The Villas, wakeboarding, the Cliffs, the skatepark, Shell.

Everything was fine untill Brianne and Arlen’s wedding when it was really goodbye to the Trimps’. Everyone was there, the whole motley crue. Even Andrew was there. I hated knowing that they were moving to Regina. I felt like I was missing out on Kyle and Parker, and I didn’t feel like I deserved it ( still don’t).

Today, it has been announced that Harley, Zach and Randi Squires will be moving to Newfounland on July 9th.

KARMA?

~ by peytonstraker on March 27, 2007.