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Well, it's new years' eve, and not just any new years eve. This year is the end of the first decade of the 21st century, tomorrow I enter a new decade, but today I reflect back on the memories and experiences over the past ten years that made me who I am today...
The beginning of the decade was back when things were still happier for me, not necessarily a very productive time, but it was happy...I was with my best friends Mark and Michelle, and we were having fun, playing together...Our ridiculous little games, playing pretend together, pretending we were power rangers, pokemon, and digimon..But my personal favorite between myself and Mark will always be the Megaman playing..that was so much fun...He made the perfect partner haha...
Then a year later he and Michelle had to move away, because their dad got a new job down in southern California so they had to go...
I still remember the last day I spent with them, that was so much fun...They were hosting a party at their house, so it was the three of us and many of our other friends, having fun and playing video games and tag and hide and seek, and all sorts of other fun activities...I stayed with him until about 10:00 at night, but then I had to go home..It was sad saying goodbye to my best friends, it really was...
And that was life changing experience #1...Losing my best friend...
I still remember every detail of their old house, it was like a second home to me..we played together all over, the hallways, the backyard with the playhouse next to the garage that was all the way in the back. The basement with the ledge along the edges that we would always crawl around and explore on, the TV in the basement where we would play video games, the furnace down in one of the separate rooms in the basement, it used to scare me haha...Then there was the hollowed out TV that we would always play in, and the computers in the other rooms in the basement...I remember exactly how the staircase looked, and the upstairs hallway, and each of their rooms...And even the lemon trees in the front yard that we would make lemonade with..So much fun, it really was...
Every inch of that house remains in my memory, and it always will..
I remember the summer camp I used to go to every summer up in half moon bay...(it was later on in my life that I would discover that a certain someone in my life lived there as well <3 )
I would go there to hang out with my new friends that I made after Mark and Michelle left, but the first year I ever went, as much fun as it was, I discovered that Mark and Michelle were coming for a visit during the time I was gone, or at least for the last few days that I would be...I was disappointed to hear that, needless to say. Still, it was a fun experience. The cabin, I still remember it all. It was a fun cabin, we decorated the outside and the inside so people knew who we were, and the activities we had during free time. The archery range (probably my favorite), the swimming pool, the trails you could explore, the games we would play, and perhaps my favorite experience ever there that only lasted for the first year, the cabin war we got into with another cabin up the hill...hah, that was so much fun...Ours came out on top after a surprise attack that I took part in =P hah...So much fun...Then there was the one night of the week where we got to sleep outside under the stars. That was always my favorite night...Staring at all the stars all night, and falling asleep in my sleeping bag in the field with everyone else...Overall it was the most fun summer camp I'd ever been to.
After I got home from summer camp Mark was there to greet me. It was their last day there and I at least got to spend the last few hours with him and Michelle..For a time, it was just like the old days, us, together. Then we went out to lunch, and they left...just like that...
Then after that while I was in Boy Scouts I remember having at least a little fun, but it never lasted. Being forced on trips with them that I never wanted to go on...and the one trip I will always consider hell. An entire week at a summer camp I never even wanted to go to. It was out in Shaver Lake, I remember it all too well. I was only signed up for one program so when that was over I just sat around and sulked at my campsite in my tent the whole time...I'd stare out at the lake and get homesick the whole time, it was terrible..The lake was cold as hell and they made you swim in it for a test. I couldn't pass it because the water was so cold I swear my heart almost stopped. They treated you like s**t. If you didn't shower even once they'd throw you in the dirty fire bucket and drench you themselves, and THEN you had to go take a shower! It was TERRIBLE! Far too much for my young 12 year old mind to take. But that week ended, as horribly slow as it went, it ended, and I went home, safe and sound.
Shortly afterward I quit the boy scouts and never rejoined.
The next thing I knew that summer I learned about something very surprising, and so began a series of summers, each with their own strange surprises with them...
That summer, the summer of 2006, was when I found about him, my baby brother, Robert.
I had been the baby of my family for my whole life until that summer. My jaw dropped when I found out, because I just started getting used to being the youngest, and had accepted it as a natural part of my life, but then he came along..I guess it was nice though, haha...So that was my next highlight, my baby brother, born on January 7th, 2007. That little pest still bugs me even today..hah...
Then the next summer, in 2007, I found out that my old friends Mark and Michelle were coming for another visit. I was so happy, even though it'd only be a few days I'd finally get to see them again, and for longer than last time.
The day they arrived, I spent plenty of time with them, I walked around with Mark and Michelle, showing them around the neighborhood and telling them of how much had changed..It was a good time, a time of remembering and having fun..but then they left, but I was happy this time because I was satisfied with my experience.
Then the next summer was perhaps the most memorable..A summer I will never, ever forget...
It started out strangely, I reconnected with people I hadn't spoken with in years, and hung around with them after a while, but it was through one of them, Brennan, that I met her...Christina..She was so very beautiful, I remember I pretty much fell back in my chair the first time I saw a picture of her haha...It was so sad though...She had been through a lot, and Brennan was mistreating her so much...I remember the night he broke up with her, she went crazy, and I never spoke a word even when he encouraged me to because I liked her..and I didn't want to hurt her...Sure I was kind of a jerk to her the first time I ever spoke with her, but over time I began to like her, and I fell in love with her...I spent the next week with her after Brennan went on a trip. We talked, I found out more about her, and invited her over for a drink with me in my town since I learned she lived so close to me. It was nice getting to know her better, and over time she asked me out. At first I was a little surprised, and she was even more surprised that I said yes, but it all worked out.
After a few weeks we met in person, I showed her around after buying her the drink I promised her from before. It was kind of a slow and awkward first date, but it was nice...I think I wrote about it in my past entry, so I don't have to wast time writing about it again haha.
Anyways...She would prove to be my greatest adventure in life, getting through numerous arguments early on, but still holding tight and it payed off in the end..We were together, she fell in love with me, and we're still together to this day...I look forward to more great memories with her in the future...
And well that's pretty much it, that's all that happened in the past ten years, so life changing, so shaping...I think I went through more maturing in a single year with Christina than most people go through in five years..
It's been a nice decade, and I'm looking forward to a newer, brighter decade in the future for 2010...With Christina...Forever...
<3Til Death do us Part<3
I love you Christina...
<3
 II Xero II · Thu Dec 31, 2009 @ 11:30pm · 0 Comments |
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