My Birthday!
Friday: My acutal birthday. My birth moment (was 816 am, I always thought it was 907) I spent listening to Dr. Gray lecture in Geology. Friday night me and Julie go see MUC's play Much Ado About Nothing...it was alright. Just alright, not unbelievable. After that we grab some MTO's and we chill back at her place. Earlier she gave me my gifts. A heart-shaped pillow that says "Be Mine", a chocolate heart, and a really awesome book about the Steelers that I managed to finish in about a day.
Saturday: Julie and I set out to Malone College to meet up with her sister Samantha and see Samantha's boyfriend Josh' band play a show at Malone. Their name is Altered, and they are quite good. I was very moved by their lyrics as well as their musicianship, I could tell that they had been working very hard on their craft and it showed in the best ways possible. Best part about the show: didn't cost anything. Got to know Julie's sis a little better....she seems to be very nice and someone I would enjoy talking to on a regular basis, same case with her boyfriend. After that we came back to Alliance and had us some half-priced appetizers at Appleby's....good stuff.
Sunday: My mom came to take me and Julie out for dinner and shopping on the Strip in Canton. We ate a Carraba's, a fine Italian chain (though I always perfer the unique Italian restaurants, this one was fine) where we ate food on plates the size of our faces and I got a caramel sundae as they sang happy birthday to me in Italian. Then we went over to Best Buy and Borders so I could cash in some of my gift cards. My mom also got me a copy of Steelers Digest and a dozen Shamrock Eat'n Park cookies. So that capped off one heckuva birthday weekend!
It also really struck me this weekend that I have reached a new stage in my life. I am not the person I was when I entered my senior year of high school, nor am I the same person when I graduated high school, and I am not even the same person who arrived at Mount in the fall of 2004 or even this past spring. My life has changed drastically, but that doesn't mean it had to turn for the worse. I told myself a long time ago that I wasn't ever going to let that happen to me. That I wasn't going to let things like my dad dying be a excuse for failure or not living up to my potential. And while it sort of hit me hard this weekend that he wasn't here to see his son turn 20, it doesn't mean that my life has to have a void in it.
Finally, it also was more then touching to know that someone as sweet and as loving as Julie did so much just to celebrate the day I was born, which means the world to me. I know most of you think that I have a bit of an inflated head on my shoulders, but when it coems to matters of the heart I am acutally quite taken in humility. I never thought that someone as wonderful and so right for me as Julie would ever be aligned with me through fate, simply beause I didn't think I was good enough for someone like her, but sure enough I was most fortunate this past fall to have that very thing happen to me; to fall in love with someone who I was meant to be with, and who was meant to be with me. Thank you so much Julie Christine, for making this birthday beyond memorable, and for making me believe in it all again. Always and forever, forever and always I shall be with you my darling. *The One, The Only...
One more thing everyone: you'll see my motto in my profile now in orange letters: Dilligence, Honesty, Loyalty, Simplicity. This is what I try to live my life by, and it's inspired by my family, my studies, and my own personal value of the truth. Dilligence is the ability to work very hard at what you think is worth it, honesty is the noble idea of always speaking the truth, loyalty is the soul's ability to be faithful to those we love and honor, and simplicity is the key to living a succesful and worthwhile life.
Saturday: Julie and I set out to Malone College to meet up with her sister Samantha and see Samantha's boyfriend Josh' band play a show at Malone. Their name is Altered, and they are quite good. I was very moved by their lyrics as well as their musicianship, I could tell that they had been working very hard on their craft and it showed in the best ways possible. Best part about the show: didn't cost anything. Got to know Julie's sis a little better....she seems to be very nice and someone I would enjoy talking to on a regular basis, same case with her boyfriend. After that we came back to Alliance and had us some half-priced appetizers at Appleby's....good stuff.
Sunday: My mom came to take me and Julie out for dinner and shopping on the Strip in Canton. We ate a Carraba's, a fine Italian chain (though I always perfer the unique Italian restaurants, this one was fine) where we ate food on plates the size of our faces and I got a caramel sundae as they sang happy birthday to me in Italian. Then we went over to Best Buy and Borders so I could cash in some of my gift cards. My mom also got me a copy of Steelers Digest and a dozen Shamrock Eat'n Park cookies. So that capped off one heckuva birthday weekend!
It also really struck me this weekend that I have reached a new stage in my life. I am not the person I was when I entered my senior year of high school, nor am I the same person when I graduated high school, and I am not even the same person who arrived at Mount in the fall of 2004 or even this past spring. My life has changed drastically, but that doesn't mean it had to turn for the worse. I told myself a long time ago that I wasn't ever going to let that happen to me. That I wasn't going to let things like my dad dying be a excuse for failure or not living up to my potential. And while it sort of hit me hard this weekend that he wasn't here to see his son turn 20, it doesn't mean that my life has to have a void in it.
Finally, it also was more then touching to know that someone as sweet and as loving as Julie did so much just to celebrate the day I was born, which means the world to me. I know most of you think that I have a bit of an inflated head on my shoulders, but when it coems to matters of the heart I am acutally quite taken in humility. I never thought that someone as wonderful and so right for me as Julie would ever be aligned with me through fate, simply beause I didn't think I was good enough for someone like her, but sure enough I was most fortunate this past fall to have that very thing happen to me; to fall in love with someone who I was meant to be with, and who was meant to be with me. Thank you so much Julie Christine, for making this birthday beyond memorable, and for making me believe in it all again. Always and forever, forever and always I shall be with you my darling. *The One, The Only...
One more thing everyone: you'll see my motto in my profile now in orange letters: Dilligence, Honesty, Loyalty, Simplicity. This is what I try to live my life by, and it's inspired by my family, my studies, and my own personal value of the truth. Dilligence is the ability to work very hard at what you think is worth it, honesty is the noble idea of always speaking the truth, loyalty is the soul's ability to be faithful to those we love and honor, and simplicity is the key to living a succesful and worthwhile life.