Back Up To 20

Happy Wagon's Up


You can probably guess why, but I'll leave you to guessing why I'm back up to 20 pebbles in the happy wagon. Hey, what can I say? I'm that type of person.

I'm not sure how things went so fast yesterday, and what unknown force caused them, but those events just completely turned upside down and now I'm incredibly happy.

My luck is still going strong.

Tyler


Tyler has shown himself to be one of my best friends. I'm sure that I will truly miss his company when high school starts up. For sure though, I will take up the habit of visiting my little group of friends (people who met up with me yesterday to be specific) on the weekends and during holidays.

But I'm really serious. It's hard to believe that a year ago I barely knew the kid. But he turned out to be a really great and a down to earth guy. Yesterday was arguably one of the most eye opening days of my life.

I went to school to meet up with Tyler, Karina and Amanda, you know, as a little reunion between "lost" friends. Amanda turned out to be late, but that isn't what was so eye opening to me.

The three others that I have named like to take walks around the neighbourhood. The two girls went ahead and Tyler and I stuck behind. Eventually I get the idea of ditching the girls and whisper to Tyler, "Let's ditch them." So Tyler and I run back, with completely no idea where we are headed. We end up on a street I think is called Le Roi and Tyler says to me, "I live on this street." So we walk up ahead and we get to his house.

He starts walking to the back of his house and motions me to come. Not knowing what to do or expect, I simply follow him. We end up sitting in two chairs on the balcony and he introduces me to his dog, Bella, who is a really cool dog (a mix between a poodle and some complicated name that starts with a "m").

I don't know how things went, but we ended up going inside, where he showed me around. We ended up playing Call of Duty 3 for a while. Things went on pretty quick from there. Tyler's mom and dad showed up and I quickly introduced myself to them. A few minutes later, Amanda and Karina show up (Tyler told them where we were) and Amanda tries out some COD 3.

Amanda has to leave and Karina leaves with her, so it's just Tyler and I. He shows me Portal 2, which I thoroughly enjoyed watching. We fiddled around with Guitar Hero (which I completely failed at) and ended up going outside kicking a soccer ball.

Although Tyler's kindness and the overall fun and let's-chill-out attitude of the day was important, the really cool stuff went down in the early evening.

Tyler and I were just poking fun at a soccer ball and kicking it around the place, when his neighbour (I believe he is a second grader), Andy, comes over.

Andy, you could say, is a kid who is subjected to a lot of bad stuff. He consistently swears and it was kind of fun to see him talk about his life and what was going on. By the time Andy got to Tyler's place (just across the street), Tyler was prepared to play catch (like with a baseball glove and a baseball) with me. I guess Andy must have come over regularly because of how he immediately came over. It really touched me to see how Tyler would spend some time getting to know the kid.

So Tyler runs into his house and grabs his old glove, which in turn he gives to Andy. We end up having loads of fun (Tyler hit five "home runs") and Tyler ends up teaching Andy how to bunt a ball.

When I leave, I am truly sad that I will not see him for a long time.

Amazing to see that if I hadn't said, "Let's ditch them.", I would have never had that day.

Making My Own Quotes


For the past few posts, I've been making up my own quotes. I guess they just come randomly to me every few days and I just put them into my posts. In fact, I've already got a quote inspired from a chat with a good friend of mine.

As I stated before, my happy wagon is filled to it's limits. I'm a nice old 10 in other words. Stargirl actually uses 20 pebbles, so whenever I have like 15 pebbles in the happy wagon, that would translate to 7.5 (you've got to get fractions for this). Whatever. I'm a 20/20 for my happy wagon (which is equivalent to 10/10). I may stop the happy wagon thing, since it might confuse people.

"Sometimes when you're crying your soul out, you become so happy you're bursting to do something kind. The same thing applies to anger. Sometimes when you're screaming and lashing out at something, you suddenly just stop and feel extreme love and affection." - Kevin Zou