Yesterday, that is, because I missed you. I had work yesterday from 1-5 then went home and hung out with my best friends. We watched Hall Pass which is one of the funniest movies I've seen recently, and it might even rank up there with the likes of Dodgeball and Anchorman.
Last night after we all hung out Dave and Ty slept over which was a good time like always. We never really do anything at out sleepovers, but that's why I like them so much. We just sat around my room and talked the night away while I played some GTA 4. (Reminds me of my days playing it with T-Will at his house.) Other than that we ate and just talked. Mostly about girls which is usually interesting. We get three distinct point of views. Ty's view is usually one extreme comment after another, usually leading to someone having to step in and call him by his real name, "The Despicable One." Dave has a very mild, conservative view and probably has the most level head of the three of us. I guess i fall somewhere in between. I like to think that I possess some deep knowledge and understanding of girls. But I'm as lost as any other sappy lover.
Today was, for lack of better terms, a bomb ass day. We woke up at my house and headed over to Dave's while Ty went to church. Then after Ty got back the three of us went to Bahama Breeze for lunch which was nice. We discussed some pressing issues in our lives over a seafood lunch. Then we ran to the mall for a little while and Ty and I both bought a scarf. I needed a red one and Ty needed one since he was a scarf virgin.
From the mall I went to dinner with Pap, Joyce, Mom, and Dad at Ciao! What a great dinner it was. Not just the food, which was great, but the conversation. It turns out that my grandma, Joyce, went to college with and lived in a dorm across from Mimi Alford. Most of you don't know who Mimi Alford was. She was an intern at the White House who had an affair with President John F Kennedy. I don't know about you guys, but to me it was a really cool thing to hear. I'm a sucker for history and to hear that JFK has a limo pick up a girl from college where my grandmother was at is mind boggling. The limo had to have pulled up within a hundred yards of Joyce. The two went to Wheaton College in Massachusetts and while Joyce and Mimi weren't exactly friends, Joyce knew her and they graduated together.
As if that wasn't enough for a small world while we were leaving Pap stopped to talk to the owner of the restaurant. Pap asked him what part of Italy he was from Calibria, the same place my grandfather's dad came from. The owner asked my grandpa's last name and when he said Spagno, the man nearly jumped. His last name was Spagna and said it had been changed on the boat ride over. After discussing this for another minute or so they realized that their grandparents had come over on the same boat to America. My grandpa said he would come back soon so the two could talk about it. Somehow they might be related. Small world?
We headed home from dinner and lucky me I got to go right to baseball. Baseball was good though. We hit off of live pitching and it seemed to run smoothly and seemed to be productive. Maybe things will shape up after all...
The biggest thing about this weekend was how chill I was the whole time. I had a great weekend. I laughed a lot, I worked hard, and I tried hard every day to be happy. And it worked. I made myself happy, which honestly is 100 times more important than trying to make other people happy. My new theory is that if you force yourself to be happy, then other people's happiness will be born out of yours. If you walk around with a smile then others will smile, obviously this is true because smiles are contagious. But seriously, try it.Wake up and think about how great a day you're going to have. be happy because if nothing else you lived to see another day. My thing is that if something or someone makes you happy, you put them in your life. If you have something in your life that is keeping them out and the thing in your life doesn't make you as happy as the other thing, then you need to make some changes. Life is too short to wait around forever. I'm a patient man, but patience runs thin sometimes.
If you want me in your life show me and if you don't, then let me walk on by.
If you aren't as happy as you can be, then you're settling for less than you deserve.
NP: Come Home- OneRepublic
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