Friends

For once, I am going to stop and write a blog about something that is not based on the events in my life, but about my friends. I am going to start off with two quotes I found on the internet that sums up the meaning of friendship from my point of view and here they are:

"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

I'm proud to say I have a lot more friends than enemies. I don't know what they all see in me really at times, just glad to know I can always rely on them when needed and if that was not the case, I really can't consider them friends can I? My circle of friends keeps getting larger and larger as times goes by. Unfortunately along the way, I also lost a few in the process.

Even though the reason I came to St. John's in the first place was because of my ex Janelle, I really should thank her for leading me to this town. I now couldn't be happier being with the best of friends and my girlfriend Tiffany. I can't honestly see myself in the future without this girl and knowing she is much more than a girlfriend to me, means a whole lot more. You know when someone knows you well when she takes your compass out of your backpack and tells everyone I will make a comment on my 100 dollar compass and do so, that's special. I also know when she reads this, that part I just wrote, she will laugh. With Tiffany alone brought more friends into the picture as well and I will not mention them all because to be honest with you, I have a hard time keeping track myself. It is like Tiffany with my family. It is a very diverst set of friends, but all great people and they welcome you the second you walk through the doors.

Convergys also brought along many great friendships as well and I don't think I would have lasted so long without them. It was also the place where I met Tiffany as well, so I can't complain really. Along the way, many have left, but new ones came in. On the news the other day, it commented on why Convergys has a high turn-over rate and was wondering why. I am not going to mention management, that got me enough trouble already, but the type of work we do, it is not meant for certain people and a lot of people get very stressed over the place. So if I carry on in the work place, telling jokes, making an ass out of myself, or so on, it is just to keep my sanity (for the little bit I have left). It is not the best of places to work, but not the worse either and good friends makes it a little easier.

Acadia University was my first time I was ever on my own and for the 6 years I was there, I met people from all over the world and majority of them, I still keep in contact with. It might be months before I do so or the same for them, but how can you lose friends when distance is not a factor and they got me through some rough times here as well. Jon English, Chelsea, Lisa, Nicole, Slimmy, Jill, Crystal, and Teri are probably the ones I keep in touch with the most and if I forgot anyone like Jay, Jodi, Maresa, Melanine (now they pop in my head), and etc... Truely sorry. I will be back to the Maritimes one of these days for a reunion.

Churchill Falls, the place I grew up in and even though I didn't do much as a child to being a teenager, except for playing video games and watch tv, it turns out I still keep in touch with a few really good friends. Those being Charlene and Mindy mostly. Well technically Shannon use to live there was well, but that was so long ago, it probably doesn't count, even though he is with us majority of the time. Oh yeah, also can't forget the Bleeman and I wouldn't have gotten through Acadia as well with is help.

So for those who reads my blog and is in this category of "Friends", I am very happy knowing there is still lots out there. A lot of them I talk to on MSN from morning to nightfall and otheres, in a form of an email. It's not common over the phone because by the time I am done working, I really don't like taking those calls, hahaha..... Joking. You're all unique, funny, strong, generous, great, and the list could go on, but I WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY!!!!!

On My Own

Like the title says: "I am on my own".

However, before I go on about that, I will have to clarify that statement above because there was a little confusion in when telling a few other friends, thinking I was single again, but that's not the case. I really hope that is not the case ever again to be honest with you because things are going so great with Tiffany and I right now and I now live on the street right down from her.

So the whole meaning of the statment above is that I just moved into my own, one bedroom apartment. It is a basement apartment, but leads out to the level of the backyard and each room has windows, so I have a lot of light coming through if needed. I am paying 420.00 per month, with partial heat included (if the oil furnace is on upstairs, I will get some of that heat as well), hot water, cable, and I got internet as well (the nice landlord upstairs allowed me to hook up my wireless router to the internet). So as you can imagine, I can't complain about that too much. Actually I can complain about that at all. So I just finished cleaning up everything and organizing on Monday and just loving the feeling that I have my own privacy and not being secluded to my room 24/7. I know some of you guys will be wondering why I moved out from Tammy's house, specially when things were going so great, until August came around. Well, one Thursday night, I came home to this letter, which was really three pages of rules I would have to follow if I continually lived in her house and the second that I read that, Tammy and I never said a word to each other. So I was living in her home for a whole month, without her saying a single word to me and I never felt welcome, so I after discussing it with the folks, I decided to look for a place on my own. Tammy is a good person and all, but I didn't want to have a second mother and not even my own Mudder would have done that to me, so I had no other choice, but leave. Tammy might have other thoughts about that, but it's over now and life goes on.

I will also comment on the Great Labour Day Long Weekend I had. Saturday afternoon, my friend Shannon, Tiffany, and I went to take a drive to Mahers (which sounds like "Mars") to meet up with Ken and Andrea, to go camping on Fatty's land in that area. It was a beautiful spot, with lots of nature around and couldn't ask for better weather. It was chilly at nights, but if you seen my arms and face, it was super hot in the days where I am burnt to a crisp and a little sore because of it. Oh well, my fault for not wearing sunblock. So Saturday, Ken, Andrea, Shannon, Tiffany, Myself, Brewer, and Ally stayed the night and we had a great fire and self-made bbq as well. It was the first time I had corn done on te bbq and it is highly recommended it because it tasted great and the potatoes, onion/mushrooms, and caribou also tasted great. You can tell, we had a feed. So the next morning, Brewer and Ally left because Brewer had to work unfortunately and couldn't call in sick because he told his boss he was going camping te night before. Shannon, Tiffany, and I took a trip to Whitbourne and to find out nothing is open on Sundays, so we wended up going to the gas station for more supplies. After we got back, Ken and Andrea went for a few hours on quad and I relaxed infront of the lake, trying to get pictures of the loon there. The loon was huge and when I got back, Shannon was sleep in the tent and Tiffany was just relaxing infront of the fire wondering where I went. So that night, we had an other feed of bbq chicken, honey galrlic noodles, and garlic bread. Just say, we don't go hungry when we camp. That night it was also great, we all sat around the fire and at one point, Ken wanted to play the "Window Game". I sucked ass at it, so Ken kicked me out of the window because I do not know any nursery rhymes. It was fun though and Ken and I played with sticks that was caught on fire, where Andrea got some awesome pics of as well. I can't wait to see them. When Monday came around, the summer came to an end and Ken and Adrea wenth their seperate ways, back to Placentia and us back to St. John's. So the camping gear is packed away, until next summer. I have to say though, it definitely got used over this summer, with 4 camping trips in total and I loved it all. Even though summer is technically not over, we ended it with a great time, with good friends.

I was going to end this posting with a little bit about work as well, but why ruin a good thing. That's it for now. Peace Out!!!