My favorite memories as a child were going to the beach with my family. Boy did I love summer time, ocean waves, sand in your crotch and tan lines. I loved going out fishing on my granddad's old blue boat, cruising the sound off Shackelford banks :0)
As I got a little older and moved into middle school, boy did I love sports and boy did I love BOYS!!! I loved softball, loved my team, loved traveling to new places and meeting new people and WINNING!!! I wish I knew my over all softball record?? But we were pretty good.... GO THUNDER!! We had some great times on trips with school, with our travel team and great stories that we will always remember. And let me tell you, you were not a cool boy unless Holden had a crush on you...that is right I crushed on every boy at my school and North Johnson, South Johnston and Clayton. I wrote notes about boys, made up songs, made up nicknames, doodled on my notebook, and surprisingly without actually studying boys, made pretty good grades.
Then high school came a long, met lots of new friends from new schools while still hanging out with old friends and guess what MORE BOYS!!! High school was bittersweet there were a lots of good fun times and loss of good friends as well. The biggest statement from high school is how did I never get arrested?? I was a pretty good kid, but was always in the wrong place and still managed to survive and have a criminal free record.
College...WOW. Some of the greatest times, I moved to my FAV place WILMINGTON....and here continues my love for the beach. I managed to pass most of my classes, take summer school every summer work a full time job and graduate in 4 years. Oh those long days at Vic's popcorn, 2nd greatest college job ever. First greatest JUNGLE RAPIDS...oh yeah the jungle, working at the water park every summer was awesome, you got to tan while working, sometimes sleep, discount on junk food, ride go carts and play video games during your break. The jungle was family, we worked together, went out together and even lived together. Then the cliche of meeting your best friends for the rest of your life happened to me. I joined a sorority and met the greatest girls. And WOW have we shared some times together, JERSEY SHORE got nuttin' on us. We've shared big and small moments, happy and sad times, great and not so great times and I loved every minute of it and will love hanging out with these girls for the rest of my life.
After college, or my 20's. Pretty awesome times I've done some pretty cool things these last couple of years and thanks to FACEBOOK me and all my friends can relive all of those moments. Met some more life long friends, family expanded in several ways now have tons of new cousins, step siblings, aunts, new baby cousins and it just keeps growing and is awesome.
So in the words of Tim McGraw..... here's to my next thirty years!
I think I'll take a moment to celebrate my age
The ending of an era and the turning of a page
Now it's time to focus on where I go from here
Lord have Mercy on my next thirty years
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