The Return of a Legend...

Hey everybody! I realize it's been a month or so since I've wrote, so I just thought I would check in with all of you with an entry that's a little sentimental to me. For some of you that went to high school with me, or just knew me back then and now, this is not a new story, I just felt like writing about it due to the recent new beginnings and or chapters I've been given to add to it. I could never get tired of telling this story anyways, but I'll do my best to give you the shortened version, so I don't go on forever like I tend to do. I don't even know where to begin with telling it, but I'll give it a shot... Lets see, it all began about 7 years, two months, and three days ago...the day that I truly began to realize that miracles and wishes really do come true. :) The day was August 20th, 2003. The night before was how it all started. Growing up, my best friend Kendrie and I had this tradition of making predictions/hopes about life usually before something big was about to happen, like for example, new schools years, and this time around it was the night before our senior year. However, a lot of the time our wishes never got the chance to come true, at least not as of yet in hindsight. This night however changed my life forever. As I was rambling on to Kendrie, about something lost to me now, (I'm not kidding you), out of the corner of my eye, I saw my one and only shooting star. Knowing that it was the start of my senior year the next day, and it probably would be one of the last times I was going to get a chance like this, I made a wish. I wished that my senior year would bring on someone or something that would change my life forever as I knew it. I didn't think anything more of it as the night ended, and I went to sleep eagerly anticipating the next day... August 20th 2003, first day of senior year. Most of the day went on like normal first days of school, then it was time for third period-after lunch. I looked down at my schedule and realized that the class I had registered for the previous spring wasn't listed, so, I rushed to my counselor's office to re-add it, and got the now last available spot in the class. Looking back on it, I know fate was in the works then. I went on to the class, which was marketing, just in time for the second bell to ring, and right before the final bell rang, someone sat down in the seat next to me. :) That person I came to know as one of my favoritest people in the entire world, who I could now never imagine my world without, my good buddy Austin Powers. (Yes, that's his real name.) :)

It didn't take long into the school year for me to realize that he was the answer to the wish I had made weeks before, he was that person who would change my life forever. :) (None of this however is news to him, because I've told him numerous times before, so he won't be shocked if he reads this, and if he is, sorry buddy, gotcha! lol. Love ya!) :) One of the first things that made me realize that he was brought into my life for a reason, was that he said "hi" to me right away in the first few seconds, and was very welcoming with his big smile that I've come to know and love, which at that time, kinda caught me off guard, especially since most people are kinda stand offish when they first meet me, once they notice I have a disability. That was another thing, he never once asked me, "what's wrong with you?" like most other people jumped to. In fact, that shocked me, so, finally one day I just told him my story while we were sitting there in class waiting for our assignments to print out. As I looked at his face, trying to read how he was taking it, like I did with most other people, all I could see were smiles. He had even turned his chair to face me as I told my story, to give me his attention, and at the very end he said, "cool". I knew right then that he accepted me for who I was, and that it would never matter to him at all that I was different. To him, I was just one of the group, no matter what anyone else said, and I know for a fact he would probably punch anyone in the face that said otherwise, because I was (and always will be) his DooLeY girl, and that's all they needed to know. :)

As the year went on, beyond our marketing class, our friendship lasted. It was/is a friendship of legends. :) Though, early that spring, more than ever, (due to certain circumstances) I knew something was up, and it truly didn't matter what it was, but I knew I was going to do everything I could to stand by Austin with all that I had, whole heartedly, because he had always done the same for me, no matter what anyone else chooses to believe, he was my guardian angel and my hero, whenever I needed him. It would've taken a bullet to get me to stop believing. I have always believed in the theory of "namaste", which means, "the good in me salutes the good in you", and there is goodness in everybody, as to which I saw/see the goodness in Austin every time I was around him. That's what true friendship love is. As months went by, I looked at the calendar, and realized it was now August 20th 2004, exactly one year from the day I first met Austin, and so I decided to celebrate it. (as I do now every year as well.) So, later that afternoon, I went and got my first professionally done tattoo, since he and I had always talked about taking me to get one. It was/is a shooting star cluster that resides on my shoulder blade for all of eternity in honor of that first shooting star, and that one wish, that had us meet each other. Over the years we have remained friends even if life has us near or far, and now here we are October 24th 2010, and once again Austin is back, and even though those closest to us only know the full extented story, the full legend continues.... Great Great Grandchildren will know the story of Austin and DooLeY! **Pounds** & ~Swiggles!~