LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.

EAT EM UP FOREVER.

COOL GUY.

The little things get to me the most. Every time I grab ice, I'm reminded of how when you were over, there was never ice; you would never fill the ice cube tray. As much as it annoyed me then, full ice cube trays have the same annoyance. I hate a filled ice cube tray so much.

I miss you cleaning out my cupboards, and coming over for dinner. I miss you covering the peephole with your eye or your mouth. I miss running into you.

I miss you so much, still, every day.

This shit is still un-real to me.
Please dream visit me.

THE MAN.

I miss him a lot today. I've just spent the past few looking at pictures of him and re-capping stories in my head. It still feels so un-real. It still almost feels like it hasn't happened. I have this idea warped in my head that I just haven't seen you in awhile. It really kills to force in reality. You're so amazing. Tears and laughter are on over-flow today.

I hope that wherever you are you're doing what you did best.. I don't know what the word for that is, but I still know you did it best.

I miss you so so so so much. Xo.

...

The last time I saw you was three or four years ago, at a funeral. You remembered me. Considering the last time you saw me before this moment was when we were both kids, it was kind of a big deal. You were becoming a teacher and gave me all types of writing advice.

My mom said this of you today, "He was going nowhere but straight".

So, that surprising phone call of your good-bye really shocked all of us. My mom couldn't stop crying, and I wished for nothing but to some how hug her through the phone. That made me think of your dad, and how much hurt he must be going through. Times like these are just really, really.. sad.

I hate that our last talk was at a funeral, and that a funeral will be the next time I see you. I hate how we had a huge gap in between seeing each other. Life doesn't give us enough time, and I'm also sorry yours was cut short.

Hugs to the sky, to you, to your parents.
I'm sorry you left us like this.

RIP Thomas.

GO TO THIS.

I'll be in Winnipeg for this. If you are, you should be there too.

Thank you again to everyone for their continued support. Let's do it big for the guy who deserves nothing less.

ALL THE WAY FROM TEXAS.

There aren't many things that have touched me as much as this one. There is something so surreal about having an audience that reads your words and actually feels them. There is something even more surreal about that same audience connecting to you and going out of their way to try and heal you.

Well. Let me tell you how Kim from Texas did that.

This girl wrote me the most touching, heart-warming, thoughtful card I have ever received. Along with that, she included a simply beautiful piece of jewellery. Her words stated that it was a heart so my cousin could be kept close to mine, his birthstone was also on the chain, and that the angel wing reflects him always being my angel in the sky. I cried for days. No one has ever done anything so wonderful for me. No one has ever been so thoughtful, so sweet. This is the absolutely most perfect piece of anything I have ever gotten.

For that, I shall treasure this little piece of silver for the rest of my life.

I can't say thank you enough. I really can't. If I could find some way to thank you every second for the rest of my days, it still wouldn't be enough.

My dearest Kim, thank you for being a reader. Thank you for reading. Thank you for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You truly are one of the most treasured people to ever step into my little cyber world, and believe me when I say, you opened the door and made it a whole lot bigger. I can't wait til the day we meet. I owe you a trillion hugs.

Xoxo, all my love, Houston stand up!

BIRTHDAY BOY.

Took this on his birthday.

FLYER.

Thanks for this one, Leah. He's wearing my dad's shirt in this pic. Love, love, love.

SMOKEY.