Kind of funny that "Cup 32" was about a friend I first met when she was "just a kid" in Youth Group and now "Cup 33" is about a friend I knew when he and I were BOTH kids in Youth Group. Ah......Youth....
Another fun one is that Steve and I were in the same grade 7 homeroom. There were 35 students in the class, only 3 of them boys! During our Social Studies unit on government, as a class we had a very Survivor-esque assignment. I think it was called Stranded! Or Shipwrecked?! No! MAROONED!! (Don't you just love my stream-of-consciousness blogging!) The premise is that the 35 of us were stranded on a deserted island and together we had to come up with all of our own rules and laws to form a new society. You can imagine the scenarios us 32 girls were forced to concede given only 3 males with whom to ensure the survival of all mankind! And all of these polygamist decisions made while we were all only 12 years old. Not sure a class would get away with that now. Come to think of it, that teacher "retired" kind of early. Heard the poor guy owns a Tim Hortons now. Hope he isn't suffering from his decision to leave Education...
Steve is a social beast and it's the BEST! I had the honour to plan our 25 year High School Reunion with Steve and three other alumni. Steve was a maniac when it came to tracking down old classmates. He made phone calls to cities across the country and I'm pretty sure he just showed up on a few doorsteps. His ticket selling success rate was second to none. Funny that, after literally 15 months of planning, on the day of the reunion we called him when he was 30 minutes late for setting up and he was at the wrong community hall. Guess he missed THAT detail during all his Googling!
Steve, today, is a life-long learner who - even after having achieved both success and promotion with Canada Post - is back at school adding to his repertoire. More important than career is his beautiful family which includes a wife, two great kids and two lazy dogs (at least those are the pictures of them he shares.) Steve is active in his neighbourhood and in his kids' schools. He's an avid sports fan and has his finger on the pulse of the city, in general. He can ALWAYS be counted on for a witty retort as his sense of humour is famous (at least, to me.) Knowing him as a grown-up now, his heart for people is very evident. That is probably his greatest quality. His sincere heart for people. And while he might try to make a joke about that, it's not a laughing matter. Just a matter of fact. We had coffee at a small shop in Hillhurst this morning and he recognized the barrista as a former neighbour from years back and struck up some banter. He later texted me from the Bottle Depot where he had run into a current neighbour - albeit one of the Calgary Flames (yeah, an NHLer at a bottle depot, you read it right) - but it's all just further proof that Steve knows and remembers everyone! Super glad he knows me! (I WAS one the wives in his fictional, 1983 harem after all!)
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