Samuel Mateo, Jr.

That was the title of the latest card I gave my “friend”. I gave it to her yesterday and once again she loved my little gestures.

I didn’t think this poem was my best but her and others seemed to think it was cute and sweet.

As said the stated “Hey, about your face” and the inside read “I miss it”. My intention was to hide in her lugage before she left for canada but I it didn’t work out like that so I took the card and made some adjustments to fit the occasion.

First I added a little modification to the words inside and changed miss to missed so it read I Missed It, creative isn’t it, then added the following poem to the inside.

I don’t think it was my best but hey she loved it so that’s what counts. And Sammy continues to work his charm! LOL

Sammy OUT!!!

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This is a “friend” of mines from church. I was taking some snap shots of her using my camera phone and I think she looks really good here. She is naturally laughing and smiling so you can see the sincerity in the picture.
Sammy OUT!

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It was bit of a roller coaster, emotionally and phisically, for me this weekend.

First my “Friend” leaves for Canada on Friday for the weekend and I don’t see her for three days. But atleast I will still in contact with her, right? Wrong!

Then I have a bit of an emotional breakdown on Saturday night, I’m ok now.

Then Sunday I have a great day in the sun helping out a friend of my sisters, not exactly what I thought we would be doing but I’ll explain all these things further.

This three day trip for my friend was supposed to be one I was supposed to go on but unfortunately I was not meant to be so we agreed we would stay in contact through text messaging and she would call me. So she, my sis and mom, are on their way to our neighbors up north on Friday (10AM) and I had maintained contact with my friend through text messaging and the last thing I told her was to call me when she got there. During our text messaging she said something that caught me by surprise. She said she would MISS ME! To this point in out relationshipt I had not gotten any signs from as to alluding that she was interested in being mroe then firends but this was Huge this put me on an emotional HIGH!

7PM came around and no call so I decide to call, no answer, phone goes straight to voicemail. So I called my mom’s cell, she picks up and I jaw with her for a bit then I asked for my sis and she proceeds to tell me that her nor my “friend’s” cell’s are working in Canada (Sprint Sucks). So guess what no more text messaging for 2.5 days, noooooooooo! But I spoke to her briefly and didn’t say much important but atleast I heard her voice for two whole minutes. LOL. But she had fun and enjoyed herself so it was cool.

Saturday morning was as uneventful as ever , it was steaming hot all day, in the hundreds (f). Needless to say that we had all the AC’s going all day. But something happened in the afternoon. We were taking a look at the fathers day video taken at Look Park the previous weekend and there I was pitching and running the bases during the softball game and I was grossed out and disgusted. I know the camera adds ten pounds but I looked humongous. I looked at that video for 3 minutes and could not stand to look anymore. At one point I was running the bases on a double and that day I felt I was running the bases, or so I thought. In the video you can plainly see I’m barely jogging. I felt so disgusted with myself. So I fell into a rut. If you are overweight or used to be you know how I feel. It’s just so hard to lose weight, but at the same time it’s so easy to gain.

For years I’ve been trying to lose weight and it seems like every year I get bigger and bigger. But now it’s to the point where I myself can see that I’m way too fat and I need to do something about it. But I was solking the whole night after seeing that video. Things going through my mind like, if I was ever going to be attractive to a woman, would I ever get married, and more importanly how will my health be in the future. My emotions where at an all time low. But after putting a lot of thought into it I figure I need to do something about it and I need to do it now and not quit Like I’ve always down. It’s time to put things into perpective and be more responsible with my body. I only have one and I need to fix it before it continues to break. So I felt better after my self pep talk and got my mind back to where it’s supposed to be. Positive. I would have wished my “Friend” would have been around so I could talk to her, she always seems to put a smile on my face and helps me through gray times.

Sunday comes around and the birds are singing and the wind is blowing and its 100 degrees (f) out again! Really Hot! I and some of the youth from the church have the task of going to a friend of my sisters to help clean the yard for an upcoming birthday pool party. We figure we go there clean up the leaves and trash and we’re out in an hour. Wrong again! We are greeted with shovels, pix and a wheel barrel. Yup! Landscaping people. LANDSCAPING!!! We were there for almost four hours digging removing, and leveling the ground so the yard will look good for the upcoming pool party. Though we were a little surprised at first we decided to go ahead and help and we actually had a good time doing it. In the process we got really burned and developed massive caleses from shoveling and picking but all in all it was cool. The owners of the house were really appreciative and we helped the progress of the yard along a lot but there is still much work to do and I don’t it will be done by next Sunday. We’ll see.

We then went to one of the many spray parks and played a little basketball and then ran through the sprayed water to cool off. MAN, that water was cold!!!

I ofcourse was anxiously awaiting the return of my “Friend” who was due back around 8 or 9 PM. I missed her a lot but seeing her again warmed my heart. They reached Holyoke arounf 8:45PM and we spoke later that night. Amongst all the talking something came to the light, something was finally out in the open.

SHE LIKES ME!

Yes people she really likes me, and she has for three months, I was shocked to the say the least. I wasn’t even trying to make her like me three months ago. Goes to show ya, sometimes just being yourself goes a long ways to attract the ladies. LOL! I still can’t believe it today, but it’s true. Somebody pinch me. Am I dreaming? LOL! We spoke for atleast a couple of hours and I was also surprised about that, she is so shy, but she’s slowly coming out of her shell, with my help of course. This is amazing news to me, things are still going to continue nice and slow, we do not want to rush into anything and then have to break up. She still needs to finish her education and find a career and I will help with all I can so she can achieve her goals.

We ofcourse continue to pray about this. These are very serious situations and we must look for God’s guidance through it all. Please continue to help us pray.

BUT PEOPLE HEAR ME AND HEAR ME GOOD! SHE LIKES ME!

Needless to say sunday ended on an emotional HIGH!

Sammy OUT!!!

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Ok,
I didn’t get a chance to post yesterday so I’ll get you guys cought up.

Phisically I felt better yesterday, my knee is still a bit stiff but it wasn’t like Monday when I had to ask my left/right leg to move before it would move. It was bad.

Yesterday was also the one week anniversary of me giving the first card to my “friend”. So I felt it was time to give her the new one I spoke about yesterday.

So my concern was how to surprise her this time. The first one was botched a little but the end result was a good one. This time I thought of something even better.

My “Friend” and I have have this running inside joke that ended up us talking about lollypops so I decided I would use this. I bought a bag of lollypops and stuffed the card in the bag. To the naked eye you would not be able to see the card so that was good. At my job we sell bag sealers so it was perfect. I then took the bag with the card inside and re-sealed it so as to make it look like it was unopened. Ingenious isn’t it.

So yesterday during lunch I went home, she was there, and gave her the bag of lollypops. Since it was a bag full of lollypops I had to make sure she didn’t give it to someone else to open and start sharing so I told her I didn’t want her so share (I’m so mean). I wanted to see her expression as she opened the bag so I was standing there waiting and waiting. When I saw she wasn’t opening the bag I asked her for a pop, I had to force her to open the bag.

And VIOLA! She opens the bag and her face lit up. She was all smiles. It was great. It was all worth it. She loved the card. She went on to tell me that she feels really good about the cards since she feels she goes out of her way to make people feel good about themselves and now I’m making her feel the same way. I was happy to say the least.

She is such a good young woman and I hope everything works out. I continue to pray about it and I ask all of you who happen to read this to also help me pray about it. If it’s God’s will it will be.

Sammy OUT!!!

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Hello friends,
This weekend was quite fun, entertaining, and tirering. I am very sore today. Gotta get more excersise, definately.

Had a bit of a Father’s Day celebration at church on Saturday where the youth put together a play and I played the part of the father of the house. Also was part of putting together the plot and shaping some of the characters. All in all it was about 10-15 minutes long and everybody loved it. I won’t go into the details cuz I would be here all day.

Then on Sunday my family and I, aswell as some friends took a trip to neghboring Northampton, MA where Look Park resides. Look Park is a very nice park, probably one of the best in Massachusetts and we go there atleast 3-4 times a year during the summer, especially on Father’s Day.

We played a bunch of sports including Basketball, Softball, and lots of Volleyball. I took no part in volleyball I was already tuckered out from the basketball and softball. I am so sore today I can hardly walk or lift my arms up.

We ofcourse ate a lot. Tons of food everywhere. All in all we had a great time. I especially was happy since my “friend” was there with me the whole day. Most of the time we sat together, joked and play fought (nothing new). But I’m still at odds…

I’m still not certain where she stands on our relationship but I’m hoping to sway her my way within the next few weeks. I have a couple more of those nice gestures up my sleeve. Hopefully they will work. She is so shy when it comes to relationships. Women are hard enough to read as it is, couple that with her shyness and I’m clueless.

After the Father’s Day festivities where over I took her out yesterday along with my sister, just as friends, and had more good times. We where all so sore. Her and my sisters cheeks where all red from all the Sun we took in yesterday. But her cheeks where so red I started calling her Mis Claus. Cute huh?

My sister and I where disscusing the fact that we have so many nicknames for her it’s funny. Nicknames like: Miss Leno, Miss Claus, Upi Chin, but the all time fav, Chinso Long (there are others). If you haven’t caught it yet, she has bit of chin, some might say it’s fairly big, but I don’t think so, I love her chin. She looks so cute, her chin just defines who she is.

Well, that’s all I have for now folks. I’ll catch ya laterz.

Sammy OUT!!!

PS
I was on time today!:)

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So I made a special gesture for the someone special I spoke of last time and I feel good. This is a good thing people! I’m riding on cloud 9 right now. Woo Hoo!

So you probably want to know what the gesture was right? Well I’ll tell ya.

As I said in my last post I was having a really crappy day and I was really moping for most of the morning but then something happened. I decided to text her and start a little convo (she hates talking on the phone). So as we texted (just made it up) she made me feel a whole lot better. She made me laugh and smile and I really appreciated that so I thought I should thank her for it.

I needed to stop at the local drug store to drop off some mail so I went in to get a snack and I saw these cute little greeting cards. They’re like regular card but much smaller, made that way so you can stuff them anywhere you want and surprise the recipient. I found the perfect one. It was a cartoon drawing of a sun and on the inside it said “Hello Sunshine”. So I bought one and wrote a little poem inside of my own. I used the sunshine theme and it said:

I was a little worried as to how she was going to feel about it and I was stressed out all night cuz I didn’t know how to give it to her but I ened up just having someone give it to her. I wanted it to be a surprise and she told she was very surprised so I guess it worked.

So did she like it? You ask.

I guess she did. She herself was having a rough night and that put a smile on her face and allowed her to forget about her problem for a few minutes. She told me I was SO SWEET! Sweet! PEOPLE, she called me SWEET! Woo Hoo!!!

Ok. I feel like a teen ager in junior high again. Stop Sammy. STOP! But it’s just so cool.

Keep praying for me and may the Lord’s will be manifested.

Sammy OUT!!!

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