The good old days, old good days, or just old days?

So the year is 2008. Ten years since I graduated from New Westminster Secondary School, NWSS, N-Dub. Good Times!

My ten year reunion is just around the corner, as in next Saturday night. I’m not going.

Why you ask? Let me break it down...The reasons for not going outweigh the reasons for going. I don’t think I am alone in this either. I checked out the Facebook page for the reunion and it kind of seems like most people are in the same boat as me…not going. Out of the 300 and something people that grad’d with me 10 years ago, 20 haven’t replied to the invite, 36 declined, 32 maybe, and only 53 confirmed, leaving a whole bunch that weren’t even invited!

53 confirmed? Wow. Out of those 53, there is only a handful, small, small size of a child handful, of people that I would have a remote interest in seeing. Don’t get me wrong, they are all nice people I am sure, but realistically we didn’t really hang out in high school, we haven’t hung out since, what’s the point of hanging out now? To trade our vague memories?

“Remember when we skipped class and…..”

“Remember when we got so drunk we…..”

“Remember that weird teacher that….”

The people that I would be happy to run into have either declined, not replied, or were not invited. I feel like I stayed in touch with the classmates I wanted to.

I am still friends with my favourite teacher of all time, and I know we will always be friends. She was, is, and always will be my mentor, my Morrie of “Tuesdays with Morrie”, my Amiga, the coolest lady I know.

I apologise {there I go again!} to anyone that may read this and feel like they wanted to see me. Or to people that are genuinely interested in what I have been doing for ten years. If you are one of those people, look me up, I’m on Facebook, let’s have coffee.

Or if you were simply interested in what I have been doing, so that you can feel in the loop, but you don’t really want to see me, then here you go:

The highlights of the past ten years….

1998 Graduated from High school.

1999 Attended Vancouver Film School on an acting scholarship

2000 Moved out of my parents house, moved in with a wonderful friend to our first apartment “The Lily Pad” and partied like it was 1999.

2001 My friend and I moved out of the “Lily Pad” into a big house with two other girlfriends, started a “sorority”, and named the house the “Duck Pond”. Great memories, odd jobs, some awesome times.

2002 Met the love of my life, moved to Whistler.

2003 Started career as restaurant and bar manager in Whistler, began Festival and Even Coordination program at Capilano College.

2004 Pregnant with first child, ended career.

2005 Valedictorian for Cap College’s Festival and Event Coordination program after attending for two years. My first child was born: Ella Grace.

2006 Married the love of my life.

2007 Pregnant with, and delivered my second child: Isaac Shawn Thomas

2008 Full time Mum of two perfect babies, living in Whistler, I love it in the summer, and but don’t really enjoy the snow in the winter. And I started this blog.

Other random highlights: Circular road trip to Las Vegas and Back, retiring to Florida, raising two incredible children with an amazing man, joining Church on The Mountain, getting arrested, singing at the Plaza of Nations, dancing, street vending, lots of laughs, love, love, and more love.

There you have it. There has obviously been a lot more in my life than that over the past ten years, but if I was at the reunion repeating the same lines over and over again, I am sure they would start to come out in one word sum-ups.

I think I might take my old yearbooks out, call the girls up, grab some wine…lots of wine…and go reminisce on our terms…and catch up on us, because the ones that I have stayed in touch with are the ones that matter.

If we didn’t go to high school together, and we are friends now, let’s have our own reunion! We can celebrate anything, anytime, I’d love to see you, let’s not wait until 10 years go by.

*Liz