So I met this guy… Though my friends have heard this multiple times before, this one was different.
I met tyler in winnipeg, when I was at a work conference. Him, myself and two other lovely young gentlemen spent the three days we were there together - through business sessions, dance breaks, club house sandwich room service, and late nights/early mornings (sunrises even).
The first night, we all drank one or two drinks each *ahem* and ended up as the only four left at the end of the night. This gave us all a common bond - not just being way more awesome than everyone else there. We went from the bar, to Tyler and Bryan's room, and stayed up talking, eating, and drinking a lot of water until 4am. I believe it was at this point that Tyler spouted off the word 'Sphectrum' in an indescribable sentence. We adopted that as our 'gang name', and it has not been the same ever since.
Sphectrum is a verb, a noun, a pronoun, and all those other things that OAC english teaches you, but you never actually remember.
Needless to say, I have three wonderful new friends as a result of the conference. Bryan - who lives in Vancouver with Tyler, and has visited Ontario, and escorted me to a wedding since; Ben - who works in my office, and despite his nerdy glasses has the most hilarious sense of humour; and Tyler - my twin.
I have kept in touch with all of them, but for some reason, Tyler has been amazing. A confidant and advice giver; gets me in trouble for laughing out loud at my desk; and my twin. We discovered that we are quite possibly the same person in two different bodies - but he is way more funny. Through our email and blackberry messenger chats, I have an appreciation for Tyler that I could not imagine building for someone who I only met for three days.
He recently wrote this to me in an email, when discussing relationships…
"I'm 100% with you on the not wanting to settle down with the "one" at this point in our lives. So many of my friends are at that stage and I don’t feel I am even close to where they are. I'm like you in that I feel there are so many more people and situations, etc that I have to experience before I can fully say that the person I am with is the person I want to be with for the rest of my life. That is way too big of a commitment for me at this time. I also wonder if I am going to be left high and dry. I look at some of the girls in my office, for example, who are great girls - funny, smart, good looking, but they are with ultimate douche bags. All they talk about is how they are so happy that they have met 'the one', yet I sit here and think that there is so much else out there for them. If I had met "the one" I wouldn’t have been able to blunder my way through life getting drunk every weekend and this would complely be against Sphectrum rule #29: Always blunder your way through life. I don’t think blunder actually works in this context, but I'm using it anyways - when in Rome, right?"This quote actively sums up my love, pride, and confidence in Tyler. Get things done, and get them done right - when in Rome!
I am actively recruiting Tyler to move to Toronto and be my roommate. So far I have on the table:
1. orange juice in the fridge all the time
2. a 42" flat screen plasma tv
3. a dvd player
4. the dvd 'rudy'
5. me - his twin
And this is what Tyler has to say about that:
I think if we lived in the same city, we would basically be celebrities. Our synergy might be too much too handle for most people. Like - we wouldn’t have to wait in line at clubs or pubs. We would get to go to the front of the line at Tim Hortons. And we would get large blizzards for the price of mediums. Like Bawsses. I also wanted to add that it feels very strange this week not being able to discuss the sphectrum and staying up till the sun comes out eating clubhouses.
Move here tyler - the sunrises are better, chips are crispier, and I hear that the club sandwiches are clubbier.