It's all in my head

Date of Death, Tuesday August 17, 2010

Obituary 

Lieutenant Commander Jimmy Lewis 

LCDR Jimmy Lewis was born the 13^th of 15 children on September 3^rd1952 in Elizabethtown, North Carolina to the late Martha and Gaston Lewis.  He is a 1971 graduate of Elizabethtown High School.  Jimmy also held a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New York and a Master of Science degree in Public Administration from the Central Michigan University.  He was united in Holy Matrimony to Shay Lin of Taipei Taiwan in August 1978.  They were the loving parents of 3 children.   He joined the United States Navy on 28 November 1972 and remained on active duty for 27 years, retiring in July 1999.  While in the Navy, Jimmy’s travels included Australia, the Philippines, Naples Italy, Honolulu Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan, Haiti, Canada, Thailand, and Guam. Having joined the Navy as an E1, Jimmy quickly climbed thru the ranks making E7.  Realizing his leadership, management and technical skills, the Navy promoted him to the Officers ranks where he held titles of Technical Control Officer, Staff Communications Officer, Network Operations Manager and Director of Communications, Telecommunications Operations Officer, and Telecommunications Branch Chief.  His military awards include: 

• Three Defense Meritorious Service Medals
• Two Joint Service Achievement Medals
• Two Navy Achievement Medals
• Two Navy Commendation Medals
• Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist Insignia

 Raised in a Christian home, Jimmy accepted Christ as his savior early in life. He was a faithful member of Capital Community Church (CCC).  Jimmy was also Head Usher at CCC. Jimmy leaves to cherish his memory, his loving and devoted wife, Shay, three wonderful children, Sandra Lewis of Sacramento, CA; Dexter Lewis of Leesburg, VA, and Tiffany (William) Figueroa of Leesburg, VA, Godson, Reginald Dexter Keeton of Jacksonville, FL, two grandchildren, Jaydelyn and Sonnee.   Four sisters:  Maggie Lewis and Sarah Singletary of Elizabethtown, NC, Ethel Evans of Bladenboro, NC, Sherby Lewis of Upper Marlboro, MD; six brothers: James Lewis (Kathryn) of Elizabethtown, NC, Thomas Lewis (Lucille) of Washington, DC, Edward Lewis (Gloria) of Temple Hill, MD, Arthur Lewis (Sarah) of Temple Hill, MD, Carl Lewis (Frankie) of Goldsboro, NC, Cleveland Lewis of Madison,GA, and a host of Nieces, Nephews, Relatives and Friends. 

I want a love like, me thinking of you thinking of me, thinking of you type love, or me telling my friends more then I've ever admitted to myself about how I feel about you type love, or hating how jealous you are but loving how much you want me all to yourself type love, or seeing how your first name just sound so good next to my last name. I wanted to see how far I could go without calling you and I barley made it out of my garage.

I want a love that makes me wait until she falls asleep and then wonder if she's dreaming about us being in love, type love, or who loves the other more, or what she's doing at this exact moment, or slow dancing in the middle of our apartment to the music of our hearts, closing my eyes and imagining how love could hurt so much when she's not there, shit, I know not where this love is headed type love.

Check this, I want to post those little posted notes all around the house, so she doesn't forget how much I love her type love. And not having enough ink in my pen to write all the loves type love. And hope that I make her feel as good as she makes me feel and I wanna do with my friends, making fun of me, the way I made fun of them when they went through same kind of love type love. The only difference is, this is one of those real loves type loves. And just like high school, I want to spend hours on the phone without saying shit, and then fall asleep and wake up with her right next to me and smell her all up in my covers type love. I wanna try counting the ways I love her and loose count in the middle just so I would have to start all over again. I want to celebrate those one month anniversary’s even though they aren't really anniversary’s, but doing it just because it makes her happy type love.

Check this, I wanna fall in love with the melody the phone plays when her number is dialed in to her type love, and talk to you until I loose my breathe, she leaves me breathless, but with the expanding of my lungs, inhale all of her back into me. I want a love that makes me change my cell phone calling plan to something that allows me to talk to you longer, cause in all honesty, I want to avoid one of those high cell phone bill type loves. I want a love that makes me regret how small my hands are, I mean the lines on my palm don't give me enough time to love as long as I'd like to type love. Wanna love that makes me stu-stu-stu-stutter just thinking about how strong this love is type love. I want a love that makes me cut off all my hair. Well, maybe not all my hair, maybe like I'll cut the split ends and trim my mustache, but it will still be a symbol of how strong my love is for her.

I kind of feel comfortable now, I'll even be fantasizing about walking out in a green light, just dieing to get hit by a car, just so I could loose my memory, get transported to some third world country just to get treated and some how meet up with you again, so I could fall in love in a different language and see if it still feels the same type love. I want a love that is unexplainable as she is....

I came accross a few things that you shouldn't say to a disabled person. I found it pretty funny cause it happens to me all the time! LOL.

1. "It's OK, I know how to deal with you. I've worked with the disabled
2. "Is your partner disabled too?"
3. "So, What's up with you?"
4. "If I became disabled, I think I'd kill myself."
5. "I saw this great thing on TV that could help you..."
6. "There's a disabled woman that lives down my street. I see her going past sometimes."
7. "Wait here..."
8. "It must be nice to get out and about."
9. "I think you're really brave."
10. "I really admire you."

So I haven't posted in a while cause I've been really busy. Nothing special, but with life in general. Good news is that my custom lights are finally coming in and it should be here by Friday. Their schedule to be installed on Monday and I'm pretty stoked! My Jun mirrors also came in last month as well and they really make the car stand out. I'm having another photo shoot with Stephen (SH Studios) on the 19th along with a white 2009 R1. He did an awesome job on my first shoot, so I had to use him again. I'll be sure to post up pics in the gallery once I'm done.

My car is also entered in theMach V Mega Colossal Meet & Charity Car Show IV on August first and I'm expecting to do well. It's not a huge car show, but it's for charity, so what can I say. Oh, if you're wondering what the lights are going to look like, check out the youtube video below. It should set my car apart from all the other Evo's in the area. Peace!

Update on August 25, 2010 at 11:01 PM by Dexter

If you were wondering whatever happened to these lights. I did receive them in the mail, but the lights were damaged during shipping. I did send them back CinCity where they fixed, but the lights where damaged again when I received them. I ended up just getting a refund and decided to pass on the whole deal. They do really good work, but they should really take a second look at their shipping procedures. It would save them and their customers a lot of headaches as I heard this is a common theme with them. Oh, well, onto the next project.

Just a reminder to all you fine, fine folks out on the Interverse -- Engadget is going to be live and direct from Apple's WWDC keynote tomorrow morning. You should tune in, we hear there may be some kind of new phone announced.

Monday (June 8th) plant yourselves at this page. Here's what time you'll want to do said planting:

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01:00PM - Eastern
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02:00AM - Tokyo (June 9th)