It was around the same time that I was discovering the amazing times that Des Moines had to offer me... was about the same time I had met,
whom at the time I wouldn't realize I would make a happily ever after with,
a man in a dimmly lit bar (supposively) trying to buy me drinks....I dont recall this evening as well as he does but I guess I completely wrote him off cuz I was too cool.
Which was prolly right.
I blame copious amounts of
We were acquaintances and had mutual friends. We'd run into each other periodically when he was in town and a few times during Iowa Hawkeye Tailgates.
He was even on my 25th birthday party bus, but by the end of the night who wasn't?....
according to my memory Lil Wayne was riding that magical mystery tour. Woof!
ANYWAYS...
It wasn't until my 26th birthday we were in a car on the way to a friends place for an after party....(insert fuzzyness)
We woke up on adjacent couches him trying to find a ride back to his hotel & me trying to figure out what kind of food I ate before I passed out cuz it still tasted decent
His hotel coincidentally was 2 blocks away from my apartment at the time....
Cab arrived and we trekked back about 20+miles back to downtown....
That morning was my actual birthday ... he had wrote on my Facebook wall while we were in the cab... (and if you know me you know that I NEVER owned a smart phone).
I would receive text msgs stating when someone wrote on it....we wrote back in forth on the post from inches away talking about how neither of us had cash and we were gonna have to run cuz the meter just hit a ridiculous amount
...& then ....
there it was....
I dont know if he asked me or if I said something about tailgating
BUT
we exchanged numbers....
From that very day on my 26th birthday we started texting ....NON-STOP....
all day....
morning to night.....
24hours a day.
We were technological pen pals....
I began to wonder how people learned about each other before cell phones/texting.He did, however, stand me up on that following New Years Eve, (due to the flu) which SUCKED but totally made up for it that following Valentines Day when we decided we should just be together in a total Saved By The Bell way we were like TOTALLY GOING STEADY.
I like to consider myself more of a Tory of the later years and he seemed dreamy like Zach Morris but was more a Screech Powers at heart.
If I hadn't met him & than continuously re-met him...
Who knows where I would be?
Not healthy.
Not safe.
Being with him makes me a better person.
He saved me!
(I just ate a hand full of rusty nails to regain my hard ass status)
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