Our story - My Side of It

I guess it is best to start from the beginning so y'all will know our story. We actually met on e harmony, which isn't all that different nowadays, but for me it was WAY OUT THERE! I'm no computer guru, as a matter of fact, I had a computer we named "special ed" because he was a 1999 reject from the county school department, but "special ed" did his job well, just very slowly!! I started on e harmony after my sister-in-law-law Cheryl (my sister's sister-in-law) told me about it and suggested I give it a try. I was embarrassed to start it, but quickly became intrigued. I was matched with the widest variety of people from the self centered John from MO MO(I am my own biggest positive influence) to the down home good ol' boy Clement (MacGyver is my biggest positive influence). No offense, I loved MacGyver, the way he made bombs from chewing gum and paper clips, but he wasn't MY idea of a greatest influence! Then there was Robert. He had a picture up. He was cute, but didn't look like a smiley person. He liked to cook (hell yeah!!!) felt that his Grandfather (not MacGyver) was his biggest influence, was born and raised in Florida ( a rare NATIVE FLORIDIAN!) was a dental tech (great!!! he has teeth, and probably really good ones), plus, from the picture he had hair!!! My 2 top priorities to start out: teeth and hair. For a while I thought I would have to give up one of these. Thank God I didn't!! But seriously, he was a Christian, and his info caught my eye. We started sending each other questions on May 10th 2005, which is my Daddy's birthday. We stayed up all hours of the night emailing and talking. It was really neat! Then I found out the horrible truth. HE WAS A STAR TREK, STAR WARS, ALL THINGS SPACE fan!!! We have worked through this after 3 years, though. He is still a big fan, I tolerate it. Anyway, we had our first date on May 21st, 2005 after he took a big dental tech test. We went to see of all things STAR WARS! The compromising started early, although he didn't know it. We hit it off immediately. He was a smiley person after all. Great teeth, nice hair, and TALL. Soon after we met, I discovered that I actually knew some of his family. Yes, me! I had met his brother, sister-in-law and niece quite a few times at my neighbor's house. As a matter of fact, my neighbor and his sister-in-law were best friends since they were little. His brother has also worked with a guy that I had dated! Walt was right!! It's a small world after all!!! We saw each other often, and quickly knew that this was something special. We went to New Orleans for my 15 year reunion in July, and quickly had to come home because Hurricane Dennis was heading our way. We had a blast though. We got up early and took great pics of New Orleans. I took lovely black and white photos, and we walked it the quiet of an empty street at 7am. I feel so blessed that we did this, because the next month, Katrina changed New Orleans in a terrible way. We were heartbroken that the town where our first trip was taken was a disaster area in chaos. In August we welcomed 2 new little guys into our lives. Mason (Robert's nephew) was born early in the morning on August 2nd. Ryan (my nephew, who wasn't such a little guy at 9lbs 13oz) was born early in the morning on August 6th. So that is how the first few months started out from my side.