how i met my husband

i wanna play too!!
saw this on my buddy liz's blog, thought i'd play "single white female" and copy her :)

how i met my husband.

i met him twice.
when i first met nick, i was 20. it was 1998. i was dating a guy named david. david, his roommates, our buddies evan and robin, and i decided to go down to graceland too (yes, that's the correct spelling). evan and robin also invited their friends nick and laura. they were a couple. nick looked like he hated me and everyone around him. angry young man. we went to graceland too, never spoke, barely looked at each other. that was it.

fast forward to 2002. i had just gotten out of a long relationship, and was sad and stuff. i mostly sat at home and moped. after a couple months of being depressed and pathetic, my buddies evan and robin invited me over to evan's sister's house to watch the mike tyson/lennox lewis boxing match on ppv and get out of the house. i was hanging out in the back room smoking a cigarette (b/c i smoked then) when this hot guy with long dark brown hair walked in.
i thought he was super hot and wanted to touch his hiney - but i didn't know him. he sat down next to me to "hang out" and i decided that i had to flirt as hard as i could. so i rested my leg on his for no reason at all (MAN i had balls) and HE LET ME.
after the fight he brought out his cd collection and played some music, which i thought rocked, so we talked about it and he just got hotter and hotter by the second (he later told me, he brought out the music b/c he wanted to impress me - he did). we exchanged yahoo screen names and started chatting that night. a couple days later we went on our first date - to graceland too (HA!!!) - and we were both too nervous to kiss so instead of kissing at the end of the date, we shook hands. and i cursed myself all the way home b/c i just KNEW i'd blown it. apparently i hadn't b/c we went out again the next night and we did kiss that time - and about 2 weeks later we moved in together.
it's been almost 8 years.
i love him with all my heart.
he's the smartest person i know.
he knows how to make me laugh. he knows how to make me feel better if i'm sad.
i look forward to growing old with him.