"I remember meeting you, discovering love could be so true"...

I thought what better way to celebrate the one year away mark than to share the story of how my fiance and I met. I suppose that should have been one of my first posts but now I am glad I saved it.

My fiance and I have known each other since 1998. During high school I used to attend a week long leadership program every summer ( I know, it's nerdy) , I met a lot of people through that including two twins who lived in Illinois. One weekend my parents and I were in Chicago to look at colleges, so I begged them to drive me to the burbs so I could met up with my twin friends. I never thought that would be the night I would meet my future husband!

So we met up with the twins' friends and went to a cheesy punk rock show in the basement of some community center. The details are fuzzy, keep in mind this was 10 years ago, but somehow I got lost from the rest of our group. My "friends" weren't concerned about finding me, but who was? My night in shining armor, my fiance! I thought it was so sweet, he had just met me but was the only one looking for me. I would have just married him right then but he had a girlfriend at the time and we were 16, so we kept in touch over e-mail, IM, phone etc.

We stayed close friends for many years and made visits when we could, we dated briefly my second year of college but still we were too young. We always kept in touch, so when I graduated college and moved to Milwaukee (he was still in Chicago) we could see each other more (only a 1.5 hour drive). And that began our semi-long distance relationship. Many drives for both of us in the rain, snow, early morning, back and forth but it was wonderful and the drive really wasn't too bad.

A year later I decided to make the move to Chicago, three years later we decided to move in together, and now four years later we are on our way to getting married! Now granted there are some details left out of this story, like most couples we had our rough patches, some months here and there were spent apart but we always came back to one another. He really is my best friend and the person I can always count on. And oh yeah, he is smokin' hot!

J, I can not wait to be your wife. Happy negative year anniversary!