Let There Be Ice Cream!

It's our Date-iversary!

Let me 'splain.

I met J through a very popular online dating site.  I had been doing online dating for years and years and years and years.  Yeah - a lot of time, I'm ashamed to say.  I had pretty much given up on the whole thing.  My profile was still on the site, but I wasn't actively searching or anything thing.  One September day, I felt compelled to check my account.  There was an email from a guy who did not fit any of my snooty parameters (ie, he wasn't a tall white dude with at least a graduate degree).  It was an easy, casual email and I noticed his profile said he was from Chicago.  I always get along with fellow mid-westerners, so I figured what the heck.  He asked me out for coffee the following weekend... his first (and last) online date ever.

I met him at the designated meeting place (every online dater knows that you don't let them pick you up and you make the first date short, sweet, and in public!).  We quickly figured out that neither of us were actual coffee drinkers.  Thankfully, there was a Ben and Jerry's next to the Starbucks, so we got something we both really love... ICE CREAM!  I was charmed by his easy smile and relaxed demeanor.  We just talked and it was so easy.  I don't know how to explain it other than to say it just... was!  I know I should say there were unicorns farting rainbows and galloping around us, but that wasn't what happened.  It just felt warm.  Like I had known him forever and this was what was supposed to be.  On some level, I just knew this was it.  Like the billion years of prayers had been simply answered in this wonderful man in front of me.  In fact, on our wedding day, a friend played me a voicemail I had sent her a few days after this date saying that I had found my lobster.

Since that first cone of Chunky Monkey with J, not a day has gone by where I haven't heard his voice and I love it that way.

Today is the anniversary of our first date, and every year we celebrate it by heading back to the Ben and Jerry's and having us some ice cream.  We love this day.  We get to celebrate us and happiness.  It's all about the happy today.  Not the mushy, not the the trials and tribulations, just the happy.

And just for the record, he says I was late on our first date, but I saved the text message exchange five minutes before our scheduled meeting time that says I was parking, so he can bite me on that one.  AND he only lived in Chicago for the first five minutes or so of his life.  Online daters are liars.  I lied about my height. :)