Scribble & Dash: 2012-07-08

Come December of 2006 I was still on/off with that boyfriend mentioned in {Our Story Part 1} & still taking a keen liking to Andrew. Our first date-ish... You want to talk about dense, that was me at this time. I had originally planned on going ice skating with the boyfriend-ish guy & a couple of our friends, and I thought it would be a good idea to invite Andrew to come along with us. He did & it was just weird. Andrew & I were seemingly in the beginning stages of something and I was at the end of something with the previous boyfriend, having them in the same place at the same time was a horrible idea now that I look back, but in the moment I just wanted to spend time with Andrew, & I had already had previous plans... Anyway, there wasn't any arguing or bickering with anyone it just was.

A few nights later Andrew asked me {or maybe I asked him, I don't remember how it all came up} to go see Christmas lights with him. I agreed, this was the night before Christmas Eve for a time reference. It was just him and I, it was such a good time. We ended up at Friday's afterwards for something to eat, our first {actual} date! :) When I got home and he had left my dad had asked me why I didn't invite him in, and I began regretting that I hadn't, so I got out my phone and texted him asking him to come back... He did. Not only that but once he was there, there was a knock on the door & the boyfriend-ish guy was there with one of his friends, super awkward again! Things just didn't seem to be going our way at this point, so we all hung out, weirdly for a little bit & then they went home. Once they left I realized that I missed having anymore time to spend just with Andrew. {Looking back I seriously don't know why he didn't run the other way, fast!}

Our very FIRST picture together! :)

Christmas Day arrived and my dad's side of the family came over for dinner and gifts, the whole time Andrew & I were texting {insert the *aww* here} Once they had gone I had the boyfriend-ish guy come over & I officially officially ended things with him. Yes I know, I'm a horrible person, who does that on Christmas? Well, me. I felt bad but things had gone on weirdly for a long period of time & I was tired of the way things had been with us for a while, no use in dragging it out any longer.

Andrew & I spending our first New Years together {'06-'07}

The next day {December 26th} Andrew & I spent a lot of time together, watching movies and just goofing around. It was so much fun to finally not have the weight of a relationship that was strained and just to be able to enjoy myself with someone that I genuinely enjoyed spending time with. {Such a change from how I felt about it a year and a half earlier} On December 27th 2006 Andrew asked me to be his girlfriend & of course, I said yes. The next few days we spent in that "new relationship" state, in fact it lasted for quite a while actually. We spent our first New Years together & I remember thinking what better way to ring in the new year than with a new *amazing* guy! :)

Snow day, we had to make snowmen of course {Early 2007}

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Our Story Part 1

So lately I have been thinking a lot about the past seven years of my life and just how important every single one of them has been in regards to one of the biggest parts of my life, my husband. I want to spend the next few days sharing with all of you our story, every last bit of it! I hope you enjoy & I apologize in advance for the overload of writing in this first post {there weren't any pictures taken of us at this stage in our story}...

Our story isn't one of "love at first sight" or "I just knew when I met him that he was the one" {If yours is like that, you are lucky and I am happy for you} In fact, ours is the absolute opposite. It all started seven years ago in 2005 when I was a newly seventeen year old, going to high school, reluctant to get a job & just wanting to live carefree not worrying about anything. Yeah, that didn't last long, my parents had been hounding me, & by parents I mean mostly my mother, to get a job. I was seventeen and had a car, there was no reason I didn't need to get a job, were her thoughts. Well my reasons were quite obvious, to me, how was I going to have a job, keep up with my classes & have enough time for my friends? {the last one was of course the most important} I also had a boyfriend that I had been dating for about five months at the time {no not Andrew}, I just didn't see how getting a job had absolutely any benefits. Little did I know. Well one afternoon my mom comes home & hands me an application & says "fill it out & you will have the job"... Background, at the time, the lady who was in charge of hiring for the Subway closest to our house was also one of my mom's friends, hence the "I have the job" comment. I was aggravated, I didn't want to do this, I had absolutely no desire to get a job at that point, let alone work at a food place. I very reluctantly filled out the application & returned it to the store. I was done fighting my mother and I started working at Subway the following week... Still not thrilled & I let it show, even at the job. My first day included filling out paperwork & learning the ropes, and who better to show me the way than Andrew, yes, my Andrew was at that time, my manager {he was also the boy I had given my application to a few days earlier}. I worked the minimum & got upset if I had to work more than two days a week, I was an absolutely horrible employee. Andrew didn't like me & I didn't like him. Ask my family, they can remember me constantly complaining about him, how much I hated working with him and didn't like one thing about him... Harsh I know but I couldn't help it. He would {seemingly} deliberately put me on the schedule for more than I had wanted, in attempts to get me to quit... Trust me, it almost work. Oh, and he almost fired me a few times, thanks to my mom's friend that didn't happen. This went on for about a year, however I did start making some friends at work which helped out with the "hating to be there" attitude that I had previously showed. I still wasn't fond of Andrew but I didn't let that show as much either.

In October of 2006 I started showing more enthusiasm at work, not caring as much about my schedule, wanting to work more than I was. {once you start making money, it becomes addicting, at least for me} My relationship with the previously mentioned boyfriend was rocky, it always had been ever since the start. We broke up & got back together more times I can count. Come November one of my work friends was having a birthday party & invited me to go, I didn't want to go alone so I invited someone to come along with me, no not Andrew or the ex-ish boyfriend, but another guy who ended up bailing the morning of the party. I went to work, upset because I didn't want to go alone and was planning on just not showing up, when Andrew offered to meet up with me beforehand & let me follow him to the party, that way I wouldn't be alone & since he knew people who were going to be there I wouldn't stick out among all of their other friends. I took him up & that night we met up at a CFM/Shell station off of the I-55 & Arsenal exit {yes I still think about this night every time I drive by this exit & see the gas station... which is every day :) }

Well when we got to the party, which was in some nice downtown hotel, we couldn't find it so we spent a little bit of time wandering around and laughing at ourselves for not being able to navigate our way through this hotel. It was the first time we actually spent any time together outside of work & I was beginning to see that he wasn't as bad as I had always thought, he was actually kind of fun... & I do believe he was starting to think the same thing.

{Check back tomorrow for Our Story Part 2}

<3 Melissa