EHarmony

So I joined eHarmony at the start of the year.  The year being 2008.  I must have somehow clicked the “not-interested” setting somewhere because all the the matches that i’ve gotten were people that i’m not attracted to or interesting.  Until that is that eHarmony matched me with Julie.  The official eHarmony time was January 25, 2008, 06:26PM PST.  That was the beginning of what I hope to be the start of a great relationship.Immediately, I thought Julie was beautiful.  She had a great look about her.  So I think it took me all but 0.08 seconds to click on the “Start Communication” button to send her my first questions.  To my surprise she wrote did respond with answers.   So then we continued to the next stage of our communication.  I thought things were progressing well until we shared of “Must Haves” and “Can’t Stands”.  Then tragedy…..  She closed me.  I was really disappointed.  My first really great matched closed me.  Did I smell bad?  Her excuse was the out “Must Haves” and “Can’t Stands” wasn’t a match for her.  Oh well.  Life does go on.  What was it?  A week later or so, I see her back in my matches section.  I wasn’t sure at the time why she was back in.  It was because she had reopened up communication.  This was awesome.  It was like winning the eHarmony lottery or something.  I was pretty excited the she reopened communication.  So we finished out the “Guided Communication” stage and went into open conversation with just emails through eHarmony.  What was her first question to me you might ask?  Well it was “So how long have you been on eHarmony”.  Nice huh?  We shared information back and forth and we were writing a good amount of info back and forth.   We eventually started emailing with our personal email accounts instead of using eHarmony.  Then on February 17, 2008 at precisely 9:48 PM PST I get what i’ve been waiting for.  What is it?  HER NUMBER.  WOO HOO.  So I make the call the next day on Feb 18 at 9:49 PM PST.  The conversation went so smoothly that its hard to remember what we talked about.  We talked about everything.  There wasn’t any awkward silent moments to warrant, the “well its getting late” comment.  When the conversation finally ended it was 3 hours and 4 minutes later.  Subsequent conversations tallied 106 minutes and 146 minutes.  I find it really easy to talk to her.  I like making her laugh and she has a great laugh to listen to.  So after the third long conversation, I pop the question.  Not that one, but the one about if she’s ready to meet in person.  She agrees to meet.We decide to meet on a Sunday but she got hit with a bug thats been going around.  She was sick for most of friday and saturday.  It was really sweet that she called to reschedule the meeting to Monday in Ktown since she was gonna be there to meet a friend later in the evening.  So i’d have to wait one more day.  I was only a day later so not too bad.  She had mentioned that she likes strawberries so I thought i’d getting strawberries to go along with the rose that I was already gonna get her.  We decided to meet at Cafe Mak in Ktown before she was to meet her friend.  I got there a little early and she had gotten there early as well.  So then there she was, at about 8:15 on a Monday, February 25, my eyes see her and I think my mouth hit the floor.  She was so pretty in person.I approached her and it was kinda awkward because she held out her hand as I was about to hug her.  Was I too forward to go for the hug instead of the hang shake?  Hmm….  we’d have to see.   I was pretty much speechless after I saw her, so I just used the time to gather words by opening up the strawberries and putting the flowers in a Dasani water bottler (smart).  Again we had a great conversation, I had asked the waiters if I could wash the strawberries in their sink and we ate strawberries and this sweet potato cake.  Which is interesting because it wasn’t very sweet and it didn’t taste like potato.   We spent the next hour or so to talk about things.  Get the nerves out and chat.  I was really nervous and I was trying to find the right words to say.  I hope that I can become more comfortable so that I can be myself and open up.  I guess i’m just really excited about this new potential relationship.  So we went our separate ways after she got a call from her friend to meet up.  So I walk her out and we wait for the valet to bring her car and then she gives me a hug goodbye.  I almost held out my hand but she gave me a hug.  So I guess it wasn’t a mistake to hug her on our initial meeting.   As I write this now, its been about a few hours after I called her to arrange another date.  She agrees.  I hope this is the beginning of something really really nice.  I am attracted to her and I do like her.  I hope she feels the same.   So I guess the answer to the trivia question of when is your anniversary, is it yesterday or the upcoming date?  Well I guess it’ll be February 25 at Cafe Mak.