Six Months from Today

***This is a piece that needs some work.  It needs more structure, voice and organization.  I have put off writing it, because I haven't known where to start, but being six months I decided to at least get a draft on paper***

Graduating college in the spring of 2007 I was happy and off to graduate school at CU Denver.  I was also still single!  My younger self believed that I would go off to college and meet the man of my dreams.  I mean that is what happens in the movies so it must always happen that way in real life! Right?  Well, here I am and six months from today I will marry my best friend and man of my dreams and believe it our not, I did meet him in college.

Every week of my freshman year I would make the beautiful walk across campus to the most dreaded building on the CSU campus, the Math Mod center.  Here I took self-directed math courses that only required that you pass a certain number of tests… if only it were that easy!  There was something that made it a little easier to go, “math mod boy”.  Throughout the year I developed a little crush on “math mod boy,” but was always too shy to say a word to him.

It was the summer before my senior year and my days were spent bartending and waiting tables at Red Robin.  Standing behind the bar I look over and there he was, “math mod boy,” in a Red Robin shirt.  I immediately sent a friend off to investigate and sure enough he would now be bussing tables at our little restaurant.  That summer I learned that “math mod boy” had a name and a girlfriend too.  A summer came and went and I thought nothing more of Brian and my “math mod boy” crush.

Winter break was nearing an end and it was one last night out before my semester of student teaching would begin.  Out in LODO at the bar CROCS with a girlfriend I look up to see Brian walk through the door.  Being his outgoing self he said “hello” and we had a conversation.  As the bar closed “math mod boy” asked for my number. 

Life was busy for both of us, Brian lived in Fort Collins and I lived in Denver.  We enjoyed each other’s company, but the timing was just not right.  Life continued for both of us, but somehow we always managed to stay in touch: a random text, running into each other at a CSU football game… life just continued to cross our paths.  He was always lingering in the back of my mind, that wonderful, cute guy Brian.

In November of 2010 our paths crossed once again and this time was our time.