Yeah, it's hard to believe that I'm engaged when for the past 5 years, I've proclaimed myself as the Eternal Bachelor! :-) No complaints about being engaged to the most beautiful lady that I know, though~in fact, I'm excited! :-) It's just funny how life happens that way, and sneaks up on you when you least expect and changes all of your plans! LOL Trust me, dating and being engaged is far more important in my life now than I ever thought it would be. My fiancee', Amber Goff, still picks on me about it taking me 3-1/2 years of her chasing me, to finally notice her. Of course I deserve all of those jokes, after that much time before I came around and asked her out! :-) I don't deserve her, though, and fortunate to have her in so many ways! :-) It's a miracle that she even still gave me the time of day after all that time, and for that reason, alone, I don't deserve to be engaged to her, much less other reasons. :-) Still, she gave me the time of day, and I asked her to date, and here we are! :-)
Well, we first met at church, 3-1/2 years ago, when both of us were volunteering on camera for TV Production, and from the time I saw her face, her eyes, and her hair, I was attracted to her~much less her personality! She loves to joke around as much as I do, if not more! :-) So, those of you who know me, with our personalities being that much alike, we hit it off pretty well. I would look forward to her coming in and both of us working the same camera crew in the mornings, and then she would give me a "love punch" with her fist on my shoulder, and laugh at my jokes! :-) So, we had so much fun then, and I thought she was very beautiful! :-) Her dad even told me, when he saw the way she gazed at me the first time we met, and the way I looked at her, that he knew I was going to be his future son-in-law! :-) That's how well Amber and I hit it off from the beginning! :-)
Now, if you get technical, we didn't meet at our church, for the first time. We actually met several times in Albuquerque, at Walmart, coffee shops, car shows, and even The Frontier restaurant a few times, before then. One time, at The Frontier, I was showing my ex-room-mate, Duane, how easy it is to talk to girls, if he would just be himself, and Amber happened to be behind me in line, and I turned to her and started talking to her, and didn't know her at the time. Later, on another visit to The Frontier, Duane and I were going over the script and the storyboard art that I drew for a short film, we were filming, and this beautiful blonde with a feather in her hair, walks in and sits down. I couldn't take my eyes off of her! First of all, she was beautiful, and second, not many blondes wear a feather in their hair, and my jaw dropped! I thought I was dreaming! :-) Well, she remembered me from talking to her in line, and she was with two guys at the time, and the two guys sat on the opposite side of her when she sat down. Now, that I thought was strange! A beautiful girl and two guys it in the chair OPPOSITE of her! Crazy, was what I was thinking! I couldn't figure this out for the life of me! I wanted to go over and say Hi and talk to her, but I couldn't figure out the two guys! This was driving me batty, and my room-mate even noticed. He wondered why I didn't go ahead and talk to her I told him, normally I would, but she was with two guys, and I couldn't figure out if she was with one guy who sat opposite of her, and the other was tagging along, or if she wasn't with a guy at all, and they sat opposite of her for that reason. It sort of looked like she wasn't with any of those guys, but I couldn't be sure. Come to find out, she spotted me, and remembered seeing me before, and asked those two friends of hers to sit on the opposite side, hoping I would come up and talk to her. She saw that once she sat down, again, I couldn't take my eyes off of her, sitting at the table across from us! :-)
Even then, that wasn't the first time we met. She remembered seeing me in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Walmart, and she and I noticed each other then, and hit it off pretty well, too! :-) Of course that time was just before I moved from Knoxville to Albuquerque! :-) I was also a manager of a fine art department in an arts and crafts store there, too, and she remembered seeing me there, as well! :-)
Soooooo, if you get technical, Amber and I have known each other for some time, now, and then 3-1/2 years ago, was when we got to know each other better, and hit if off well, as friends! :-) Now, she's my BEST friend, the girl of my dreams, the girl that I love, and looking forward to spending the rest of my life with her! :-) I love you, Amber! :-)
Hope you enjoyed the story! :-) There's more to it, and I'll write more about it later! :-)
