Celebrating 1 Year Today

Anniversary Cake

I guess it's fitting that on the day of my 1st official blog post, I am also celebrating another first today.  My 1-year anniversary with my boyfriend Alex.  Technically speaking we met on Halloween night, but as I like to say, we didn't officially meet until after 12 a.m. and therefore Nov. 1 is THE day.


The first year has definitely been full of memories ... too many to name.  Sometimes I just like to randomly bring up things that I recall happened the past year to him and unlike many men out there, he does remember most of them.  Many people ask me the question, when did you know he was a "good" guy or a "keeper." I have to say it was pretty quick, but the thing that really sealed it for me was on Thanksgiving.


My now-former cat Chloe wasn't taking to well to her new living arrangements and hadn't learned to use the cat door yet.  So she spent 4 days in the garage leading up to Thanksgiving.  On that day I guess she decided that a fun place to hang out would be the inside of my car.  So as I was driving up Abernathy road heading to the gym you can imagine the shock wave that resonated through me when I hear a very odd noise coming from "inside" my car and then as I pull off to look back and see Chloe running around the intersection.  Needless to say that was her last run anywhere.  The sweet thing luckily made it across the intersection after she got hit and that was where she passed.  For those of you who know me, Chloe had been like a child to me.  I had her for 8 years and she definitely lived a pretty good life.


Now back to the point ... the first person I call is Alex.  Now remember we had only been "talking" about 3 weeks at this point.  Alex gets the frantic phone call from me, hears me crying hysterically and jumps in his car and comes straight down to where I am standing on the side of the road.  I, of course, wasn't able to go close to where Chloe was laying, but I stood there and waited for him to come.  He, being the person I now know he is, never once complained or seemed put off that I asked him to come down and scoop up my dead cat from the side of the road (heck, he even called his mom and asked if he could bring the cat to her house and bury it).  But he did it and I guess at that moment of sadness, it was also like a realization of something special.  Someone special, rather.


And so today, I thought it was fitting that I start it all off with a "shout out" to Alex.

Halloween Tribute to Chloe

AND, also show my Halloween tribute to Chloe.