Guest Post time!! Well, is Sommer really a guest? Don't know. Just a thought, if you would like to do a guest post on here, please feel free to get in touch with me. One caveat, it kinda has to be about me and Som.....or at least me.....or Som......Could be fun to get other people's perspectives on here.
Hey everyone, it’s Sommer. I thought
it would be a good time to make a guest appearance on Jonathan’s
blog, since it’s kind of my blog too. I do make up half of the
title. (J- We need to work on the title of our blog. Surely we've got something a little more creative in us than our names.) (Ed. Note: Names are hard! Our kids might go nameless till their fifth birthday)
I never thought I’d have a blog. I’m
really not much of a writer and definitely not much of a “share my
feelings with the world” kind of person. When my mom found out
Jonathan was writing this blog (hi mom!) she said she couldn't believe I was “letting” him do it because I tend to be a pretty
private person. I think my response was something along the lines of
“well, he’s not private.”
And so begins life-long journey of
learning how to compromise! Also, Jonathan told me when we first
started dating that he would probably embarrass me about 2.5 million
times over the course of our lives together. I figure this will at
least get me to that number a little more quickly.
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Sommer's Post Comments (Ed. Note: I recommend re-reading each post then reading Sommer's comments. I have helpfully included a hyperlink (hyperlink? How 2003!!) to each post. Also, because I'm an awesome guy, each link will open the post in a new window or tab. It is pretty crazy how nice I am to you people. Why do I recommend re-reading each post? To get my page views up of course! Only 250,000ish more views and I can start selling ads, baby!!)
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Preamble – My only comment on this
post is that I love the Black Eyed Peas reference. Oh, and the fact
that you had to tell me it was a Black Eyed Peas reference. Thanks
babe!
Prologue – I really did help
Gabrielle and Jonathan move into Jonathan’s house. Isn't that
crazy? I remember seeing Jonathan and noticing that he did not seem
very happy. I don’t think he smiled the whole time I was there.
We’ll just blame it on the stress of a moving day because now I
know that he smiles a lot. Thank goodness our second meeting went
about a thousand times better than our first sighting. (Ed. Note: I was watching all the stuff come out of a small apartment and fill my house and had visions of Hoarders running through my head.)
First Date – I made you wait a whole
2 days! That’s really not very long if you think about it. I have a
life, a job, friends…maybe I was busy and didn't get your message
until the next day. Plus, this was my last two weeks of eHarmony and
I honestly was looking forward to my subscription expiring. I put
myself out there, I tried it, and I was ready for a break.
First Date...for Realsies – Good job
with the 8/27 date although I’m going to tell everyone that you
only know the date because I wrote it down on my calendar and told
you what it was later. Just keepin’ it real!
I laughed out loud at the “six miles
while carrying puppies that were rescued from a burning building”
comment. It still makes me laugh. I can totally see you saying that,
even though you didn't know me well enough that day to actually say
it to me. Although in hindsight, you should have because I would have
swooned for realsies
I still can’t believe I was the one
who suggested we continue our walk. That is so not like me! Normally
I consider a first date to be decent if I don’t look at my watch at
all during the first hour. It’s a really good date if I
make it to nine o’clock without thinking “have I stayed long
enough to make this a respectable date and can I go home now ?”. I
don’t even think I had a watch on me and I probably would have kept
walking if I hadn't been getting blisters. It was that good of a
first date …and we only talked about nerdy accounting stuff for
probably one mile.....maybe two.
September – All I can say about
September is that Jonathan was right, my September would have
completely stunk if I hadn't met him. Every time I talked to him, I
felt like the bearer of more bad news. I still can’t believe he
volunteered to come over and walk Cooper with me so that he could
listen to me talk about a variety of fun topics: Rangers,
Afghanistan, military books I had read, hospice, death, funerals, my
grandpa, and the very exciting (not really) work trip to Ministry
Development. It was good for me to see very early on that he didn't shy away from tough situations and all the walking and talking really
gave us a chance to get to know each other on a deeper level.
Fortunately, we've been able to do a lot of walking and talking
since September and have had much more fun and light-hearted topics
to discuss!
My dad gave me this comic that sums it
all up from Cooper’s perspective:
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| This really is a perfect comic for us |
So it’s a win-win-win!
(Ed. Note: Love you, Sommer! Sexiest guest writer ever!!)
