How We Met
In 1999, I was spending Thanksgiving alone. I had to work the next day and didn't really feel like making a one-day trip up to Sacramento. That day I received an email from someone responding to my profile on Friendfinder.com. That someone was Brad. I think I still have that email. I must confess, I almost didn't respond, but I did. He was at home recovering from a bad case of bronchitis and didn't want to meet until he was sure he wasn't infectious. We emailed back and forth through the weekend sharing life stories. Then we found out we both had ICQ. After that, it was all instant messaging. In the process, we found out we lived about five minutes apart from each other!
We met for dinner the next Thursday, a week after that first email and ended up talking for about three hours. Our second date was a trip to Walmart! By that time, Brad had decided I was the one for him. I tell people that I fell at his feet – because he tripped me! I found it a bit overwhelming at first. I'd never had anyone shower me with affection the way he did and still does. But he won me over – in record time too. By Christmas I'd all but moved in with him, which is to say, I was living with him, but my furniture and most of my other things were still in my apartment. As soon as my lease was up, Brad had me moved so fast it was breath-taking! He says he wasn't going to give me a chance to change my mind. As if I would have…
Brad is old fashioned in the sense that if I was going to be living with him, we were going to be married. I certainly didn't require that step but who was I to argue? Especially when he could be so persuasive. Since neither of us had ever had a real wedding, we decided that's what we were going to have – with all the trimmings. All the details are on the Wedding page complete with pictures.
Meeting and marrying Brad is probably the best thing I ever did. THIS one is the marriage made in heaven – computer heaven even! Our union included a computer network, literally. Computer soulmates is what we are I guess. I just know that I adore him and he adores me. Our fondest wish is to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversay someday.
In 2005, my mother passed away and our family travelled to New Brunswick, Canada to bury her in the family cemetery where my father is also buried. During that visit, Brad fell in love with the area (I was already in love with it). In 2006 we sold our home in California and moved to Maine where we are now housekeeping staff to our critters.