The Prophetess, or How I Learned to Stop Hating Valentine's Day

[EstimatedProphet]

I've spent just about all of my Valentine's Days alone, and I always hated VD-which is what I called it. One year I threw an Anti-Valentine's Day party, featuring table centerpieces of roses with blooms cut off, boxes of candy with a bite from each one, Valentine's Day cards torn in half, smashed candy hearts, and a Valentine's Day bear used as a pinata.
I really hated Valentine's Day, and always felt lonely and worthless. Most years I would just avoid people as much as I could until it was over. Anyway I digress...

I met the Prophetess after being on the west coast for 2 weeks for meetings, during which the US decided to invade Iraq regardless of the feelings of everyone who is not a lackey of the Bush Administration. I had just flown back into town, and I logged into AOL IM on my phone, and i got a message from a good friend to swing by, because she had a couple friends visiting from out of town. It was midnight on a Sunday, and I had to work the next morning, but I figured why not, who needs sleep anyway. I brough along a bottle of Ciclon for good manners.

I met up with my friend, and she introduced me to her friends. One was a Deadhead (which was of course cool by me), and the other started talking to me about all sorts of things-sex (she's pretty forward about it), politics, Michael Moore (he won the Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine that night), life in general...the next thing I knew it was 3:30 in the morning, and we had talked all night and mostly ignored everyone else! I've only rarely met people that I have hit it off with so easily. Everyone that meets us says we're like bookends because we're so alike in the way we see the world. She's the most unpretentious person in the world-she is exactly as she seems. After having tried to date for years, and having met a succession of drama queens, I can't say how refreshing it is to find someone who is what they say they are.

We lived in different states, but we worked that out. We got together every weekend as much as possible while we were relatively close (5-6 hour drive). I moved much farther away, but we worked that out too, and met up at least once a year. She was able to stay with me last summer too, and we got engaged while she was visiting. Now we've solved the distance problem-I moved in with her a couple weeks ago, after resigning my job. I have faith I'll find a job here, and this way, we're together.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. That's so sweet!

Good luck to you guys!

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[redqueen]

2. Awwww... you're so lucky...

Congrats to you both!