the daily wave

eight years ago i was a sophomore in high school. i found out through a mutual friend that a guy i had met in study hall the year before had told her he had a crush on me. naturally i was excited and shocked because i didn't really think i was anything special (i hadn't learned how to do my eyebrows yet and i had braces) and i'd never had a boyfriend before or anyone asking me out for that matter. plus he was HOT! so i put my amazing stalker skills to work and figured out which classrooms he was in at certain periods through the day. i discovered that he had a class down the hall from my locker when i went to switch books for the day.

i was a big wimp and shy in those days so i was too scared to go up and say hi to him. so in an attempt to be coy and flirty, i made sure he saw me and then go to my locker and walk back down the other way of the hallway and just before i turned the corner, i would turn around and wave to him and then he would wave back. i thought i was a genius and that eventually he would come up and say hi so that i wouldn't have to make the first move.

this went on for weeks with nothing! i was almost to the point of giving up when i decided that i would have to be the one to make the first move. so, i wrote him a note asking him if he knew how to snowboard because i had really been wanting to know and maybe he could teach me?? i left it on his desk in his first period class before he got there and had butterflies in my stomach all day waiting for the next time i would see him at my locker. so the time came and i went to my locker and he had left me a note inside my locker saying yes! i was so excited i didn't even notice him and his friend walk up to me and i about had a heart attack. he asked me when i wanted to go and i was so shocked that i could barely talk. but i managed to get myself together and we made a date.

i dragged my friend lee ann along because i was too scared to go by myself and he brought his friend ben. we went on our first date january 16, 2003 to mad river mountain. it almost didn't happen though because he showed up an hour late! but he did show and we had a good time and at the end of the date i got my first kiss. i was in heaven.

eight years later i'm still kissing this same boy, a man now, who can still make my heart flutter. even though we've had our ups and downs and haven't stayed together the whole time, i know we were meant to be together. 

i want to use this blog to tell my stories, worries and hopes. people have always told me that i'm a good writer and i believe that too. i'm much better at communicating this way than i am through speaking which frustrates me sometimes. but anyways, even if nobody else reads this, at least i will have some of my favorites stories from my life written down so i will always remember.