You know me, I’m a lazy blogger, but this is important. I actually have some great news to share! Well.. great for me, anyway. You see, fine people of the interweb, on this date, exactly one month ago, at this exact time, someone who has quickly become incredibly special to me fell into my lap. Let me set the scene for you… there I am, in front of my computer watching “Everybody Loves Raymond” or similar when one of my closest, if not best, friend IM’s “Quick, Facebook, back me up!” So to Facebook I go, and there is the most amazing status about Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” sounding “alike” to Queen’s “Under Pressure”. So there’s this girl that’s commented, not quite getting the original joke, she made me laugh, I could have some fun with this! I chimed in with “I call shenanigans on Queen! That’s like, copyright infringement, which is WRONG!!”, which really got her going. So anyway, there I am, mocking this amazing fiery girl, she’s brutally tearing into me, she’s not holding back at all. I say to Jon “I think… I think I need to like, marry her.” So I post, and she posts, and Jon posts, and I post… this goes on for well over 2 hours! She was so passionate, and so wound up by that point the whole joke just went woosh over her head. Even though I had royally pissed her off – e.g. her tweet mid-arguement “I just corrected an Englishman… Dear God, the world is moronic. -.-;;” (haha), she still added me as a friend, god only knows why. She sent me poetry, and I had intended to keep the joke going, but when I read it I couldn’t. See, most girls write poetry, unfortunatly most can’t write poetry. So you end up with thousands of live journals with “I’m going to the mall with Muffy and Buffy!” and then sub-par poetry scattered throughout. Her poetry was actually good. It turned out she was working on a BA in English and had a natural flair for it! >_<

So there I am, attracted to this girl that’s nothing like my exes but everything I always pictured myself wanting. She ticks all the boxes, and then some. She’s perfect for me, but I’ve blown it right? XD It’s not your ideal first meeting! You’ve mocked this girl for the best part of 3 hours now, been turned down by her (- at which point I jokingly upped the offer to eloping in Vegas!) you haven’t put on any nice fronts, you’ve been yourself. I thought we’d just be very flirty friends. Gah, why couldn’t we have met at Jon’s wedding? Thing’s could’ve played out so differently. I could’ve had a better shot… Wrong! Apparently if you would just be yourself for a few hours, the perfect, and I mean most perfect, girl (or guy) for you will just fall square in your lap. We’re talking on facebook daily. We exchange AIM sn’s. We’re racking up an average of 14 hours a day. I’m ignoring work, friends, family for this girl. She’s engaging me on intellectual levels I’ve never reached before. It turns out we’re absolutely perfect together. We want the same things from life, and from each other. We share the same beliefs. She’s a strong woman, not a silly little girl, but at the same time isn’t against me taking care of her. I don’t have to treat her like a glass doll.Things that I thought would bother me with her, things that exes have complained about, don’t, they mean nothing. I’m not a jealous person, I don’t put girls too high up on a pedestal, I don’t have high expectations, she, my Rachel, makes me realise this. We have such a incredible combined sense of humour, twisted in it’s complexity. She never gets angry at me for being me. She bolsters my confidence. I completely adore her.

I call her – yes, I call her, nervous, shy me… I’m not nervous, nor shy with her. You’d be amazed. Why is this? How can I converse with you, Rachel, for 18 hours a day on occaision, how can we talk for so long our throats get sore, our lips get dry and not have any awkward pauses? Nor get nervous? How can we discuss our deepest depths of emotion without the shield of the internet to keep us safe?

I seem to have little time, or desire, for anything else. It’s taken all my free time and strength to sit here and write this post, which is why I’m writing it so far in advance.

We’ve completely skipped the dating stage. It doesn’t feel rushed, it feels like a natural progression of us. We’re both level headed, problems that have arisen have quickly found their solution. We work as a team, a natural extension of each other. We’re in at the deep end and swimming majestically. The date is set, we’re going to Vegas in 10 months time.

Without it needing to be said between us, this is right, this is perfect, and finally, this is eternal love.