Andy wrote the following on his blog about our first date: “So I mentioned a seven-years-without-a-date streak in a previous post. It did, in fact, come to an end last Saturday. I had a great time with Lager Lover’s friend (also his girlfriend’s sister). We bowled a few rounds and had dinner. It was the …
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Our First Date
By the time our first date came, I had seen Andy once and had spoken to him for a few hours on the phone. In spite of that, I was really nervous. He picked me up at my house at maybe 3 p.m. We went bowling because I wanted to do an activity that could …
Andy Hadn’t Had a Date in 7 Years
Andy wrote the following message on his blog just before we started dating: “I had a depressing thought on my way back to work from lunch. I realized that the last time I had a real date with anyone was almost exactly seven years ago….Well, hopefully that streak is about to end. I won’t say …
The Day We Met II: Andy’s Side of the Story
It was the evening of Saturday, December 27, 2003. I had just spent that day and the previous day moving into my new apartment from my parents’ house. I hadn’t spent a night there yet, but I was about to for the first time. Phil called and said that he and his girlfriend Katie were …
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The Day We Met
Andy and I met on January 17, 2004. My sister Katie and her then boyfriend (now husband), named Phil, were over at my house that Saturday. Phil had gotten the idea about setting me up with his good friend named Andy a few weeks earlier. (Phil and Katie had actually placed several calls to my …