happy anniversary Tai

false alarm.

Tai asked me earlier "one year ago would you have guessed that you'd be right here?" My response "I had a notion."

Conveniently enough, I checked the logs after that mini-convo and it turns out that our gchat history begins on October 27th 2008. Prior to that I had kept her up late a couple of nights on Facebook chat and was getting really sore from the interface, so I finally convinced her to be my gchat buddy on 10/27. I wouldn't say that it got off to the most auspicious beginning, but I remember how after a few days my heart would start racing whenever I'd see tai.e.d... and I'd always engage her to talk about something. Eventually (I was staying with my parents in California for a few weeks at the time) we knew that there was some real excitement building up for us to see each other again, and I got on a train back up to Seattle, and I took a cab from the train station to where she was at (I think in capitol hill?) and went back and stayed with her, and it was really wonderful. A couple months later it was christmas, and aja set her graham cracker bridge on fire, and the next thing I knew we were boyfriend-girlfriend, and fastforward 10 more months here we are, 6 weeks and 4 days pregnant.

This is all very very exciting, and while I am on memory lane, I just have one more random thing to share, largely on my mind because I've been working on the same software today. I remember one time several months before that (yes, our history is a bit complicated) when I had my head on Tai's lap and was laying on the couch and had spent several hours trying to get this google spreadsheet code to work, and I think she was reaching the point of assuming I could never actually get it to work, and suddenly I ran my program and we were sitting there watching google docs and you could see the numbers populating into each cell, dropped in by my program instead of the user. In that moment a big smile opened up on Tai's face, pleased that I had accomplished what almost looked like magic, and I just had this strong feeling of accomplishment and pride in front of her and felt really supported by her, and I can't wait for a lifetime of that feeling.