Anniversary

I feel like writing fluff today.  Sometimes you just have to write some fluff.

My boyfriend and I have been dating for five years as of two days ago.  It's a pretty big milestone.  I've now spent five years of my life attached to this person, someone who I'm not legally or genetically related to.  

I met him my first week of college.  I'd never dated anyone before.  I had a few guys I was friends with and one guy I thought maybe something would happen with, but I just wasn't that girl.  Guys just didn't like me, or if they did, they didn't let me know.  I didn't know how to flirt, I didn't know how to let people know I was interested without coming across as a weirdo, and I overall had a bad time in high school.  I'm sure being unhappy didn't help the situation.

Anyway, I decided that college was going to be different.  I wasn't going to be interested in boys.  I was going to focus on doing well in school and making friends.  I would leave college with a great group of friends, girls I would be friends with for the rest of my life.  I would reinvent myself, be a happier person, and I'd walk away from the unpleasantness of my hometown.  Then a week in I met my boyfriend.  We started off as friends, and he actually worked up the nerve to ask me out.  Side note: he asked me to go to a dance with him and I totally didn't get that he was asking me on a date.  I thought he meant as friends, he meant as a date.  I really was clueless!  I'm such a ditz at times!

So we started dating and things were great.  Then things got really hard after a year.  We struggled.  A lot.  We came close to breaking up, and then decided to work things out.  I blame it on being young, stupid, and because neither of us had really ever been in that type of relationship before.  We both made some pretty big mistakes, and we somehow managed to pull it back together.  We gave it another try, and here we are, four years later still going strong.  I don't know what I would do without him in my life.

It's funny but he's been the one constant.  Regardless of having a relationship, I still worked to make friends.  And my girlfriends changed every year.  I just couldn't find a group that I clicked with until my last year at school as an undergrad.  I'm very lucky to have the friends that I do, but the girls I figured would be consistent weren't for me.  My teachers changed.  I changed dorms.  I changed jobs.  Everything was always in a state of flux, just not him.  And he stood by me during my entire search and reunion.  I couldn't ask for a better guy.

It was a big step for me to give him the blog address.  He knew about the blog for sure.  I told him about it and how much it was helping me to deal with things.  He probably thought I was a weirdo but he's cool so he didn't say anything.  I think a lot of the time he just lets me go off and talk and waits for me to stop.  I'm annoying like that! :-)  Anyway, it was huge for me to actually point him in the direction of this blog but I did.  And I know he reads it sometimes.  And I know he ignores it for large chunks of time.  Thank you Google Analytics!  But he's been super supportive.  And I love him for it.

For our five year anniversary, we decided to take a vacation together.  We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast, something I had never done before.  I had a great time, and it was wonderful to spend time with my boyfriend after not seeing him for nearly three weeks.  I'm really hating this whole long distance thing but that's another post for another day.  We went on a whale watch, had a fancy dinner, went shopping, bought art, and hunted down Dunkin Donuts.  Pretty epic weekend!

I asked him about his nickname.  I told him to pick a movie title that started with R.  Turns out one of his favorite movies is Rudy.  So Rudy he is.  I was leaning more towards Rocky (a favorite movie of ours) but he asked for Rudy, so Rudy he will be!