My activity on this website took a nose dive around June 1st of 2014... A project I broke ground on in early 2013, all came to a head in the second week of June and shortly after that I began a slow and painful process of down cycling from a hectic work schedule.
Imagine, pouring yourself into something - for 18 months. You put your life on pause to work on the biggest project of your life and then in the span of 72 hours, the grind in your life is gone.
Work is still hectic, but its no where near the break neck pace that I was running at. For the first time in my life, I was overwhelmed with an indescribable fear. I spent thousands of hours, determining the "next" few steps and I never thought about what life after my project would be like.
Local artist, Mitch Clem - captured our likeness. Water colors were done by his fiancé Amanda
I'll never forget driving home one day and sitting in my apartment before 7:00 PM. The place felt foreign to me... I hadn't been home in time for supper in months. I didn't know what to look for on TV and the pets took up residency at my parents house because I worked around the clock for nearly half a year before the conversion.
Then... when I least expected it. An opportunity of a lifetime came along in the form of a special lady by the name of Rhiannon.
I met Rhiannon at some point in 2013, but she didn't work out of the home office. She's been with the company I work at for nearly 10 years, so I was surprised to meet someone with a tenure of that length - nearly 3 years into my work life at my place of employment.
I didn't know very much about her... with the exception that she was very attractive and unusually tall and fit. I received an email from her last year asking for help and I noticed that the background in her screen grab had an Alabama Crimson Tide wallpaper.
I replied to the email, with instructions to correct her problem, but I set my wallpaper to an Auburn Tigers backdrop. My intent was to get a rise out of her and hopefully begin an email exchange that would allow me to talk to her thru a medium I felt most comfortable in...
My plan was sorta foiled, because she informed me that I was dead to her and no longer her friend. Rhiannon has precious, fuck all time for people who pledge their allegiance to Auburn.
I replied by email and explained that I was only kidding around... her response was short and we didn't really talk again for over a year - in person or thru correspondence.
As my project neared completion, Rhiannon was stationed near the war room we set up for the Go Live Weekend. We struck up a number of friendly conversations during the downtimes and we discovered a number of similar interests. The most important thing I discovered was that Rhiannon was both single and residing again in the city of San Antonio.
We agreed to go out for drinks after work one night and we spent the entire evening getting to know one another. We closed down a bar and then we drank on my patio until the sun came up... without getting into the topics and themes we discussed that night, we both felt a deeper connection to one another.
Before I knew it, a formal courtship took place... we went out on a number of dates, that strung into spending weekends together and we slowly announced our relationship to friends, family and colleagues.
The ride has been an incredible one... we happily live with one another and for the first time in my life, I find myself in relationship that reciprocates feelings and thoughts in the way that I always dreamed of doing one day with a person I can spend the rest of my life with.
Needless to say... I've been busy keeping this incredible thing going Bruh.
There will be more soon. Very, very soon.
-aCr-