How much?

It reads: I love you more than all the stars in the sky. Love, Tony

The One

It reads: You're my one & only

Love, Tony

He Says Some Funny Stuff! (this should make you chuckle)

Ooma definately has a sense of humor. I love that we can laugh at and with each other.

TEASING EACH OTHER

TK: I need to run to the store and get more coffee if you're coming over and something for dinner. Oh and deodorant so I don't scare you off. And air freshener for your butt.

Gahlee! Holly: guess we could both use air fresher...MAINLY you and the dogs...I don't really fart

TK: Oh whatever

TK: Your rotten farts could kill

Gahlee! Holly: I'm rubber you're glue..

ON TRYING TO KEEP ME PLEASED

TK: I may fart in bed accidentally but I'll try not to

TK: And I think were doin fine as far as staying in budget. Maybe even buy u some week old tulips from the dollar store if u behave

TK: Sometimes I buy gifts for the hell of it tho

TK: Not just birthdays

TK: Specifically gas station flowers or hucks wine.

TK: I also buy cheeseburgers when mcds is running a special.

WHEN HE BABYSAT MY DOGS

TK: Chaos totally farted

Gahlee! Holly: hahahaha

Gahlee! Holly: probably you

TK: Nope heard it out her ass

Gahlee! Holly: she made a noise!?

Gahlee! Holly: hahahaha

TK: Yup.

Gahlee! Holly: are they behaving?

TK: Yes

TK: They want a cat

ON HIS CHARITY PHOTOSHOOT

TK: Well no photo shoot naked. I've got to wear clothes. Bastards

TK: I'm a piece of meat

ON FRIENDSHIPS

Gahlee! Holly: you know what’s become a tradition with AJ and I? We go to each other's hair appts just to visit with each other..isnt' that sweet?

TK: Aww Me n Jared talk on the toilet when we are poopin.

Gahlee! Holly: THAT'S BROMANCE

JUST PLAIN SMART

TK: I'm not gonna call u tubby cause I'm not goin there ever!

ON CAREERS

TK: Always go to the bathroom to avoid the boss!

TK: Snuck past the boss n he has no clue. It's cause I'm in my camo work uniform

TK: Eat more broccoli. Fart n scare off ur boss, stinky

ON DATING

TK: Ha ha. You'll never live it down. Blonde, pretty = trophy.

TK: Hell I had to buy that car just to get a date w u!

TK: We could at least pretend ur using me for my car

(PUBLISHERS NOTE: He sure has some interesting theories…and I told you guys about that beloved car of his.)

ON BEING HATEFUL (not to me)

TK: Fridays are my dick days

TK: Go slam ur foot in the fridge

TK: ima dick like that.

TK: Squeeze me and I'll fart. Touch me and I'll throw up.

TK: U should gargle thumbtacks so no one has to listen to u complain.

TK: New cf WOD. Strap 2 concrete blocks to ur feet and jump in the river. Amrap bubbles for time. 3.2.1...go!

TK: Quick! Grab ur scissors and sprint down main st.

TK: Go pick ur hemorrhoids n sit on a rusty fence!

...then he found me

Ooma posted this song on my social networking wall a few weeks after we started dating. He would tell me (and still does) that before he met me, he'd been on numerous dates with other women: that he was dead inside and never thought that he would find or deserved love again, but I have awakened all those feelings that come with love, and he no longer feels numb.

Falling Deeper

I received this note in my lunch box after spending Mother's Day weekend with his family.

It reads: I'm in love with you more after this weekend. You're my everything and I can't be happier, unless I stay yours. I'm so lucky. I'm yours.

Love,

Tony

Thinking about the Future

Ladies can relate to this probably more so than men. In most, not all, but most cases where relationships are involved, the woman is the planner and the event coordinator. Am I right? Plan a vacation, she researches hotels, flights, itinerary. She makes sure everyone is where they need to be when they need to be there, whether it is a sporting event, catching a plane, meeting, dinner date, Dr. appt, etc...She keeps up with the finances and or bills, and she plans dinner.
Well ladies & gentlemen, I got myself a planner/thinker! He thinks so far ahead sometimes that he has little fits, because he overwhelms himself with hypothetical things that may not even need planning. Mostly, and for the sake of this blog, his planning is nothing short of impressive. He plans his meals for the week, yes I said week. He is one of those people who has everything laid out the night before. To be perfectly honest, he likes to try and have any available options or  possibilities considered and to be prepared for any situation.  Anyway, I thought I'd share with you some tid bits of our conversations on planning and preparing for the future, since I couldn't post a picture of my lunch box love note today, due to a camera malfunction. When the wheels turn, they are turning way in advance. Understand, with these conversations - some were genuine discussions and some conversations are where we're just having fun with each other (yet still leaving things up for discussion). None of these truly outline the thinking he does on "us." These are just mainly to keep my daily posts alive (entertainment), and give my readers a glance at our personalities. I have reason to believe that he spends a lot of time thinking about our future. Needless to say, I can appreciate a man with a plan!

ON A POSSIBLE FOREVER

TK : I'm gonna quit buying booze I think. I think it'll make me a better athlete and I won't give into eating bad. Plus I want to save $ for us. Now that we are a solid relationship I need to think abt our future. Time for me to stop screwing around with ours. I bet I spent 100 on booze thus wkend n that could go to other things I don't piss out.
TK : Maybe I'll b healthier too. Almost got beat by Willie today.
Gahlee! Holly: almost doesn't count
Gahlee! Holly: unless it's horseshoes or hand grenades
TK: I tied him. That's bs
Gahlee! Holly: I know you're elite and so do you
TK: I could b better w out the do-nothing-juice
Gahlee! Holly: u could.
Gahlee! Holly: i won't argue
TK: 100 xtra a week is a nice ring after a year.

ON HAVING KIDS (tauntingly)

TK: Hmm. Or we could just skip the whole thing n borrow nieces n nephews
Gahlee! Holly: right.
TK: It would b the same and if u love em enuff they'll take care of u
Gahlee! Holly: how about this, we start a KID Savings: we put money away and if we have kids, we are prepared, if we never have kids, we spend the money on US - traveling and toys and lavish fun...and old ppl care
TK: Or. Save the amt of $ a kid costs every year and invest it. We'll b rich!
Gahlee! Holly: yep!
TK: So I'll get my nuts cut. Then we start saving

ON SAVING FOR A BIRTHDAY SHOPPING SPREE

TK: Ok. Our budget is 100 bux a weekend for entertainment n eating out. This oughta set us up for ur birthday and keep me from spazzing out about saving $.
Gahlee! Holly: DEAL
(PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I didn't mind this one bit...a shopping spree for me?? Honey, we can pinch anywhere to save for this ! He's quite the lil budget er)

ON MY UPCOMING HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (not really planning, but still thinking about the future - I just thought this was funny)

Gahlee! Holly: you should read the email I just got about you
Gahlee! Holly: "you have to keep him around for our 10 year reunion, youll have the hottest guy there...just sayin'!!"
TK: I'll b fat by ur reunion
Gahlee! Holly: why do you say that?
Gahlee! Holly: it's next summer
Gahlee! Holly: we're not getting fat!!
Gahlee! Holly: maybe temporarily at some point, I will..but we will not get fat, do you understand?
Gahlee! Holly: you and I will be fit and healthy for life
TK: Prolly
Gahlee! Holly: prolly to what part?
TK: Healthy for life
TK: Tho I do like candy

ON PREVENTING ARGUMENTS

TK: I'm trying to think of a way to avoid conflict w u since it bothers u so much.
Gahlee! Holly: you really are a good man
Gahlee! Holly: it helps that we talk it out, but I hate the part that makes us have to "talk it out"
TK: I'm trying to b a good man. I'm not the best.
TK: I think a big part is my approach to u
TK: I'm a talker.
TK: It's complex how I interact. I need to write it down.
TK: U have to know my thoughts hon. I have to b open.
Gahlee! Holly: and I think we are pretty open
Gahlee! Holly: I know I've never been MORE open
Gahlee! Holly: I tune you in to all my thoughts
Gahlee! Holly: it was misinterpretation and frustration, and unloading on the wrong thing/person -- I'm sorry for yelling and upsetting u
TK: I just need to figure out how to prevent my own reaction that way

ON OUR SUMMER ITINERARY!

TK: We need to plan the summer
TK: Or at least the month
Gahlee! Holly: geez, you ARE a planner, eh?

Should I?

So, this weekend, Ooma (object of my affection) follows me around while I'm pulling weeds in the landscaping, then later while I'm prepping dinner, and again as I'm getting ready for bed in adoration as we both sometimes find ourselves doing to one another, and he tells me several different times how wonderful I am, how infatuated he is with me, and that I should be his girlfriend. I play along and play hard to get with him, just a little, but I can't help but kiss him and his adoreable attempts. I found this in my lunch box today. By the way - he calls me Oomi (object of my infatuation).
It reads: I love you! You should be my girlfriend nest year too.

no explanation needed

It reads: I love you with a smiley face. (using shorthand symbols)

This is one of Anthony's sweet reminders to me.

The Lunch Box

Drive time between Anthony's and my house is approximately 35 minutes. We have a mutual arrangement where we take turns staying the night at the other's place, maybe not back and forth, but an equal balance to where not one person is fully responsible for using all of his/her gas and not one person has to wake up extra early all the time to make it to work.
He and I are both physically fit, and only eat certain foods, Paleo to be specific. With that being said, we bring our lunches to work to ensure Paleo specifications. Anthony has this very large lunch kit and his gym bag that go with him just about everywhere. He packed and brought his lunch to my house one of the first nights that he stayed over. Being the romantic that I am, while he was in the shower, I seized the opportunity to share some of my feelings in writing and secretly placed the note in his lunch kit for him to find the following day...I suppose that's what began what I like to call the "Lunch Box Love Notes."
I didn't have a lunch box. I had this sturdy, bright green, plastic bag from DSW (yeah, a shoe warehouse) that I had been using for possibly a year (making it not so sturdy for much longer). You see, I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan, and he is an Indianapolis Colts fan (I'm from TX and he is from IN). He'd been joking with me about buying me a Colts lunch box, knowing that I would never carry it.  My handy and well recognized bag was about to see its last day in the office. Soon, it was my turn to stay at his place. He has to leave a few minutes earlier in the mornings than I do in order to train his early Crossfit class and then get to work. He came to kiss me goodbye as I was getting dressed, and he said "Your keys are on the counter next to your coffee and don't forget your lunch (which he'd packed for me before retreating to bed the night before)." When I was ready to walk out the door, I made my way downstairs to grab my things. There on the counter just like he said, were my keys, coffee, and my lunch. Only, my lunch wasn't in my low standard bag. He'd replaced ol' faithful with a spiffy, insulated, Igloo lunch box. Come the 11 o'clock hour, I would find my first lunch box love note. Not to worry, no sign of Colt's propaganda ;)

Up to Speed

Anthony and I met on an online dating website. The website didn't even suggest that we were more than 56% compatible...in fact we had an enemy percentage of 26 according to the comparisons. On this particular site, you could browse a list of the people who had recently visited your profile, and I took full advantage of that capability. The 3rd day after signing up on the site, I was browsing through my "fans", and there was Anthony. I don't want to sound conceited, but most of the guys that had in fact looked at my profile had also messaged me after doing so...except for this one. Naturally, I was curious to know why, so I boldly emailed him asking him why he hadn't done so. I got a shocked response from him saying that he'd intended to, but when he came across my profile it was 3 AM (he obviously hadn't known that you could see who had visited your profile). We started talking via IM and shared our social network URLs, so we could further investigate one another. Needless to say, there was approval on both ends, and we arranged a date for the upcoming Sunday.
Our first date was very unconventional to say the least, which in my opinion is what made the date. He came to my house on Sunday (surprisingly, I was not reluctant to give him my address). Our intentions were to have a car washing date. How this came about you ask? Well, as we were discussing weekend plans, I told him that I would be in Nashville on Saturday, but we could do something on Sunday, because the only thing that I had planned was washing my car. That's when he jokingly spouted "you can wash my car." Little did he know a Texas woman has no problem doing such a thing. So in turn, I surprised him by saying, "bring it." This was a perfect opportunity for him, because little did I know he'd just bought this brand new sports car, paper license plates and all, which he couldn't wait to show off and "pick up" a lady with. (Of course he likes to think that's part of the reason he won my heart - and it's not at all, but if it makes him happy to think that, I will let him think that.) He pulls up, and I was JUST getting in from Nashville. I wasn't dressed to maximum potential. I had just driven two hours, so I dressed comfortably for that, sun roof open, hair blown, and I knew I was about to wash cars so naturally, I wasn't accessorized or dolled up, hence feeling a little less confident than usual. However, he assured me that I was a "doll."
We washed the cars, then of course we both needed showers. I was comfortable letting him shower at my house (he lives 32 miles away), and he had no problem with it either. Remember the term unconventional that I used earlier? Not only did we meet at my house, wash cars, and shower, but I also had him take my "before" pictures (which involved me putting on a bikini and standing ever so awkwardly for him to see all of my flaws and body fat) prior to me starting a workout program. Oh wait, there's more! He took me to dinner. Then after dinner, we watched a movie and he gave me a back massage where he gently kissed and caressed my back, but never crossing any "lines." I would venture to say that kissing one's back on a first date, however is a bit daring...but it must have been provoking on my part, not wearing a top...err..Don't judge us.
Since that day, we've rapidly fallen head over heels in love with one another and have pretty much been inseparable.
This brings you up to speed and ready for the next post!