How I met the Love of my life

So since this is my blog I have been thinking that I should not only write about our everyday lives but also how we got here. So I thought I would start off by talking about how I met my husband. Lets go back to 2000. I was 21 and working as an administrative assistant for a recruiting firm. I went out to lunch one day with my sister and my cousin who also worked for the same company just in different offices. So this day we met up at Arby's. We order our food and sit down. Suddenly (as I am sure I had a mouth full of curly fries) this guy (my husband, only I didn't know it then, who was 31) came to our table. He was flirting with me and actually was the manager of the restaurant. I was in a relationship at the time (another story that I may never tell) so I didn't think too much of it.

Okay now fast forward a few months. A friend of mine was working for Arby's (a different one) and we got to talking one day. I was talking about my office job and how boring it was. She suggested I come work with her and see if I liked it. It started off as just being a weekend job for fun. Well within a month I was hooked. I decided to quit my office job and start working full time for Arby's. Crazy huh? Well, it paid off! I was addicted I loved the fast pace and the craziness. I loved all the people and my job all together. Within 2 months I was promoted to Assistant manager. For those of you thinking its Arbys why did you leave your office job, well 2 reasons...it paid more and I was sick of sitting on my bootie!

Anyways, during all this time I was worked my butt off, Jim (my hubby) was now working as the Area Supervisor for about 7 Arby's restaurants, mine included! I would see him here and there and we flirted for sure (again I was in a relationship and so was he).

Fast forward a few more months and at this time I was breaking up with my ex(and so was he with his ex only i had no idea) and actually the same day Jim has a meeting for the managers that I had to be at. After the mtg he wanted to chat with me. We start talking and he asked me how I am doing and I tell him that professionally I am doing great but personally not so much. He tells me to call if I ever need anything. A few days later he is at my store working. We worked the whole day together. When my shift was over, we walked outside together. We were just talking and talking and then it got awkward. He said he had to go so we both got in our cars and drove off. I couldn't stop thinking about him. I wanted to talk more. I pull over and call him, only I had never called him before. I never knew the number. I have seen it briefly at the store on a contact list and I totally remembered some and guessed the rest. Well thank God for my photographic memory because I got it right. He picks up and I say Do you know who this it? He says yes, when his phone rang he pulled over cause he knew it would be me. We decided to meet up. We went to the Metroparks and talked (ok we talked most of the time) until 5am! Since that day we were inseparable. Three months later I quit my job (we weren't allowed to date because he was my boss), and I moved in with him. And that folks is how I met the LOVE of my life!

In case you wanted to know.