I had some really good wines in SA wine country at really (REALLY!) reasonable prices, but that portion of my trip felt underwhelming. I really enjoyed Cape Town. Very beautiful. Some of it felt very foreign. Some of it felt very familiar, like maybe I was in Brooklyn. Wine country was also very beautiful, but I might as well have been in Healdsburg, CA. If not for the wedding, an overnight in wine country would have been sufficient for me.

When I saw my PCP several weeks ago I told her about doing Whole30 and generally some of the issues I was having. Her immediate reaction was telling me to limit or avoid gluten to see if that helps. So I’m planning to try that once I’m back in my groove. She told me she meets a lot of people who aren’t gluten *intolerant* but who do find that many people find their issues clear up and they generally feel better when they avoid it. And +1 for a pillow between the legs, AND for hoping MOV got the ring. How long has it been for you two now?

Ha. I recently told BG that if he and I have an important date, I have no clue what it is. He didn’t know either. We met last summer, around early July. I’m not sure either of us cares enough to look it up, though I know we could. Meeting online I assumed he’d just be another ship passing in the night! When I think back on our first date, I feel like that guy was a different person. Not in a bad way, but I had so little context for him the first date and now he’s a real part of my life.

Even though at this point I know many people who met their partners online, the wedding I was at last week was actually the first wedding I’ve been to of a couple that met online. The groom incorporated some of their early correspondence into his speech and it was sweet. And as of right now, every wedding I’m going to in 2019 is for couples that met online. BG has a wedding in May, they met on Tinder. I have one in June and another in September, and they met on Match and OKCupid.

Husband knows our date because it was two days after he retired from the Air Force so the date kind of sticks. He can never remember what year though, ha. I for sure always remember our wedding anniversary because it’s the same as my ex and I (not wedding but dating) anniversary. Not intentional but it worked that way and in the end decided not to make my own life more difficult choosing another day just to avoid that date. I have zero excuse for ever forgetting though. Our 1 year is next Sat the 16th!
Husband and I didn’t go on a date really until we were already a couple, the whole thing worked rather backwards, so I don’t think I could ever figure out a date. The date he mentions is just the date we met but he was actually still married and I just met him, wasn’t trying to date him by any stretch. Took years before we actually got to dating, once he was divorced (not finalized yet) and I wouldn’t move in with him until it was finalized and then once we were engaged. I really made that poor man work for it in retrospect haha.

@Copa I remember I went to a wedding of a couple who met online, before it was even kind of considered ok in any which way, and I just remember it being soooooo awkward. Partially awkward because it was in a trailer like on the side of the road,(WTF) but also because everyone was talking about how they met and it was even pre AOL chat room days. I don’t even really know how that worked back then.
My ex and I met on AOL in a chat room, a bit before that was ok too…as did our best couple friend. We would just tell people we met at a bookstore since that is where we met in front of on our first date…so technically….

That’s just efficient ktfran, make sure the goods are worth the date lol.

Lol. You ladies are totally right! I also remember the first time we had sex. June 23rd. Two days before his birthday. I’ll never forget the morning after that. He was so cute.