Blind dates don't have the best reputation. I have been on my fair share of awkward, horribly awkward, and just plain creepy blind dates. The first blind date i ever went on was when i was 16 years old and little did i know that deciding to go on the date was the best decision i ever made. I agreed to go on a double date with my friend Emily and her current love interest, Shaun. He wanted to fix me up with his cousin, new to the whole dating scene, i nervously agreed. They picked me up; my date did not come to the door, so i slipped out the door thinking well this guy is going to be a jerk. I hopped into Em's jeep and there he was, my date. Shaun introduced us, "Phill, Meg, Meg, Phill" still a little unsure about this random kid sitting next to me we took off to the park, and my infatuation began. We climbed on top of the picnic bowry and did all sorts of random things, quoted Brian Regan for like an hour. Then we headed over to Shaun's house, we made a fort and watched Cars. When the date was over i was in love. (Or so my 16 year old mind thought). We hung out randomly throughout that summer doing equally random things and had our first kiss at the drive in movies after Transformers (July 14, 2007). I was crazy about him. When school started up again we went our separate ways.
"Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone."
After two years of never speaking, we randomly strike up a conversation at 2 a.m. on none other than Facebook (thank you Facebook) and that progressed into more communication, until finally one day, Mr. Phillip Brandley manned up and asked me out on June 1st. Thank heavens he did. We had our second-first kiss on our second-3rd date (haha) June 15th 2009. Not long after we became inseparable!
Phill told me that he loved me on October 11, 2009, and we have been on an endless adventure ever since.
On September 28, 2010 he was called to serve in the San Bernardino California Mission. He left on December 1, 2010. We wrote each other the entire time he was on his mission it was a different and awesome experience to have a relationship through letters.
"True love doesn't mean being inseparable, it means being separated and nothing changes."
Phill returned home on December 6, 2012 and nothing had changed. We were engaged by February 10th and sealed for time and all eternity on April 27, 2013.
~The Grand Adventures of Meg & Phill~
