Figured I'd try my hand at this stuff.

Where to start? At the beginning, yar? Ok, which beginning?

Let's start with how I met Mister Man, the love of my life. When my life truly started.

I used to play this video game called Everquest. Great game, the first of its kind really. A fun MMORPG. For you lingo unsavvy out there, that means Massive Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game. I had this really crappy E-Machine computer that I used to play on, with the standard video card. How did I play on that thing, I'll never know. Anyhow....

I leveled my character, Amitey, a dark elf warrior, up and up and up. I joined this guild, group of others that play the game and look for companionship, I guess, called Lex Invictus. I met a boy named Rushian. Rushian was a wizard, and a lot higher level than I. He also was in close with the 'officers' of the guild. Synnovea, the guild leader, even! He was waaaay too cool for me. Rushian made another character and named him Cygnusx-One. A blond haired bard that my character immediately fell in love with.

Cygnusx and I talked all the time. We became really close. He helped level my character Maisy up. We hung out all the time. I was falling in love with this man I had never spoken to, this character on this video game. And one day I told him.

I think he was shocked. I think he wasn't sure what was going on, but I think he kind of loved me too. You don't spend the kind of time that we spent with eachother and not fall in love. We talked on the phone. He has this amazingly sexy deep voice that I will never forget how it sounded the first time we talked. Things weren't that great with my living situation, and we talked about me coming out to California. I lived in Texas at the time.

SO! One day after work, I quit my job, cashed my paycheck. Packed up all my stuff. Went to the Greyhound station, bought a ticket. Rode the bus from Witchita Falls, Texas to San Jose, California. 4 days on a bus. With no shower. Yeah, fun. The last 50 miles of the trip I was soooo nervous, I ground my teeth the whole way. By the time we got there, my jaw hurt.

I was set to arrive at the bus station at 5:20am. We were 10 minutes early. I had changed on the bus to some clean clothes and tried to 'freshen up' as much as a bus bathroom allows you to do so. The 10 minutes extra I had were awesome because I had time to actually brush my teeth and wash my face before he showed up.

I sat down on my bags waiting for him. He was almost 5 minutes late. Was he coming? I was the last person waiting there. A car pulled up, and in walks a tall, thin man. Was this him? Who else could it be? It had to be him. I didn't get up from where I was sitting. He walked over to me...mind you, I had never even seen a picture of Will. We had only talked on the phone, half a dozen times. He smiled at me, and said "Chell?" I smiled back and stood up, and asked "Aren't you going to hug me?" He pulled me into his arms, and we embraced and I felt him shaking. He was as nervous as I was!

And so began our life. I didn't, at first, plan to stay forever. I don't know what I had planned. But here we are.