Let me tell you a little story about how Jesse and I met…

In Dec 2010, I put my big girl panties on and bought my first house. I was so excited to be living on my own and had accomplished a big goal by being able to purchase my own home. This was my first time EVER living by myself. Before this I had only lived with my parents or my oldest brother.

Fast forward ONE whole month, We had a horrible snow storm (horrible by STL standards), I was working for a bank at the time, the day of the snow storm I had to have my stepdad pick me up from my house and take me to work (he had 4-wheel drive, I didn’t). Well, that was one of the slowest days I have ever had at the bank. The manager ended up closing the bank early due to the snow still falling the the road conditions getting worse. So my stepdad came and picked me up and took me back home. I had nothing better to do other than suit up and brave the cold and try my hand at shoveling snow.

While I was shoveling snow, I had a neighbor (who I had been warned about being a weird) was chasing his dog down the street, he stopped to ask “How do you like your house?” I told him I liked it, then he asked “So, do you have a roommate?” Ummm, that’s not really any of his business… I thought about it for a minute… (Single female living by herself). I said “Yep, I sure do.” Then he asked “Is your roommate male or female?” REALLY!!! I told him “male?” (Sounds right to have a male to protect me, right?) So needless to say I was done shoveling snow and was officially creeped out!

So in telling my cousin about it, he said you know what you really need to get a gun and learn to protect yourself. He said call Jesse, he will gladly teach you how to shoot. Jesse is my cousins best friend.  So on January 22, 2011 Jesse came and picked me up and took me to Town & Country Gun Club to teach me how to shoot and help me pick out a gun. I was SOOOOOO nervous, going to shoot guns with a guy I did not know. We had a BLAST. He started me out on a shotgun and then he let me shoot all the handguns he had. The conversation flowed like we had been friends forever. (Mind you, we were facebook friends but I don’t remember him. He was the best-man in my cousins wedding and was out with my cousin one evening at the same place I was but I didn’t remember him.)

 

I knew that day that Jesse was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with… It wasn’t that easy though. I’ll save that story for another day.