Long Awaited Update

Wow, it's been a LONG time since I've updated this.  I'm really not half as good at record keeping as I used to be.  Perhaps I'll make that one of my New Years resolutions...  Everyone's favorite, right?  Anyway, there's only a million things that I could talk about...  The semester as a whole, folk dance, tap, Thanksgiving, Sam's wedding, coming home for Christmas, plans to go to Boston for New Years, Julie...  But let's be honest here, I know you guys, and as much as you all care about whatever fun things I'm involved in and what I'm doing, the thing that everyone wants to know about is if I'm dating someone, who she is, what is she like, how much do I really like her?  Right?  Well, I'm also pretty sure that most of you who read this will at least have heard about her before, wither it be from talking to me directly, facebook or talking to someone who talked to me.  But in case you forgot, Julie's from Pennsylvania, she's an Elementary Education major at BYU and we were in the same ward last year.    She's a lot of fun, loves to laugh and has a beautiful smile.  She's one of those people that is always smiling and is just genuinely a happy person.  She prides herself on her hugs.  In fact, she's had to teach a few guys how to give proper hugs (in her opinion, side hugs are not acceptable!).  She's very sincere and you know that if she gives you a compliment, she means it.  She can also be stuborn, especially when it comes to not believing half the compliments I give her.  But don't let her fool you, she is as loving as she is beautiful.

Now, I'm sure that most of you are wondering what our back story is.  Like I said, we were in the same ward last year and she was best buds with one of my room mates (the only other mostly sane/normal one).  Towards the end of winter semester, I was getting a little tired of my friends not doing anything and started hanging around Julie more often.  It didn't take me long to realize that aside from just being a lot of fun, she was really stinking cute too and I was starting to like her.  Unfortunately, I came to this realization just before finals, which means she would be leaving for home really soon.  You all know how intelligent I am when it comes to girls, especially when I'm starting to like them.  So what do I do?  I hold her hand and kiss her just a few days before she goes home (it still makes her mad when she thinks about it because that was exactly what she told herself she wasn't going to do).  We talked and decided to try the whole long distance thing.  I went out to visit her over the 4th of July and had really fallen for her.  After I got back to Provo, I could tell something was up with her and after asking her about it she said she needed to figure some things out.  A few days later she called me and we broke up.  It took me a while to feel ok talking to her again without feeling weird or awkward about everything, but by the time I saw her again when school started, I thought I had moved on.  We hung out a few times and I didn't feel like anything was awkward (not exactly her opinion).  But when she came over to my apartment one Sunday afternoon, I realized again just how beautiful she is.  I tried to convince myself that it was over and in the past, but a few weeks went by and the more I struggled to not like her, the more inevetable it seemed.  Conference weekend was the worst.  I knew that I really liked her (not sure if it was again or still), and I was pretty sure she liked me too, but we already tried a relationship and for whatever reason, it didn't work.  Well, I had decided that I was going to ask her to reconsider a relationship.  After going back and forth, making up her mind second guessing it and dealing with utter confusion, she decided to just do what made her happy.  There's a lot more to all of that, but I'll spare you the details.  As you all know, I have a way of taking a short story and make it long.  But considering that there is a lot to this story (some of it public knowledge and some of it more personal) I don't feel like I have rambled too horribly much.

But there you have it.  That is the (relatively) basic story of how Julie and I got to where we are now.  I would put up a really cute picture of the two of us, but neither of us are wonderful at taking pictures, so we're kind of lacking in that area.  And I would post just a picture of her, but she firmly believes that almost every single picture of her is hideous.  But since this post came after much proding from her ("Your sisters update their blogs, why haven't you even touched yours?" Etc...) I will leave the responsibility of finding a suitable picture to her (reserving the right, of course, to choose a picture of my liking if she does not provide one in a timely manner).  So there you have it, that is what has been occupying my mind and my time these past few months.  I hope you all feel informed.  :-D