Brandon Gets to Say Something!

Hi everybody! This is the other half of the inseparable duo who has been separated for the past 2 weeks. To anybody who does not know much about me, I am ... At best, I can say that I am many things. I am a machinist by trade, (for those of you underendowed, I work with metal and I form it and cut it and make parts and parts for machines that make parts to make the world go 'round) a amateur radio operator for fun (long live HAM RADIO!), an RC car enthusiast, a carer, a philanthropist, a missionary, a THINKER, an OBSERVER, a LOVER. Just to stop myself for a moment, I also need to say that I have acute ADD and like to ramble off into tangent or tranquil subjects at any moment. You've been warned! I am many things, but to one person, I guess I am her everything else that God is not in her physical life. I don't know how my Pookaru (my nickname for Krysti) can feel that way, but she does. It's all so weird how we met and became friends. It seems to be the one thing that everyone asks us and we always seem to look at each other with that "oh no, here we go again" look as we are embarassed to tell people how we met through our friends, but we really met online! Yes, we both spent some time on dating sites looking for that one person in our life that we needed. But we can both attest to one thing: it does not make a difference how two people meet when God is the driving force. So we chatted a little online. At the time, I wasn't so sure about Krysti and I actually went out on a date with somebody else who was closer and the timing for a relationship really wasn't right for me at the time. The seeds for a friendship were planted though. Time went by and through weird circumstances, our best friends started dating and we met each other for the first time at a Christmas cantata at her best friend's church. More time went by for the both of us but Krysti was always persistent to keep in contact with me through e-mails and one day I finally asked her out. Well, if you ask her, she'll probably tell you something different, but I asked her to go bowling, and she said yes. After we set up a time to go, storms came through and our first date got delayed for 2 weekends and I felt awful, feeling that Krysti might think that I was giving her a cold shoulder. We went bowling on a Friday night, September 12, 2008. She wore her "good butt" jeans and I bowled. I'm a good bowler. I have a plaque that says I bowled a 275! Anyways, we had fun getting to know each other and the bowling ended with a freshly refilled mountain dew falling out of my hands as we walked out of the alley. HAHA. LOL ROFL CAT! We ended our first date with me being introduced to just about all the sisters of the Kappa Zeta chapter of the Phi Mu sorority. To top it all off, as I left to go to my truck, I extended my hand offering a handshake when she wanted a hug! Can you believe that she fell in love with me?!? Well, what can we say? She is my first and only girlfriend, and I am her first and only boyfriend. We both waited over 20 years to meet each other, and things are working out. I've rambled on for quite too long, but I will be posting more memories of Krysti and me as I get the time!

"A happy man marries the woman he loves. A happier man loves the woman he marries."