Since we had our first date on Mac’s birthday, I decided to send him two different care packages in March. We spent our first date splitting a pepperoni pizza Monday night special that set Mac back less than $10, so the first (for our anniversary) is a pizza care package. Tragically, I have yet to find…
March 27, 2012, saw us recreating our first date with Digiorno. We’re classy like that. Only a few short months later, we celebrated our wedding. Whoot. Then it was off to our Outer Banks honeymoon. Football season rolled around, and we headed off to Blacksburg for another game. We also drove to Pittsburgh for that…
April 26. One month to go. Yikes. In just one month, I’m running 13.1 miles. For fun. Cue internal screaming. I ran almost 7 miles on Saturday. I was doing pretty well (for me, averaging around 15:30 minutes a mile). I stopped to reset my playlist and mileage counter, and then I felt the blisters….
Anniversary #2 was a long distance one. Mac finally got Skype set up, and we managed to video chat once a week until he came home for R&R in July. We did some speed wedding planning and took our engagement photos. Mac headed back to Afghanistan to finish out his tour. One of my friends…
Shortly after our first anniversary, I managed to convince Virginia Tech that they should give me a diploma. Suckers. Or I’m the sucker because I’m still paying for it. So Mac made the 1000 mile journey back to Virginia. I moved out of my sorority house and continued my job search. I flew down to…
We met on a Saturday night in March of 2009. We hung out for the first time on Wednesday, were dating by Friday, and went on our first date the following Monday. We spent pretty much every day together from there on out until Mac commissioned in May. Mac’s first assignment was out in Fort…