Nikki

Back in 2002 when I first started in the whole "social networking" thing and was trying to find "friends", I was told about some chick that lived in Johnson County (The JC as I like to call it) and that she was really cool. I checked her out and noticed she had more friends than the cast of Jersey Shore has diseases (yes I know, I will read this years from now and cringe because they are so 2010), so I opted to not "friend" her as she was so popular in that little online world.  After all, she probably gets guys all day wanting to "friend" her and I would be just some another dorky guy trying to friend (aka: hit on) some local hottie.  So I dismissed my initial interest.  A year or so later we met again when I commented online that one of our mutual friends resembled the dancing blonde chick from the old Imodium AD commercial.  I even posted the pictures from the commercial.  She thought I was funny, and how can you blame her. A couple years later she started to hang out with the Poker Night crowd here in Independence that I would attend weekly sessions with. She showed up for a BBQ one day when an out-of-town friend came visited, and she also attended a Halloween Party in 2004.  So we knew each other online and in real life for quite some time.

Fast forward to 2010.  She is going through a divorce with her husband of 15 years.  They have a teenage boy.  Things are looking bad.  She said she is going to move out and would like to move to the Missouri side of the state line. In case you didn't know, the Kansas City area is pretty much on the KS/MO state line and Missouri side of things is generally cheaper.  Not only are things cheaper but the Poker Night people are in this area and it would make it easier to hang out with us.  She checked on apartments, townhouses, etc but to make a long story short, I had a spare room and gave her a place to put her blowup mattress, 10 tons of clothes, couple pieces of furniture, and hooked her up with internet access. This was April 2010. I have only had two roommates in my life, both were guys. I never had a female roommate but I grew used to it.  She cooked, cleaned, took care of the dogs, etc.  That was nice.

As things progressed in the roommate situation, and given my weaknesses as a male with a hot roommate, after the divorce and all that, lets just say that things happened and we became a couple.  A few months later on New Years 2011, I proposed.  Yes, Yes, I know...what the fuck are you thinking!? But I have known her at that point for seven years as a friend, and probably five of those as a close friend.  I have no regrets. She is the best thing that has happened to me.  I never thought I would find love, and not that I was really looking for it.  But nevertheless it found me. She is the love of my life and if it wasn't for diarrhea and television we never would have met.

Speaking of television, we both enjoy a fair amount of TV shows together that we both get into such as Survivor, Ghosthunters, Deadliest Catch, CSI, and The Mentalist. And if nothing else is on, we tune to Investigation Discovery and make fun of all the people who think they are so smart, kill their spouse or boss, and get caught because they left a receipt behind that shows they bought duct tape, rope, bullets, and gasoline the day of the murder. She has her own shows she watches that I have no interest in but because I'm such a nice guy I let her DVR them.  We don't really share the same interest in music, as I am a devout metalhead and she digs chick music. But we can both agree to listen to the 80's channel on DirecTV or on SiriusXM in the car.  We also both have gone to see Hank Williams III in concert at least 3 times.

We were both ex-military around the same time.  I was in the Marine Corps, and she was in the Air Force. We're both Conservative Republicans with Libertarian leanings and we are both of the Christian faith.  We have a lot in common.  It is not out of the ordinary for us to say the same things at the same time, we finish each other's sentences, and we have had the same dreams at the same time.  It really is uncanny.  Why she would ever want some shlub like me I'll never know.  All I can say is that I am the lucky one here and wound up on the winning side of this relationship.  For some average guy in high school and adult life, I finally end up with the popular hot chick that most guys can only dream about.  Nikki is my dream come true and the love of my life.

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