6 Months can change your whole world!!

So in the last 6 months I have moved to a new town, started a new job, finished a semester of college, won a national cross-country championship (as a coach), and met the man of my dreams and become engaged. not necessarily in that order! WOW!! Life is really good now and I find myself getting sappy and feeling all "touched" at the blessings in my life! I do regret that I didn't maintain my blog during my courtship, but sometimes when something is really good, you don't want to curse it by making it too public. My fiance' is named Paul and I met him online in June. We had our first date June 22nd and he drove up to Roanoke from Charlotte, North Carolina. It was at a time when I had determined to give up dating and meeting people online for at least a little while. I was pretty burnt out from the dating scene!! Anyway he is getting ready to make a permanent move to live up here in Virginia and I couldn't be happier!!

Election year

So there has been a change in my personal polls as to who my favorite boy is. NY boy hasn't done anything wrong, but he has not done much of anything PERIOD. Mortgage boy has been taking me on a total trip, and I like it. He's found out about NY boy and that got under his skin quite a bit. I was like "Dude! if I like him better than you then you won't want to be with me anyway and if I spend time with him, it might just remind me of how much I like you!!" He called me a player! I was totally flattered:)
In all seriousness though, I do find myself edging toward committment with this fellow that I haven't actually met in person. It's crazy, right? Except when you consider that he is SOO easy to talk to and I can argue with him as much as I want without it getting all personal and emotional. I like his fire. Choosing between passion and peace is a little hard for me.

back from the dead

Okay, so I haven't blogged in eons!! I am sure that I have left out several entertaining dating stories from the past several months, but suffice it to say that I am still in this horrendous game and I KNOW I will have many more stories to tell. I am currently juggling two long-distance relationships. Both of these guys contacted me on LDS dating websites. The first guy is someone who first contacted me about a year ago. I call him NY boy. It turns out that he was my brother's lab partner at BYU as well as my cousins roommate before my cousin got married last fall. He is a really stable, smart, salt-of-the earth guy. We went out over Christmas twice and again over Easter. His parents are in NC. I scare him. He's never been engaged, much less married, much less twice-divorced with a child. He is one of 10 kids in a great, humble, family. If he wanted to marry me, I would make it happen. He would be a perfect husband.
The other guy has been talking to me on the phone for 3 weeks and totally swept me off my feet. He's intense and somewhat egotistical. He scares ME a little. I will call him Mortgage Boy because he owns a mortgage company out in Utah. He has four kids and his divorce isn't quite final from his first marriage. He is very romantic and very forward and rushing towards marriage talk like there is no tomorrow. I haven't even met the guy. They are both financially secure and firm in their religious convictions, but otherwise they are polar opposites in everyway. Mortgage boy would be fun to have as a boyfriend and I am certain it would be a fiery and passionate relationship, but NY boy would be peaceful, secure and comfortable. That seems better to me for a long-term thing. He isn't as immediately attractive, but he is pleasant looking and isn't so into my looks as Mortgage boy seems to be. The plan is that I will fly out there in 2 weeks and then I am headed to NY in 3 weeks. Meanwhile Golf and I still talk all the time. We are best friends and we talk about all our dating adventures together!!