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random talking :) and how i met blake ;) very cute story

i really love this website! <3 i would like to know though if anyone is at the base in Charleston for the Nuclear school, and if they will be there in April/May/June.Im excited and nervous at the same time me and blake have never lived far away from home? How do you meet people once you get to a new base? And i know this is weird but is there any Culinary Schools near the base in Charleston?
Im really excied about getting married though it is what i have wanted for a while now...you know that love at first sight...that kinda sorta happened. Me and blake met at church through a then mutual friend not anymore.... :/ argh lol anyway it was September 20, 2006, i had just gotten my braces off that day and had gone to church with a friend. when i got there i saw this guy, i never heard his name the whole time we were there. A group of us decided to go to IHOP to eat and on the way to the car i asked my friend what his name was, she told me his name was blake. We got there and i ended up sitting right in front of him i was so excited..then i thought he is too perfect for me he is either taken or is older than im going to be able to date. Well we talked only to each other the whole time except when one of our mutual friends decided to down the strawberry syrup lol. I found out we both love Karate, he was a Georgia Fan and i was Tennessee, he was 18 which at that time i thought thats it i wnt be able to date him :P, then found out he had a girlfriend i thought damn i knew it!! well we ate and my friend at the time asked me if it was ok if she found someone else to take me home because she was going to her house which was in the other direction than i needed to go before i thought about it i said yes, then i relized she was going to ask Blake. She of course did and he said sure. i was excited and angry all at the same time. He was perfect for me and he was taken, and i had never had a boyfriend or first kiss first date, nothing! So i was really pissed off, for lack of better word.But in a conversation that i later had with that friend she said God has a reason and one day he will put the perfect person for you in your life when he knows your ready for it. So we walked out of IHOP and too his car, a white firebird i forgot what year. Then i loved the car i thought it was very hot lol :) anyway he took me home and that was it, we didnt talk a whole lot on the way home it was funny and the car ride was so awkward( i cnt spell to save my life) But a couple of weeks later i saw him again at church...with his girlfriend, that was a knife in my heart, but it didnt keep me from flirting :) haha but anyway after that in October someone had told someone in my family that he had given me a ride home and told me to tell my dad..and i didnt they were. Which i didnt think it was a big deal the girl i was friends with had known him for awhile and after i started dating him found out so did the whole church! But when i told him i got yelled at a lot and GROUNDED FROM CHURCH who gets grounded from church i thought parents would encourage that? Anyway it wasnt until December did i see him again at the girl i was friends with bday party. I didnt know he was going to be there :) which i liked a lot because i could use as an excuse later but never had too lol. Anyway he didnt get there till like eleven because he had to work, there werer about 15 people there? maybe more anyway we all went into her living room and watched Wrong Turn well one of our friends hated scary movies and really couldnt watch them so she went to another room...and of course she was the only person between me and him and so far we hadnt really talked a whole lot i didnt think he remembered me but i had been sarcastic earlier when they were playing with bottel rockets and told him he was going to catch himself on fire ;) but she left and i had to scoot over because the couch was PACKED we were all sardines lol but we started talking then he started tickling one of the other girls there he was friends with and she begged for help so i started tickling and pinching him he finally let her go lol. But i didnt even know if he was still dating the same girl or someone else he never said and i never asked. At this point i was still not able to go to church which drove me crazy! But i was able to go on the 14 of January ( i remember dates really well the party was december 19 :P) anyway i was so excited the night before i couldnt sleep, i had talked almost all day with my friend at the time and she asked if i wanted to spend the night with her and i did which meant could go to church the next morning! well we got up and got ready and went. I never told anyone i liked him, not a soul. As soon as we pulled in the parking lot i looked for that white firebird...i didnt see it but Oakwood is a really big church so it wasnt suprising, we went in to the youth building and i looked again i found him and got a huge knot in my stomach. Now backtracking the day before that on the phone i was talking with the friend and she had mentioned prom well i still didnt have a dress or anything else. And she had mentioned that Blake wanted her to find a date for him because he had gone the year before and loved it (he was homeschooled so never had his own prom) but i said i doubt my dad will let me go with him. But at church she asked him about a guy she liked if he could take her then whispered in his hear that i needed a date! my face turned so red and i was so embarrased. The next day was Martin Luther King and we didnt have school later that day she had called and asked..." Is it okay if i give blake your number? he asked me for it but i wanted to check with you first?" without sounding too excited because i didnt want her to know (she would have told him herself) i said sure why not. " you dont think your dad will care?" i dnt know and besides im the only one who ever answeres the house phone? My parents are divorced and at the time i hadnt talked to my mom in 4 years...but anyway so she called him and told him then called me back, and said so how do you feel about him, i said what do you mean? Well do you like him? I had a very long pause and thought about it...and said, yes yes i do a lot. she said well i think he wants to do something on Friday with you! i was silent screaming and running around my room i had never been happier in my life. She said i think he will call you tomorrow. the next day she called and said he couldnt because he had to work. i was so disapointed. then she said i know he is going to ask you out at church can you ask if you can go? i did and my dad said yes i spent along time trying to figure out what i was going to wear. But wensday came and i went with her after school until church started like i had done before. well she was texting him and then he called her they talked then she said do you want to talk to Whitney. My eyes got huge and i just looked at her and mouthed no no. well he said yes and she handed me the phone. we started talking and talked the whole time until church began. His voice was sooo sexy on the phone lol and still is ;) It was January 17 a wensday (duh) and me and here sat in the parking lot waiting...and waiting until i saw that firebird come around the corner, my stomach dropped all the way to my little toe. One of her friends came out and i got out of the car to talk to him. It was frezzing! now for those who dnt know the nw ga area it gets cold very cold in january lol. and we were standing outside n the almost dark...and i left my coat at home. so i was shaking like leaf on top of being nervous and he said are you cold? i you can have my coat i said no im fine as i was shaking and my lip was trembling...we talked until the service and by that point i didnt think he would ask. after it was over i went to the bathroom while i was gone he asked Sabrina where i went and she told him. As i was coming back he was coming down the hall and no one else was in there...and he said "So are you doing anything Friday." i said" no y"
"well i was wondering if you would like to go watch a movie or something?' um sure but i have to ask my dad first, as i tried really hard to contain my over joy! so after that i couldnt eat the rest of the week it was impossible i probly lost ten pounds from that.But me and and four other girls ate in a teacher of ours classroom because she didnt care..and it wasnt cold out there it was outside.But they all thought it was cute my first date lol, we are all the same age and same grade. But Friday came and i went out but not before my dad met him...O for the love of God why does he have to meet him was my first thought he is never going to want to date me after this, i had warned him all week about my dad and how there was no mother and no one else but him at my house. Well didnt go as bad as i thought it would have lol but i wore my orange swearshirt that said hollywood on it and my favorite jeans that made my butt look good! I scrunched my hair and put on just a little make up enough to matter i had decided that he should like me the way i am not dressed and made up...i dnt do that everyday usually its glasses jeans and before i cut my hair pony tail and that was it. And he seemed to like it like that, we went to Ocharlies and to see Stomp the yard at the movie theater it was fun! in the movies i had my hand setting up on my knee the whole time screaming HOLD ME but he didnt until...the last 15 min of the movie and he slowly crept his hand over kind of tapped mine i quickly flipped it over so he could hold it and he did till the end of the movie...and all the way to the car and wrapped his hand around my waist but that was in the parking lot lol. On the way out he looked and me and said is it hot in here because im burning up!! I laughed really hard and he took me home and walked me to the door and held my hand the whole time :) the next day he had to work so we didnt get to do anything but i went with my friends to see another friend at her new job at the mall. And all day i was with them and so worried i wouldnt get to talk to blake :0 well he called Sabrinas phone and i told him i would call him when i got home. i got there around ten and we talked until 2 to 215! it was great and i really miss those long phone converstaions between us. But we talked about prom and that night at Ihop and Sabrinas party he did remmeber me and very well. He said that he always forgets names(still does) and that he remembered mine very well. He also told me that when we had met his first thought was i wish i didnt have a girl friend!! i laughed and said well i thought the same thing lol. Well then i told him that i had never had a boyfriend or a first date, or a first kiss etc. he said well can i ask you a question i said sure what is it. he said well can i be your first boyfriend? i would love for you to...and we have been together ever since and that was January 20, 2007 i was still 16 then and blake 18 now we are 18 and 20. Our second date was my first kiss and the night he used the worse pick up line ever! He had pulled over on this road in the Chickamauga Battelfield (ironic isnt it) but then he started to kiss me which led to making out...and it was great iloved it lol :) but then he stopped and looked at me and said are you tired i said no y and then...Because you have been running through my mind all day! i laughed so hard at him. then in April we said love you for the first time right before prom. We had gone to church and he had brought me home on the way he said i had a really good dream last night..i said really what...well i dreamed that we were in a church that my parents got married at and aaron was there (friend and still friend of ours) and Sabrina and two other girls wearing pink dresses and he asked do you know where this is going i said yea i think so and i thought he was talking about Sabrina and Aaron no...well then i saw you come through the double doors alone in a beautiful white dress. My heart dropped again. I saw us getting married. i was smiling from ear to ear and i know my face was red. when he dropped me off it just seemed like he had something to say but didnt. I went inside and called Sabrina and told her, she said i know he already told me about it. I said Sabrina i think about him all the time, then she asked do you love him? i said yes i know for sure i do. Then tell him? im afraid what if he doesnt feel the same way about me. Whitney I promise he does! Then he called me and said i have something to tell you, what, im afraid to tell you because i have said it before and it didnt last,o well i have something to say too?, well you go first, no im afraid too, ok lets say it at the same time?, i...ok.., on the count of three 1-2-3 "I love you" it was so cute and so sincere. Now here we are two and some change years later here we are getting married and making that dream he had come true! it really seems so surreal like it hasnt happened the very funny thing is is that he had told me then he had thought about some branch of the military. i had told him i couldnt do that i couldnt live that life if you did that we could not be together. And here we are getting ready for him to go to basic and a move to Charleston? O the things i do for that boy? what makes it all really special is that we both decided to wait until we were married to have sex, so both of us are virgins and are even more excited about our wedding than most lol. But it is goign to make it all the more special and i can hardly wait!!! So there is that long winded story too and im pretty sure thats all i have. But writing this one made me smile and cry at the same time, we have had really good times and some really really bad ones but we still love each other and our together so we made through that and we sure as HELL can make it through his basic and a school compared to other stuff we have both dealt with for the past 2 and a half years!!
I love him and no matter what always will he has my heart and soul forever and the statment that Sabrina had said 2 yrs ago came true God knew i was ready for what i had longed for and he put the then perfect boy in my life at the perfect time, and although i didnt want him to join i will never regret it because it is helping us get married quicker than we would have without it, also from what i have read im inherting not only his 3 brothers but a huge family and support in this..so too all you out there thanks so much for your advice it has really helped me settle my strees and all the tears i have cried. And even though i will cry like a big big baby when he leaves i have the rest of my life too look foward with him ;)

Im hoping that he will do what i want to do and get married two days before he leaves that would be on a friday and he leaves on a sunday, that way we can spend two nights together in marital bliss until he leaves and with our wedding make letting him go easier. Even though some might not think so you have to know me to understand why i feel like this.But this way we both get our church wedding i get to be his wife before he leaves. it win win deal lol
So now im done lol but i love to talk if you couldnt tell lol and would love to talk to anyone who has been in the beginnig of this before my myspace is http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=396947204 and email me at woverturf@gmail.com

:)

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Comment by carols_kitchen on October 27, 2008 at 11:17pm
Hi
I have a hard time reading without paragraphs, etc. So I have just skimmed this.
check out Spoleto Festival from May 22-June 7, 2009
http://spoletousa.org/2008.php
Also, there are 3 Culinary Schools in Charleston, but I would even check with your local high school guidance department for their take on which are the better ones with a good reputation. Just google culinary schools in Charleston.

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