January 10, 2024 was a normal day at the bank for me. I was in my office working on something, when a coworker came in and sat down to chat. It started out small talk , but then there came the dreaded question..."Katie, I have something else I wanted to talk to you about. Are you seeing anyone?" If you know me, you know I have always despised setups. It leaves a middle man and if things get awkward then you have to continue to see that middle man and have to pretend nothing happened.

So I answered the best I could to try to talk my way out of it. "It's complicated, but no not exactly." He then proceeds to tell me all the usual..."he's perfect", goes to church, family man, likes riding in WV, golfing, the list goes on of all the perfect qualities. But of course that's what the middle man always says. I keep trying to talk my way out of it, but he insists he's one of the good ones. So I ask if he has a Facebook and look him up.

He didn't have a whole lot to go off of on his Facebook, but he seemed ok from what I could tell. I thought about it for a minute and since I wouldn't be working with the middle man much longer, I finally gave in and told him he could tell Joe to add me on Facebook if he wanted and we would go from there (mainly so if he was a creep I could block him and not have to worry about him having my number lol). I went and told my work mom what I had done and was like I doubt anything will come of it but we will see.

To my surprise, there was a friend request waiting for me the next morning when I woke up. I accepted but didn't figure there would be much else right away. Surprisingly, a couple hours later I received a message. We chatted for awhile until he had to go to work and then he said he would message me the next morning. Figured that wouldn't happen...wrong again. lol And this time it got real.

We chatted for a bit that morning then he asked "So if you're not busy would you be interested in getting supper tomorrow night?" I agreed but was shocked because the guys I had talked to never really wanted to meet in person or take initiative so this was new and a little scary, but in the best way possible.

Saturday, January 13, he came to my house to pick me up and was greeted by my crazy mutt JJ. I couldn't keep JJ off of him. I was so embarrassed, but he didn't seem to mind and that's the first of many times I realized there was something different about this guy. We left and went to dinner, but afterwards I couldn't think of anything else to do because I'm a homebody, so he just drove me back home and I offered for him to come in for a bit as long as he was ok with dog hair. He agreed and we sat on the couch and watched tv with JJ in between ALL OVER him as if he had known him all his life. When he left he was covered in dog hair and I figured I would never see him again because I'm the "crazy dog lady". But thankfully, he asked me out again the next weekend and from that moment on he just seemed to fit like he had always been here and everything was right. The rest is history. <3

K&J