So... you've never met her in person?

Sometime in the Octoberish era of 2011 a string of blog comment emails, as they tend to do, turned into g-chatting. I didn't really know who this chick was, but she was funny. And we seemed to see eye to eye on a lot of things.

Following my natural trajectory of meeting people on the web (ahhem, boyfriend), it should really come as no surprise that she quickly became one of my best friends.

Fast forward to a few weeks back when I casually mentioned going to visit LT as we were chatting one day. She immediately pointed out the close vicinity of LT to her. Queue the great big 'finally meet at long last' plans.

Saturday morning LT was getting ready to go to work and I was getting ready to meet Whitney for the first time. He didn't know that. Non-bloggers don't get it. I had always referred to her exactly as what she was, my friend, not as "some chick from the web" or any other equivalent. He knew we met through blogging, and after brushing his teeth he stood there puzzled, deep in thought. "You've never met her in person... have you?" he finally uttered. A grin spread across my face. "All the best relationships develop that way, don't they?" He gave me a goodbye kiss and with the most serious face told me to be safe. Silly boy.

Not long after my phone lit up. I headed down the hotel stairs into the bright Maryland daylight and there she was posted up against her Equinox like some sort of Clint Eastwood movie. It's so funny in retrospect. We hugged, said FINALLY! and hopped into her car to chat the entire drive to DC, like old friends.

LT text me a few hours into it, confirming I wasn't cut up dead  in a dumpster. I eased his worries and we carried on. She drug me all over Gods great East-Coast earth the next two days, leaving me with souvenir shin splints as I hobbled onto my plane at the Baltimore airport Sunday night.

So funny how paths collide in this crazy world. Let's just hope it doenst take another 12 months for ours to cross again!

Aly's blind date

(I borrowed this picture from her blog so I could save it in my phone along with her number, under CLASSY ALY)

Last night, Aly's blind date saga continued. I swear if she doesn't stop meeting people off the internet I'm going to have to start lecturing her about the safety concerns!

Lucky for her, her blind date was with moi! Not some hairy 67 year old named Stan. Although I did offer her a game of backgammon which she politely declined.

If you follow her blog, you'll know that I was nervous. She had fun proclaiming my nervousness. Hey I'm not a good first-time-meeter-greeter, I panic and start overthinking! Whatevs.

I was almost late because I couldn't tear myself away from the dressing room at Nordstrom's (minus 2 points for me) and had a heck of a time finding her at our table-- the girl is CRAZY SKINNY! I'm talking, we had a single vase on our table and I couldn't see her on the other side of it... (ok she may have paid me to say that part but really.... she was every bit as lovely as the pictures she posts on her blogaroo!) -- we had a nice little chat session, did a little blog gossiping, and devoured a delicious dinner. Although I'm a bit disappointed because our waiter switched our leftovers... so my yummy rigatoni is somewhere in Aly's fridge right now, sad that I won't be enjoying them this afternoon for lunch!

So... you think maybe she'll ask me on a second date?? Or will she dish about what a horrible addition I was to her dinner... guess we'll have to wait and see!