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This is Tyler. 'nuff said. hehe just kidding!
I met him through an online website called AmIHotorNot.com (now www.hotornot.com). When the service was new, members could post their pictures to have the public rate them on a 1-10 scale. I was originally apprehensive about putting my picture up for public ridicule (saying the male audience that attended my high school didn't seem very interested, I didn't want to know what the rest of the internet thought of me). But as a gag I decided to go ahead and do it. Also as part of the services, members could make an optional "Meet Me" profile in which the user could click "yes" or "no" to match with the other person. When two people match they were then able to send anonymous emails back and forth until they decided to tell the other person their contact information. I was lucky enough that he clicked "yes" 3 years ago, and we have been talking ever since.
 Though it was over a year and a half before I saw him again, I still felt the same as I did from day one. He had earned the title, "my unattainable" because I knew he was what I always wanted, but felt that I could never have. I couldn't believe that he had as strong of an interest in me as I had in him. Our time together was cut short, but we still had a fantastic time. And I always dreamt when I would see this mysterious blue-eyed wonder again.
He came out to Vegas to visit me in October of 2003. Though in reality it was only the third time we had physically been in the same space, over the past 3 years we spent many-an-hour on the phone talking about the world and our problems. Over time I have learned you can indeed get to know a lot about someone even if it is just over the phone. I am the queen of long distance relationships, and friendships, and even though those relationships didn't work out in the past, it wasn't because I didn't feel like I knew who they really were.
Tyler and I learn more and more everyday that we want to be in each other's lives, and not forever this far apart. I can't wait to see him again, even if it is just for a minute, and I look forward to the day when we no longer have to wonder when our paths will cross.
"I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die.
Till the sun grows old,
And the stars are cold,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold."
--Bayard Taylor, "Bedouin Song"
December 2003
I went back to Denver to attend my brother's graduation from college, and in order to spend more time with Tyler I extended my trip from 4 days to a week. I wanted my family and friends to meet him, get to know him as a person (not as "Jill's boyfriend") and see what I see in him and the potential of our relationship. Overall, I think the trip was successful in that respect, everyone who met him loves him, and only wishes us the best in our endeavors. Here we are... in our matching black leather trenchcoats, and boy do we look snazzy. hehe I love it.
He is my equal and my opposite. He understands my passion for theater, and he believes in me. He is my companion. I wouldn't give him up for the world.
Aren't we just so cute?!?!
February 2004
Tyler came out here to celebrate a late Valentine's Day during the last week in February. He came to my classes with me, and believe me, it made classes more entertaining... While he was here, we enjoyed a few really nice meals at Kokomo's (@ the Mirage), Top of the World (@ the Stratosphere), Rum Jungle (my fave restaraunt @ Mandalay Bay), Carrabba's, and I think that some of the best meals were the ones at my apartment that were followed by falling asleep while watching movies. We had these pictures taken at Photomania, but unfortunately it did not scan too well -- you get the idea though --. We had an awesome time messing around at a trick art museum which is at the Stratosphere. It was buy-one-get-one admission, so it only cost like $5 for BOTH of us! I had my digital camera with me, and so we got a few pics posing with the trick art. Cheap entertainment is fantastic! I had a great time while he was here, and I cannot wait to go back to Denver next month for spring break to see him again. He hopes to move out here in May or June, and that's when my world will really turn upside-down. I think I am finally ready for that.
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