Happy Birthday Lesley

This is Lesley!

She's the "Cat" in Jack & Cat Curio.
My other half.
My partner in all things.

It was her birthday on Monday.
I love this woman.
We met thirteen years ago.
While she was attending college in Tucson.
I was helping put together a theater company.
She lived next door to my best friend.
The first time I met her ... I knew...

I knew that I wanted to spend as much time
with her as life would allow me.

At that moment-it scared the hell out of me.
She scared the hell out of me.

Every dare or challenge I threw out. She threw back at me.

That first time I met her I was slow to act.
I was dumbfounded.



I then spent the next six months working on getting her
back from an over zealous German physics student.
I did everything I could...
I played third wheel, I played the best friend, I crashed parties,
stole her from events, showed up at inconvenient moments.
I was bad and ruthless.
It's rumored I even stole and sold the dudes motorcycle.
“All's Fair in Love and War”

I won.

I can also thank a certain Tucson drinking hole... The "Kon Tiki" (drinks the size of your swimming pool) for helping me spark the "just kiss her effect".

A month after our first date we moved in together.
Six months after that we packed everything and
traveled the western United States for several weeks.
Came back to Phoenix re-built.
Then moved to the Northwest.
After five years we came back.
We have been thru it all.
Near death medical conditions, finances, family issues, the gauntlet of life.

The month of October for me is the month I fell
utterly and hopelessly in love with this lady.

The month starts with her birthday on the fifth and
ends with our anniversary in November.

My favorite month of the year.

I love you.
Happy Birthday!