Although I have talked about Aaron in my previous posts; I wanted to take the time to do some more talking about him…what can I say – he is one of my favorite topics of conversation and there are many good reasons why.

Aaron is without a doubt my other half, my soul mate. He is has driven, focused and dedicated to his passions and dreams as I am to mine. He has the smarts, wits, ambitions and enthusiasm to accomplish anything he wants. He is funny, caring, sweet, romantic, and quite open minded. He is loyal, confident and passionate. He has an amazing smile, kind heart and tough edge all wrapped into a currently 6’3”, 240 pounds gorgeous, sexy and muscular body.

I say currently when describing his body type because one of his dream is to become a professional body builder. One purpose of his trip back stateside – actually what was the main purpose until he got out of his car in New Orleans and laid his eyes on me again, was to network and grow his center of influence in the health and fitness/body building circle.

He did quite a good job at it. Prior to even arriving back stateside he was in contact with Erin Newman – Associate Editor, Weider Publication discussing his July TalkBack feature. His conversation with Erin escalated to her wanting to do more stories on him because of her interactions with him. Aaron is genuine, respectful and humble in his interactions with people.

Aaron is a big guy – a lot of people like to point that out to me; as if I hadn’t noticed…with one arm he can pretty much stroke my entire body which is quite nice and way too much info for this blog post. But, what I really want to get across is that what you might imagine him to be after looking at him in his posing trunk/under wear is a surface (almost full surface) look at a person who is extremely deep.

I’ve been misjudged many times. Most people have seen a pretty face and were later surprised by my depth…the very same is true of Aaron. Fortunately, I felt and recognized his depth when I laid eyes on him. Being his equal as allowed me to see a great deal more of him than what most people have seen. Having my equal now in my life had brought me so much relief and joy.

I not only get to be myself with Aaron but I also get to start stretching who I am again. I obviously love, respect and admire a great deal about Aaron, but above all, what gets me the most is his support, and encouragement for my own dreams and ambitions. He is 110% behind everything I want and desire. He is more than willing (and able) to be by my side so I can achieve all of them.

Women of my generation struggle quite a bit to find men who are not threaten, taken back, or turned off by the ambitious “go getters” that we are, so I know I am blessed to have found Aaron.

He gladly did the dishes, cooked dinner(s) (one meal for dinner doesn’t cut it for him), cleaned up the house, and took out the trash all last week and I have no doubt that will continue. Laying back on the couch watching TV or playing video games is as foreign to him as it is to me.

Aaron is in this relationship (soon to be marriage) to be an equal partner and to have an equal partner. He wants to be part of my dreams and make me part of his…granted being part of his dreams involves posing in a bathing suit for the world to see – nothing like a little added pressure.

You can find Aaron all over the web on various social networks because he jumped right in to learn the things I do and know about. He’s a quick learner too. We have different interests and many of the same. We have no problems learning from each other and teaching one another.

We want and desire the same things…things that most people in this world fear to desire. We’ve both been tested by more than what an average person can handle and no matter what happened to us; we decided it was better to have a positive outlook than a negative one. We both have faith, an open mind and strong beliefs in life being all that we want it to be.

Aaron is who I ask for from God to come into my life. I waited a long time for him and we both traveled our own journeys in our lives to be at the point where we are now ready to be together. Aaron made some extraordinary leaps in the last three weeks that have blown me away and have left me in awe of him. I love the fact that I’m in awe of him.

If you are out there looking for love – don’t give up on it. Be clear on who you are and what you are looking for. I won’t do so in this blog post, but I can trace every step of the way that has lead me to Aaron. All the changes, self-realizations, self-acceptance, and wake up calls I needed to get to who I am now, the person ready for a new chapter and growth spurt(s) professionally and personally to be lived with Aaron.

Last weekend was the most amazing weekend of my life but before we get into that lets back up a little. On December 12, 2008 in the blog post 21 Days Till I Know, I introduced Aaron to you and how I felt when I first met him. Than on January 9th, I wrote about my Heart Break. I didn’t write about Aaron after that but the trust is, it wasn’t over.

It took me a couple of weeks to get over the sting of what happened January 3rd/4th but I was seriously still bothered by it. I fell in love with Aaron the moment I saw him and my gut told me he was the one for me. How could my gut have been so wrong? That question started haunting me. The more I asked the question – the more my gut yelled out at me that I hadn’t been wrong.

I reached back out to Aaron in February sometime and we embarked on a friendship. We found a new freedom to be ourselves and for me to help him through our friendship. He started to let me in. The entire time I was clear with him that I still wanted a relationship with him and he was clear with me that he still wasn’t ready for a relationship.

In April I was starting to drive myself crazy going back and forth with my needs to have more from him; with my needs for him to open up more to me. We had one conversation where he angered me so much that I unleashed a lot of what I wanted to say to him. He quickly snapped back and started opening up. Around that same time he let me know that he was coming to New Orleans and bringing his mom with him.

When he arrived to NOLA on May 15th at 1240am, got of the car and gave me a hug; I saw a spark and smile in his eyes that I had expected to see back in January. I played it real cool (of course).

We got closer and closer throughout the weekend. He left New Orleans with the knowledge that we do belong together. I was blissfully happy after he left but I was clueless about how much he had finally realized. It didn’t take long though for me to find out because Aaron opened up to me and began sharing his feeling for me and with me.

I drove to Daytona Beach for Memorial weekend to be with him again…and that is when I got to experience the most amazing weekend of my life. Being with Aaron is one of the most natural, comforting, pleasant, exciting and fun time.

I grew to learn and took the time to discover exactly what I wanted in a man and specifically what I wanted my relationship to be like – being with Aaron is all of that and more. We laughed so much, opened up to each other, laughed some more, and explored who each of us is and who we are together. I also felt right at home with his family. Everything about us is completely natural. It flows perfectly.

The man I knew Aaron was when I laid eyes on him – is exactly the man he is plus more. He’s amazing, fabulous, sweet, caring, funny, genuine, intelligent, modest, easy going, intense, driven, ambitious, and passionate. He’s my equal, he holds the ability to push me, motivate me, and inspire me. Actually, he already does all of that; we do that for each other. I truly admire him. He has the capacity to achieve anything he sets his mind to do and there is much he wants to do accomplish.

He makes me feel like the luckiest, most beautiful, sexiest, cherished and appreciated woman alive. He gives me all the precious gifts of love, admiration and care I have been aching for and wanting while not undermining the strong, independent will I possess. He is not threatened by me at all. Our integrations are effortless – by that I mean the fact that we both have strong, alpha personalities – our personalities melt together and we float across the dance floor completely in step.

He sent me an email earlier this week after reading the post I wrote April 5th – Consciousness Catching up to My Unconsciousness.

What I mentioned before when we chatted this morning, it had to do with an article you wrote, “Consciousness Catching up to the Unconsciousness”. I know I’ve apologized already for what I did but I’ve felt the need to tell you again. It hurts me to know I made you feel that way. To know I did that to my soulmate, my love, my best friend – you deserve to hear another true, sincere apology.

Having you in my life now is so refreshing and exciting. You make me want to open up and find my true self, the one’s who’s been hiding for years. The best part about it all, as I do this you’ll be right there by my side seeing me experience these new things.

You are such an amazing woman and such a huge part of my life. I hope you were able to see that in my eyes and in my heart this past weekend…just how much I love you.

I love you babe, with all my heart.
Aaron

He is on his way back to New Orleans to be with me again this weekend. We went from saying our goodbyes last weekend, to finding a way to spend at least one last night together, to him coming to spend another few days with me. You could say that we don’t want to be apart from each other!!

I’ve been on cloud nine for the last three weeks. I am his, and he is mine. We’re waiting for him to get a job offer in New Orleans at which point he’ll move here with me and we’ll move in together.

Some folks have asked “Isn’t it moving kinda fast between you two?” I reply, if by kinda fast you mean my falling in love with him within the first ten minutes of knowing him than Yes, but if you mean him moving here to be with me – definitely not; I’ve been waiting over a year for that!!!

Burning the candle from both ends is really wearing me out. It would be one thing to work a regular job, but it’s a whole other thing to be working a job that takes me on the road and requires a lot of coordinating.

As you know from reading the last few blog posts I’ve written lately, I’m jumping through hoops to get two sites online and a new company started. Well one site is on track and on Saturday I had lunch with someone interested in working the independent sales position I’ve been looking to fill – but, we’ll get back to that.

One of the biggest challenges in the last two weeks has been with the company I hired to get the Yut Media site and blog done. Well last Wednesday, because of family issues, the company in question dropped my project all together. Leaving me in a jam to find someone else to wrap up the project and still make the deadline. It wouldn’t be that big of a deal except for the fact that I was jumping through hoops at work trying to get everything organized for the conference I’m currently in New Orleans to attend.

I managed to link up with another company to get a quote to finish the project – the same company who designed the Tickets with a Twist site. Only really annoying part of working with this company is that they are in Croatia and PayPal DOES NOT service Croatia. To get payment to them I have to use Western Union.

So by the time we settled on a quote for what needed to be done; I was already on my way to New Orleans. I got up at 3:45am yesterday morning to catch a 6am flight to get here.

Now, pause for a second. In the mean time, on Saturday I had lunch with an interested party in the independent sales position for Tickets with a Twist. The lunch meeting went well and I was going to get info back to him when I got home on Saturday…except when I got back my email wasn’t working.

Yesterday, once I got to New Orleans, the running around began. We had to get a booth setup and I needed velcro which had me running around town to find. I also started trying to find a Western Union location. Found one but their system was down.

Than the Aide to General Williams called me to confirm he was attending the award ceremony on Friday and would be staying overnight…which meant I needed to find the General and his Aide each a room for Friday night. I also needed to arrange with the conference people a VIP seat for the banquet for the General.

I realized I forgot my cover for my uniform and I also forgot to forward my work emails (usmc.mil email account). This meant I needed to contact everyone to give them an alternative way to contact me.

Today I got multiple other calls for things I need to workout and I have been unable to get an email out to the General’s Aide with the information she requested – I ended up typing all the info on my BlackBerry because for some reason that’s making it through to her.

I still needed to get the Western Union money out so that we might miraculously still be able to get Yut Media site and blog online on time. Since I’m not home in Virginia the tracking of a new location to send money from began. I looked up Western Union locations online and one was at the Harrah’s Casino which is right across the street from where I’m staying.

I went there but they only receive money…can’t send money out. They did however give me other locations to go check out, so I started wondering Canal St to find them. I went to two different stores…both of which only accepted cash and were not the best of places to be in. Walking back to the hotel it annoyed me that I’m here in New Orleans and not home…where it would be easier to do this simple task.

Finally, I came back to the hotel and tried my luck sending the money online…it has failed all other times I’ve previously tried but I gave it another go. It took a call to my bank and a call to Western Union but I was able to get the money to where it needed to go.

Now I need to head to the convention center and ensure everything is running smoothly over there. Not sure what awaits me and I’m not looking forward to finding out. Did I mention I need to get a speech ready because I’m one of the speaker’s for the Youth Luncheon on Thursday?

I have to make sure a Gunny Sergeant is picked up from the airport today, the General’s room is reserved and find a better vehicle to go pick him up with on Friday. I have the Corporal from his office finding out for me exactly where to pick him up and what time.

I hope things start coming together with less hassles. Just having email working properly would be a huge step in the right direction.