I have been dating a certain guy since the 18th of October 1997.   We have a great relationship and I am glad that he is not just another one of my men.   His name is Matthew, but for a long time I only referred to him as Him with a capital H.   I have a lot of nicknames for him.   After nearly a year and a half, he decided that it is ok for me to refer to him by name and link to his page.   I got him to work at one of the places I worked, so we used to be in the office together.

I once spent three days trying to describe Matthew. See 26 March, 27 March, and 28 March 2002 for the low down.

Matthew and I get along better than any other couple I've ever met, besides my mom and her boyfriend Howard.   My mom has been with Howard for more than a decade, and they have only fought twice (once was about shopping for toilets! I love to tease her about that..).   Matthew and I have only fought five times in the four plus years we have been together [our first fight, 21 Feb 99, 28 June 99, our most recent].   I love him dearly.

Matthew had another year of college after I graduated.   He was a Civil and Environmental Engineering major, just like my old roommate Cindy.   I went to New York for nearly a year, then moved back to LA for half a year, and finally moved up to the Bay Area to rejoin my beau. We now live in an apartment together.

He is always doodling, or drawing something to illustrate what he is talking about (usually in terms of one of his engineering problems), so I recently bought him a sketch book.   Here is one of his sketches on a napkin:

 
created Wednesday, 17 March 99
updated Tuesday, 27 July 99
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