Our Story
A two part adventure
Her Side
There once was a girl who loved sprinkles. A lot.
This girl is me.
What does this have to do with me and Zach getting together? Let’s back up and start from the beginning. Well, not the true beginning - more like the middle.
On the drive home from work on my 32nd birthday, I decided I’d let my friend Jackie know that I planned on baking myself a cake using the Funfetti mix she’d gifted me at Christmas. She didn’t answer the phone so I left her a message. Several minutes later I received a text back, though it wasn’t from Jackie.
It’s noteworthy that Siri and I have never gotten along well. As it turns out on that fateful day, she had called the wrong contact and reconnected me with Zach, a guy I had gone on a handful of dates with 2 years prior. Even though I had found him enDEARing, I had actually ended things due to it feeling like we were coming from two different places at that time in our lives.
Fortunately, a mortified apology text back developed into a continued series of exchanges. At that time, it was nice to have someone to talk to several degrees removed from my daily reality which was working in a hospital during the pandemic. After several months of text conversations and a shared Spotify playlist based on our discussions on ‘emo music and shitty cocktails’, we decided to meet back up and the rest is history. My life now includes more photos of fancy home cooked meals, bourbon, Subarus, and a very clingy cat than I ever imagined, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
His Side
It was April 26th, 2021. Justin, Chris, and I had planned to go on a drive for Justin’s birthday. We woke up at a decent time and started making our way north. Making our way through Wolf Pen Gap, Blood Mountain, and stopping for lunch in Helen Georgia. There is a restaurant in Helen that we frequent, it has solid food, a decent view right on the river, and the beer hits just right after driving all day. We are sitting there chatting and I happen to see that my phone is ringing and it's this girl I had gone on a few dates with a couple of years ago. I just let it go, thinking surely this is a mistake, she's smart, she'll catch it as soon as it hits my voicemail, and our lives will go on. Nope, that didn’t happen, I ended up with a voicemail that I promptly went and tried to listen to.
Realizing she absolutely miscalled me, and the fact that the 574 number didn’t give her a pause, I figured I would send a text and let her know what happened and wish her a happy birthday. We kept chatting from there, just keeping things casual and finding solace in the fact of having someone outside of our lives to vent to about current events and how much the world had changed over the past few years. Eventually, we found a reason to actually meet up and things have progressed from there.
Since we were fairly Covid conscious it did take a moment before we went on a true first date, but somehow I convinced her that driving in the mountains and going to Helen was a grand idea. I knew a place with outdoor seating, solid food, and a decent view right on the river. So once we made it to the restaurant I made sure to point out where I was sitting when I had gotten that wrong phone call on that fateful day a few months prior.
