Call me Yente

When I first started going to the YSA ward I met a lot of great girls. Erin was my first friend, then I met Connie, Kathy, Stephanie, Emily, Truly, Chrissy, Nicole, Melanie, Lis. I LOVE these girls. There are beyond fabulous and so much fun. Honestly you will never ever be bored with them around.

I met a few guys, like Lynn, Alan, Shadd, Matt, Matt, and Jake. When I first met Alan I thought to myself, "oh he would just be perfect for Emily". I suggested it to the girls who told me they have all thought it for years. Stephanie even suggested it but nothing ever happened.

I decided I was going to make that happen.

Alan is my birthday friend. He has the same birthday as me, just two years younger. When I found out he was born in 1983 I about died. I was not tactful at all. I think the conversation went like this:
M: when's your birthday?
A: February 10th
M: No kidding. Mine's the 10th. What year?
A: Um, 1983.
M: SHUT UP! You're younger than me?! You have GOT to be kidding me.

hmmm yeah not tactful. And I'm not even exaggerating. But I mean, look at him!

Bless his little nerdy heart. He could go on for HOURS about Star Trek, Star Wars, cereal, cartoons, gamma rays, etc. Sorry the picture quality is terrible, I had to save it from my Facebook picture [you can see it better there]. It's from my 80s party - so fabulous.

And you all know Emily from the Disneyland trip.

Anyway, so I started going to lunch with Alan on our birthday. He works at the Airforce Base and I worked in Clearfield. I told him how I thought he'd be perfect for Emily. He said he wanted to ask her out but thought she'd say no.

I, being the good girl friend that I am, immediately run and tell Emily that Alan wanted to ask her out but thought she'd say no. She tells me to tell him that she wouldn't say no.

I tell Alan that I told her that she wouldn't say no and he said, um ok. So he asked her out. 4 MONTHS LATER! Talk about a slow mover. He's got an open net, just has to send the puck down the ice.

Fast forward to July. He calls me to see if we'd do a double date with them for the first date. We see the Last Airbender and go to dinner. They do something the next day. Then the next. Then the next. Finally she says no because she needs to do laundry and have a day to herself. He doesn't ask her out again.

Thinking my matchmaking meddling has gone to waste, my spirits rise when Alan said he needs to meet for lunch to discuss some questions.

He wants to know what Emily has said. I know from her roommate that she's enjoying dating him, wants to continue, and wants him to hold her hand. How cute is that. I got all squealy.

I squealed in IHOP when he told me that.

Of course I told her roommate [as I'm driving away from Alan] who will then tell her she'll have to hold something next date. OOOOOOH I'm so happy and so excited.

Look what I made. I made a relationship!