dating...

What we have here is our first ever photo together, in the back of the van with the grom on thanksgiving day 2007.  We had been dating for about a week.  Actually, when we started dating is kind of disputable...lindsay claims this photo was taken about the time she was thinking about if she actually wanted to date me, but i recall that this was the day that sealed the deal...

 

...And this is technically the last day that we were just dating.  obviously we were more than "just friends" at this point....  i was pacing around the room trying to build up the courage to call lindsay's dad.  this routine started with me going over to lindsay's house, claiming i was gonna call that night, then wussing out.  eventually lindsay just settled with sending this photo via text message to Mike with the caption, "can i ?".  what they sent back were five photos of them contemplating their decision.  they would send a photo without an answer, then twenty minutes later send another one without an answer... so what would've cost me 5 minutes of anxiety on the phone with papa shannon, turned into about an hour and a half of waiting for text messages...and then i ended up having to make that phone call anyway...  

-M