Wedding Planners

Our first obstacle has been that of getting the internet to work. See, this house that we live in is old, and doesn't have much to offer in the form of technology upgrades. You can see where they connected the lights to the light switch, it's so old. Yet, it is there.

My laptop, affectionately called Lappy, picked up our connection immediately, and has been pretty content with doing my bidding since about 7:30 yesterday afternoon. Erich's computer, however....has not been so fortunate. It is the oldest Dell in history, runs like dirt....even looks slightly like dirt. And Erich and I have talked to Dell, to Qwest, to the manufacturers of the modem, and none of them spoke very good English, and none of them have been able to assist us. I told Erich to just throw the old relic out of the window. But I know Erich too well: He's tight with his money, and if a small glistening drop of hope remains, he stubbornly clings to it.

Erich and I met while working for a bank that specialises in Money Markets and Certificates of Deposits. While I'll try to be discreet, I must say this company isn't the most professional in my history of work. The systems crash constantly, the bank directors refuse to upgrade our systems, because they don't want to spend money. So we lose customers who know our systems blow, and gain customers who have no clue yet. Anyways, moving on to how we met: I was mentoring a class of Telephone Bankers (meaning I guided them through the first terrifying weeks of dealing with hundreds of thousands of dollars in one phone call) that Erich happened to be in. Erich had transferred to our program after another program had ended, and he was part of a team of specialists that de-escalated phone calls. He was good at what he did. He was always in the top ten percent of everything he did in the other program.

It came as no surprise to me that he was equally competent in my program-he never had a bad score on a call, the customer's loved him, and he catched on very quickly. Not only that, but he had a really nice smile. What started out as a mentor appreciating a hassle-free newbie, as I call them, quickly became a small crush. There was a problem though. He was dating a very cute, very vicious, very loud girl we'll call M. I was less than fond of M, as she talked constantly of other people, of her personal life, and of herself. To me, that's not something that should really be discussed at work with colleagues. After a few weeks of flirting, and being flirted back with, I decided to assess the situation from a different angle, and asked M how things were with her and Erich.  I was surprised to hear that he wouldn't stop talking about me, and he was total crazy about me, and would I please just go on a date with him so she could get some peace? I stuttered out that I thought they were dating-oh no. They were really good friends, and almost a year ago he had a crush on her, but got over it pretty quickly.

So I texted Erich later that day, and we didn't stop from that point forward. We texted, and then started hanging out. The sparks were there instantly, and I am very happy. Hopefully so is he....*stare*

So that's how we met. I think I'll see if he'll do the next post for us, because he should be involved! And he said he would be.

Until then!

Stephanie