How We Met...

I'm still not anxious to test, not that I think it's going to be a BFN. Something in me just isn't in a hurry to test. Gonna wait it out till tomorrow and hopefully see a lovely BFP on a test.

I was looking through the blog after telling my sister-in-law last night how Mike and I met and can't believe I forgot to tell the story.

Okay, so the story started a little over 6 years ago. My sister and her husband decided because of financial issues they were going to move to Las Vegas. Something told me that I needed to go with them. Normally, I'm one of those people that would make that kind of decision but easily change my mind but I'd graduated from college the year before and was working at a gas station. I always said when I was younger that I was meant to move to the western part of the US, but I always thought it would be Wyoming (a place I still want to live and eventually raise our children).

So, we drove across country with mostly clothes and electronics in 2 fully loaded cars. Only my brother-in-law and I drove because we let my sister drive once in Oklahoma City and she almost killed us, she was driving my car at the time. It took 3 days pretty much to make the drive and we checked into an extended stay motel until we found someplace with more room and at a decent rent. My brother-in-law pretty much had a job from day 1 because he was working for a sister property and just had to give a letter of introduction.

My sister and I took a couple days off to explore Vegas a little then we got down to looking for work. I had already checked out the classifieds and worked out where I was going to apply. I'd just been offered a job at a call center (I'd asked them to let me think about the offer before I accepted) when my brother-in-law called me and told me that I needed to apply at Westward Ho casino as a change girl. My sister was in the employment center applying for the same position as we spoke. He gave me directions and I headed there.

I got there and they were leaving. My sister hadn't applied for a change girl position because she forgot what she was supposed to apply for, so she just chose  cocktail waitress and restaurant waitress positions to apply for. I went in and filled out the application for a change girl and was hired on the spot because of my experience at the gas station and in customer service. What we didn't know was if my sister had gotten hired I wouldn't have been able to work there because they don't hire relatives.

So, I started 3 days later and worked 2:45pm to 10:45pm. It was kind of scary at first because I never thought I would be a casino employee. I'd hoped to work in an office or something that didn't have to do with the casinos. I didn't really pay much attention to the other employees other than the ones that I had to interact with because of my job. It was about a week later, I was heading to my bank to stock up the change I carried on me when I almost ran into Mike coming from that area. Honestly, my first thoughts of him aren't very nice but he looked like a Mexican thug. He was wearing a thick silver chain but he smiled at me, so I smiled back and that was it.

I got used to seeing him around because he started at 2pm, so we almost worked the same shift. I started working there in mid-September but he never spoke a word to me until the beginning of December. I really thought he didn't speak English, which isn't as uncommon as you'd think in Vegas. I was waiting to close out my bank and he was walking past to turn his housekeeping keys over to the next shift. I told him his haircut looked nice and he finally said thank you. After that, we would chat and flirt whenever we saw each other (and usually both of us would get yelled at for it). At Christmas, he came and gave me a huge hug and was getting teased by the other change girls because he didn't hug them.

I heard the beginning of January that I was being promoted after only being there 3 1/2 months that was pretty exciting. It took 2 weeks before they started training me and my schedule changed to match my trainer's, so I was coming in at 4:30, which meant Mike and I didn't see each other that much. I knew he really liked me because if he wasn't interested he wouldn't have been talking to me and following me around as much but he wasn't making a move. So, one night I wrote my phone number down on a piece of paper and told him that I had some numbers for him. He told me he'd find me later before he left. I said okay and knew he was going to finally make a move.

He didn't find me before he left. I was kind of disappointed but figured that if I really wanted him, I was going to have to play dirty. So, the next day I saw him up in the employees area leaving from his break and I told him that I guessed he didn't want that paper I'd told him about and was going to throw it away. He was like what if I do want it. I told him all he had to do was ask me for it. So, finally he asked me for my number.

It was really sweet and we talked every morning for the next 3 days and the following Saturday was his last night that week, so I was going to take him home because that way I'd know how to get to his place to pick him up. (He didn't drive then, so if we were going to go out, I had to do it.) I took him there and then decided that we'd go back to my apartment (shared with my sister and brother-in-law) to watch a movie. Well, he basically ended up moving in with us that night. He went back to his grandma's, where he was living, to check on things but really slept and ate at my apartment.

It wasn't an easy relationship because there was a fraternization policy at Westward Ho and everyone tried to throw that in our faces but the policy only applied to employees that had money interactions with each other. Since he was in housekeeping, he had nothing to do with money and I got the blessing of our assistant floor manager before we actually let it slip that we were together. We've been together ever since and we've had some tough times but they never changed how we feel about each other.