The Meeting: According to Pratt

When we tell people that we are getting married, one of the first things they ask us is how we met. This is my story of how things happened that day.

We met at work. I wrote emails for the customer service department at Close To My Heart, a scrapbooking company in Pleasant Grove, UT. Most of the other writers had quit awhile ago, and I'd been working alone on emails for awhile. My good friend Miriam had been working as a writer for just a few weeks, but things were still pretty stressed for us. There were a lot of emails to write.

Well, we heard the information that we were not only going to get one new email writer, but two. This was very good news, although at the time I had no clue how good of news. So the day came for the new employees (those who would work the phones as well as the two new writers) to start their training. While working that day I got an email from Brooke, who worked up front and liked to talk via email with me during the day, that said, "Well one of the new writers is really cute, but I don't like her. She seems kind of stuck up." This was more than a little discouraging to me, since I like having agreeable coworkers, so I emailed her back asking about the other one. "She seems kinda cute. She has dark hair, and seems pretty nice. She does have a really cool hat." If anyone does not know, the second one was Je-Vé (those of you who know her well would have figured that out from the hat comment :D).

So that was my first real knowledge of Je-Vé, although it was only later that day that I got to met her. She, as well as the other trainees, were being introduced to everyone who worked in customer service. We didn't take a break from our work, so the trainer, Sonja, was bringing them by to our psuedo-cubicles and introducing whoever was in a particular section to the trainees. When she got around to us, I was able to make my own judgements about the new writers instead of depending on Brooke's. One thing I can say is that Brooke is clearly a woman, because Je-Vé was certainly cuter than the other writer (whose name I can no longer remember; maybe Je-Vé remembers). 

Anyway, we all were introduced and I had to add that not only was I Pratt and the senior writer, but that I was also an email ninja (I had done a lot of emails that day and was feeling particularly proud of the fact). I have since confirmed that she thought I was pretty odd for giving this comment and for being me in general. That opinion has not really changed, but she likes my silliness and oddities (for the most part) so it has all worked out. She in turn commented on my neighbor's Star Wars background on his computer. I believe she did this in an attempt to locate and befriend the Close To My Heart nerd community because they would be the type of people that she would get along with best. Little did she know that we, the nerd community of Close To My Heart, were not actually big friends with my neighbor nor did she know that the email ninja would have been a better contact for her purposes.

And that, my friends, is how we met. Perhaps Je-Vé will tell her part of the story soon. Also, we may see fit to tell more of our story as time goes on. Either way, we will be posting pictures of us for your amusement.