Dear future partner...

In honor of Valentines day:

I am excited to meet you one day.

First things first. I wan to let you know that I love and appreciate you.

Thank you for putting up with my perpetually cold feet.

I understand that I have a large personality, somedays are bad and some are good.

Thank you for taking all the days with such grace and stride.

I warn you now my family is crazy.

My mom's side especially.

I promise we wont spend too much time with them.

Connie is my best friend and sister.

Thank you for not being intimidated by our closeness

and crazy ways. 

I hope you enjoy being silly and goofy together.

I am a complete nerd. Especially for history. So be prepared to see me freak 

out over historical land marks and information.

I suck at math. If you are ever doomed to help me with math, I will owe you big

for your complete patience.

I am terribly dramatic at times I know. I am a regular Scarlet O'heara. But know that 

it comes from the most loving and endearing place in my heart.

I am a know it all and I will at times fact check to a fault.

It's best to let me live in my ignorance because know that deep down I know 

I am possibly wrong and being silly.

I love road trips. I hope you love them too. Maybe you will join me in a road

trip across the south. Or a trip to the first 13 colonies.

I am terribly cynical. I think jokes that most might find inappropriate are hilarious. I hope you can take a joke. As a side effect from having so many guy friends, I am a ball buster. Please don't take me as mean or serious.

I have a past. I hope you have one too. Because it is our pasts that make us the people we are today.

I regret nothing in mine because it made me who I am and brought me to you.

I love cupcakes and goat cheese. I hope you like to go to the gym, because I love to bake and cook.

I love going places. I don't like to sit on the couch too long.

Sometimes I need to do things for myself. I hope you enjoy doing things for yourself.

maintaining individuality is very important in our relationship. We should never be the dreaded "We".

I am loud. People are horribly irritated by this. Hopefully you will just find me boisterous!

I sing really loudly in the car. Hopefully if you know the song you will damn the man and sing a long!

I hope that you know that if I fall in love with you it will be forever. I hope you love me back the same way. I hope you appreciate and cherish the partnership we share. I hope you realize that I am a really great, well rounded, loving person and know that I realize those things in you. I will stick with you through anything. If you need to find yourself, I will be there to support you when you need to talk. If you are sad, upset, feeling like the world will never work out for you, negative, anything I would love the opportunity to be your rock as you are mine.

I can't wait to meet you. I hope you are ready when I do. Because I plan on keeping you.

Love always, Caitlin