Did I ever update you that they are an official romance now?
It's true.
They even changed their Facebook statuses. Statuses. Statusi. Plural for status.
And if it's on Facebook, it must be true.
1 of 8 wasn't miserable enough leaving The Boy back in California. She decided to compound it by having her wisdom teeth out 36 hours after she arrived home.The girl knows how to party, I tell ya.
She came through the procedure just fine, thanks to a great doc and some good drugs. She's sporting something of a chipmunk look and is a little tired of her applesauce diet.
And in the midst of her recovery, she's been hanging out with The Boy.
Via Skype.
I headed up to her room yesterday to check on her and found her watching a movie--with The Boy. They had rented the same movie to play on each of their computers, then opened separate windows in Skype so they could watch each other watch the same movie and discuss.
Long distance romance gone high tech.
One of our favorite couples (who, oh so conveniently, live right down the street) were themselves the main actors in a long distance romance that extended over six years, four of those while at different schools. Their subsequent marriage, after so much time spent communicating, writing, talking while physically in different locales, has given their marriage such a beautiful component of friendship and connection.
This long distance Skype romance of 1 of 8 and The Boy? It's not all bad.
Painful.
Not all bad.
Because when you care enough to watch the same movie while separated by a thousand miles and you want to see the reaction of each other's faces on a murky computer screen, well, it ain't Jane Austen.
But it's still pretty romantic.
Chipmunk cheeks and all.
Wow. The things that will be involved in my children dating is mind blowing. I've never had a long distance relationship myself, but I've always thought it seems like such a beautiful way to start. Friendship first...isn't that how it's supposed to be.
ReplyDeleteHow adorable! :] That's really funny how they connect through things like skype. Wonder if the makers of skype ever invisioned their program hosting video watching and snuggling via a computer?
ReplyDeleteAwww this is sooo cute!
ReplyDeletethe first two years my husband and I dated, we lived 200 miles apart. No computers then, so we lived for weekly phone calls and letters. We've been married for 21 years and have two children. It can be done; yes, it's hard, but when it's right, it will work out! And they look wonderful together.
ReplyDeleteThat is so sweet. My husband and I have been "geographically single" many times, but 15 years later have survived it all. I think at one point in our marriage we were apart more than together. We still managed to have two kids though. :-)
ReplyDeleteWOW, that's high tec romance! And so very sweet too!
ReplyDeleteWolf proposed and the same day he found out he had a job in another town. He moved back two weeks before our wedding. Long distance is hard but now we have letters and cards to each other all over the place. Sometimes we find one that was used as a bookmark, or one that was stashed inside a bible, or in a box with other assorted stuff. It's fun to find them and re-read them. We emailed too, but it was the days of dial-up so nothing fandangled like skype!
I'm a hopeless romantic so let me just get this outta the way first- AAAAWWWWWWWWW! That's just PRECIOUS!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that she's found someone that she can be herself with and laugh with. I think that it's smart to use technology like that!
Not long after I met my hubby, he was deployed for 6 mos. to Okinawa. It hurt like all get out, but through letters and phone calls we got to know one another even better. We'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary this year.
Awww, how sweet!
ReplyDeleteBack when my husband and I were dating, and then engaged, e-mail was just getting going and Skype (oh how I love it) was a distant dream.
ReplyDeleteWe have shoeboxes full of letters from the two years we were at different schools, 800 miles apart.
I hope 1 of 8 and The Boy write each other a few letters while they are apart. No matter what they say, they will be very precious one day.
Don't you just love the conveniences of modern life? How DID our pioneer ancestors manage without it?
ReplyDelete~ Yaya
Yaya's Changing World
AWH TRUE LOVE!!
ReplyDeleteAwww...sweet.
ReplyDeleteActually, it brings back memories--minus the computers and Skype! Joe and I "dated" about 8 years before we got married. While being separated by several colleges, mission work, and jobs, we only spent about 1-1/2 years (at the beginning of our relationship) living closer than 1,100 miles from each other.
2857 days (or so) after our first date, we were married. While planning for our wedding to take place in one state, I lived in another, and Joe was over 1000 miles away here in TX. That was 13 years and 4 children ago.
Best wishes to 1 of 8. It's worth it!
Awwww!! That is just too dang sweet!! Sounds like something hubster and I would have done had there been skype way back when...heck there wasn't even e-mail! : )
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