I had planned to write a nice reflective post on today, September 15, 2011, but unfortunately work has taken priority over this, so instead I’m going to write a very abbreviated version.

SEPTEMBER 15…

Everyone remembers 9-11 and how that day will forever be engrained in their memory. It’s amazing how one day can hold such significance in one’s life but for me it is not 9-11 but 9-15…

4 yrs ago, September 15, 2007-

I was at a nail salon with my girlfriends getting my nails done talking about how excited I was for the BIG day. I was enjoying a nice luncheon and giving my girls their thank you gifts. I was celebrating with my fiance, family, and friends at Tweet Balzano’s in Bristol, RI and practicing walking down the aisle. It was the day before I said “I do”.

2 yrs later, September 15, 2009

My life was turned upside down.  One minute I was making plans with John to go out on our “first date” since our temporary break the week before. The next minute I was confronting John on a phone number that had started showing up on the phone records, and putting OUR cell phone minutes way over. Then I was reading emails from this same girl and listening to him lie to my face about who she was. I was discovering he had moved on with no intentions to save our marriage.  That night I was kicking John out of the house for GOOD.

fast forward to 2 yrs later, September 2011, TODAY, and I am sitting here thinking about how 2 yrs ago today the man I was “supposed” to spend the rest of my life with left for good. TONIGHT, 2 yrs later, the man who I feel “I am” supposed to spend the rest of my life with, J, will be coming over and  staying for good.

It’s amazing how much can change in just 2 yrs. I think it is kind of eerie that these events all occurred on September 15 but in way comforting.  At one point I was preparing to say “I do”. Then two years later I was ending that chapter for good and saying in my head “I don’t”. NOW it’s two years after that and I am happier than ever, beginning a new chapter in my life. After tonight I will be living with J, a man I never thought I would find, and be lucky to find. A man who I will have the absolute PURE pleasure of getting to wake up next to every morning.

So everyone has their 9-11, a day they will never forget. 9-15 has been a day I can never forget, some good and some bad memories, but from this day, September 15, 2011 I can only hope that it will be marked as a very GOOD memory from now on.