Since I got back...

Actually, we'll have to go back to April to tell this story in full.

Back in April, my good friend Carma texted me (rather out of the blue) and said "So Ty's got this friend. He has Storm Trooper armor, goes to Renaissance Fairs, and drives a Kitt car like Knight Rider. Want to meet him?" I'm just sad that I broke that phone and don't still have the original text, but I'll never forget it.

Apparently when Ty approached Brad about meeting me, it consisted of "She's an actress. Here's a picture. Want to meet her?"

They had my interest at "Storm Trooper", but I was waiting at that time to find out if I was going to be hired full time as the stand-in on "Carol" shooting in Cincinnati, and I didn't want to risk really liking this guy and then leave for a month. As it turned out, I only worked for two days on "Carol" but then got hired full time to be the stand-in on "The Tank" for the entire month of May, so I put off this meeting a little longer. Turned out that Ty was working on the same movie, so no one was really in the mood to try to cram a double date into May.

It got to be July, and I texted Carma and told her that my schedule was open. It was time to organize this meeting. It took a few weeks to get our schedules lined up, but we finally agreed that all four of us would have dinner at a Mexican place and I could tell them all about the movie, and about my upcoming trip the England & Scotland.

He was nice. I told Carma she had good taste.

A few days later, he asked me out, and two weeks later, we managed to find a night we were both free. After that first date, we went from dinner every other week, to dinner every week, to how many nights this week can I come over, to dinner with my parents, right up until the day before I left for London and he went with me to Michigan to meet my aunt (further than any other boyfriend has made it).

We set up Skype and talked several times while I was gone, and Brad picked me up from the airport when I landed back in Columbus. We've hardly gone three days since then without seeing each other.

Now, we haven't just been getting food and going to movies. This guy is creative.

 For our second date, he picked me up in Kitt and we went to 16-Bit Barcade and played Atari games all night. 

Paint Nite. He has the advantage of actually being an artist with degrees, but considering that I haven't painted anything since I was a kid with finger paints, I think mine turned out alright.

Then we chased the Supermoon across the city looking for the best photo ops. I still think I got the best one of the night.

We watched the meteor shower, tried new restaurants all over Columbus, and sometimes just curled up on the couch to watch a movie.

I believe he spent the entire three weeks I was gone planning the month of October, because since I've been back, we've been to King's Island, the Renaissance Fair, and the Ohio Bird Sanctuary, and I got him to be an extra in a film with me, have dinner with my friends for a birthday in Cincinnati, and spend a few days helping me paint and fix up my bathroom.

October's only half over, so in the next two weeks we're going hiking, taking a lantern-lit ghost tour, going to Cedar Point for the haunts, watching a meteor shower, carving pumpkins, and searching for a Halloween party that doesn't conflict with our schedules so we can get into costume and eat lots of Reeses.

He makes jokes about my Starbucks addiction (but he drinks it almost as much as I do now), takes me to Chipotle because he knows it's my favorite, and keeps root beer in his fridge for me. We like a lot of the same music, we love Mel Brooks movies, and we don't have any trouble on long drives in the car, which is good because we both like to travel.

I must have a good feeling about this, because I already found his Christmas present.

In conclusion, it's all Carma's fault. Thanks, Carma :)