Just Like The Olden Days

When Geoff and I were dating and he lived in CT, I got very familiar with the Metro North. Getting to Grand Central in time to make an express train, which ticket machines had the shortest lines during rush hour and how to navigate the tourists waiting to meet their friends at the clock.

Last night was a Christmas party for all of Geoff's photography friends and I was able to go with him. He headed up earlier by car and there I was catching the 6:11pm train on track 25, scrounging for the best seat on a full train, and arriving in Bridgeport to find Geoff waiting for me. He was in the car, right outside the entrance to the station and he leaned over and opened my door for me, just like back in the old days. It was a lovely flashback to weekends in Connecticut and the early stages of our relationship. I liked it. It made me smile.

Moments before the kill...

If pictures speak a thousand words.....well, I guess this one wouldn't really have all that much to say. However, the interesting thing about this photo is that it was taken about an hour and a half before Geoff and I became a couple. It was August 5, 2005 at a joint birthday party for our friends Megan and Marisa. That's me, obviously, and my roommate at the time, Diane, and there's Geoff, with his back to us. Little did we know, it would be the last photo taken of us as single people. We had no idea what was about to happen... but I think it's safe to say we were both secretly hoping for it, even at the moment this picture was taken. So maybe it's worth a couple words after all...