I happened to be the TA for a class Brian's best friend, Tom was in, up at CSU. Tom ended up convincing both Brian and I that we needed to meet one another, and that he thought we'd really hit it off. Well after a couple weeks of just chatting on the phone, Brian asked me to come up to Laramie to hang out, and even though that was way outside of my norm, I took a leap and said yes! I drove up to Laramie that evening and we had our first date at a lookout in Laramie. We spent the night looking up at the stars and Brian told me all about the constellations (or what little he knew, which was a lot more than me!) I knew right then he was it. And Brian... well you all know he is a stubborn thing and took a little longer to realize ;)