We started our journey when I accepted Jacob's invitation to get lost in this City of the Big Shoulders: Chicago. Ten years later, we are beginning our new journey in this holy matrimony.

Subject Line: Get Lost In The City With Me I responded to his dating ad, and we agreed to meet at Chicago and State. He told me he lived by Loyola Water Tower, and I had no idea where this place was. I got lost, and he met me halfway. We ate Thai food, and invited me to go to Trader Joe's with him for groceries afterwards. Of course, I went along. Jacob later told me he never had Thai food until he met me, and he was being a practical man as he was in the neighborhood where he does his groceries as well. Our next date, he made me spaghetti carbonara from scratch. I made him egg rolls and his room mate told him that "I'm a keeper." We were inseparable since that day. Our attempts to live apart never worked, and we found excuses to spend time with each other. We went to each others' classes, and even now, we work in the same place together. Darjus is just glue that keeps us closer. Nowadays we spend our time chasing two cats, experimenting and cooking in the kitchen, and having fun with Darjus. Ten years in Chicago, we're lost in this city together.

We were binge watching the last season of "Scrubs" for the nth time. We always get teary eyed at the ending, but he was definitely misty. I thought he was missing his grandfather because he told me he got the day wrong. After coming back to the living room, he started rambling about "I really just messed up the dates." Before I realize it, he was proposing. I started crying, he was crying, as I said yes. We're finally making it official!