She Said!
There are always different versions of a story and we all know women tell it like it is and men can sometimes stretch the truth…while men and women are very different it would be quite boring if we were the same and we wouldn’t have to spend most of our lives trying to figure each other out…
This is the love story of Logan and I, how we met and fell in love.
June 2014 life was good and I had not long moved back to Sydney after working on Hamilton Island for just under 2 years. (amazing experience). I had worked there with my good friend Jen and also my elder sister came to visit me there before I moved back.
I had just got a dream training role in Sydney working for a major healthcare company which allowed me to travel all over the country educating pharmacists and naturopaths on their extensive product ranges.
My parents finally made the decision to move out of the family home in Sydney to their property in Terrigal. I was so excited for them but realised for me that meant finally going through all my boxes and furniture that had been stored there all the years I had travelled and worked on the Queen Mary 2. (Thanks Mum and Dad). Yes it was finally time to sort through all my things and move…
So I new I wanted to live somewhere between Lane Cove and Neutral bay but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to live with flat mates or on my own. I had lived on my own on Hamilton Island which was lovely as everyone was so close by anyway as it was a small Island.
So over the next 3 weeks I set out to look at all different places. Apartments on my own or to share.
After looking at 5 or 6 places already I see a flat listed in Wollstonecraft for share accommodation and the contact name was Logan…
Logan that’s a nice girl’s name I thought it would be nice to share with a girl and I really like Wollstonecraft.
So when I turned up to the showing to find Logan was a male I was a little thrown. Anyway I had a good look around. The apartment felt dark and cluttered and I was thinking where would all my stuff go.
I remember walking into the kitchen and seeing a cupboard full of Mr Vitamins products. (I used to work at Mr Vitamins) and I remember thinking wow this guy has more Vitamins than I do and I had an entire book case full. I must admit my heart skipped a beat then.
We started chatting about Vitamins and I realised he used to shop where I had worked, he new some of my colleagues and also my old boss. I felt like we chatted for what seemed like an hour and I had completely forgotten I was there to look at the flat.
I remember thinking he is smart, confident, ruggedly handsome and very friendly he felt in some way familiar.
I don’t remember being interested in the flat but I didn’t want to be rude so I said I still had other places to look at around the area and that we should definitely catch up.
To this day Logan swears I asked him out then and there but I was just being friendly. Looking back now it’s hard to remember everything step by step. But Logan and I laugh all the time, was I really looking for a flat mate or was I just putting my feelers our for a potential good looking guy to live with and was Logan doing the same thing but in the end does it really matter how we met and in a world where every second person in on internet dating is it really that different. I think its pure genius killing 2 birds with one stone but the truth of it is we both weren’t doing anything intentionally I think it was the stars aligning. However, I always laugh with Logan after he met me he never did get another flatmate and I must have fallen right into his trap (but a good trap!).
From memory the next week Logan asked me to the movies. Maybe I was little naive as I was so excited to have a new friend and I didn’t think of it as a date until he kissed me at the end of the night but I was very glad that he did.
Logan had such positive energy and confidence he was unlike anyone I had met so naturally I was very intrigued and thought ok let’s see where this goes. He was quirky in his own way he stood out in a crowd and he just had this presence about him.
I remember feeling excited after we went to the movies, I thought what a great guy, however he does talk a lot…and I mean a lot!
The day after our first date I was moving into my new flat in Wollstonecraft it happened to be 3 streets form Logan’s .Logan will say I stalked him but I would call it fate and the truth is it really was the nicest 1 bedroom flat I could find for a reasonable rent and close to some of my friends that lived around the area. I remember telling Logan the night before I was moving and he mentioned he does his morning walk by my street. Mum and dad were helping me move and we stopped for a bit to get coffee’s I intuitively got one for Logan too as I thought he would be on his morning walk and passing by soon. Sure enough he did pass by and I gave him a coffee, he briefly met my parents and I battered my eyelids and politely asked if he would help me move some of my furniture. I remember thinking what great timing!
Over the next couple of weeks Logan and I had 3 or 4 more movie and dinner dates and got to know each other.
My memory of the order of our first few dates is a bit blurry but I do remember the unplanned date. Logan was meant to be at Cirque du Soleil and I was meant to be at a wine tasting expo with my girlfriends. Where I could let my hair down and didn’t have to worry if I looked a little tipsy. Considering Logan didn’t drink I was always on my best behaviour in the first few dates and didn’t want to drink too much in front of him. Well half way through the night when I was already well on my way to being tipsy, I got a call from Logan. The show had been cancelled due to one of the performers having an injury. So in my Tipsy state I invited him to join me. Which may have been a little impulsive and not such a good idea considering my state. So Imagine the shock he got considering he does not drink or dance much when he turned up I’m sure my girlfriends and I were on another wave length. Michelle and Belinda had just finished re-enacting the dirty dancing lift It was hilarious in fact great fun and we were dancing like there was no tomorrow or should I say no one watching. But Logan was watching and quite possible the only sober person in the room. The fact that he stayed was the first time I thought wow this must be TRUE LOVE 💞💞
Despite some of our differences it was beginning to feel like opposites attracting. I loved that he was so romantic and spontaneous he would just suddenly take me out for hot chocolate and a drive down to the harbour bridge just to be romantic. He was so refreshing. He would also out of the blue grab a bottle of wine on his way home for me. One of the most romantic things he did early on was leave a bunch of flowers at my window knock and then run away and wait for me to find them.
Logan would call me every day sometimes 2 or 3 times and it felt like we were becoming inseparable and we began to spend more and more time together. I just admit though I did think what does he do all day who has this much time to talk but I kind of liked it.
2 years later after living 3 streets form each other I finally moved in with him but thank gosh he had moved one street away into a bigger apartment that I had helped him moved into. He had de-clutter and suddenly there was room for me and we both just seemed to fit like a glove and we were in love.
So when did I realise I had first fallen in love with Logan well probably when we were on holidays in New Zealand and we were chatting to some other travellers I was taken back by how worldly he was and how he can talk confidently on any topic. Secondly when he gave me the biggest bunch of red roses I had ever seen on our anniversary and how he forgave me for forgetting, and thirdly when I moved in with him to our amazing house in Point Clare. Fourthly I Love Logan’s ability to forgive and start each day fresh he is so amazing and generous too.
I love the home I have made with Logan it would not feel like home without him and now I get to fall in love with him every day.
I love you Logie Bear 💘