my ny and i have been together for almost a year now. we met online at gay.com in a chat room of all places. and i've always said that online relationships don't work. i've seen my friends meet people they got to "know" online and then the balloon busts. they aren't the same person that they thought they knew. but we have always been open and honest w/each other, even online. we're positive that we've met our soulmate. it took forever to actually get together. i was in a failing 6 year relationship and she was tired of waiting. although she used to tell me "your gonna me mine someday, don't you forget". lol... and she was right. not long after i broke up w/my girlfriend she came to visit me for a week. the best week of my life. we wen't out to a gay/lesbian bar near me and danced. and i watched her dance.. she's so fucking cute! she asked if she could be my girlfriend and i said YES. but then she had to go back to new york... *pout* that sucked.. all the talking online and the phone isn't nearly enough (im sure most of you know) but it was well worth it. several months later i was flying to new york to bring her back here to west virginia to w/me.. forever. let me tell you... that was my first airplane ride, can you say nauseated? more like.. "excuse me, flight attendant, i need a barf bag" it wasn't fun. but there she was.. a bottle of 7up, half a bagel and a flight change later, waiting for me at the syracuse terminal. *g anyway, i could go on and on about how we rented a 15ft ryder truck that i was supposed to drive back and how they only had a 25ft. tiny streets.. BIG truck. oy! or how great it was to finally be in her arms again... blah blah blah. im sure no one wants to hear that. lol we're both sagittarius' and we love just about all the same things. makes life much easier. both vegetarians. both lesbian....... that REALLY helps! she grew up in  mass. but now she's a registered west virginian..  goody for her. she loves to make fun of me for coming from a "holler". im 25 and she's 32. she's a nanny (highclass babysitter) for two children near our home and im starting training on the 28th of april to be a medical claims examiner. we have four rats {bean, egon, eemo and otto} a red eared slider turtle named emma and two new calico ryukin goldfish {dai cho and akemi} they just HAD to have japanese names! their so bitchy. lol  dai=great and cho=butterfly, so we just put the two together. and akemi=bright and beautiful. oh we also have a pleco in w/the goldfish. his name is fishhead btw.