Let me introduce to you....

"It’s Bloggering Time!"

Okay that was my attempt at humor and trying to sound like Thing of the Fantastic Four. #FAIL

The last time that I blogged was when I wrote about remembering my best friend Jennifer Hawkins who died 9 ½ years ago. It is because of her greatness that I am the person that I am today.

I know I’ve found that I sometimes move to fast especially in the case of starting out friendships and even relationships. Reason being that you never know how long you’re going to be on this Earth. With my friend Jen I knew her only for 3 ½ months. As a result some friendships, some relationships have burned out more quickly than they might have if I had let them progress more slowly, more naturally. In this new world where a person is just a Facebook message, a tweet or a text away it’s easy to hit the accelerator to hard and blow up the relationship/friendship like a car engine before it even gets a proper chance to start. I’ve done it a couple of times and I always fear that I might do it again, but I‘d rather move too fast than way too slow or not at all. I never thought I’d meet anyone as great as Jennifer, that was until recently.

It began simply enough with bringing in someone for a simple job interview. The person I thought would become an excellent employee ended up not being an employee or co-worker at all. Long story short things didn’t work out with the employee to be on the professional front but after she left a message that tugged at the heart strings on my work voice mail, something in me told me to not lose that number.

I called (nervously & apprehensively) and like my friend Jennifer we hit it off. Amazingly so… Things came so easy, it came so fast… I could tell early on that she was an amazing person and I was lucky to have her in my life. Then the night came when I took her to the airport, she was supposed to be gone for the weekend… It ended up being a lot more. That weekend passed, and then a week, then many more, a month, now a couple of months… But thanks to this technology age we live in, a text, a Facebook message and then eventually Skype I have been able to hold on to and keep in contact with one of the greatest people I ever met.

It is as a result of technology that my friendship didn’t fizzle out, instead it was given the chance to heat up, it turned into love and into a relationship… Where it goes next, I’m not for sure. I just know I’ve met someone truly amazing and I realize now that everything I have gone through in life has been leading me up to this point.

Before I go to far, I probably should introduce the blogging community to my girlfriend Natalie Assadourian. I know I’m terrible, probably should have introduced her way before now. She’s an amazing writer, videographer, editor, mother, friend, and so much more. Everyone who has ever met her thinks she is amazing and I will definitely agree with them.

I have never met anyone quite like Natalie. She is in a league of her own and I’m truly honored (or honoured as those Canadians write it) to have met her. Never has a girl written an article in a publication about me, she has. We write the chapters of our own story to each other every day. We never go a day without messaging each other on Facebook. We are the best of friends and our hearts grow intertwined more and more everyday. In August I will get to see her in person again when I travel to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the very first time. Until then we have Skype and although the industry professionals in us constantly critique the video quality, our lighting techniques and our shot composition the one thing we never have to worry about is that the other person on the other side of the camera & internet connection is the one that we’ve fallen completely in love with.

In the articles that she writes, she is Industry girl so I guess that makes me Industry guy. It’s never happened to me before that I have ever met someone who has not only the same heart as me, worked in the same industry as me and just completely rocked my world. So I have to assume that it is extremely rare that it happens in this world. I definitely know I truly appreciate her and everything about her. I only hope this thing we got going on between us will last forever. The one thing I can say for sure right now is that Industry Girl has taken my heart with her to Canada and I'm looking forward to the day that we're together again in person...