Ally & Josh: Volume 1

Ok so although I am the main author of this article, I will probably make Josh read this a thousand times and proofread so I’m able to tell our story as close to reality as possible. So when you’re reading this you’ll probably be able to hear a little bit of Josh and a little bit of me.
So it ALL started at Dave & busters. At a New Years party. That’s usually where we lose people lol. Not very romantic is it? I always say how good I was at being single, and let’s just say I was at my single Ally peak. Me and my gal crew from my hometown were mingling, flirting, dancing, having the greatest time trying to find the beau we would lock lips with when the clock struck midnight (spoiler: my New Years kiss was not Josh that year). Anyways, to add more context, Josh had a little period of fame when the app Vine was the bees knees. Him and his friends made these ridiculous 6 second videos and they were so funny. And they blew up on there. I had seen many of their videos before I met them, so I definitely knew who him and his friend were from their vines, and this becomes significant a little later in the story. So anyways, my friends all recognize Josh. So we all go up to him. I couldn’t put my finger on where I recognized him from but I wasn’t paying as much attention as my friends (you know just acting coy obvi). My friend Emma ran up and was like, “OMG you’re josh Briggs, will you take a selfie with me?” And a couple of my other friends recognized him too. The teen angst of my generation was strong at the time, so Josh was used to girls asking for pics with him or trying to holler. So my friends all take pics and it comes up to me. I introduce myself and just remember saying, “I totally recognize you but have no idea from where!” I proceeded to list off all of the possible ways I could have met him before, until Emma reminds me its from vine. I was embarrassed when I realized we were basically being annoying fan girl types, but I took a pic with him anyways and even tweeted it later on, never expecting to talk to him again. Josh later told me that me and my friends were noticeable at that party (we were so boy crazy & dance crazy) and that he even spotted me with my New Years night beau locking lips, lol. Little did we know.

I went to college in Hawaii at the time, which was a huge reason I was single and not expecting to get into any serious relationships. I had a few flings and played the field. So during the next year or so we forgot about each other; I was living it up in HI and Josh was adulting HARD in Silicon Valley. In November (almost a year later) a pic of Josh popped up on my Instagram explore page. I remembered our embarrassing encounter and followed him. He followed me back right away and slid into my dms. Such a millennial romance. I don’t think any of us were crazy giddy about it or anything since we lived so far away and didn’t really know each other. So our few social media conversations were limited to small talk. 

When I went home for Christmas, I ended a relationship with someone because I was finding myself and had a lot of personal stuff going on. At this point I told myself and all of my friends that I was just going to play the field, that I had NO SPACE for boys in my life, and I was going to focus on ME. ha. Then Josh basically came along and ruined it! Just kidding. He asked me on a date around Christmas time (I’m from San Diego and he’s from Irvine so we were in the same area.) I figured why not, I can get over the guy I was seeing and I was going back to Hawaii so nothing serious right? Josh picked me up at home, opened the car door for me, took me to the aquarium, and since he drove an hour to hang out, we kind of rallied 3 dates into one haha. At the end of the night we just hung out at my house, and my dad being SO outgoing, proceeded to interrogate Josh about his entire life. Even though I was embarrassed, looking back I’m glad my family bombarded him right away because then I knew he must have really liked me to stick around us crazies for so long. The rest from there is history. I moved back to San Diego from Hawaii (not for him, but for mental health reasons; he was a bonus though). We got married a little over a year and a half later and now we’ve been married for a little over 2 years. I don’t want to post too many relationship details because I’ll continue to share more about us over time. But that’s it! Honorary mention to Emma for recognizing Josh from Vine, and to Dave & Busters for hosting dope New Years parties. 

xx, Al