post-it love

I kind of have this thing for post-its. I also kind of have this thing for my super cute boyfriend. So when those two things combine, it's like.. magic. the "post-it thing" started almost a year ago when I got a letter from boyfriend in which he'd included something like 5 post-its. I thought that was cute, so I got the idea to send a post-it of my own with my next letter. I drew a little tic-tac-toe game, placed my "x", and sent it off to Fiji. A couple months later I got it back with an "o" and we've been playing and "post-it"-ing ever since. My favorite post-it that he's ever sent, I received a couple weeks ago. "1 4 3, it's a code for something, try to figure it out," it said. What?? Those numbers meant nothing to me. I spent all day trying to figure it out and getting insight from different people.

I tried seeing if the numbers corresponded with letters of the alphabet to mean something. NOPE.

My mom thought maybe he only had 143 days left in Fiji. NOPE. (I started adding up all the days in the months left and it was well over 143.)

A coworker thought maybe he wants to marry me on January 4, 2013. NOPE.

And then it hit me-- while I was in the shower, no less. Don't ask me why, but I do some of my best thinking in there. 1 4 3. ONE letter word. FOUR letter word. THREE letter word.

I LOVE YOU

I cracked the code, and I was right. And it took me less than 24 hours! (Which surprised him. Should I be offended by that??)