I really liked this! It's sad, but I love seeing Jim and his daughter. I'd love to see them watching the documentary and him talking to her about it - the story of Jim and Pam...

I love Pam thinking she'd love all the imperfections. I remember a friend telling me once that you have to love someone because of their quirks, not in spite of them.

Author's Response: Yes, exactly. Perfection is highly overrated, if you ask me ;-) Thanks so much andtheivy!

I'm loving this so far. I lived in Chicago last year (well, Evanston, if you want to get technical)and all the Chi-town references are making me nostalgic. I really enjoy the Pam/Angela friendship and the way you're keeping Angela's personality but fleshing out her warmer side. And I love the slow burn happening between Jim and Pam. Keep going!

Author's Response: I\'m oh so cold and miserable up here in Chi-town. :( I bet you don\'t miss the winters here- that is unless you moved somewhere else up North where in that case, Cheers to 5 long months of cold weather! Haha. Thanks for all the kind comments, I\'m happy you\'ve enjoyed it so far. I\'ve always thought Jenna and Angela\'s friendship in real life is just too adorable for words, so I\'m trying to bring a little of that out in my story while keeping a little \"Angela Martin\" in there as well. :)

Oooh...very sneaky implying at the beginning that they'd slept together and then have it not be the case. Artful. I like it.

Love the part about making love work. It's not always cheerful or jubilant or blissful, but when love is worth it, it's worth the trouble that can arise. Love Jim and Pam seeing the possibilities in each other

Author's Response: Thank you, I\'m glad you liked their little conversation and the discussion over the possibility of them being able to fall in love with each other one day. I had hoped it would be seen as more realistic than the whole idea of love being this amazing fairy tale. Thanks for the review!

Haha, thanks for the shout out! I love 11 City. The lox and latkes are fantastic. Speaking of Communist, have you ever been to Orange? Their menu literally says something like "if you want to make your own, go to a restaurant with golden arches." They are a NO SUBSTITUTIONS place. Total gem for a veghead like me (or not).
Anyway...great chapter again. I loved Jim's bitching about the newspaper. I'm a journalist (a real one, not just an "I write a blog") and I completely empathized with everything he said.
Finally, I love Angela in this story. She's so similar yet different to how she is on the show. And her test of Jim was hilarious. As was Pam's order at 11 City. My word! I hope she can hold all that food. As Joey on "Friends" said, vomiting stories aren't funny.

Author's Response: I\'ve never been to Orange, but it sure sounds like a stand up place. Haha.

I totally watched that episode of Friends yesterday where Rachel put beef in the trifle and Joey mentioned \"Vomiting stories aren\'t funny...\" So weird. Vomit tux! Vomit tux!Thank you for the review, and thanks again for the recommendation. I keep begging the hubby to take me to 11 City. Perhaps once the weather warms up a bit.

Yeah, so here's the thing: I'm going to abandon all dignity and pretty much just BEG you to write a sequel to this. (Hint: a wedding is a good place to start). Seriously, down on my knees.

Oh, and nice engagement sex. And nice proposal. I'm kind of glad Jim wasn't in the empty apartment surrounded by candles and flowers. It's been done.

Author's Response: Yay! I\'m glad you were pleased with the proposal. Major creative block there since it seems like almost every engagement has been done, so I prayed that it wouldn\'t be too cheesy and that it would go over well.

Oh yes, a sequel. I know, I know- this A/U Pam and Jim are only getting started on their journey and still have plenty more to share. I definitely feel that way, and I have a few ideas here and there. I promise, I will get started on a brainstorming tree and bust out the Venn diagrams and hopefully something will come to fruition soon. He-he.

Gah! More! Must have more! I love confrontation Jam.

Author's Response: More to come! Thanks for reading. :)

Okay, don't leave us hanging. More...please...

Author's Response: Thanks for the review! Unfortunately, this story has reached it\'s end... mwahahah

So different! I hope you'll consider continuing. I'd love to see what happens next.

Oh...I'm sad it's coming to an end, and hope there will be more! By the way, you have me freaking out that I don't have enough savings to put a down payment on a house. Not that I'm looking for one at this time, but if I was, I'd be screwed.

It's so geeky how excited I get when a new chapter is posted.
Well, I'm loving this. You're being so realistic about domestic life for Jim and Pam - it's hard! I really appreciate that they're not all blissed out but also not yelling and breaking up. It's an adjustment.
I also really love Jim's stress with his job. I'm a journalist and it really can be a crazy, stressful experience. I can't wait to see what's going on (I have an idea, but in case I'm right, I won't spoil it for anyone else). More soon, please!

Author's Response: I\'m so happy to hear that you\'re still enjoying the story. I\'m glad you\'re enjoying a slightly different glimpse at the lives of Jim and Pam, as they try to get adjusted to living together while struggling through the stress of the early beginnings of their career. It\'s just so much at once for those two, and it\'s taking them awhile to learn that tackling things as a team would make things slightly easier at home. I\'m glad you can relate to Jim\'s life as a journalist, although I\'m sorry you have to deal with all that stress.

Next chapter features Jim in the journalism room, so you\'ll have to let me know how realistic the whole situation comes off as- it was all hopeful assumptions, and based off what I\'ve seen in movies, like Michael Keaton in \"The Paper\", or \"All the President\'s Men\"... and that one show on MTV about the school newspaper. (What? I didn\'t watch that.)

See, what I love about this story is that you do such a good job capturing both the special moments and the everyday. In fact, you find the special in the everyday. There really is no imaginable end point here. It's not like this has just been building up to a wedding. I mean, it has been, but I'm even more interested in seeing their married life (however, please feel free to write a wedding night chapter). Anyway, you make the daily life really beautiful and I can't wait to read more.

Author's Response: Aw, your review has me smiling from ear-to-ear. This was such an amazing treat to read, thank you. This story has been so much fun to write, and I\'m glad that you enjoy reading about their day-to-day routines, no matter how non-adventurous they may be sometimes. And you\'re right, this hasn\'t always been just building up to a wedding, but sending them off into their future. Their own happily ever after, if you will. ;) Thank you so much for reading, and thank you for the lovely review.