First and Foremost

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Bucks County Coffee Company – INT. Day

A girl and a guy sit chatting at a table in a crowded coffee shop in Philadelphia.

GIRL
Yeah and then he put on his pirate costume and opened the window and said he was going to jump out of it – two stories up!

GUY
Are you fuckin’ kidding me?

GIRL
Nope, because then he opened the window and he fucking did jump out of it! It was awesome!

GUY
(laughs in amazement)
Are you serious???

At the next table over, two good friends are sitting by the window each drinking a steaming coffee.

FRIEND ONE
So things just keep getting weirder and weirder

FRIEND TWO
Why does that not surprise me?

FRIEND ONE
Not only did I get bit by a dog in the middle of the sidewalk outside that bar, then my bosses didn’t pay me what they said they would and then I got home and my exboyfriend called and said he was getting married tomorrow morning

FRIEND TWO
Are you serious???

A guy is animatedly telling a story to his friend on his way out the door

GUY
Yea, so we’re both asleep after getting it on, she’s wearing only a tank top, I’m naked and then all the sudden her best friend and like five other people walk into her room out of nowhere

FRIEND
Haha no way dude

GUY
Yeah, for real. No one is even supposed to know we’re hooking up though! I panicked and threw a blanket over my head.

FRIEND
Haha smooth

GUY
Yeah well I don’t think they realized it, some guy stood there talking to her for like five minutes

FRIEND
Are you serious???

Rhian and Ryan look at each other as they approach the counter after making their way through the shop.

SIMULTANEOUS
I can’t believe this is really life.


But this is real life, my friends. Documented, unfiltered, unabashed, and with nothing held back. We come to these virtual pages with the intention to record and set down our experiences exactly as they happen, exactly as we perceive them and exactly how we live them.

Our hopes in writing this blog are simply to capture the trials, perceptions, mishaps and misjudgments of life as we lead it. We are just two regular twenty-somethings, living in Philadelphia and hoping to somehow figure out how to make it. We have virtually nothing that’s our own, we’re poor, we’re confused, we’re in debt and we’re in love with life (and each other…most of the time).

So welcome to “Are you serious!? I can’t believe this is really life.” And truthfully, we can’t believe it either.

- R&R