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4 years ago today I got married in St. Cecilia’s Cathedral in Omaha, NE. to J. Elizabeth Huebert. Its pretty easy for me to remember our aniversary because it was 9 days before I turned 30. Our wedding was pretty magical. My wife planned everything. We got married at this enormous cathedral then after the wedding we went by white horse and buggy drawn carrages to the Embassy Suites downtown where we had our reception. It was really such a awesome day. Honestly it was probably one of the best days of my life. Sappy…. I know. Most people say the birth of their child was the happiest day of their life… not for me that was like the scariest day of my life. Not because their was anything wrong but I just had this amazing feeling of terror like OMG WHAT DID I DO. Anyway…
So if I may… let me tell you a little about my wife. J was born in Miami and later moved to Rural Nebraska. She graduated high school then went to school at St. Johns philosophy school in New Mexico. She studied all the great books and when she finished her undergrad she got a full scholorship to the Chicago School Of Business to get her MBA. After 1 summer she decided Business was not for her so she went to Medical School instead at the University of Nebraska. She graduated medical school and then volunteered for almost 1 full year in Nigeria (yes Africa). When she came back she had decided that she was going to go into Anesthesia but before she could she had to do a transitional year of family practice.
This is when she had some jackass named Jeremy Schoemaker respond to her Yahoo Dating Ad saying what a great guy he was etc etc… I wont go into the details… well I will tell you something funny I actually had written a script to email every girl within a 30 mile radius with a default message… I know… yea…
Anyway she responded with something like “Dear (something bad) If you think I am the type of girl who will respond to some stupid form letter you have another thing coming” It was pretty harsh she totally had my number. I wrote back trying to say OHH NO you got it all wrong but she had me nailed dead to rights.
Long story short sometime later we finally went on a date. Keep in mind I was 420 LBS, broke as a joke (like 50k in debt). I drove a early 90’s Ford Van that I bought from my parents and I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day. I was REALLY nervous for our first date. I mean I was WAY out of my league. I am going out with this beautiful young doctor about to set the world on fire. I picked her up and she immediately looked pissed. She said omg you smoke I cant date a smoker… I was like OHH NO I JUST QUIT ACTUALLY… Which is pretty much true. That was the last time (its been 7+ years ago) that I smoked more then 3 cigs in a day. Occasionally I have fired one up at a conference while throwing back some drinks but really that was the day I quit smoking for all intents and purposes.
We dated for the next 6 months and had a absolute blast. We really enjoyed each other’s company and loved getting to know each other. She soon moved back to Omaha where she was going to enter her anesthesia program and I stayed in Des Moines, IA working for Wells Fargo Bank. We continued that for the next 2 years. Every weekend I drove to Omaha. It was about a 2 hour drive but not that bad.
Then I got canned from Wells Fargo and she encouraged me to run my own company full time. I moved to Omaha and J’s mom Susan (now my full-time right hand employee) loaned me 5k in seed money to start buying computers to resell on eBay. It was really a scary but fun time. I was able to pay that back and kept developing Nextpimp full time. (there also was a short stint at another Omaha bank in there somewhere… ) We got married May 22nd, 2004.
My wife really showed me what it means to have a work ethic. It was all the difference for me. Over the next couple years she continued then finally finished her residency. We moved to Lincoln where she joined a private practice group and 2 years ago in June we had a baby. We are going to have another one in July.
My wife is truly my best friend. The cool thing is she knows nothing about my business or the internet (technically speaking). She still has a LOT of problems with basic technology (like the household remote control) but she believes in me and that was all I needed. She never reads my blog but I have a feeling she might see this post.
I love you J. The last 4 years have been truly amazing. Here is to many more.
May 22, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Congrats. It is amazing how far you have come. I am waiting for you to show up on 60 Minutes one of these days.
May 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Hey Shoe, Congratz. I’ve been married for 2 1/2 years now and I agree, it was the happiest day of my life. Again, congratz man.
May 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Congrats Jer; Best to you and your growing family!
-g32
May 22, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hey Jeremy, that’s awesome, congrats!
May 22, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Congratulations! I’m glad you guys are happy. I wish you a long a prosperous marriage. May you grow old together and enjoy every minute of it.
May 22, 2008 at 8:18 pm
This is the best post I’ve ever read from you. It’s simply beautiful. What a wonderful inspiring story. May grace find the both of you forever in your love. Congrats.
May 22, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Congrats, All the best…
May 22, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I wish you 2 many more happy years
May 22, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Congrats señor. I met my wife online as well. 4 years together, 2 years married. She’s my friend, my confidant, and my biggest cheerleader, even when I screw up. I’m always in awe at how she continues to have faith in me, no matter what happens, and how much our love grows everyday. So I kinda now what your talking about. Congrats again man.
May 22, 2008 at 8:48 pm
May the god grace be with you all time
Very nice story Jeremy!
Congrats and happy aniversary
May 22, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Congratulation Jeremy
I wish a long happy life with a big personal and professional success.
Cheers.
May 22, 2008 at 9:26 pm
AWww, you know what they say, behind ever strong man there is a strong woman.
Cheers buddy…
May 22, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Congrats Shoe! Even though I am not the marrying type (LOL), I can always appreciate a good marriage. Your wife went to St. Johns? I have always thought I would have loved to have gone there. She sounds like a real go-getter. Man, 2 packs a day!? You ever burn anything else, Shoe?
May 22, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Hey congrats on the pending little one. Always nice to get the backstory. Have a great anniversary.
May 22, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Damn that all happened so fast. You make 2004 seem like it was last week. As sappy as it may seem, messages like this are important, they show people another side of you. It’s what’s underneath that makes you who you are, not the flash and cash (although cash is sweet). Have a great Memorial Day Weekend with the family!
May 22, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Congratulations, Jeremy! I hope to one day be as happy as you.. and running my own business worth a couple million dollars online
May 22, 2008 at 11:03 pm
What a beautiful tribute to your wife – she is a very lucky girl! Congratulations on both your fourth anniversary and the upcoming new baby – we’re going on 16 years over in my neck of the woods with three kids and counting. :>)
May 22, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Congratulation on your happy Wedding Anniversary,May God Bless you and your family and could continue blogging.
May 22, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Congratulations man, happiness and success often times don’t go hand in hand and it’s great to see you’ve found both! I wish you continued success and prosperity.
May 22, 2008 at 11:07 pm
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
You’re a lucky guy to have such a beautiful family and your success with business is just icing on the cake.
~Terry
May 22, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Heartily congratulations
Nice reading about you
May 23, 2008 at 12:37 am
I wish you many more happy years ahead.
May 23, 2008 at 2:21 am
You big sap!
Congrats from Croatia.
May 23, 2008 at 2:21 am
That’s beautiful, congratz with your fourth anniversary!! And of course with the little Shoe that’s coming in July, really awesome!! Congratulations to the both of you.
May 23, 2008 at 3:04 am
Nothing sappy about that. Congrats! It’s nice to read a more personal post especially since I – as a Dutch guy – know Omaha pretty well from visits.
Cheers!
May 23, 2008 at 3:05 am
happy anniversary my friend
May 23, 2008 at 3:07 am
Congratulation Jeremy
Nice reading about you 
Congrats and happy aniversary
May 23, 2008 at 4:08 am
Hello Jeremy,
Claude form France say to you”Congratulation on your happy Wedding Anniversary,May God Bless you and your family and could continue blogging.”
May 23, 2008 at 4:22 am
a different post, but still intersting…sappy.shoemoney.com haha
May 23, 2008 at 4:42 am
Busy people here, Congrats to you from an Indian also article was great jeremy.
ANybody would like to be like that someday
May 23, 2008 at 4:55 am
Congrats to you and J.
I love seeing this story online.
Yep, I even got a little tear in my eye reading it, because I have some idea of what you went through.
This is a beautiful side to Shoemoney.
May your lives always be happy.
Much Love,
dk
May 23, 2008 at 5:17 am
Touching story! Congratulations.
May 23, 2008 at 5:26 am
Very beautiful story, Jeremy! Sometimes we just need a motivation and somebody to give it to us in order to succeed in something we do. Congratulations, this lady really changed your life, isn’t it?!
May 23, 2008 at 5:35 am
Congrats on your anniversary! Congrats on the babies too!
Wishing you many more years to come. Before you know it you will be married 20 years! Time flies!
Again, congratulations to both you and your wife!
May 23, 2008 at 5:44 am
Congrats. shoe! its very nice that you shared all this with your readers………….
May 23, 2008 at 6:20 am
WOW, what a great story!! Your wife is beautiful!
Congrats Shoe!!
May 23, 2008 at 6:20 am
Congrats, and congrats. Boy or girl (on the next little one)?
May 23, 2008 at 6:24 am
Congrats! You sound very happy which is amazing hope it stays that way!
May 23, 2008 at 6:47 am
What a fine fine story. What a blessing it is that your wife is your best friend. That is great. I can also say that my wife is my best friend as well. Happy home, happy life!
May 23, 2008 at 7:08 am
Congrats and many wonderful years going forward.
May 23, 2008 at 7:08 am
Uh…what…erm, exactly……is happening here?
May 23, 2008 at 7:14 am
Congrats. That’s a really sweet story. True love is hard to find,but once you do it makes the world perfect.
May 23, 2008 at 7:19 am
now we know the real reason shoe was looking for writers (it wasn’t for fighters.com).
May 23, 2008 at 8:25 am
Great post, Shoe. Sounds like you’ve found something very, very special. Cheers to you and J…and to many more happy years to come.
May 23, 2008 at 9:10 am
congratulations!
May 23, 2008 at 10:59 am
Congratulations to you both.
May 23, 2008 at 11:13 am
WOW, what an inspiring post. Congratulations to the both of you and happy anniversary
May 23, 2008 at 11:27 am
this is an awesome story…i love it!
May 23, 2008 at 11:57 am
Congratulations! What a wonderful, sappy, wonderful love story.
May 23, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Good for you
May 23, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Shoe – Melts my heart away. This is a story movies are made of…
Great story. Wish you and the family all the best.
May 23, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Congrats bro!
May 23, 2008 at 5:02 pm
It surprises me, that you found your wife with a help of a dating site.I always thought these sites are worthless
Thanks for the post and congratulations to you both!
May 23, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Congrats Shoe, once again your willingness to share your life as well as business experiences is a pleasure to be a part of.
May 23, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Congratulations! Your story is so inspiring – I love when you talk about the personal side of Shoemoney!
May 23, 2008 at 6:39 pm
A beautiful (and hilarious) post, Jeremy. I’m on 3 years and 2 months and am loving every minute of it.
May 23, 2008 at 6:42 pm
This is a great post – definitely a refreshing different one. Congratulations!
May 23, 2008 at 9:03 pm
yea congrats man.. man i gotta find my girl too..
May 23, 2008 at 10:03 pm
thanks for sharing, very touching…Happy Anniversary and congrats on ur 2nd one!
May 24, 2008 at 12:07 am
Congrats! lol at the dating form letter.
May 24, 2008 at 1:24 am
so isnpiring…thanks
May 24, 2008 at 3:38 am
Mazeltov, we wish you many more from South Africa. We love your open-ness to share yourself. Awesome.
May 24, 2008 at 3:40 am
Congrats on 4 years
May 24, 2008 at 3:46 am
Really, you have a nice story of life. Event though your wife never red it.
May 24, 2008 at 4:09 am
Congratulations.
I always love some personal posts, makes the internet more human.
May 24, 2008 at 7:19 am
Congrats man, really nice story!
May 24, 2008 at 7:31 am
All the best for you
May 24, 2008 at 8:46 am
Do you have a photo of the cathedral you can post?
May 24, 2008 at 9:22 am
Wow, congratulations. You musta known right away that she was something special if you quite cold turkey from 2 packs a day!
May 24, 2008 at 9:34 am
you lucky mofos
congrats on everything from weight loss to getting a hottie wife
you think you can send a pal your old yahoo scripts lol
May 24, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Happy Anniversary! What a moving love story. She’s one heck of a gem finder to see through 420 lbs, 2 packs a day smoker and $50K debt! I’ll send your story to someone who is around 500lbs, he is a cool guy and I hope that your story would inspire him to look for love.
May 24, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Dude, congrats! I love good stories like this one. Maybe sometime I’ll post the unbelievable story of my wife & I. Congrats again!
May 24, 2008 at 4:21 pm
GREAT story! Happy Anniversary… and many more. And I’m enjoying watching JJ grow in Free Shirt Friday editions. She’s a cutie.
May 24, 2008 at 4:27 pm
GREAT story. Happy Anniversary. And I love watching JJ grow on Free Tee Shirt Fridays.
May 25, 2008 at 2:54 am
Hear, hear! This is the story of a true champion!
May 25, 2008 at 9:31 am
This was a very sweet post.. the sweetest post that i had ever read..
May 25, 2008 at 10:31 am
Shoe, this is very very awesome. congrats and happy many more years in love!
May 25, 2008 at 10:34 am
i guess she did change his life cos most ladies, dont like dating big people. Shoe you was big then right?
May 25, 2008 at 10:37 am
me wish im married already lol. well, my gf is the best thing thats happened to me so far!
May 25, 2008 at 10:50 am
I think I saw her once in Port Harcourt. In a supermarket buying ham…
May 25, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Can I use that script that messages all the girls in a 50 mile radius, since you don’t need it anymore.
May 28, 2008 at 8:06 am
Happy Anniversary! Thanks for sharing your story. So many bloggers just rant and vent, it’s always nice to read something positive and uplifting
May 28, 2008 at 11:18 am
Great post! Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Shoemoney!
May 29, 2008 at 7:17 am
congratulations. 1 year africa voluntary. great. thats great. hope i can one day.
June 1, 2008 at 3:27 pm
That’s the nicest story i’ve ever read on a blog. Truly. You guys sound like an amazing couple. Congrats!
I was married in Omaha too!
June 3, 2008 at 6:26 am
Indeed a really nice story.
July 30, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Your blog is full of funny stuff. Most of all threads are great. I like your blog very much.
August 5, 2009 at 10:27 am
I was searching your blog for something else and ran across this post. It’s not sappy it’s sweet and though another year has past since you posted this, I hop you’re just as happy. My husband and I have 23 years under our belts and looking forward to 25. Somehow that seems like a big milestone.
Hope you continue to be blissfully happy for many years to come.