A meme...

I don't usually do these but I liked this one. I saw it over here.

What are your middle names?
Mine is Dale, his is Edward.

How long have you been together?
Since September 1986.

1986/87

How long did you know each other before you started dating?
A few weeks.

Who asked whom out?
I don't know...we just began hanging out. Just happened.

How old are each of you?
I’m 39 and he is 40.

Whose siblings do you see the most?
My sister.

Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?
I can't say there is one thing that is hard. Life can be hard, relationships can be hard, raising a family can be hard. Somehow it all just sort of works out for us. We are very fortunate.

Did you go to the same school?
No. I met him through a friend in grade 11.

Are you from the same home town?
Yes.

Summer 1990

Who is smarter?
I am the better speller ;)

Who is the most sensitive?
I think he can be more sensitive then me and I think it is because I don't make time to be sensitive. My head is always racing ten steps ahead of were I am at and so maybe a good new years resolution would be working on being more sensitive.

Where do you eat out most as a couple?
It does not happen often. We just go where ever. Because it is such a treat I think we both just are happy to be eating out without kids. Now we order in often and it usually is chicken wings. We both like going out but actually prefer curling up eating wings and watching our favorite shows. Usually they are taped and we catch up on weekends once kids are in bed.

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Florida.

Who has the craziest exes?
I don't think either of us do. We were so young when we met and really didn't get into crazy ex type situations. His first girlfriend through, lives about 6 blocks from us.....I walk past her house everyday to take my daughter to school. She does not know me and I don't think she knows we live so close. It was one of her neighbors whose son is in my daughter class, somehow it came up that they had this crazy neighbor who wasn't talking to them because of something rather stupid. Turns out the crazy neighbor is her mother and she lives like 3 doors down from her mother. When they were telling me this story I asked what the daughters name was because I had seen this lady before coming out of this house a few years back and thought she looked like this ex-girlfriend....they went out for a good year and I have seen pictures of them in old slides from his parents. Sure enough it was her.....kinda creepy in a twilight zone kinda way. We get a chuckle out of it...by the sounds of it, it is a good thing for hubby she turned out to be an ex.

Who has the worst temper?
He rarely gets mad but I would say that he does.

Who does the cooking?
Mostly me but he can cook and I love it when he does!!!

Who is the neat-freak?
Me....not so much a neat freak but rather a anti-clutter freak. I don't care about dust bunnies under the bed or a layer of dust on my shelves but I can not function well with crap everywhere and he is a crap everywhere kinda guy.

Who is more stubborn?
Probably a tie.

Who hogs the bed?
We have a king bed. Lots of room. He works nights and so we only have to share on weekends. The eight year old in our life hogs the bed the most...usually at 3 am!

Who wakes up earlier?
When we wake up together it would be me.

Where was your first date?
He met me at the top of my street since I was sure my mom and dad would not let me go out with a boy that drove. In his '71 Chevelle.

He had a friend with him. We drop him off and picked up our mutual friend that introduced us. We went through the Burger King drive through. He thought our friend had money and she thought he had money and he would not take my money so I had to "loan" it to my friend so he could borrow it to pay for what we ordered. We then went driving around.

He dropped me off at home and my parents, sister and her boyfriend were all walking up to a local pizza place and my mom and dad invited us along. He was all worried because his jeans had rips/holes in them.

Who is more jealous?
Me.

How long did it take to get serious?
We were teenagers. Not long. We broke up after about 3 months and then got back together about 3 months later.

We dated for a year maybe and he bought me a promise ring. We got engaged after about 5 years together and married about a year or so after that.

I am estimating as I never kept track of dates. The promise ring was at Christmas time. He gave me this real cute Hersey kiss bear a few weeks before Christmas. I was so excited because the only way you could get those was by spending $200 at a local clothing store and I had been so wanting a leather jacket from there. So I figured that was what I was getting for Christmas. Christmas comes and he gives me a big box...from this store. Inside is a leather jacket but as I pull it out I realize it was my sisters jacket. In the pocket was my ring.

He proposed at Christmas time as well. His parents and my parents got together with us. He dressed up in a suit and got down on one knee in front of them to ask me.

February 9th, 1991

Who eats more?
Probably me.

Who does the laundry?
Me. The odd time he will throw in a load.

Who’s better with the computer?
Him.

Who drives when you are together?
He drives because I don't have a license....I have tried but just have not a lot of ambition to be responsible for a moving vehicle on the road. I get to knit a lot when we drive......much better on my nerves.

September 2009