Anniversaries.....
This Valentines day just past 14.2.10 was the tenth anniversary of me having met My Man. We (being a group of friends who gathered to go ice skating once a week.) were at the local Mackas. I had just had my tattoo done on my back and wasn't up for skating due to a stress headache so I caught up with people at the Mackas.
I saw this rather striking, cheeky young man talking to people I knew and my heart fluttered. I could never have such a man but maybe I can at least get to know him maybe even be his friend. I would be happy if I could manage to pull that off.
I did my best to try and act cool, not too outrageous and not too meek. I failed miserably. I wound up talking about my tattoo experience and the resulting headache. I wound up talking (rather loudly) with me mate Jacks about vibrators that were in a catalog that she had brought with her. (Don't ask me why she had it, she just did.)
I managed to wrangle a very effective headache relieving massage out of this gorgeous man. I couldn't believe my luck. I think we may have exchanged email I'm not sure but I was thinking this will be the first and last time I hear or see this man. I could have cried. Here I go again pinning for someone who doesn't want me back.
Brilliantly though email and ICQ contact was made about a month or so later. We met in the city wearing matching big black coats and all black clothes on a rather hot day. We drove, we sat and talked, we smoked, we laughed. I drove him to where he was staying. I knew this house, I knew the people who lived here. I felt at home here. I stayed the night and we watched movies and had much fun. I still maintain that the best love story is The Crow.
I left the next day rather reluctantly to go to work. "We'll just see what happens"
I had to get some other people out of my system before I would or could commit to this man. I did what I had to and we started going out soon after I had sorted myself out. Anzac day 2000 was the best day ever. We officially were referring to ourselves as a couple.
Six months passed. Many four hour trips up to Geraldton and sleeps in the car later and we were still going pretty strong. We felt like we could be it for each other. The idea of getting married was being kicked around (a lot). Unknown to me, it is a leap year roll reversal tradition where a girl can propose to a guy. I proposed to him and he accepted.
2003 October 25th The big day of I Do. We were so buggered from all the planning and wedding jitters we just went to our friends house and slept after spending one night in a hotel. Thanks guys for that. We didn't have a lot of money for a honeymoon so we postponed it for three years.
I quit smoking Christmas 2004 in preparation for trying for a baby Christmas 2005. He quit July 2005 in his prep. 2006 We find out finally that I am pregnant and I get all soppy over not having had a honeymoon (also we saw that you could go and pat a tiger at Dreamworld for a not so large sum of money) We got planning and at about five months being pregnant we went on our honeymoon. I have never had a holiday of such magnitude ever and to be spending it with My Man was just the best experience.
12th March 2007 I woke at midday feeling pretty rotten like I had eaten something I shouldn't have. I thought maybe this is what being in labor for me is like. They told me it could take a while and so I made some phone calls and told My Man (amongst others) that this might be a happenen thang and then I went shopping. The girls at the service desk of our Woolies all asked when I was due and I told them that I thought I was in labor now to which they mildly freaked out. I told them I would clean up any mess if I made one.
13th of March 2007 Little Man made his debut appearance. We are so very lucky that we have him. He is the most beautiful and intelligent and loving child I know. Now I have another person to care for but in a much more personal and special and loving way that until now was so foreign to me. You just can't explain it you just live it.
October 25th 2008, Our fifth wedding anniversary and although we have had some rough patches we are still going strong. I just can't believe that so much time has passed so effortlessly.
This year we have been married for seven years, our Little Man is turning three and there is still so much we want to do and accomplish together. Our lives are a work in progress and I think we are doing rather well so far. No one is perfect but we can only try and improve what we already have and I think we are well on the way to our goals.
I saw this rather striking, cheeky young man talking to people I knew and my heart fluttered. I could never have such a man but maybe I can at least get to know him maybe even be his friend. I would be happy if I could manage to pull that off.
I did my best to try and act cool, not too outrageous and not too meek. I failed miserably. I wound up talking about my tattoo experience and the resulting headache. I wound up talking (rather loudly) with me mate Jacks about vibrators that were in a catalog that she had brought with her. (Don't ask me why she had it, she just did.)
I managed to wrangle a very effective headache relieving massage out of this gorgeous man. I couldn't believe my luck. I think we may have exchanged email I'm not sure but I was thinking this will be the first and last time I hear or see this man. I could have cried. Here I go again pinning for someone who doesn't want me back.
Brilliantly though email and ICQ contact was made about a month or so later. We met in the city wearing matching big black coats and all black clothes on a rather hot day. We drove, we sat and talked, we smoked, we laughed. I drove him to where he was staying. I knew this house, I knew the people who lived here. I felt at home here. I stayed the night and we watched movies and had much fun. I still maintain that the best love story is The Crow.
I left the next day rather reluctantly to go to work. "We'll just see what happens"
I had to get some other people out of my system before I would or could commit to this man. I did what I had to and we started going out soon after I had sorted myself out. Anzac day 2000 was the best day ever. We officially were referring to ourselves as a couple.
Six months passed. Many four hour trips up to Geraldton and sleeps in the car later and we were still going pretty strong. We felt like we could be it for each other. The idea of getting married was being kicked around (a lot). Unknown to me, it is a leap year roll reversal tradition where a girl can propose to a guy. I proposed to him and he accepted.
2003 October 25th The big day of I Do. We were so buggered from all the planning and wedding jitters we just went to our friends house and slept after spending one night in a hotel. Thanks guys for that. We didn't have a lot of money for a honeymoon so we postponed it for three years.
I quit smoking Christmas 2004 in preparation for trying for a baby Christmas 2005. He quit July 2005 in his prep. 2006 We find out finally that I am pregnant and I get all soppy over not having had a honeymoon (also we saw that you could go and pat a tiger at Dreamworld for a not so large sum of money) We got planning and at about five months being pregnant we went on our honeymoon. I have never had a holiday of such magnitude ever and to be spending it with My Man was just the best experience.
12th March 2007 I woke at midday feeling pretty rotten like I had eaten something I shouldn't have. I thought maybe this is what being in labor for me is like. They told me it could take a while and so I made some phone calls and told My Man (amongst others) that this might be a happenen thang and then I went shopping. The girls at the service desk of our Woolies all asked when I was due and I told them that I thought I was in labor now to which they mildly freaked out. I told them I would clean up any mess if I made one.
13th of March 2007 Little Man made his debut appearance. We are so very lucky that we have him. He is the most beautiful and intelligent and loving child I know. Now I have another person to care for but in a much more personal and special and loving way that until now was so foreign to me. You just can't explain it you just live it.
October 25th 2008, Our fifth wedding anniversary and although we have had some rough patches we are still going strong. I just can't believe that so much time has passed so effortlessly.
This year we have been married for seven years, our Little Man is turning three and there is still so much we want to do and accomplish together. Our lives are a work in progress and I think we are doing rather well so far. No one is perfect but we can only try and improve what we already have and I think we are well on the way to our goals.