Happy Thread! (aka Tuesday Questions)

lalaith50 · January 2013

Let's talk about our men! (sorry if these questions have been previously asked!)

-How did you meet?

-Engagement story?

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you

-Silly little quirk he has

Resa77 · January 2013

Ooh, fun!

-How did you meet?

We were in a production of Guys and Dolls together. I noticed him at rehearsal and thought he was really cute, so I orchestrated things so that I'd end up talking to him. Apparently he noticed me before that (at the very first rehearsal, no less), but didn't think I'd be interested, so never tried to talk to me.

-Engagement story?
We had been discussing whether we would wait until he was done with law school, or if we'd get married before he started. I was pretty sure we were in agreement that there wasn't a good reason to wait. We went on a date for our one year anniversary, and he gave me a gift. It was a beautiful purse...but I was disappointed that it wasn't the ring. Then he said "look inside!" so I got all excited...until I pulled out a bracelet box, at which point I was very disappointed (though I tried not to show it!). Then I opened it, and he got down on one knee...it was my ring! He asked me to marry him, and I said "uh huh...put it on me!!!" (I'm always a little embarrassed about my response, but he just loves to tell that part of the story).

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you
He's done lots of sweet things, some grander gestures, some smaller things. I'm all about the little things, so I don't have any big, exciting story that comes to mind. He does all the vacuuming, he almost always makes dinner. He's always getting me a glass of water, or rubbing my feet. He really treats me like a princess.

erin5286 · January 2013

-How did you meet?
I used to date the younger brother of a friend of his, so we knew each other for a few years just as friends. Turns out he always liked me as more than a friend, and I'd always though he was handsome

After my previous relationship ended, he waited a couple months before asking me out.

-Engagement story?

The weekend before it happened, I had gone out for Chinese with my sister and my fortune cookie said I would receive a special surprise that week. I was SURE that mean an engagement ring

That week, he suggested we go out for dinner, since it had been awhile since we'd gone on a "date". We went out for dinner, but no proposal (turns out that was all part of his plan, to "throw me off the scent" so I would think no proposal was happening anytime soon). We went back home, and I spent some time working on our Halloween costumes (this was the Thursday before Halloween) and then went to bed. He tied the ring to our dog's collar and sent him in - didn't go QUITE as planned, because instead of staying up to read for a bit before sleeping like I usually do, I had actually shut off the light, taken off my glasses, and was ready for bed, so I couldn't even see the ring at first.

It was still really sweet, and more funny since his plan to involve our dog didn't go perfectly, we still laugh about that.

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you
Lots of things, but the first to come to mind are more of the little things. He's not an overly romantic guy, but definitely chivalrous. For example, anytime we go somewhere together in the winter, even if I'm driving my car, he gets out to scrape all the windows. Another time he went out to move my car when I was sick so I wouldn't get a parking ticket (he was sick too).

-Silly little quirk he has
Pronounces "celery" like "salary." Throws me off every time

lalaith50 · January 2013

-How did you meet?

we met online... tee hee...

-Engagement story?

I had been expecting it for about a month, but he really wanted to surprise me, and he did! He came up to where I lived (3 hours away) and was in the choir loft at church when I got up there to get ready for Mass. Just us and Jesus!

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you

I can't think of any one thing in particular... overall, he works REALLY hard, like 50+ hours a week, plus being a student, to make sure he can support us and our future family! Also, all the times he would drive a 6 hour round-trip in one day, even in snowy weather, to come see me when we were dating !

-Silly little quirk he has

hmmm... can't really think of anything that doesn't turn this into a "not happy" thread... ;-) well, he is rather OCD... he likes things *just so.* :-P

sarahdactyI · January 2013

-How did you meet?

In law school through a mutual friend (who actually had a huge crush on him. Crushing Friend) (oops?). I can't remember the exact first meeting, but he says he has a vivid picture of seeing me for the first time

For several months we were casual friends, I kind of saw him as a possible suitor for Crushing Friend and spent a long time trying to make that happen.

We found out his mom had cancer in January 2010, I started making a point to talk to him one-on-one. It escalated pretty quickly, with us having so many facebook posts on each other's wall that he made a secret group for us to chat on in a little more privacy (apparently everyone in school knew we were dating way before I knew we'd ever be dating). I was seeing someone else at the time but the dude clearly wasn't interested in the same kind of relationship I was looking for, and FI actually spent a lot of time talking to me about Other Dude (who actually has the same name, because life is funny that way- so FI dubbed himself "the Better [Name]", or BK). Dude is actually one of FI's better friends from law school, who is now dating someone much better matched for him, and I really love double dating with them because MAN! What a mistake that almost was!

Come late April, FI and I were left in the middle of finals as the only two people in our friend group who had one final left. We still hadn't ever hung out one on one I think at this point, though I had started studying in the library at a table closer to him. He was supposed to come by and hang out when he dropped his roommate off at a party nearby but for some reason just...didn't and totally left me hanging. Then he stopped texting me. I felt really bummed that I had let myself get into this again, went to bed, and then when I checked my phone later when I couldn't sleep, he had texted me 15 or so times apologizing for not coming by to say hi/commiserate that everyone else was done, but his mom had called and they had talked for two hours. I thought, Well, I really can't be mad at him for being a good son. To his mother, who has *cancer*.

I ended up hanging out with him that night and he had my favorite songs playing on their sound system and it was just an incredibly fun time. We went to a concert together the next week, had a few dinner dates and then we left for separate summer internships in different parts of the country. I thought for sure he'd be dating people in his home town but in mid-June we had the "boyfriend/girlfriend" talk and the rest is history.

Sorry for the novel - just fun to write it all out...

And funny to remember just how big a part his mom (and honestly, her illness) is of our story, even though I didn't meet her until a few months later. I've had a lot of friends point out how God's plan works in mysterious way - it's terrible to have lost her, but she's the main reason I started paying more attention to him that year, and maybe God brought me into his life to help when he took her away.

-Engagement story?

Also long, but the gist of it is he proposed on my porch overlooking the forest trees and the sunset and I said yes

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you

I'm terrible at thinking of these things on the spot, but he's really great at little surprises. He's incredibly thoughtful around the house, and his gifts are always things that I really needed or wanted that help make my life better (Christmas: a cute magnetic birdie to hold my paperclips at the office).

-Silly little quirk he has
He's really superstitious about sneezing and seriously needs me to say "bless you" after every time he sneezes. - His mom also did that for him growing up so I guess it's my cross to bear for the rest of our lives. I'm okay with that

elbow23 · January 2013

How we met:
In orchestra - we both play trombone.

Engagement story:
I'm a graduate student, and it was important to me to get all of my classes, teaching, and exams out of the way before trying to plan a wedding. I took my qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate on June 27 at 9:00 a.m. I completed it and passed at roughly 11:00 a.m. My FI picked me up at school, brought me back to my apartment, and proposed in my kitchen 5 minutes later. I had asked him to wait until my exam was over to propose, and he took this request quite literally! He told me he couldn't wait a moment longer and had ditched his plan to do it at dinner that night. Within the span of about 25 minutes, I advanced to PhD candidacy and got engaged. It was a good day.

Sweetest thing he's done:
Two years into our relationship, he left his job, family, and friends in Philadelphia and moved to Boston to be near me. He's a teacher, so this entailed studying for and passing a battery of exams to receive certification in MA, as well as going on tons of interviews to find a new position.

Silly little quirk:
Probably the fact that he bites his fingernails. It drives me nuts!

bibliophile2010 · January 2013

Never not long:

-How did you meet? We met when we were both RCIA sponsors at the beginning of the RCIA cycle at our old parish. We both thought the other was cute but not interested. We ended up talking at a young adult thing at a local brewery (we both say the other started the conversation) and went to the movies the next night and the rest is history!

-Engagement story? I knew we were getting engaged sometime between July and October, because we knew we needed 9 months of marriage prep and wanted to get married the next July, when we would both have vacation. A couple of weeks into July, he got back from a thing at the Grand Canyon and was coming over for dinner and TV. He called and said he was running errands and would be late. I was sort of annoyed, because I was hungry and looking foward to seeing him, since he had just moved across town for school (but before that, I had seen him almost every day). He finally got here and we went to Trader Joe's, where he insisted on buying my groceries, which I thought was weird. We came back, made spaghetti (nothing fancy!), and were watching TV. He got up to go to the bathroom and came back and pulled out the ring and got down on one knee and proposed. I was in total shock and my response was, "are you for real?!?" He nodded. "Of course!" Hugs, tears, ring on the finger. Then, he had hidden away champagne to celebrate. His errands that annoyed me so much were picking up the ring and champage. Oops! Then, once he had the ring, he freaked out and just popped the question without much planning. It was so sweet, but doesn't make for a super-romantic story!

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you A recent sweet gesture was on Christmas. I was so excited about "Santa" even though C is way too little to get it. He kept asking if Santa came and I kept saying yeah, yeah. When I finally looked, I saw that he had filled my stocking, totally without me knowing or expecting it! It was really touching. More importantly, though, the little things took on a whole new meaning after the baby. I can't express how much I appreciate having the floors mopped or a diaper changed or bringing me some more water or whatever.

-Silly little quirk he has He frequently steals my pillows or covers when I am up with the baby at night.

Chloeagh · January 2013

-How did you meet?
We met in FIRST robotics. However, we never worked together, and the one time I was sent to go help him, he didn't need help and wouldn't talk to me, so I didn't like him. We actually started talking in chemistry class a month or two later.

-Engagement story?
He was suppose to propose one weekend, but he had to work all weekend and couldn't get the ring done or visit me. So that was going to happen the next weekend, but Saturday night he told me the ring wasn't done (this was true - a stone is chipped and it's missing a tiny diamond), so I was super disappointed and hoped he was lying to me.
Then Sunday morning he shows up in his suit that he had to wear for choir, and I thought, "OMG, he's totally lied to me." We ended up sitting in my dorm lounge (which is VERY nice) and talking, and at one point he said he wished he knew how to propose. I said I was happy with whatever he did as long as it wasn't in front of a bunch of people. He glanced back at the people sitting in the lounge (apparently he didn't mean to), and I was so sure he was going to propose. But he didn't (didn't have the ring on him).
So then we go for a walk, which is how we both imagined him proposing. But it was freezing and the ground was wet and he was still in his suit. So we go back inside and he changed into street clothes.
We hung out with a mutual friend for a bit, and then finally he goes away and my roommate was gone, but at this point I was convinced I had gotten hopeful over nothing. So I was doing some things on my computer and unwraping a CD when he came over and took the hand holding the plastic wrap. I put it in his hand, as a way of asking him to throw it away for me. He instead threw it aside and as I was about to yell at him for doing that, he grabbed my hand and pulled out the ring box. There was no build up, so I totally didn't see it coming. I didn't even realize he was on one knee.

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you
Oh jeez, like everything he does. I do remember one time when I was upset and stressed and totally freaking out about everything. He dropped everything and drove 45 minutes to see me. I'm sure there are better stories than that, though

-Silly little quirk he has
He has ADD and when he is focused on something, you cannot get his attention. But I am always amused when I ask a question and after he ignores me for about 30 seconds, I'll say his name or something to pull his attention towards me. He'll say, "What?" then proceed to answer the question I had asked. I'm always impressed that he registers the question, and then is able to delay processing it.

Resa77 · January 2013

Somehow I misssed the silly quirk part....hmmm....

He's a bit more vain than me. He likes to accessorize (jewelry, belts, shoes), he likes to put effort into picking an outfit, he spends as much time on his hair as I do most days (although to be fair, I spend 5 minutes on my hair). It's not a horrible thing, and it's not like he ever makes us late for it (he'll get ready in 15 minutes if that's all he has). He just likes to look nice.

Tami87 · January 2013

How did you meet?
We met in April of our sophomore year of college. We both were at a birthday dinner for a mutual friend "D". She was one of my friends from high school and turns out H's college roommate also was in our friend group in high school and had stayed in better touch with "D" than he had with me. Hence we all ended up at her birthday dinner.

Shortly after that "D" mentioned to me that she thought H and I would make a good match. I was interested in getting to know him better and she decided to play matchmaker and wasn't very subtle about it. So we hung out a few more times that year in a group. I found out later H was kind of seeing someone else at the time, but that relationship ended over the summer when she told him she was not interested in more than a friendship, and in fact she told him that she thought he should date me.

So when we were both moved back to our college town for the start of Junior year we started chatting online a lot and hanging out. Shortly after that we were dating and I guess the rest is history.

-Engagement story?

Fast forward 3.5 years. After college we both decided to move to the DC area for graduate school (we applied to a bunch of schools in the same cities that had programs that were good for both of us and it happend to work out). We had been talking marriage, and I was hoping he would propose soon, but had no idea he already had a ring. On a trip back home to see friends over winter break we drove to our college town. He took me to a park where we had one of our first dates. We walked on the same hiking path that comes out on top of a hill and overlooks a reservoir. He gave me a book of pictures of our "firsts" (first football game, first christmas, etc), the last page said our first yes with a picture of where we were, and then he got down on one knee and proposed.

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you

Lot's of sweet things. He is very creative and thoughtful when it comes to gifts. Probably one of my favorites is he made me a yearbook for our first anniversary. He wrote articles about all the things that happened to us that year, had lots of pictures that he had taken and that he got from our friends and even had my roommate who was studying graphic design create a cover.

-Silly little quirk he has
He also bites his finger nails which I find annoying. He is one of those people who constantly likes to be doing something, so when we are sitting he will be touching things with his feet, or he will randomly sing to himself. Sometimes I find it endearing, sometimes it drives me crazy.

professorscience · January 2013

-How did you meet?

We met at a camp for academically-gifted high school students. We took Philosophy of Religion together (at age 13). I actually didn't care for him too much, because that first year he was kind of a jerk (I always tell the girls I teach when a boy picks on them that DH threw Oreos at me at a dance to get my attention). The second year I got really mad at him for being such a tool and yelled at him. Apparently I told him that he made me cry, and that really hurt him, so he started being nice. The third year of camp he was my first kiss (and I his awwwww).

We didn't actually start dating until freshman year of college when we worked at the camp. I was with a really horrible guy and being with my old friends kind of gave me the strength I needed to end that relationship, and the whole camp DH and I had been sort of "rekindling" those old feelings and so we started dating almost right after I dumped the loser guy (It was like four days later -- I said I wanted to be single for a while... couldn't wait).

-Engagement story?

He worked for a company that did municipal water main inspections and actually got sent out to Saudi Arabia for the summer in 2010. His company had a policy of flying out a companion if you're away from home for more than 5 weeks, but since we weren't married I couldn't go to Saudi. So then during Eid DH and his coworkers decided to go to Dubai, UAE for vacation (because the entire kingdom of Saudi Arabia shuts down for Eid) and the company sent me there.

He had kind of made some hints that he would propose (asked for my ring size, stuff like that) while we were there, but I had convinced myself it wasn't going to happen, so I was just excited to see him. On my last night out there we went to a really nice restaurant for dinner, then had way too much to drink. After dinner we took a walk alone along the marina, and he was mustering up the courage to ask, but apparently I turned to him and said, "Do NOT ask me to marry you tonight!" So he didn't. Do not remember this.

The next day we went to the Mall of Dubai and had lunch, and DH kept trying to get me to do some fun things (watch a really cool fountain show, ride the elevator up to the top of the Tower of Dubai, etc.) but I was not feeling well and wasn't having any of it. In retrospect he was trying to create cool situations in which to propose and I was ruining it for him because I am a horrible person. So eventually we just went to a beach and were standing on an observation deck when he said, "I'm sorry, I can't wait any longer," and got down on one knee and asked me.

And I thought he was joking and told him it was a mean joke.

Sigh. But he did get the message across and I did say yes!

-Sweetest thing he's ever done for you

He actually took a day off to drive to Louisiana to ask my dad for permission to marry me. I called him while he was on his way to see if he wanted to get lunch and he had to make up some story to explain why he wasn't in Dallas.

And more recently, he had to drive through town for work (he's working out of state M-F and just comes home on weekends) so he stopped by our house and cleaned the living room and kitchen and left flowers and some desserts from a really awesome bakery for me.

-Silly little quirk he has

He has a ton. He loves Xena. He is obsessed with board games. He can't stand the way I arranged the kitchen and pantry, so instead of unpacking the boxes of clothes that he STILL hasn't touched, he spends most weekends rearranging what I've already done. And then I move things just to drive him crazy.

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