Happy Friday!

Today is my 16th wedding anniversary! Very cool. I can’t believe it’s been so damned long. haha

Did I ever tell you that I picked my hubby up in a bar? lol I most certainly did! I was out with 3 friends and I happened to point out my hubby and mention that he was hot (or cute or whatever the hell we were saying 18 years ago that meant hot). One of my friends said, “oh, I went to high school with him – he’s totally nice.” So having a little liquid aggression in me I asked him to dance and when the evening was over we exchanged numbers. He never called. Bastard! I threw his number away and went about my life. (Later I found out the number I’d given him had gone into his night stand with all the other many numbers he had from other girls. I dubbed it “the sea of numbers drawer” Ug. He, of course, thought of himself as the nicer person as he had actually kept my number instead of throwing it away. Yeah, like he would have remembered which cocktail napkin it was on!)

A couple of months later I ran into him again at another club (I think it was May by this time). Then a couple weeks later I ran into him yet again. We finally exchanged numbers (again) and I took the initiative and called him (wasn’t gonna wait around for him to do it – I’d learned my lesson). We had a great telephone relationship that lasted a few weeks and then somehow, some way we just stopped calling each other. No clue why. I think he was off doing his Havasu/Memorial Day weekend thing that he used to do and then summer hit with camping and tubing and all that and we just fell out of touch.

At the beginning of October I had one of my good friends, Sherri, come to visit me from Kansas. I took her to this great club on Friday night (yes, we did a lot of clubs back then. Hello? It was freaking 1991!) and we had a great time. On Saturday she decided that we’d had such a good time that she wanted to go back to the same place. Really? Well, ok. It’s a damn good thing we did. That night as I was coming off the dance floor my hubby stepped in front of me to get my attention and I hugged him like he was some long lost friend. We were never apart after that. Got married 2 years and 1 month later. We’ve had a small problem or two over the years and some huge problems but we’re good as gold and plan to stay that way for a very long time. Now if I could just get him to rinse off his damned dishes when he puts them in the sink.