I met my husband a decade ago...

    It looks like I already wrote about how I "picked out" my husband on AOL instant messenger 10 years ago. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day we met in person for the first time.   My friend Jenny U. had gone up to the Chili's in Grapevine with me to meet him. This was one time I was glad that I had lied to my parents because I don't think, "Mom, I am going to Chili's to meet this guy that I have never met before but have been talking to on the internet." would have worked for my Mom. (Even though I was 22 at the time.) Jason and I were both very shy, so my friend Jenny had to ask us questions to get us talking. Later people who noticed that we were both shy would comment on the fact that it was "amazing" that we met and talked to each other at all.
         I always make remarks in my head when I see commercials for E-Harmony.com and other dating sites. Maybe one of thos sites  worked for you, but I took a risk and met my husband for free. We are friends with a couple that dated off and on a few times before they got married. Jason and I think it's funny that as long as he knew the guy and I knew the girl, we never met each other before April 7th 2001. The important thing is, we have been together for the past 10 years...I love you Jason!!!

8 years married!!!

Jason and I were married 8 years ago today. I had "picked him out" using the  find a buddy feature on AOL instant messenger. I just typed in that I wanted to browse males, between the ages of 22 and 27 in Fort Worth Tx. His screen name was one of a few that popped up. Then I saw that he was offline at the time but I had left him a message briefly describing myself. We then ended up writing and chatting back and forth on AOL. About a month later we decided to meet in person. I was 22 and still lived with my parents, so I took a friend with me to go meet him. I told my parents that I was just going out to eat lunch with my friend who later acted like a mediator on the date since Jason and I were both very shy.
     Two days later we met for lunch by ourselves... Within a week or so I finally told my parents that my friend had introduced me to him. Then I had him pick me up at my parents house. My sister was 9 at the time and she immediately asked him what his last name was... When he replied "Lee" She said "Kimberly Lee ..... THAT SOUNDS FUNNY!!" I though Jason would turn around and run out the door!!! But he didn't. He understood that she was only 9 and attempting to be cute.
                So we continued to date and after a misunderstanding with my parents, I moved in with him.Then 1 year 4 months later we were at my cousin Melissa's wedding in Virginia Beach. At the reception he caught the garter and I caught the bouquet. It was a sign... On our flight back to Texas, Jason was wanting to get me to stand up so he could get down on his knee and propose. I didn't stand up, so he had to think of another way.

   So he borrowed my palm pilot and  found the date 3/22/03. Then he typed "My wedding" and handed it back to me... I thought he had someone else's palm pilot!!! While I was staring at it he pulled my Grandmother's 50th wedding anniversary ring off my right hand and then put it on my left hand. Of course I said yes.

After we landed Mom picked us up and asked how the flight went. I kinda shook my left hand and said "This guy proposed to this girl and she said yes!!" Mom did not catch on... so we walked over to baggage claim and Mom finally asked me what the ring was doing on my left hand... I just said, "Remember that couple on the plane that I told you about....."

Tweet vs. status update

I decided to give Twitter a shot. I get that your supposed to share random thoughts facts or feelings and can reply to others, but I am not sure that I am doing it right. (the replying part anyway). I am supposed to put different symbols in front of  Twitter ID's to reply or mention another person (I think). Anyway if you are reading this and know what I am talking about... HELP!!!
    Is Facebook not "in" anymore? I can spot status' and comments no problem...To me Facebook is more direct to your friends and vice versa. Am I right?

Random thoughts (by someone who woke up too early)

       1)    Is it just my brain, or do you have extremely weird memories from your childhood also?  Maybe it is being in the neighborhood that I grew up in, or maybe being here turns me back into a child and sends my brain back there as well. For example, I was in a bathroom at a friends house, and when I was younger, another friend and I had seen something through the shower's frosty door that was probably something to do with the lighting or whatever, but to us we saw a "black cloakey  looking shadow, and from then on, that bathroom had a "ghost".

       2)   Right now my husband and I do not have any pets.  Maybe that is why while I was eating breakfast and my friend's cat started chasing a rubber band around the floor, I started cracking up.

       3) I wore this shirt yesterday and my friend's Grandmother thought it was a Coke shirt:

4) Well, it's 3:24 pm... I am still awake! (But my brain isn't.)

Now it's 6:49 and my brain is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

Old Room.....Old memories

Ok...well this isn't my old room exactly, but I am visiting a friend who lives in another one of my friend's old house. The room that I am staying in belonged to the "another" friend....Did you get that?
Anyway this room always reminds me of specific memories from my childhood. One memory was when I spent the night in this room as a child and the girl who lived here had a stuffed gorilla. I had woken up thinking that the gorilla was a whole gorilla's hand and he was trying to grab me!!! Another memory was when I set off their motion detector when I got up to get a glass of water. My memories are very random. How about this one the very first family had 2 sons....the one that had this room used to have some sort of electronic football game that looked like a football field. Very high tech for the early 1980's. I also have several memories from way back about the current family...one big one was dinner with a teenage crush.... Hmm I wonder if I will be able to nap now....

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How many maintenance men does it take to screw in a light-bulb?

      No, unfortunately I do not mean for that title to be a joke. I guess sometimes it's nice to rent and sometimes it's not. It is nice to be renting when something big that needs repaired happens, and we are not financially responsible for the repair cost......but on the other hand, sometimes it's annoying to wait on the small stuff to be fixed.....all we can do as tenants is turn in a piece of paper or  make a phone call and cross our fingers that it'll be taken care of sooner rather than later.
         ONE LIGHT-BULB PEOPLE!!!! With the hours we are awake now, we need lights to see. Now the checklist as we go anywhere... purse...check....cell phone...check....keys....check....FLASHLIGHT......<sigh> check.....Really???  No, we aren't camping (although the surroundings might fool you.) That is just what we need to take with us now. What really gets me is that the maintenance man lives in our building. Maybe he eats more carrots than we do, but he also has to have trouble seeing at night I would think...
         Jason would go out and change the bulb himself if it didn't have a spotlight type casing around it, plus we don't own many tools or a stepladder. In the time it is taking me to write this blog, the light bulb could have been changed. Just the one light-bulb in our breezeway.  Oh yeah... when we did actually have snow and ice here in Texas, our breezeway was pitch black. I realize the maintenance man could have slipped, but there are ways to get rid of snow and ice. Anyway, I feel that we've been more that a little patient. This will be request 4 or 5....I've lost count...

Who do you think you are??

That show on TV always inspires me to want to work on my family tree. I am up to 834 people, 17 generations,  and 332 different surnames!! The earliest birth I have is in the year 1435 that belongs to my 14th Great Grandfather on my paternal grandfather's branch. The research has been interesting and fun...
      Speaking of research, today I have been stuck on finding the date of my Great Grandmother's 2nd wedding. I was very surprised to find her name, and my Grandmother's on a census that was taken after my Great Grandfather had passed away, but listed my Great Grandmother as married, and showed my Grandmother as the head of household's step-daughter. I would have never thought to look for that information had I not received an email from ancestry.com with the "ancestry hint" leading me to that census.....

         Good grief!!! It's been 20 minutes since I finished that last paragraph. I had gone back to my tree looking for more ancestry hints.... I did find some hints for my husband's side of the tree. One tree had his Great Grandfather on it. After searching the tree, I figured out that the lady who made it is a very distant cousin to Jason. There were a few other trees also....

   I am also waiting to get more stuff in the mail from my Uncle Bob to help with my Mom's family's branches. I'm a little worried about our lack of mail lately though. Three whole days without mail....Who does he think he is??? (He= the mail man)