8 Years Ago Today

8 Years ago today, I stood in the north Texas heat and married my husband. It was one of the greatest days ever for me. This is how we started :)

I moved to Austin in the summer of 99. Even though I knew quite a few people there, I put a profile up on AOL. Oh, yes I did. Mostly it was just to meet people and make new friends. If more came of it, then great, if not, oh well. I was having a great time going out clubbing like 5 nights a week. Other nights were spent hanging out with friends.

I had met a few guys through the AOL personals and gone out on a few dates. At some point, I ran into one of the guys that I went to high school went. He was stationed at Fort Hood. He was only the second guy in the army I had ever dated. We dated for like 2 months and then out os nowhere, I was too much for him. He very much valued his alone time, I infringed on that. Mind you he was never hateful and we just split up and went on about our lives. I had cancelled the AOL profile while dating him, and put it back up after we broke up.

Sometime in February, I received this email from a guy who was in the army. He was very polite, but he didn't send a picture so I deleted his email. His screen name was something like 69TRITR69. I didn't think much else about it for awhile. Then one day in March, I was chatting online and this new chat box comes up and guess who's screen name but does appear? We started chatting and I talked him into sending me a picture of him. He had all ready seen mine as I had one on my profile. He was HHHAAAAWWWT! Apparantly he had added my screen name to his messenger. He never chatted online and only had me and his roommate as buddies on list. He never turned it on, but he had rebooted his computer and when it came up, there I was and he had no idea who I was, LOL. Oh and his screen name which my mind went to the gutter when I looked at it really meant 1969 Triumph Tiger 69. That is what his motorcycle at the time was.

We chatted online for about 2 weeks, and he asked for my number, I told him no, but I would get his and call him. So we talked on the phone every night for another week before he asked me out. We went out and it was all I could do to keep control of myself. Not to mention, I knew he had tiger stripes tattooed on his back, from the base of his neck to his tailbone. I have had a fascination for tigers since I was like 8. I made him let me see it on our first date and wow! Never thought I was a tattoo girl, but it was just awesome. He asked me on a second date and this was to a motorcycle rally in a nearby town over Easter weekend. Our first date was a Wednesday, and the second one started Friday.

After that weekend, we were officially a couple. About 6 weeks after we met, he proposed. 3 months after that we were married. 8 years ago today.

Lord, I love that man!!!

Feeling much better!

I am finally starting to feel a little normal. Though the sense of smell is still stronger than ever! I can finally make it through the day without feeling like I am going to hurl all the time!! Yeah!!!

The kids have been up to some funny stuff. I weny outside this evening to find my two kids, plus about 3 other neighborhood kids trying to get a ball out of a runoff drain. It has a big grate over it with slats in it. They had a broom adn were all chewing gum........anyone see where I am going with this? It was straight out of an old movie I reacall called The Sandlot. They stuck the gum on the end of the broom and were trying to stick the ball to it to pull it back up! One of the older ones giving them instructions on making sure that the gum has a minute or so to dry before trying to get it to stick to the ball. It was great!!!! Of course the broom was just a tad too short so the poor bouncy ball is still in the drain. Kids are so funny!

Wow, it's been awhile!

OK, so being pregnant is not so much fun right now :) I am not really getting sick so much as I am just always nauseous!!! Being on the computer for too long is one of those things I really haven't been able to do. That is really annoying for me as I always feel the need to be on it and especially check my email constantly!!

Tonight, I actually had to have a friend come over and cook the meat for our dinner because it was making me sick. She is sooo awesome! When I opened the hamburger meat, I thought it smelled funny. It was a little freezer burned, but when I put it in the pan, that smell just filled the whole kitchen. I was on the phone with my friend and she offered to come check it out. Apparantly my prego nose isn't smelling things properly! She said it smelled fine to her and fixed it for the kids. I still couldn't eat it though. I had to have a sandwich. I hope that this all is over after the first trimester!!!!!

News from the CrossFit front!! I powercleaned 105#!!! That is 20 up from where I was before! We also did this horrible thing today! 150 pushups with a twist. You do as many push ups as you can, but as soon as you have to take a break (knees down, butt in the air, laying on the ground, etc.) you have to run 400m. OK, I totally opted to do these push ups on my knees - I do not normally do that. Usually I do it on my toes. It was still just as painful!! I think I had to run 5 times, because I pushed myself till I was going to fall on my face. I suck at push ups, but I loathe running!!!!!!! I have hated it since I was a kid!! Anyway!

I am going to go lay back down! I am feeling a little iffy right now!