Memorygirls - The Matrix Reloaded

Kittikins

TMIF Wow, 3 first dates!! How lovely

Cheri - that's such a lovely story of you and your OH, talk about meant to be!!

Just watching Mastermind before I start studying....

Cheery_Daff

OOoh, I'm loving all the romantic tales in here tonight, how gorgeous :T :T

Mr Daffs is great We met in our kitchen :rotfl: (although it was just *his* kitchen then). I'd been invited to his house by someone else, after a ceilidh (I was dancing, he was in the band), and nobody was making a cuppa, so I put the kettle on, and started rummaging about in the cupboards for cups and teabags He thought it was fabulous that I would just waltz into someone else's house and make tea :rotfl: (plenty of others would just think it an impertinence!), and here we are 5 years later :j :j

Not sure we had a 'first date' as such - it took us about 6 weeks after meeting to get together, 6 weeks of living in some kind of fantasy dream land is what it felt like at the time. We walked through the woods, stayed up all night talking, and drove all the way to Manchester to go dancing. I invited a few people round to my house to watch Moulin Rouge, he suggested we all dress up, and turned up with champagne in a bucket of ice The night we officially got together, we lay and watched the stars through the skylight above the bed, which we've done most nights since.

Romantic things he does for me? I came home the other day to find the kitchen wall painted yellow - no warning whatsoever He's busy turning our house into a palace. I haven't lifted a finger around the house or made tea or anything since before Christmas while I finish PhD off. Yesterday I was working in the evening, so tired and fed up, and he brought me a cuppa and a Christmas cracker to pull He brings me treats when he pops to the shop. Sometimes he even brings me underwear He thinks I am utterly fabulous, which is always a good thing I find :j :j And he tells everyone else how great I am too He gets excited about feeding the birds in the garden. He records cheery things for me to watch on the tv even when he'll hate them himself.

I could go on :rotfl: he's great

We too make it an absolute priority to spend at least one night a week together - I think I said the other day, we call it a 'sleepover night' because the first couple of times we did it it felt like a teenage sleepover :rotfl: Often we have a 'mini sleepover', when we just spend an hour together before going to sleep. It makes such a difference making time to *talk* to each other, when we're not talking *about* anything in particular, just chatting, we can be honest and open, and forthcoming in a way it's difficult to do when you're thinking about washing the dishes and paying the gas bill :rotfl:

(oops, waffling on there, I've just come in from a long day of work and train journeys, been fed my tea, brought my laptop, given a blanket, and he's left me alone for half an hour to catch up with you lot while he's gone upstairs to sort the wardrobe out. Right now I guess you could say I'm very appreciative!) :j :j :j Will stop waffling now though, you're probably all being sick at the soppiness! :rotfl: :rotfl:

((((((((positive vibes for MG and mum)))))))

And (((susan)))))) too. Sounds like you're in for a difficult day, we'll be thinking of you xx

Kittikins, so glad you had your chat with MrA :T Well done, much much better to get these things out in the open, especially if it's going to be something that does affect your relationship. I"m guessing he's lived with this for a lot longer than you've known him, so it sounds like he's got a pretty good idea of how it'll affect him, but it's al pretty new to you. So glad you're working it out though, well done! :T

tellmeitsfriday

Kittikins wrote: »

TMIF Wow, 3 first dates!! How lovely

It wasn't that lovely during the two break ups mind....

We first met when I was 23, and I'm 33 now, and we've been together for 5 of those 10 years...

Like I said though, I'm keeping him this time


Cheery, you write so beautifully. It nearly made me cry (note that I said cry, not puke ) xx

Marru

Met ex when he was out walking his dogs and I was just out walking. He then took me for first date from London to New Forest for a walk.

Met BF through dating website (aimed at people that spend time in their wellies ) and on a first date we took our dogs for a walk in a National Trust land (his and my black labs - so we had matching dogs :rotfl:)

Ex turned out to be nasty piece of work but BF is lovely. At the moment I am wrestling with Black Dog but fortunately he is putting up with me. I hope I will surfice from the other end and things can get how they were or of course better.

Anyway, I put my 100 day challenge on the other side but bringing it here as well:

Study (I will get results for my December exams on 21 Feb)
- Decide which exams to do in June
- Get study materials
- Keep up with the study plan
- Revisit my PER plan and do the ones that I have planned to do over this period
- Do 10 minutes per day something to brush my Swedish

House
- Get rid of everything that doesn't belong here (apart from the mountain of books, it wold be too ambitious to try add them into this challenge)
- Spent 15 minutes every day doing filing

Thing that makes my hear sing
- ask help on the other side about this

DFW
- stick with my frugal challenge
- keep updating spreadsheets at least 3 time per week

Healt & fitness
- Start Gateway to 8k training programme
- Do at least one park run
- Do some kind of exercise every day even if just for 10 minutes
- Read 15 minutes every day Beyond Chocolate or PMK

ETA: meant to say I will start tomorrow and finish on 1st of May

MrsMoo2U

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

Cheery, you write so beautifully. It nearly made me cry (note that I said cry, not puke ) xx

What she said :smileyhea

fantasia322

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

First Date tales... aww!

Well as I am greedy, me 'n' !!!!!! have had 3!

The first first happened after a job interview. I thought he was gay, and because I wanted the job I flirted like a mad thing! He wasn't gay, and he thought I was flirting! He rang me one saturday morning to tell me I'd got the job, and to ask me out for a drink. We went for a walk on the beach, and erm, ended up snogging. Didn't go to the cinema as planned

the second first one was just a drink at a pub

And the 3rd first one, he just came over for a cup of tea lol. He's been here ever since! I think he went home one night about a month later to pack his stuff in his own rented flat... Aww I think I will keep him this time I wuvs him

Love the way you call him !!!!!! TMIF, and 3 1st dates is soo romantic too.
Am so bouyed up with this thread atm I just love hearing peoples good stuff. I know everybody has good and bad times too (as my OH and I do).

Cherisong, seriously, have you ever thought of writing a book. You sooooooo have a way with words, that totally draws me in. Both in here and elsewhere. I'm not the only one I'm sure. But things that catch the eye, touch the heart, and stimulate the senses.
You actually put me back on the Great Dane track. Hence the reason the smoking is going. If I don't smoke I can afford to adopt, pay more pet insurance and afford to feed. Seriously, you did - you and the great memories of my lovely Dukey. x

fantasia322

cherisong wrote: »

Fantasia, take a look at this you will probably love it.
Anybody else who may wish to look be warned that this clip contains STRONG language.

I'd love to look Cherisong, but can't see a link. Is it me or is MSE playing tricks:eek:

I found it and know its on youtube but keeps telling me that internet explorer cannot displau the page arrrrrgh

Marru

fantasia322 wrote: »

I'd love to look Cherisong, but can't see a link. Is it me or is MSE playing tricks:eek:

Click the word this (not on this post, in the original or in the quote)

MrsMoo2U

gulp.......... well Fantasia, I was feeling really fed up and low hence me having my silly head on and your post just made me bawl (in a nice way kindof)

Thank you so much for the kind words. I used to write a lot when I was younger (and I was published) but I lost the knack somehow. Havent written for years and so I thought that by doing Moo's little page would help me get going again but when I open the page I just get a block. You have gee'd me up now.

So lets talk Danes............. what a fantastic reason for giving up the smoking. Somebody I know (ok it was exOH) gave up smoking in order to buy a new car. I told him that we couldnt afford the payments as he wasnt working but smoking 20 per day. He worked out how much he was spending, found a loan to match that amount and ended up with an MG. Now I personally think that a great dane is a much better investment indeed. I find the monthly insurance expensive but I have the top of the topest range because I am a bit daft like that. I, however have no life insurance! There are lots of dane rescue places around too and I know that there are meet ups in Scotland for Great Dane owners (must look them up again). He gets on great with Coco too so you would have lots of fun with them both. In fact he is currently sitting at the bottom of Cocos cage and Coco is throwing him seeds and telling him to shut up. Quite why, I have no idea because he is fast asleep. It could be the snoring.

Kittikins

I can't see the link either.....darned shame as I have my own rather than work laptop on, so can actually go on facebook and youtube!!