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Grateful today:
- for finishing the laundry, who knew I had all these clothes!
- for my car, getting around town would be a lot harder without it and not nearly as much fun.
- for alone time with the hubby, things have been so busy lately, I feel like I hardly ever see him.
A story about how my husband and I met and how we *finally* got married...
At the end of my sophomore year of high school, my advisor told me that because I had gotten such good grades in geometry, I could sign up for AP Computer Science without taking a placement exam. My seat was next to his but I was dating someone else at the time. Well, one thing led to another and I had to say bye-bye to the other guy because I was attracted to him in a way I had never felt before.
We dated through the rest of my junior year and all of my senior year. My mother did not approve of him because he had no aspirations of going to college once he graduated high school. When I graduated, I chose to go to a college about a 2 hour's drive away. I had to get away from my parents. The long distance thing was a strain and my mother's disapproval and the fact that I was young and stupid, believing it was impossible to find "the one" so soon in life, led to our break up.
Then I dated a long line of total losers and creeps. And then I made things even worse by marrying an adulterous sociopath. When I found out about the over 12 different women he was seeing, I left and didn't look back. Even though it was a love-less marriage and I was miserable the whole time I was married, the divorce was very traumatic to me. I was brought up to believe that divorce was one of the worst things you could do. So now I was 28, and a total failure. I had left my good job in Denver to go back to live with my mom and lick my wounds.
It wasn't long after, that my 10 year high school reunion was coming up. I went out on Classmates.com to check out where my classmates had gone and what they were up to. His name was listed but no information. Whenever I had been in between boyfriends, I would think about him and regret how things ended. I knew I was still in love with him but I figured I blew it. Occasionally I would even try to find him (the internet was just getting going around that time) but I never had any luck.
Classmates.com had a way that I could send an email to his registered email address. I sent him a letter just telling him how sorry I was about how things had ended and hoped that he was doing well. He contacted me and told me how he had thought of me all this time. We agreed to meet and he proposed to me a week later. I was scared that I was using him as a rebound but I didn't want to miss out again on being with the best guy I had ever dated. I agreed to marry him and we got married 4 months later.
Now it's been over 10 years that we have been married and I still have to pinch myself sometimes to make sure I am not dreaming. I think it is was always our destiny to be together but I am mushy that way. ;)
I really didn't deserve that second chance at happiness but I grabbed onto it anyways. I think our appreciation for each other is so much more than it would have been if we had married younger in life. It hasn't always been easy, either. When he first married me, I had such a low self-esteem and I was deep in debt from credit cards, my credit score was about as low as it gets, hehe. He paid off my credit card debt. He told me every day how great I was and he believed in me even when it took me 4 years to find a job.
So, that's just the condensed version of why I think my hubby is the greatest guy and I am so very grateful for him. :)
Diet Calendar Entries for 11 August 2012:
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946 kcal
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Fat: 54.35g | Prot: 94.17g | Carb: 8.87g.
Lunch: cottage cheese, pastrami. Dinner: mozzarella cheese, bacon, pepperoni, canadian bacon, Baked Hot Wings. more...
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2875 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Housework - 1 hour, Resting - 15 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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