By Julie

A while back I tagged Rita with a meme called "7 weird/random things about yourself." Instead of answering that meme, she recently turned it into a new one called "7 weird/random things about your significant other" and tagged both me and Kevin. After struggling with it for a solid week I gave up for two really good reasons: 1) Kevin and I have been together too long for me to think anything he does is weird, and 2) hey, I tagged Rita for the original meme, so isn't it slightly illegal for her to tag me back? :)

I guess I've had a change of heart. In a few months Kevin and I will be celebrating 15 years of together-ness as we hit our first-date anniversary, and later this year we'll be celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary, so I'm doing this meme as a public service to all couples who haven't been together as long.

1. Kevin is a total guy. I know this one seems like a big duh, but it took me a few years to realize that. That's when I did our relationship a great service; I put aside my prejudices and read Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. (I also learned to my surprise that I'm a total girl, but that's for another meme.)

2. At the same time, Kevin is completely disinterested in watching football, basketball, or baseball. He knows plenty about them to make small talk, but if you really want to be his friend, hand him an epee and join him on the fencing strip. Some other alternatives: billiards, snowboarding, or scuba diving.

3. Kevin makes amazing pasta. From scratch. No really, he takes semolina flour and turns it into fettuccine. This is one of the reasons I married him.

4. Kevin also gives amazing massages. This is another reason I married him, and as a result he's no longer allowed to give other people massages, only shoulders and neck.

5. Kevin's patience is Buddha-like. Case in point, before we got married, he taught me how to drive a stick shift using HIS car without cringing or yelling even once. (Need I say this was yet another reason I married him?)

6. Kevin wants to do EVERYTHING himself. John Gray might argue this is one of those Mars guy things, but I think it 's unique to his family. I mean, how many guys you know would take on home improvement projects that required a jackhammer, a welding torch, or a hammer drill?

7. Kevin lets me drag him out to all sorts of music and art events, and afterwards he tells me how much he enjoyed them. He even watches cheesy comedies with me even though I refuse to watch scary movies with him. In all the years we've been together he's only complained ONCE about the quality of my entertainment choices, and that was when I temporarily lost my mind and ordered Spice World via Netflix. What can I say? Darling, I know we'll never get those 93 minutes of our lives back, but I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you.

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2 Comments:

• At 12:07 AM,  Rita said…

  Woo hoo!!! Aww, I love it so much! 14 years--fantastic!
  
  1) You've convinced me to read this book as well. (I didn't realize I had prejudices about it until you said this.)
  
  3) Funny. Damon and I were just saying this week we should learn to make pasta from scratch. Can Kevin teach us? (Does he do the amazing math-doubling thing where one strand becomes 1,048,576 strands in under a minute?)
  
  4) Nice! A friend once predicted I would marry a man for the quality of his massages. That friend was not wrong.
  
  7) Heh. Much respect to Kevin! D goes along with my Netflix choices, but I can't say his complaining record is nearly that low. (As if D won't watch anything put in front of him, anyway. On a bus in Argentina they had Poseidon on continuous loop and he watched it three times. When I woke up on a plane, another time, he recapped Ya-Ya Sisterhood for me.)
  
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  You guys are my heroes for going to so many cool events.

   

• At 9:19 PM,  Julie said…

  Thanks Rita :)
  
  Re: making pasta, I think you're describing making Chinese noodles. Unfortunately you can't stretch noodles made with semolina like that.

   

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