link up: what's your love story?

this link up is from here:



i'll link to the blog i saw it on first, too:

1. How long have you and your significant other been together? well... we met online in march 2003, and we've been together in person since march 2009. so either 3 years or 9 years, depending how you look at it. (personally, i think of it as 9 years. we've probably talked more, and deeper, than most couples who've been together in person for 10 years.)

2. How did you meet? {What's your "love" story?} well, like i just mentioned, we met online. we were playing yahoo pool, which was my guy pick-up game of choice in college. i won. he claims he let me win, but i'm pretty sure he's lying so he can seem manlier.

3. If married, how long have you been married? If not, is this the guy you hope to marry? {do tell} not married yet, but basically. we know we will. i'm waiting not so patiently for him to finally propose.

4. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding? If not, where would you like to get married? And will it be big or small? oh, weddings. my dream wedding is somewhere outside, in the middle of nowhere, with only us and our guests and no neighbors or cars or boats or anything else nearby. well, my dream dream wedding is on the beach in some tropical location, but that's not financially feasible unless we win the lottery sometime in the next year or two. here in colorado, i'd love to be somewhere in the middle of the mountains. (in my dream scenario, this location is free of rattlesnakes and bugs and other threatening forms of wildlife. but i'd be okay with some elk or moose or even black bears romping through the fields at a distance.) it'll be fairly small- around 100 people. and that's almost all family. i don't have many friends... it would be nice if that could change, but that's another topic for another day.

5. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share! we're pretty typical- hun or babe. boring, i know.


6. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.
1. i love that he puts up with me. i know i'm not easy to live with, but he does anyway.
2. i love that he wants to take care of me.
3. i love that he makes me feel safe.

7. Tell us how he proposed? Or your ideal proposal? um, any time soon would be nice. just kidding. (sorta.) i don't really care, to be honest, as long as it's not in public in front of a bunch of people. i'm shy and i hate being the center of attention. i'd much rather it be the two of us, somewhere private, but somewhere... ahem... appropriate for retelling.

8. Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and rose petals? uh... well. the past 2 years we haven't really had money to do much of anything. i know that ideally he'd like to be all 3. i'm more of the mindset that when we have to choose between gifts and going out to dinner, i'd rather go out to dinner. or buy groceries with the money. ya know.

9. Are you a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax on the couch? both. considering we pop in a movie and relax on the couch every day, for a special occasion it'd be nice to get out of the house and do something.

10. Tell us one thing you'd like to do with your significant one day. If you could do anything? Go anywhere? i want to take him to new york and connecticut and show him where i grew up. also, i want to go on more cruises together, to lots of exotic places.

11. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day. i'm not sure... we don't have any money and i might not even be in town so we'll have to play it by ear. if i'm here i'll probably cook something.

12. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day? nah. flowers or lobster or something would be awesome but i don't expect anything and don't feel like i have a right to ask for much other than groceries right now.

13. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love. at this point i feel like i should be the one getting advice, not giving it. this has been a tough year. but i choose to be here. i think that's the best advice. no matter how tough it gets, i know that i love him and he loves me and we choose to stay together and work through it.

14. Show us a picture of what love means to you. love means our tiny little family. me, louie, coco. i don't know if i have any pictures of the three of us because i've declared no pictures for 50 pounds (ha)...

(this one is a couple years old, still in the honeymoon stage after i moved down)