Twenty-Five Questions

25 questions from MCF.

 

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?
Didn't go to prom.

 

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
Nope. Haven't since first grade.

 

3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
The wine that someone gave Rubi and I as a wedding present.

 

4. What was your FIRST job?
Little Caesar's Pizza.

 

5. What was your FIRST car?
A 1977 Plymouth Volare with a 360 V8.

 

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
No one. I prefer not to be texted unless it's my wife.

 

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
Rubi!

 

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Mrs. Yeager.

 

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
I flew in to Atlanta, and took a bus to Anniston, GA for a week-long training program.

 

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
My first best friend was Jeremy. We don't talk. But every now and then one of us will comment to the other on LJ.

 

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
Seth's house.

 

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
Rubi.

 

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
Mine.

 

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Kissed Rubi good morning, rolled over, and went back to sleep.

 

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
I can't remember. Something at church.

 

16. FIRST tattoo?
No tats.

 

17. FIRST piercing?
No piercings.

 

18. FIRST foreign country you've been to?
Canada for a few minutes just to say we had been there.

 

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing?
Hmm... either Pinocchio or The Jungle Book with my dad.

 

20. When was your FIRST detention?
I don't think I ever had detention.

 

21. What was the FIRST state you lived in?
Indiana.

 

22. Who was your FIRST roommate?
I lived with my parents until I got married.

 

23. If you had one wish. What would it be?

A gazillion dollars tax free?

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?
To play the guitar.

 

25. Wait a minute - those last two aren't FIRSTS!! Who wrote this test?

 

 

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Twenty-Five Questions

Marriage Meme

Found this at Carrie's Blog.

What are your middle names?
Mine is Matthew, Rubi doesn't have one.

How long have you been together?
We started officially dating in October of 1993 and got married the following May.

How long did you know each other before you started dating?
Well, we met in early 1992. Then we became friends I think later that year and that just kind of turned into dating.

Who asked whom out?
Does offering her a job count? That's indirectly how we became friends. I don't think there was ever a first "asking out". We started doing things in groups with other friends, and after awhile the groups ended up just being the two of us.

How old are each of you?
I'm 35. She's not.

Whose siblings do you see the most?
We see Rubi's sister more often. We see my oldest sister at holidays. My other siblings are spread around the country.

Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?
Definitely financial issues.

Did you go to the same school?
No, but she took a radio class at the high school I went to. That's the first place we met. I was a "guest speaker" at her class.

Are you from the same home town?
Yep.

Who is smarter?
Definitely Rubi.

Who is the most sensitive?
Again, definitely Rubi.

Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Drive-through.
Oh you mean OUT. Sometimes we'll do Logan's Steakhouse or something like that.

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
As a couple? Troy Michigan and Memphis Tennessee.

Who has the craziest exes?
Sheesh it's been 15 years.

Who has the worst temper?
Well... we both have tempers; but mine is louder.

Who does the cooking?
We both do.

Who is the neat-freak?
What is this neatness you speak of?

Who is more stubborn?
Both of us.

Who hogs the bed?
Me.

Who wakes up earlier?
Almost always Rubi. I am not a morning person. Sure, there are mornings where I have to be up early. Or mornings where Rubi decides to sleep in. But almost always she's up well before I am.

Where was your first date?
I don't remember an official first date (she's probably going to kill me). As I mentioned before, we started doing things together in a group, and eventually the group was just the two of us.

Who is more jealous?
I would say most definitely me.

How long did it take to get serious?
One date - we were together from that point on.

Who eats more?
At meals, me. But she snacks and I rarely do.

Who does the laundry?
Who doesn't?

Who’s better with the computer?
Depends on what we're talking about.

Who drives when you are together?
Me.



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Marriage Meme

MCFAT 26

MCF posts his 26th Astonishing Test...
Here are my answers:

1) Which pieces of (snail) mail do you typically open first or with the most urgency?
Books I receive from Paperbackswap.

2) You're under attack from some thugs; which fictional character from one of Joss Whedon's shows is best suited to help you out?
Duh: Buffy.

3) What is one compulsive habit you wish you could quit?
Procrastination.

4) Of all the cartoons you may have watched as a child, which had the strongest lasting influence on your life?
Probably Transformers

SPECIAL BONUS QUESTION: What functional type of fashion accessory is most common among the heroes of the DC Universe?
Capes.

MCFAT 26

Wayback

It's time for a trip in the WayBack machine via MCF...

1. Did you date someone from your school Senior year?
Nope.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
Sorta... Rubi took a class at my high school, but she didn't attend my high school.

3. Did you car pool to school?
Not really. Most of high school, I walked there, until late in my Junior year when my dad finally got a new car and gave me the old one. Then I started driving to school.

4. What kind of car did you have?
A 1977 Plymouth Volare, with a 360 V8.

5. What kind of car do you have now?
Shut up!

6. It's Friday night...where were you?
At home watching TV, until my senior year when it was a good bet I was at work.

7. Were you friends with everyone or just a certain number of people?
Certain people... just an aquaintance to most everyone else.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
My senior year I worked at Little Caesar's Pizza.

9. What kind of job do you do now?
Public Safety Communications Supervisor

10. Were you a party animal?
Absolutely not.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
Well... I flirted. But it was never reciprocated.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
No. I have no musical talent, nor rhythm.

13. Were you a nerd?
No. I was a geek.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Never!

15. Can you sing the fight song?
There was a fight song? Oh right... it had that tune that all other fight sings have, and I think the school name was in the lyrics.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Mr. Wooten was the best. Apart from his English classes, he taught a "Semantics and Lingusitics" class that was infamous.

17. Where did you sit during lunch?
At home on my sofa. I walked home for lunch every day until I drove, then I'd drive somewhere for lunch.

18. What was your school's full name?
Central

19. When did you graduate?
1991

20.What was your school mascot?
A bear!

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Why would I do that?

22. Did you have fun at Prom?
What is this "prom" you speak of?

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
No prom. Remember: Geek.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
Maybe. If I'm off work.

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Facebook has made that possible!

Wayback

Home sweet home.

Storm photos. Yay to my parents for taking in a cranky, short tempered me, a frustrated Kev, and three unsettled children for a WEEK while we waited for power to be restored to our home.

The power lines just outside our back door, with their lovely coating of ice:




That heavy ice coating was on everything, leading to some kind of pretty shots:




Unfortunately, that lovely ice was also on the road, leading to a slight difficulty when we attempted to drive up a little incline into my parent's neighborhood. Dad and Kev had to use a shovel and their gloved hands to dig us out:


The weight of the ice took down trees all over the place:




This one was actually completely across the road the first day:








Where it all started causing trouble was when they fell or drooped across power lines:





Upside? It was beautiful when the sun shone:



And one last one that made me laugh. Mornings at my parents house, dad and the dog hanging out. Apparently this is a regular thing. Jackson says "Spoiled? Me?"

Home sweet home.