Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:48 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:57 pm
Russell is my life-long soulmate...
We met when we were both 7 years old...he was the new kid in my 2nd grade class. He was seated at the desk next to mine. When I said "hi" to him, he spit on my desk. It was love at first sight and the rest is history
We were prom king and queen, went to college together, married Christmas Eve, 1984 and have 13 children (biological and adopted). Our life has been full of both joy and sorrow, peaks and valleys, but it has been glorious and I would not have missed a day of it. To quote the line from "Jerry McQuire"...Russell "completes me".
We met when we were both 7 years old...he was the new kid in my 2nd grade class. He was seated at the desk next to mine. When I said "hi" to him, he spit on my desk. It was love at first sight and the rest is history
We were prom king and queen, went to college together, married Christmas Eve, 1984 and have 13 children (biological and adopted). Our life has been full of both joy and sorrow, peaks and valleys, but it has been glorious and I would not have missed a day of it. To quote the line from "Jerry McQuire"...Russell "completes me".
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:09 pm
That isd a great story Furls.
I met Kimmy the old fashioned way...
...at a bar.
I had just gone to an arranged singles meet-up sponsored by a local newspaper. It was humiliating. Everyone was given an animal sticker (I was, no kidding a "sloth"..so I was in deep trouble already) which was meant to start conversation/find your mate....whatever. Anyway, I was the ONLY guy of under 30 there. It was a humiliating disaster.
So I left, swearing off women like Sylvester the cat swearing off catnip upon seeing the giant mouse/kangaroo. I went to my favorite watering hole to drink away the horror and to solidify my vow of celebacy.
About 3 whisky sours later, a fetchin' brunette looking a littel like Cheryl Crow came up to me and asked me if I worked at Burnies Rock Shop.... we started talking....she liked Tom Petty, Steve Earle, the Packers...and I fell HARD.
We were together ever since (1994).
I love my Kimmykat.
I met Kimmy the old fashioned way...
...at a bar.
I had just gone to an arranged singles meet-up sponsored by a local newspaper. It was humiliating. Everyone was given an animal sticker (I was, no kidding a "sloth"..so I was in deep trouble already) which was meant to start conversation/find your mate....whatever. Anyway, I was the ONLY guy of under 30 there. It was a humiliating disaster.
So I left, swearing off women like Sylvester the cat swearing off catnip upon seeing the giant mouse/kangaroo. I went to my favorite watering hole to drink away the horror and to solidify my vow of celebacy.
About 3 whisky sours later, a fetchin' brunette looking a littel like Cheryl Crow came up to me and asked me if I worked at Burnies Rock Shop.... we started talking....she liked Tom Petty, Steve Earle, the Packers...and I fell HARD.
We were together ever since (1994).
I love my Kimmykat.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:37 pm
Awww, thanks for sharing Furls and Guns! Those are both terrific stories!
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:12 am
I was a mad young poet in my youth. I joined a poetry mailing list online to read other's poems and share mine with the world.
On the forum was a young girl named Aurorya. She wrote the most beautiful poems... so free and spiritual, and a little crazy. Totally different to my controlled, precise teenage angst. And then I saw her website, and in particular a few photos of her. Wow, she is hot! I thought.
I was dazzled by her free spirit and her poetry, and her grace. I wrote to her via email, and we became occasional pen friends. I had a girlfriend - Mel - at the time, so it was purely a platonic friendship. Besides, she was only 15, in high school, and lived in Milwaukee, half a world away from Melbourne.
A few years of sporadic emails later, after I had broken up with Mel, I was working in India for a couple of months. Thoroughly lonely over there, I knew Aurorya's birthday was coming up, so I surprised her at her college campus with a huge bunch of flowers for her 19th birthday. From there we corresponded more frequently, and started speaking to each other over the phone regularly. I told her via email that I was falling in love with her. She said to me, "Dont marry anyone before I finish College, as you might be the one."
She was studying in Japan in 2002, and I offered to pay her flight down to Melbourne for a week. So she skipped classes and flew down. Well, I'd injured my knee 2 months before, and being unable to run, I was quite out of shape (ok, tubby) when she came down. She got food poisoning on the plane over, and spent the week getting progressively more and more ill, until I took her to Casualty just 48 hours before she had to fly back to Japan. She recovered, and I dropped her off at the airport, thinking that the whole week had been a disaster.
But we had got along, she was just very ill. So through 2003 I got into shape, and our correspondence continued. In September 2003 I flew to Milwaukee to see Aurorya and meet her parents, and see the College she was studying at (Carleton). It was then that we found out she was allergic to all nightshades. Tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, ceyenne, pepper, chilli, tobacco. So she wasn't crazy after all
She came to Melbourne in December 2003, and I showed her around Victoria, Apollo Bay, Mallacoota, and we just hung out together. I proposed to her Christmas Day, after our Christmas celebrations. She flew back to the US Boxing Day to finish her College degree, and she came to Australia permanently in July 2004. We were married on 13th November 2004, with Mel being the maid of honour, and Aurorya's brother Jeff the best man.
Afer having only spent 7 weeks together in person before deciding to get married, we're going well. We've been married 2 and 1/2 years, still going strong.
On the forum was a young girl named Aurorya. She wrote the most beautiful poems... so free and spiritual, and a little crazy. Totally different to my controlled, precise teenage angst. And then I saw her website, and in particular a few photos of her. Wow, she is hot! I thought.
I was dazzled by her free spirit and her poetry, and her grace. I wrote to her via email, and we became occasional pen friends. I had a girlfriend - Mel - at the time, so it was purely a platonic friendship. Besides, she was only 15, in high school, and lived in Milwaukee, half a world away from Melbourne.
A few years of sporadic emails later, after I had broken up with Mel, I was working in India for a couple of months. Thoroughly lonely over there, I knew Aurorya's birthday was coming up, so I surprised her at her college campus with a huge bunch of flowers for her 19th birthday. From there we corresponded more frequently, and started speaking to each other over the phone regularly. I told her via email that I was falling in love with her. She said to me, "Dont marry anyone before I finish College, as you might be the one."
She was studying in Japan in 2002, and I offered to pay her flight down to Melbourne for a week. So she skipped classes and flew down. Well, I'd injured my knee 2 months before, and being unable to run, I was quite out of shape (ok, tubby) when she came down. She got food poisoning on the plane over, and spent the week getting progressively more and more ill, until I took her to Casualty just 48 hours before she had to fly back to Japan. She recovered, and I dropped her off at the airport, thinking that the whole week had been a disaster.
But we had got along, she was just very ill. So through 2003 I got into shape, and our correspondence continued. In September 2003 I flew to Milwaukee to see Aurorya and meet her parents, and see the College she was studying at (Carleton). It was then that we found out she was allergic to all nightshades. Tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, ceyenne, pepper, chilli, tobacco. So she wasn't crazy after all
She came to Melbourne in December 2003, and I showed her around Victoria, Apollo Bay, Mallacoota, and we just hung out together. I proposed to her Christmas Day, after our Christmas celebrations. She flew back to the US Boxing Day to finish her College degree, and she came to Australia permanently in July 2004. We were married on 13th November 2004, with Mel being the maid of honour, and Aurorya's brother Jeff the best man.
Afer having only spent 7 weeks together in person before deciding to get married, we're going well. We've been married 2 and 1/2 years, still going strong.
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:23 am
:::snip:::duke wrote:I was a mad young poet in my youth. I joined a poetry mailing list online to read other's poems and share mine with the world.
On the forum was a young girl named Aurorya. She wrote the most beautiful poems... so free and spiritual, and a little crazy. Totally different to my controlled, precise teenage angst. And then I saw her website, and in particular a few photos of her. Wow, she is hot! I thought.
I was dazzled by her free spirit and her poetry, and her grace. I wrote to her via email, and we became occasional pen friends. I had a girlfriend - Mel - at the time, so it was purely a platonic friendship. Besides, she was only 15, in high school, and lived in Milwaukee, half a world away from Melbourne.
One of the best yet! We have such terrific stories here.duke wrote:But we had got along, she was just very ill. So through 2003 I got into shape, and our correspondence continued. In September 2003 I flew to Milwaukee to see Aurorya and meet her parents, and see the College she was studying at (Carleton). It was then that we found out she was allergic to all nightshades. Tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, ceyenne, pepper, chilli, tobacco. So she wasn't crazy after all
She came to Melbourne in December 2003, and I showed her around Victoria, Apollo Bay, Mallacoota, and we just hung out together. I proposed to her Christmas Day, after our Christmas celebrations. She flew back to the US Boxing Day to finish her College degree, and she came to Australia permanently in July 2004. We were married on 13th November 2004, with Mel being the maid of honour, and Aurorya's brother Jeff the best man.
Afer having only spent 7 weeks together in person before deciding to get married, we're going well. We've been married 2 and 1/2 years, still going strong.
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:02 pm
Met my wife in Paris at the World Cup in 1998. She was nannying there, and I was there for a piss up with my mates for 3 weeks.
Met in the Auld Alliance pub, about an hour after I got to Paris, then the next day, I said I'd be in touch at the end of my holiday after I'd toured France following the Scottish football team.
I've related this story before, but it's a bit gross in one part - We'd arranged to meet up again the day before I went home, but she was working during the day so I went for a wee wander round Paris to kill some time.
I was wearing my kilt (no underwear required for a true Scotsman), and after three weeks of solid drinking, my guts were a bit delicate - so in Galleries Lafayette (a pretty upmarket place) I decide a fart is required, but in my delicate state I followed through and left a small deposit on the floor in the store
Luckily for me, not a drop touched my kilt, and after a clean up in the loo, no one was any the wiser (apart from the poor cleaner who would have had to clean up my mess).
So I meet the wife later and we have a great time - she knew nothing about my little "accident" for months until my ex-brother in law let the cat out of the bag. At least she saw the funny side.
We had a long distance relationship for a few months, then she moved to Scotland and we got married the next year.
The end.
Met in the Auld Alliance pub, about an hour after I got to Paris, then the next day, I said I'd be in touch at the end of my holiday after I'd toured France following the Scottish football team.
I've related this story before, but it's a bit gross in one part - We'd arranged to meet up again the day before I went home, but she was working during the day so I went for a wee wander round Paris to kill some time.
I was wearing my kilt (no underwear required for a true Scotsman), and after three weeks of solid drinking, my guts were a bit delicate - so in Galleries Lafayette (a pretty upmarket place) I decide a fart is required, but in my delicate state I followed through and left a small deposit on the floor in the store
Luckily for me, not a drop touched my kilt, and after a clean up in the loo, no one was any the wiser (apart from the poor cleaner who would have had to clean up my mess).
So I meet the wife later and we have a great time - she knew nothing about my little "accident" for months until my ex-brother in law let the cat out of the bag. At least she saw the funny side.
We had a long distance relationship for a few months, then she moved to Scotland and we got married the next year.
The end.
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:11 pm
Hahaha, Phantasm, that is awesome! Great story.
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:18 pm
:::slowly shaking head:::
Aye, and to think I have 1/4 Scot blood in me...
LM, I didn't know you were lurking. Anyone special in your life you wish to share with us about? I remember that teen love was some of the more intense love I have ever felt in my life.
Aye, and to think I have 1/4 Scot blood in me...
LM, I didn't know you were lurking. Anyone special in your life you wish to share with us about? I remember that teen love was some of the more intense love I have ever felt in my life.
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:22 pm
No one to speak of really. 
I am hopefully optimistic about finding someone in the future though.
I am hopefully optimistic about finding someone in the future though.Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:43 pm
Including the gratuitous kilt story?Lord Mhoram wrote:Hahaha, Phantasm, that is awesome! Great story.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:55 pm
Not gratuitous - that was the prelude to our first proper date.Loremaster wrote:Including the gratuitous kilt story?Lord Mhoram wrote:Hahaha, Phantasm, that is awesome! Great story.
