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Happy Anniversary to Me
by skits at 09:08 PM on November 30, 2001
Question: If Wendy has known Francisco for 4 months, and there are 2,016 miles from her doorstep to his doorstep, how many Valium will Wendy’s mother need when Wendy tells her that she’s getting married to a man she met on the Internet and moving to California?
Answer: There isn’t enough Valium in the world to make that little announcement go over in a positive manner. Trust me.
As of December 1, I will have known my husband for exactly one year. As of today, we will have been married for exactly 8 months. Can you say “whirlwind courtship”? Hell, I would have said it myself, but I didn’t have the time.
It began innocently enough. I was moderating on a friend’s message board, he wandered by and made a post…and it took off from there. We moved from casual conversations on the message board to email and then to Instant Messenger. From the first conversation, we were completely in sync. We finished each other’s sentences. It took less than a week to move from IM to the phone. It took a little over a month for a quick trip to Nashville, where we met for the first time. 2 months later, we were married and I was packing up my child and my life and moving to California.
We are obscenely happy. Disgustingly enchanted with each other. And it just gets better every day for us.
My mother, on the other hand, not so much enchanted with the whole thing as she is bewildered and bothered. We're working on that. Slowly. In another 3 or 4 years, she might even start to take this "marriage thing" seriously.
There's always hope, I think. Don't you?
comments (13)
Woo hoo! Congrats. Happy 8 month Lunaversary. From what I can tell through the limited window of the internet, you and Francisco, really are happy together, which is all that matters, mom will come around, she always does.
Sheesh, it seems as if everyone is getting married or engaged or having a birthday recently. I'm feeling left out on the loving. Come on ladies, I love to cook and I'm really good at it. Not only that, but I'm cute, disheveled, wear (fake) glasses, am and witty banterable. I've also got a tattoo, so I've got that dangerous thing going as well.
Won't someone please be my girlfriend, or at the very least, send me topless pictures of yourself?
by mg at November 30, 2001 9:15 PM
you guys are the cutest couple - more & more you see relationships beginning over the internet, & that's got to be a good thing - it really does broaden our horizons & make it more likely we'll find that soulmate.
i've often thought about the odds against meeting "the one", you know, considering out of however-many-billion people live on this planet, that you're going to be in the same yoga class or produce department & actually connect with that one special someone. i think the internet increases those odds dramatically.
so you see, mg, there IS hope.
by kd at November 30, 2001 9:50 PM
Thanks you guys. You're right kd...there IS hope. If I could do anyone can--hey, I build my entire domain (skittish) around my fear of commitment, and look at me now. LOL
Hey! We have cool little author pages with our archives now. :) Thanks, mg!
by Wendy at November 30, 2001 10:03 PM
You know, I never thought of giving my mother valium. Yes, there is hope. There is hope for you ... and now there is hope for me.
by melly at December 1, 2001 12:04 AM
Hey I'm going to give out the same plea as mg, I'm cute, single, wear glasses, I'm dishevelled...wait, didn't I say this a few entries back.
Ah well, women, contact me! I'm a loveable rogue ;-)
Awww, 1 year and still blissful, it sounds lovely. Your mother will come around, parents always do.
by Mike at December 1, 2001 3:55 PM
Congrats!
My mom pops valium like most people take Tic-Tacs. You know, at least you don't have the opposite problem like we do. My mom say "wheeen are you going to get married?" and "You haven't registered yet? What's the hold-up?" and "Hurry up! I want some grandchildren!!"
by Charles at December 1, 2001 6:38 PM
I think every single guy on the internet has glasses and is discheveled.
I have a friend who was moving to California (from Iowa) and met a Japanese girl on the internet who was moving there too. They met up and moved in together. Needless to say, his mom was freaked. That's mom's job. I don't know if they got married. I haven't talked to him for a long time.
by MrBlank at December 1, 2001 6:51 PM
internet or not - when it's right, you know it. i met mr. sami on sept 1st and we were engaged by sept.12th. that was 22 years ago. we're still waiting to see if it will work out.
by BtC at December 1, 2001 10:24 PM
well, i think i've got everyone beat. i met my second husband on march 22nd and married him march 23rd - twenty-one hours later. he was cute and disheveled but didn't wear glasses. i wore the glasses. it didn't last, of course, but at least i have a good story to tell.
congratulations, wendy! sounds like a wonderful romance.
by bornfamous at December 1, 2001 11:18 PM
BtC...I'm looking forward to telling my story again in 22 years. :) Congrats.
BF...that IS a good story. LOL
Thanks, again, everyone. :)
by Wendy at December 2, 2001 2:01 AM
BF, you may be the only person i've ever known who has me & my three days beat.
by kd at December 2, 2001 12:31 PM
OMG - three days?! i knew we had a lot in common. wanna dump chris and marry me?
by bornfamous at December 2, 2001 4:57 PM
well, i'm a little late on this, but happy anniversary, skits.
look at all the love you've inspired in these comments. look at all the cute and disheveled problems i may have inspired.
mg, i didn't know you wanted a girlfriend. i thought you were just hoping to get the best ass in new york.
by miss b at December 2, 2001 7:29 PM