Fun Monday

Janet from From the Planet of Janet is our Fun Monday hostess this Monday. She wants us to:

Describe your meeting with your spouse/significant other. I especially want to hear "meet cute" stories. And it doesn't have to be your actual current sig/other. Perhaps the "meet cute" story is a former boy/girlfriend... or even a best friend. Illustrate with photos, of course.

This one is a little hard for me because our story isn't so cute. It's actually a little boring. But it's Fun Monday and I signed up and you are here reading so here it is in all of it glory.

I met my husband while we were still in college. I had taken a job at JC Penney and I was assigned to work in men's clothing. On the way to the men's clothing section I had to pass the shoe/sporting goods department. As I passed by I saw this:Ok, this isn't actually what I saw. This is at the airport in Calgary, but it was 1992 and I was a poor student who wasn't carrying a camera around with her. So for our purposes? This is the JCP in BFE, Alabama. Every time I walked by he was standing behind that damned hat rack and all I could see was his head!

I thought, uh, he's cute, but waaaay to young. Which was true. So in a couple of weeks I was transferred over to shoes - do you see the hand of fate moving here? - where he proceeded to get on my last nerve for the next four or five months. He was 20, I was 24. He was living with his Mommy, I had been out of the house for nearly eight years. He was working on his BS, me on my MA.

We couldn't have been more different. But over time I guess he wore me down. Or maybe it was all of the alcohol I was consuming back then. Or maybe he couldn't resist the hoop skirt. (That photo is actually from high school in 1984, but it was the only photo of me where I was anywhere near thin that I could find. And when I worked at Penney's? Short skirts everyday. Not mumus like now.) Anyway, after a few months, a kazillion few booty calls and copious amounts of alcohol, we were a couple. Inseparable. Shacking up.

We got married a couple of years later and lived happily ever after-

- for the next 10 years. Then we had our son and, that, that is another story........;)

Hey! You! Wake up! Go over to Janet's and check out the list of other Fun Monday participants. I bet they will keep you awake, even if I failed miserably.....