Pocketful of Joules

So I saw my friend Kari at A Grace Full Life was participating in the BlogHer NaBloPoMo February challenge and it sounded like fun so I decided I want to play too!

In order to keep from posting every single day of the month, because um… no. I’ve decided to post each Monday. Which is actually like a BONUS day of me, because I typically don’t have a new post until Tuesdays. So BAM!

Oh and I totally googled NaBloPoMo because I couldn’t figure out what it stood for (did anyone else think of dowisetrepla from How I met your Mother?). It stands for National Blog Posting Month. So there, I just saved you a couple seconds of googling.

So, let’s DO THIS!

2/1/13: When was the last time you said, “I love you.”?
I told my husband I loved him this morning when he left the house. I also texted it to him an hour or so ago, because I felt like he needed a little extra texty love to get through today. We were both up last night with Jack who has croup with stridor yet again and now my husband has to work outside in 25* weather for the next 10-ish hours. He totally needed a little extra love and even some “xxxoo” too.

2/4/13: Tell us about your first crush.
Okay, I was pretty darn boy-crazy as a little girl so there were A LOT of crushes. The most vivid one I can remember from elementary school was this boy named Kevin Mack*. I’m actually not changing his name for the sake of this blog because it is relevant to my story. Kevin Mack was really, really COOL. Let’s see, I was in elementary school in the mid 80’s, so cool back then meant that he rocked a pair of pegged khakis and a popped collar like nobody’s business. Well, as much as a 10 year old can rock stuff. He was totally swoon-worthy and I totally remember writing Mrs. Julie Mack all over my notebooks with lots of hearts surrounding my ‘married’ name. The funny thing about the name Mack is that there were lots of Mack trucks in the area and every time I’d see one I’d think it was a sign that Kevin and I were meant to be. 2gether 4ever, right?

Be sure to stop by next Monday for the next group of NaBloPoMo challenge questions. It’s February, so they’re all about loooooove and dating. Oh, and play along with me by answering today’s questions in the comments!

*Dear Kevin – I really doubt that you’re reading this because it’s been at least 25 years since I’ve seen you and really even thought of you. However, please note that I am no longer obsessed with you and hardly ever write Julie Mack on my notebooks anymore.

So last week I stumbled onto something fun when I asked my Facebook followers to tell me in just one sentence the story of how they got engaged.

I love the wide range of responses to the question. Especially because some were super sweet and others were just randomly hilarious.

Here are some* of my favorites:

Michelle – Husband picked me up for a Valentine’s date and handed me the ring in the car… in front of my college apartment.

Kimberly – He came to my classroom with a sarcophagus.

Katie – He hid the ring and told me to hunt for it.

Adrianne – As my first-ever boyfriend in high school, we reunited 25 years later and he wrote it in a “will you marry me” yes or no box format.

Faith – He took me to a pawn shop and the guy working said, “Listen we close in 10 minutes. You want it or what? I’ll take off a hundred bucks.” My now husband looked at me and said, “So do you want it or what?”

Erika – We were working together and he took the ring out and said, “Here.”

Jackie – Late on a Friday night after his softball game while standing in our backyard letting our new puppy go potty and looking at the stars. After I said yes I told him no take-backs.

Ashley – Christmas Eve after bringing his sister to the ER.

Courtney – In my bedroom at home when we were teenagers.

Tammy – he drove me down to the Red River and told me he wanted to show me something as we were standing on the edge of the river he pulled out the ring and asked me to marry him!

Sara MC – Just after the waiter finished washing our hands in rose petal water he got on his knee.

Sara S – He burnt the steak but the panzanella salad I made was good, Survivor was playing and he paused it when I was mid-sentence, took a knee in front of the couch and asked with no ring because he knew that moment that he wanted to marry me and couldn’t wait a second longer.

Teri – On the Riverboat Natchez in my favorite place in the world, Disney World.

Mary – Christmas morning in front of my entire family.

Kari (A Grace Full Life) – In a drunken stupor, I yelled at my boyfriend (now husband) that he would never have the balls to propose to me… as he was pulling the ring out of his pocket to indeed, propose to me.

Patricia – Christmas Eve with the ring hidden in a glass of champagne.

Rachel – Hid the ring under his tongue so he could propose naked in the shower with me, the day after I found out I was pregnant.

Kristie – I informed him he was going to be mine forever.

You guys are awesome. You not only made my day last week, you’ve made it all over again as I re-read your comments. So, I’ve decided to make the One Sentence Challenge a regular thing. Because it makes me happy. And hopefully it makes you smile too!

Oh, and here’s mine:

He pretended to trip on something (when getting into bed one night) and when I shined the light over on him he was on his knee with the ring in his hand.

Cute, right?

So how about you, if you haven’t already chimed in tell me in ONE sentence how you got engaged.

*Yes, I know that this is ALL of the responses. But they are ALL my FAVORITES!