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10 Facts About You and DH
1) We are both the oldest in our family.
2) We have both lost a grandma and a father since we got engaged in 2004. Both our fathers died of cancer and both our grandmas had strokes. Our grandmas died about a month apart.
3) We both have East Coast connections. Drew's maternal grandpa was an Irish Catholic from Boston and my mom's family was from Connecticut. She grew up there.
4) My paternal grandpa and Drew's maternal grandma are/were both from Kansas.
5) We both love history. I was an art history and history major. Drew was a poly sci major.
6) We both went to college in So Cal; he at UC San Diego, me at UC Santa Barbara.
7) Both our grandmas could never get our names right. Drew's grandma called me Harriet, Henrietta or Winnie. My grandma called Drew Glen. My grandma's actual name was Henrietta.
8) We both come from families of 3 siblings. He has a younger brother and sister. I have two younger brothers.
9) Both our fathers went to seminary (his Catholic, mine Protestant). His dad actually was a priest for a couple of years. My parents actually met in seminary.
10) Drew's dad was born and raised in Berkeley. My dad went to Cal and we lived there when I was 4 and 9.
Re: 10 Facts About You and DH
1. H is the oldest in his family and I'm the youngest.
2. We met in college through a mutual friend.
3. Both of us had grandparents that passed away last year.
4. We love football but he's a Cowboys fan and I'm a 49ers fan. I've already decided our children WILL be 49ers fans and Giants fans.
5. We're both from California. He's from So Cal and I'm from the Central Valley.
6. We love the ocean.
7. We love country music.
8. H is very organized and I'm very clean so cleaning the house works out pretty well. He puts things away and I scrub and wash everything.
9. H's grandpa grew up in Missouri and my great-great grandfather was from Missouri.
10. H works for KMJ and my family has listened to KMJ ever since I can remember.
1) We are both OCD for cleaning!! Our house is always spotless. (mine is more severe than his, i can't stand a dirty house)
2) Our parents have both been together for 25 plus years
3) We are both born on the 4th. Just in different months.
4) We are crazy cat people.
5) Camping and bike riding are two of our favorite outdoor activites.
6) We are both from the bay area originally
7) We love to cook.
8) We are both Buffet Catholics
9) Neither of us have ever tried drugs.
10) We have been together 5 years and are ready to start a family
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We are techincally Catholic ( baptized, married in the church) but we pick and choose what we like and leave the rest (like a buffet). Thats what my dad has always called it and i think it makes sense. For example, my best friend is a lesbian and that is not accepted by the church so I choose not to take that part.
Just what we call it.
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1. DH and I are from the same town, about 30 minutes outside of Boston.
2. We both transferred to the college we graduated from at the start of our junior year. He is one school year older than me, though.
3. We are both born on the 23rd of different months. Our wedding day also adds up to 23.
4. We love Boston sports!
5. Our sisters were in the same Brownie troop as children, both are the oldest, and are 5 days apart.
6. DH and I went to the same church as children, but aren't religious any longer.
7. We have relatives that live in NJ about 10 minutes from each other.
8. We love wine.
9. We've known each other since elementary school.
10. We could eat cheese and pasta/bread almost every meal.
1) We are both the oldest, and each have one younger sibling (him a sister, me a brother).
2) We met online, in a Yahoo chat room, but quickly realized we had lived in the same town and knew alot of the same people at certain points in our lives.
3) We enjoy doing home improvement projects and like working on them together. I'm the crafty one, he's the handy one.
4) This year we will celebrate our 10th anniversary of dating...and 3rd of being married.
5) We both have big familes: His dad is oldest of 13, mom is oldest of 5. My dad is in the younger set of 8 (with 6 half siblings) and my mom is the middle of 7.
6) We are both really close with our cousins, they are like siblings to us...and we both have ALOT of them due to Fact # 5!
7) I'm a sports person, he's a car/computer person. We've both taught each other about the things we like and enjoy doing those things together.
8) We finish each other thoughts ALOT. I'm pretty sure it just comes from being together for 10 years...but it still freaks me out, in a good way. Whenever he suggests something I've been thinking about, I'm always like "No way!" I love it.
9) Our favorite thing to drink is Vodka Collins...we both order them whenever we go out.
10) He's quiet, I'm loud. People who know us, know this fact very well and don't let us forget it
1. We get a kick out of telling people we met at a bar, which is true, but really my best friend introduced us because she was dating one of his best friends. She had tried to hook us up earlier, but he claimed he was not interested in a serious relationship.
2. I always said I would never marry an Italian, in all of my serious relationships (including DH), the guys were half Italian. We both really wanted to marry Irish people.
3. Both of our grandfathers were steamfitters and served in the armed forces in WWII.
4. All of our parents have two siblings, DH also has two siblings. Both of our dad's are the oldest. Our dad's each have one brother and one sister, our moms both have two sisters. DH has a brother and a sister. We want to have three kids.
5. DH and I both lived in the same style house growing up (raised ranch), our rooms were in the same spot too.
6. We are both really into music and love to go to concerts. In high school we were both scenesters, and it's through those mutual friends that we met.
7. When we got married, DH was older than all of our parents were when they married. I was younger than everyone (except my dad).
8. We both love food so much, I don't know how we're not 500 pounds.
9. All the things I'm good at/smart about, DH sucks at and vice versa. It's nice because the other person can always take care of the other when needed.
10. The first time we hung out after we met DH couldn't remember what I looked like at first. He saw another girl walking towards him who was similar to me and he almost left because he was so turned off by her. Luckily I walked around the corner and he realized his mistake.
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Drew and I met online and talked for a month before meeting in person. He was kind of skeptical when I mentioned I was a redhead because he'd never really been attracted to redheads before. He was happy when mine turned out to not be carroty orange. Ironically every guy I'd dated before had a "thing" for redheads.
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1. We met 10 years ago this month at a Las Vegas nightclub. We were both wearing sunglasses in the club. Neither of us had ever done that before or since.
2. We were LD for 2 years before I took the plunge and moved to NY to be closer to him.
3. We always seem to be thinking the same thing at the same time. We pretend that it freaks us out, but we love it.
4. We love to travel.
5. We love Top Chef and No Reservations.
6. I am a vegetarian and he is a carnivore. But he's very adventurous and will try any veggie recipe that I make.
7. We are both the oldest of two.
8. Lately our favorite weekend activity is to stay in town together and go to the movies and come home to cook dinner together.
9. We used to do bar crawls. Now we do food crawls when on vacation.
10. I will be forever grateful to him for coming into my life and completely altering my life path. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I think the Italian thing stems from having bad experiences with my ex's and chalking it up to the firey temper that many Italians seem to have. DH has it too, but at least he's not an a-hole like the others.
As far as the Irish thing goes, I think that was a weird quirk we both had. Always found Irish people attractive.
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1) We both are from the Bay Area, he was born in SF and lived there for a while before his family relocated to the South Bay, I have always been in the same city.
2) We both really enjoy guns, and while he is a better shot (not by much) with his dominant hand on handguns I outshoot him in long runs every time.
3) We don't yell at each other ever. We have discussions but never heated arguments. People think we are passive because of this but we are both really passionate people we just express our frustrations with each other completely differently than with anyone else.
4) We have the same furniture taste.
5) He accepts and understands my love of expensive jeans and I accept and understand his love of expensive electronics.
6) We let each other control the radio when we are the driver and they are the passenger. Without complaint. And we don't actually listen to the same music (he likes more what I call bubble gum rock and I like everything but mostly 90's alternative).
7) He can find anything I have lost.
8) We are both loud, but he is more extroverted than I am.
9) We are both the youngest in our immediate families.
10) DH is a lefty and I am a righty and it is surprisingly convenient. I also think it is nice because I sleep on the left and him on the right and often times we end up holding hands in our sleep. Disgusting I know.
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We do this too.
1) DH and I are from the same home country, but only met here in California.
2) During one school year, DH and I attended the same high school, might have crossed each other's path in the hallway, but didn't know each other.
3) In the Chinese horoscope, DH's sign is water, whereas mine is fire.
4) My siblings all live in different countries, and so do DH's siblings.
5) DH and I don't drink.
6) I don't like playing video games with DH. I'd rather watch him play.
7) My pillow needs to touch DH's pillow, before I feel comfortable falling asleep.
8) DH and I have never owned a mp3 player, iPod, iPhone, or iPad. We're so far behind in technologies...
9) DH and I did the East-West coast road trip. It was fun.
10) We're both sick with a cold this weekend.
1. We both grew up in Contra Costa County.
2. We both love the outdoors.
3. Our wedding anniversary is the same as his birthday, 9/13.
4. We met online.
5. DH is the youngest of 4 boys, I'm the oldest of 2 girls.
6. We'd like to retire out of state.
7. We both love animals - currently have 2 cats but hope to adopt a dog within a month and maybe a few more cats.
8. Having ice cream in our house is dangerous.
9. DH is also a lefty and I'm a righty - I sleep on the left side of the bed.
10. DH is a night owl, I'm the opposite.
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I'm really enjoying reading these. Thanks H.
1 - DH and I both went to state schools for college.
2 - Our parents were married within 6 weeks of each other and both sets are still happily married.
3 - We both love to gamble at casinos. Vegas is our favorite vacation.
4 - I am a celebrity information whore and DH is a sports information whore. We'd be hard to beat at a trivia game on those topics.
5 - We are both Niner and Giants die-hards (couldn't have married anyone without these interests, lol)
6 - (to buck the trend here) I'm a Lefty and DH is a Righty....he hopes (outloud) that DS is a Lefty like me because he believes it is a major sports advantage.
7 - We both celebrate 1/2 birthdays.
8 - Both of our families talk about the next meal at the current one.
9 - I was ready to get married way before he was. He was ready to have kids way before I was.
10 - We met through our roommates who were dating. That'll be 8 years ago this month.
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My DH was a pitcher too!
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1) We are both only children
2) both of us have grandmothers named Marion and Alice
3) we are both internet junkies
4) We both have medical conditions that will effect us the rest of our lives
5) We have foodie famileies (although DH isn't really, but it helps me bond with the rest of his fam)
6) We both volunteer with youth organizations (he coaches lacrosse, I have my rainbow girls)
7) we both love to travel, and would go almost anywhere
8) He grew up on the east coast, I'm a 4th gen. Cali girl
9) we met online
10) We've never been to an amusement park together.
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Marion is a common firstname in French for girls. I read it either came from the Hebrew Miryam or is from the name Marie. But I didn't know about Marian: I read it could be for boys or girls, and that the clearer female version of Marian would be Marianne. The name Marion is starting to grow on me, though
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I only knew Maid Marian as Lady Marianne, not Marian.
How interesting. I didn't know some names like Hilary, Ashley, etc were traditionally boy names before!
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1. We are both the oldest children in our families and each have one sibling that is four years younger than us.
2. DH and my mom were both born on August 16 (different years of course) and I thought DH was joking with me when he first told me his birthday.
3. We were married on my birthday.
4. We are opposition political parties and somehow survive elections without too much drama.
5. We both love classic cars. When we met, I was driving a 68 Mustang which is what first caught DH's eyes (then he saw my boobs and had to talk to me). I didn't even know what a Hudson car was until I met DH, and now I know too much about them.
6. We have both suffered the sudden loss of a parent since we met which is an unfortunate bond we share.
7. We both have Portuguese grandmas that are awesome and get along great with each other.
8. DH took me to my homecoming dance and senior ball and attended my high school and college graduations. I guess we have known each other way too long.
9. Our song is "Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC because that was the first song played by AC/DC at their concert in 2000, the first concert we attended together. We also share a love of heavy metal and rock music.
10. We are both huge 49er fans and used to enjoy going to the games until the tickets and parking became way too expensive for our budget.
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