Betsy Snow White Bibliophile

Tag: valentines day

  • 15 Days of Blogging

    #ValentinesDayChallenge

    How’d you guys meet: I worked with his Brother, Chris, at Chase and he introduced us.
    First Date: Olive Garden followed by a movie.
    How long have you been together: 14 years in May
    Married: For 9 years in October.
    Age difference: I am 3 years and a couple days older
    Who was interested first: I think it was pretty mutual. I asked him out first, if that counts.
    Who is taller: Seth
    Who said I love you first: I think probably Seth because I was afraid to rush things.
    Most impatient: Depends on the situation.
    Most sensitive: Me. I cry at commercials, often. Empathy can suck.
    Loudest: Usually me, but he has his moments.
    Most stubborn: Seth.
    Falls asleep first: Seth
    Cooks better: Seth does most of the cooking. I can cook he just enjoys it more.
    Better morning person: Me
    Better driver: Me
    Most competitive: Seth
    Funniest: Seth, but I have my moments.
    Where do you eat out most as a couple: Somewhere Mexican for me.
    Who is more social: Me.
    Who is the neat freak: Neither of us is a neat freak.
    Where was your first kiss: Chris and Niki’s house as he was leaving after a gaming session.
    Who initiated your first kiss: Seth
    How long did it take to get serious: Not long at all. We just clicked. We moved in together within a year.
    Plans date night: Food, movie, maybe a play.
    Who picks where you go to dinner: We both do at different times.
    Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong: Me.
    Who wears the pants in the relationship: Probably me, but mostly we work as a team.
    Who has more tattoos: Me. Seth doesn’t have any.
    Who sings better: Me.
    Hogs the remote: Seth, but I have abdicated.
    Spends the most: Me, by far.
    Did you go to the same school: No.
    Where is the furthest you two have traveled: Las Vegas
    Who drives when you are together: Usually Me.

    This was kind of fun. I hope you enjoy the insight into my relationship.

  • 18 Days of Blogging

    18 Days of Blogging

    Do you celebrate valentines day?

    Seth and I really don’t. Once I made him a one time only sappy valentine’s love mix cd, back in the days when people still burned cds. (On this cd was: Luckiest by Ben Folds, Lucky Ones by Bif Naked and I’m Gonna Always Love You from Muppets Take Manhattan, among others.) But, since my birthday is exactly a month after valentine’s day we made the decision as a couple to skip it.

    My most memorable valentine’s day was my Freshman year of high school I think. I had been “dating” a friend of mine and he broke up with me as a joke the day before, but I didn’t get that it was a joke. He would tell me that later as well as saying since I took it so seriously he just decided not to correct it. We were still friends, and are still acquaintances online. He is a writer and fairly popular in certain online channels and once he broke up with me by saying “You are on a one-way trip to dumpsville baby, population you.” You can imagine how I was feeling about romance that next day.

    So…I put on a pair of black tights, black platform boots and my favorite Gap t-shirt dress that honestly barely covered my bits and I have no idea how I was allowed to leave the house in it. Oh, and a pair of creme colored lacy butt underwear things so if the skirt rode up all you saw was my ruffly butt. I added super dramatic makeup and dark lipstick. I had my mom take me to Meijer which at the time still had a bulk candy section and I bought 3 pounds of gummy worms. I then walked around on campus at high school all day a gloomy sight in all the valentine’s chaos and I gave out gummy worms. It went over well honestly and I got the attention of even some of the popular people at school with my antics.

    Later in the day I ran into my HUGE high school crush, you know the type I am talking about. I spun for him and asked him how I looked and he said I, “Looked like sex.” Which I then and still take as a compliment.

    There have been many, many valentines in between this one and that one, but that day in 1997 was the peak of valentines greatness for me. Seeing the smiles on peoples faces when I walked toward them with my giant bag of worms wishing them a tolerable day. My whole life may have just been trying to recreate that kind of magic. Thanks to bad break up jokes and my flair for the dramatic.