Happy Birthday to my BFF
I started this post on Saturday, but I ended up not finishing it then, and I didn't want to cut it short. It does not follow my short post rules, but rules were made to be broken, right?
Today is my wife's birthday. I'm not real big on cards. So, I thought I would post on here what my card might say if I were to buy one.
It would definitely have an I love you or two in there. There are a lot of things that I love about Kim. The thing that I would probably put at the top of the list is her friendship. I'll focus on her friendship towards me1, but I feel like she is a good friend to lots of people.
Here's a little background... Kim and I met in Kissimmee, FL at Longhorn Steakhouse. She had worked there since she was born, or if not that long, close to it. I was hired in the summer of 2001. I can remember the first time I saw Kim. It was right after I was hired. She was walking into work, having just come from her other job at the courthouse2. The first thing I noticed was her charming personality and great sense of humor. Of course, that's a lie. I saw her and thought, "She's cute. I'm gonna like working here."3
Given that I was an attractive, intelligent, funny, available4, young man I was sure that she wanted to get to know me, even if she wasn't aware of it, yet. So, I made it a point to find a way to get to talk to her. We started talking at work a lot. Then, we started talking outside of work. We would talk in the parking at work for hours. We talked at TGIFridays. We talked while sitting on the picnic table at my apartment complex. We talked a lot.
It was a couple months later that we realized that we spent pretty much every day together, and we had our DTR and decided to use the whole "boyfriend-girlfriend" labeling.
I think the beginning of our relationship was incredible. There was none of the oh-my-gosh-I've-got-to-impress-[her|him] stuff. We weren't looking for a soul mate, or any kind of mate for that matter. So, we didn't find one. We each found a friend.5
So, to my BFF, I want to wish you the very biggest happy birthday you can imagine, like, imagine a hu-nor-monsterous balloon shaped like a turtle holding a flag twice the size of its shell that says Happy Birthday, or something like that.
I love you. KIT. Stay Sweet.
- ↩It is my blog after all.
- ↩Yeah, she had two jobs. She was putting herself through college. So, throw school on top of that, too. She's a hardworker, which is another thing I love about her, but that discussion is for another post.
- ↩I found out about those other things soon afterward.
- ↩Did I mention humble?
- ↩Of course, that friend turned out to be a spouse and a mate, but that came a little later.
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posted by Shannon Smith @ 4/21/2007
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Happy birthday indeed, Kim. Retroactively.
I feel I should mention for those that don't know, a DTR is the "Defining the Relationship" moment. You're welcome.
Shannon, gotta work on your footnote links.
I was disappointed in the wikipedia entry for DTR. It was just one line that said, "Define the Relationship: a discussion that a dating couple has when determining what to call their relationship."
Jeramie, what do you mean by "work on your footnote links"?
Thanks for the shout-out, honey. This "card" brought a much-needed smile to my face this morning. Thank you for being so good to me.
And thanks for the retroactive birthday wish, Jeramie. I look forward to having you and your lovely wife as neighbors.
Kim,
You're welcome. I am also looking very forward to living in the same neighborhood. Joye and I are really excited.
Shannon,
When I click the footnote links it takes me to a page stating that "The page cannot be found".
I know from persoal experience that there are some among us that get "cramps in my scrolling finger" from reading the footnotes without proper anchor tags (Daniel)
Also your "5th" footnote link refers your readers to your "3rd" footnote.
Otherwise, excellent post.
Okay, I took care of the footnote problem.
no, you didn't. but its okay.
You are so needy. I fixed them so you didn't have to scroll back up.
Now you can click and go down and click and go up. Happy?
Way to take a post about my wonderful wife and make it into something about some flippin' footnotes. Geez.
I'm truly sorry ...that you can't write code.
Happy Birthday, Kim.
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