It’s so much fun being married and learning new things about yourself, and your spouse! A few nights ago, Jimmy was laughing at me for ripping off a small corner of our little “Blessing Book” (where we write a blessing each day). I needed to write something down so I wouldn’t forget it, and that was the only paper I could see nearby. When he pointed it out, I noticed I do it a lot. I have little scrap notes throughout the house. Last night before bed, I remembered I needed to order pictures from walmart.com, and get an oil change for our car. I wrote little reminder notes on the back of a scratch paper that someone had given Jimmy with their email address written on it. This morning I ordered the pictures and ripped off the little oil change reminder part. I gave Jimmy back the little paper with the email address on it, and told him “The first letter of the email address is missing, but I remember what it is.” Jimmy looked at me like, ‘are you serious’ but luckily for me he’s patient and has a great sense of humor.
on our dresser- missing corner of our blessing book, and I’m not sure where the paper for note next to it came from
in the kitchen- my Costco shopping list and my visiting teaching reminder note behind it
in the office- a stack of ugly scrap notes (but they are effective for me)
what was left of Jimmy’s paper with the email address on it
I can’t think of many quirks to write about that Jimmy does now, but I thought of 2 fun ones when we were dating. The first one is more of an “ism” I guess. On about our 7th date together, we went to the BYU Ballroom Dance concert (even though it was our 7th date, we still hadn’t even held hands yet… I was really slow) so things were still in the stage of wanting to make the best impressions. We were talking a little bit before it started, and Jimmy asked me if I wanted a piece of gum. I said, “yes” and he pulled out one stick of gum (from his nearly full pack) and ripped it in half. I took my half, and tried not to laugh. A few minutes later I excused myself to go up to the restroom, I spit out the half piece and got a whole piece of my own gum, I wasn’t sure a half would last very long. When I got back, Jimmy said, “Did I just give you a half stick of gum?” I said “yeah, that’s fine though” He was so embarrassed, and I was also embarrassed because I thought he noticed I spit out his gum and got my own kind.
When we were dating and first married, Jimmy used to wipe his lips with his thumb and index finger, then wipe it on his shirt. I just kind of thought it was funny. After we had been married a few months, I told him about it. At first he didn’t believe that he actually did that. Then one day he caught himself in the act. Later he said, “I wondered why I had little spots on my shirts in the same area”. Needless to say, he doesn’t do that anymore, but we still share one stick of gum :-)
