10.15.2009

the hot 27...from jesse

as a belated birthday gift, i asked jesse to answer these 27 questions about our lives together, how he loves me, what he sees in me, etc. this was a purely self-centered request, and he delivered. his answers had me crying from laughing so hard. it amazing how well you know someone and never think to ask them fun and direct questions like this.
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1. please list 27 things/traits/facts you love about me on this my 27th bday. I love that you are a wicked hot, super-genius, jesus-loving, judah-making, athletic, no BS, kind hearted, georgia tech loving, fantasy football playing, volleyball star. I love the fact that you can flick a frisbee (and could on the first try), that you like to cook, that you are so good at taboo you have to shout out the answers when it isn't your turn, that you like to travel, that you are so damn responsible, that you are an excel and budgeting master, that you love harry potter and the wheel of time (dork!), that you are pretty sure you could use the Force if you tried hard enough, and that you have a masterful handle on the use of swear words. I love that you are absolutely hilarious, that you are an amazing blogger (@podcast.edu), that you have a fabulous vocabulary, that you are full of life and passion, that you want to change the world, that you dream big and want our lives to be magical, and that you for some reason thought it would be a good idea to marry me.
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at the Harry Potter 6 Release Party 7/16/2005. 3 years earlier, before meeting jesse, i went alone and still wore the glasses
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2. what is the best meal i have ever cooked us? tough call...you've made some stellar ones lately. I'd have to say, the first time you made the sesame peanut salmon and orange rice with the asian salad.<-- Ballin' (runners up: meat lasagna and bison burgers)
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3. the worst? the recreation of the longhorn sesame crusted ahi tuna; not terrible, but I'll take the original
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4. what is your first memory of me? probably thinking you had a nice butt playing volleyball, but the first vivid memory was you sleeping facedown on our couch in ULC 217 and thinking you were a boy
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yikes. cant imagine why he though i was a boy. perhaps only my triceps were showing
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5. when was the first time you knew you liked me? when you came down and visited me in F-town when I impaled my foot on the fence and played poker with my family
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6. ...loved me? when we had spent pretty much every day together for a month and I was in no way at all tired of you
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halloween 2004. you will never know how badly i wanted to stay in the car all night
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7. ...were going to marry me? when we were in Spain with my parents over easter and we stayed up and talked in the hotel lobby. (after dating 8 months)
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couldnt find the pics from the easter trip, so this is from when i went back to visit a few months later

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8. what would you change about me if you could? I would give you more patience and I would make you give yourself the same grace that God has given you.
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9. what are your top 5 favorite things to do with me? be out together with our friends, travel, um... yeah, hang out with judah, play sports
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puebla, mexico

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key west, fl

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san sebastian, spain
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10. if you had to describe the way you feel about me using one song what would it be? "the power of love" by Huey Lewis
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The power of love is a curious thing;
Make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove;
More than a feeling thats the power of love
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Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream;
Stronger and harder than a bad girls dream
Make a bad one good make a wrong one right;
Power of love that keeps you home at night
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You dont need money, dont take fame;
Dont need no credit card to ride this train
Its strong and its sudden and its cruel sometimes;
But it might just save your life
Thats the power of love
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First time you feel it, it might make you sad;
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
But youll be glad baby when youve found;
Thats the power makes the world go round

And it dont take money, dont take fame;
Dont need no credit card to ride this train
Its strong and its sudden it can be cruel sometimes;
But it might just save your life
Thats the power of love
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They say that all in love is fair
Yeah, but you dont care
But you know what to do,
When it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above;
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love,
Can you feel it ?
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11. what's the hardest you can remember laughing with me? probably after we got in a huge fight our first year of marriage and you hid my keys so i couldn't leave to go to a Presidential Scholar Alumni function at tech. and i looked everywhere but they were under the cushion of the couch you were sitting on and how ridiculous that was of a thing to do. we always have big laughs AFTER the fights about the stupid ass things we do and say IN them.
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12. if you had to marry one of my friends who would it be? (if everyone was single) Hmm, Natalie? I honestly don't know.
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i mean seriously , i'd pretty much marry her too. MILF!
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13. if you had to let me marry one of your friends, who would you pick? (if everyone was single) Neal
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thats Neal on the far left. we love him. he's in our family plan (in more ways than one evidently)
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14. best way you think we've grown since knowing each other. Learning to fight fair

hmmm, seems fair to me
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15. thing we still need to work on the most. learning how to give up to avoid the fight all together
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16. what are my best "mommying" skills? soft heart, creativity, tough love, rejection of the status quo, and the desire for our kids to be different, in a good way;)
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desire to be different: letting the 4 month old take the car for a spin
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17. best date we've ever been on? the Ted's date when we were just friends that wasn't a date, no wait our first time at the Hil in Serenbe
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at the Hil (not the first visit, but the first after judah). salivating just thinking of it
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18. best gift i've ever given you? judah

you're very welcome. technically you gave him to me first
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19. what do i do that makes you laugh the hardest? when you use baby talk to describe things that no baby should ever talk about and when you do ridiculous things to get over a fight like steal the covers, mutter threats under your breath, or kick me repeatedly, then jump on me.
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20. what do i do that makes you the maddest? escalate conflicts
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.21. what do you think i'm the best in the world at? picture captions and scattergories
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22. ...the worst in the world? receiving compliments
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23. most surprising thing you've learned about me? that you've read every star wars book multiple times.
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are we surprised that this 2nd grader grew up to own over 100 star wars books? (cool points redemption: i won "most athletic" 2nd grader this day. that cargo net bent to my will regularly). that perm lasted about 4 hours longer until i jumped in a pool at an end of the year party.
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24. name 3 things i've made you try/love that you never would have on your own. sushi, volleyball, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
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getting sushi with the bug (totally posed with the chopsticks. i was proud that we were out with such a youngin')
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25. name your top 4 of my physical characteristics. face, boobs, hair, hands and feet
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26. name something i'll never be better than you at and something you'll never be better than me at. you'll never be better than me at fantasy football but I'll never be better than you at math or word games
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27. would you do it all over again? duh, in a heartbeat!


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mwah! thanks hubface!

3 comments:

  1. so cute keight! when i turn 27 in the summer i may have chris do the same thing... wait - maybe i'll go ahead and give it to him now... why not? except i don't think i want to know which one of my friends he'd marry... yikes!

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  2. k8 you rock. i am so doing this to phil for my next b-day, only he'll have to come up with 30 things. ha. maybe it'll soften the blow of officially becoming old. i agree that you are the BEST at picture captions. they make me laugh so hard. i think you have the best legs--i'd kill multiple times for mine to look like that. you are a dork for the star wars obsession, but your sense of humor and amazing social skills cancel your dork factor out. oh, and i can't believe you're milf comment. amazingly i wasn't eating anything when i read it, but i know i would have choked from laughing so hard...love you!!

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  3. my favorite line: "that you are pretty sure you could use the Force if you tried hard enough."

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