I met my main dude thirty years ago, when I was a wee freshman in high school. He was a sophomore. We sat in the same classroom where we blurted out things like “Wo ist Monika?” and “Guten Tag!”
We were straight-A nerds before straight-A nerds were cool. (Wait a minute - I said that like that was a good thing. Why don’t I just put that KICK ME sign back on - sheesh!) Now, where was I? Oh yes, dating myself. This was back before schools replaced hallway storage containers (called “lockers”) with metal detectors.
Anyway, we passed notes back and forth in class that surpassed the usual “Isn’t our teacher a dork?” variety. They were twisted random stories created by us alternating sentences. (And it only took me twenty years to figure out that the whole writing thing was my calling.)
He introduced me to AC/DC and Van Halen. I introduced him to Steve Martin and Levi’s 501s.
We were “just friends” for much of that time, although there was a brief period where we crossed the friendship boundary. He says I was his first crush. He remembers precisely which song was playing on the radio when we first kissed in my 1973 motel-soap-colored Datsun 710: (I’m The One by Van Halen).
He asked me to his Senior Ball. He came over to my house to pick me up and while pinning on my corsage, my mother snapped this shot:
Valley High School Senior Ball 1982. 1982? Ack! That was a long time ago!
Then we went to his house where his mother cooked us a candlelit dinner. After dessert, it was off to the ball.
“We’ve Got Tonight” was the theme and we no doubt slow-danced to that song. Hell, I don’t remember, ask him.
He took me home and then I never saw or heard from him again…
…Until about fourteen years later after somebody invented the internet and somebody else forwarded a joke to the both of us and he saw my email address and said, “Hey is that you?”
(Okay, there’s way more juice to that part of the orange, but I’m saving it for when my scandalous memoir comes out and hits the NYT best seller list, so don’t worry, you’ll read about it eventually.)
We gabbed on the phone for a couple of years until we were both single and then HOOKED IT UP, BABY!
I told him a month after that that he was the one. A few months later he got down on bended knee and presented me with a rock (the sparkly kind, not the Charlie Brown Christmas stocking kind).
He said my mother gave him her blessing way back when and since she’s gone, I couldn’t confirm it, so I just took his word for it.
When we told my Dad and stepmom about the engagement, they didn’t care if we had a big wedding or a small one, but they just wanted to be there. So we said, “Hey, we’re going to Hawaii in a few months, what about just doing it there?” and a wedding was born. My father gave me away and served as best man, my step mother was the matron of honor and that was the extent of the guest list.
That was nine years ago today. We are currently back in Hawaii celebrating what they said would never last. Those silly prognosticators.
Also? Yesterday as we drove to Lahaina, we heard Bob Segar sing “We’ve got Tonight” on the radio. No lie.
I LOVE hearing stories about how couples got together. Thank you for indulging me! That’s a good one! And Hawaii! Lucky!
Great story, good to hear love works out in the end.
Enjoy your time in Hawaii
Neat story and cute pictures! Congratulations
Lucy
Congrats on 9 years!
I was also a straight A nerd. I think it was more fun than being cool.
Happy Anniversary.. I’m so jealous
What a great story! And Happy Anniversary. BTW, when most of us were akward and dorky looking, you were very pretty and you had great teeth too. I don’t see a filling in there.
This is the best story I have ever read. Gives me hope, you know? Happy Anniversary!
Too bad it didn’t work out at first.
Glad to hear that he worked it back in.
Happy Anniversary/my birthday. That 1st pic was great! Did he stick you, or were just afraid he was going to stick you?
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Well, how cool. Great story. Great hair.
OH that is so adorable! Everyone keeps saying that my husband and I won’t last because we are young but I say no way there are worse off couples out there than us. We married for love. And it looks like you did too.
I am so glad I found your fantastic blog!!!
aw, nothing like romance..
BTW, is he pinning that corsage on your back?
Congratulations on nine years. This year will be our 30th and if you asked my husband he couldn’t tell you what we did LAST year much less what happened 30 years ago so count yourself amoung the lucky ones- wait a minute, I count myself among the lucky ones, too!
I did, however, laugh about your Senior Prom recollections and the difference just a few years can make. These days kids wouldn’t be caught dead unless someone coughs up for a limosine, a fancy restaurant, a Prom held at high-class hotel or resort. Then they expect Mom/Dad to pay for a room at the hotel so the kids can stay overnight (over my dead body!), not to mention the festivities held all night and the breakfasts the next morning. My nephew just shelled out nearly $1,500 for his Senior Prom for he and his date. I tried to tell him that my husband and I rode to ours in my Pinto station wagon, had dinner at my house like you did and went bowling afterwards for $2.50 a game. He looked appalled- especially when I mentioned I had to be home by 2:00 a.m. because as my Daddy said, “Nothing but trouble happens after Two.”
Really a fun read! Love your sense of humor and happy the two of you got together afterall! Isn’t it strange how things work out. Enjoy your time in Hawaii!
I love this story! It sounds like things are exactly as they should be.
Sweet.
Happy Anniversary!
Good things come to those who wait!
AWWWW that’s so sweet.
Kahuna proposed to me in Hawaii on Pali Lookout we went back 2 years later for our honeymoon.
Totally loved this! Love the photos! Love the story! Love how you wrote it. And I wish I had done my wedding that way? but why didn’t he call after the dance??????
Awww. What a great story! I love to read about things like this. Thanks so much for sharing. Love the wedding pic, too.
Oh, that’s very nice. So what the heck did you do at the prom that scared him off so badly that you didn’t hear from him for years?
haha love debby’s comment and congrats on 9 years!
Congrats and have fun in Hawaii!
Those baby goats are so cute!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!
I hope you are having a wonderful and non-infested time in Hawaii!!
Did you teach him how to be “One wild and crazy guy”? Seriously, I love stories like that. Happy Anniversary.
Where do you live? I wanna come over and pet the baby goats. Em wants to know if she can come too.
Great story. Happy Anniversary!! And have a fun, safe trip!
I love your pics! So adorable. I went to prom with my exhusband
Happy Anniversary! What a great story. Mine is of the “I met my husband at work” variety, so I appreciate stories with a little more oomph to them. Maybe next time around? Don’t tell my hubby I said that…
Happy Anniversary!
-my prom theme was Famous Final Scenes…Seger ruled the 80′s.
Oh how dearly cute is this story? And you two look cooler than cool. Does the story itself make the marriage stronger? The fact that you can get such a kick out of how it all happened? The reinforcement of shared myth and all that? (said in the knowledge that you were a straight-A nerd and therefore less likely to run screaming from the room at that kind of comment)
Congrats! And … I had that same haircut. Farrah Fawcett totally ruled back then.
What a wonderful story…thanks for sharing!! And…CONGRATS!
Awww…happy anniversary!!
wait…you mean you’re BACK in hawaii?
Awww…love it! And love the photos!
Wait…”who needs tomorrow”…Bob Seger…I GET IT!
Happy Anniversary!
XO
Anna
But wait - who’s taking care of the goats while you are lollygagging around in Hawaii??
Cute story.
Cheers
Aw, that makes me teary!
Love the pictures and the story is just terrific. In the reincarnation books I’m reading now, they talk about separations and why they happen (my stepfather and mother were separated for a loooooooooooong time before they hooked up again.
Here’s to 9 more! What a great story, I especially love the high school picture. Horray for goat babies! There was a petting zoo next to my old office and I used to love stopping by everyday on my lunch hour to see what the goats were up to.
Awwww, congratulations!
My kids are due in the next week or so….goat babies are so cute.
Awwww, you is/are/was/were/be/being/been such a cute twosome. Your prom pic is so dewy and your wedding pic is so Bonnie and Clyde. And I’m glad you copped to the orange, ’cause I was wondering if you were gonna slide by all that juice.
I just DON’T believe you both were nerds………..I mean you had the feathered hair and everything…..What more could there possibly be to being popular?
Great hook up BTW.
What a great love story!
Awwww…you’ve gone and made me all teary-eyed.
*sniff*
Happy Annual Varsity, dear.
I love those pics! And what a cute but wierd story about you and the hubs! Good thing the internet was invented!
I LOVE happy stories! Tell us more! Tell us more! Y’all make a really cute couple. Happy 9th to ya!
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Hey, our 30th is comin’ up this August. Maybe I should have a Blog Party (think “Block Party”) and everyone could attend the party? Ideas are being accepted from brilliant nerds.
Mahala pal.
I LOVED this story and the wedding shot is frickin’ priceless.
Was AC/DC playing at your wedding reception.
You slay me girl, we simply MUST meet up for some margharitas!
Congrats on the anniversary!
This is the BEST story. I read it twice. And you’re both gorgeous. And so are the goatlets. (?)
what an awesome story. congratulations!
A relationship that was built on the foundation of such an awesome song has every likelihood of lasting a long, long time. My husband is from Detroit and graduated from high school in 1980. I graduated in 1981. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band were pretty much dieties.
…we got tonight, babe -
…why don’t you stay…
I hope you’re making out like it’s 1979 right now.
God, that was good!
What a fun, romantic story! Have a terrific time!!
What a fun story - Congrats on 9 years!!!
That’s a GREAT story! I love when things work out sort of serendipitously. I was kind of trying to find my boyfriend from back in those days (Bruce Anderson), but so far nuttin. Do you know how many Bruce Andersons there are? Anyway, congratulations on your 9th wedding anniversary, and happy Hawaii days. Are you stopping in to see Pseudonymous High School Teacher?
Great “how we got together” story. Love that.
What a nice story.
My husband and I also met in high school.
Happy 9 years!
Awwwww that is soooo sweet
Congrats…For time “served” LOL !!!
D’oh! >w< (I don’t think much more needs to be said…
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What a great love story! And 30 years ago, I was 7 months past graduation. Hmmmm… anyway, is the purple goat lady having babies a premonition of things to come? After all, it’s been 9 years…
the internet makes the world such a small place.
Hope you’re having a great week!
Aw…how sweet! I’ve *also* known my hubby since 9th grade, and we *also* have pics from a dance together.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO YOU!!!
What exactly was he doing in that first picture? Pinning it to your back?
He looks a little like Gene Simmons in the second picture. Does he have a long tongue too?
Happy Anniversary, you crazy kids!
Happy Anniversary! Wow, that is such a great story. My high love is still married to the girl he dumped me for.
What a delightful story! Happy Anniversary!
Great story, and the senior ball picture is giving me flashbacks! To the hairstyles, I mean, not to the school dances, since I didn’t go to any of them …
What a wonderful story! Gosh - I recognize all those songs too …. Glad it lasted all these years and I wish you many many more.
Well, That was the cutest thing ever.
I can relate. After being estranged for about 7 years… Well my lady is my old high school sweetheart.
Have fun in Maui!!
“We were straight-A nerds before straight-A nerds were cool.”
That IS a good thing. It’s like discovering that indie band before they get popular, and then you get to be all “Whatever. I was listening to them 2 years ago.”
STREET CRED. Well, nerd cred, but whatev. It works for me…
Oh, I have shivers! What a great story. And I love the pictures. LOVE!
How refreshing-a real love story with NO FARTING AT ALL in it. I’m swooning.
I had a feeling your main dude was a hot mess;-) Congrats you two!
Oh how romantic :O)
One question - Was it ‘Nanny Goats in Panties’ that he saw on the e-mail list?
That must have been some prom! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
How romantic. It's often the relationships that people say 'Will never last' that see all the others out!
Nice feathered hair. I've got mad feathering skills tucked away in my arsenal. It could totally come back again.
Happy anniversary, you crazy kids.
Sheesh! I thought I was old!
Congrats!
Oh jeesh, could you two be anymore cute? Blech.
Congratulations anyway.
I see you totally went for the Hawaii five o thing in your wedding picture. I want to be that cool when I grow up….and why is it that I'm imagining Ron flipping his locks around? lol!
Congratulations! 10 years putting up with each other is commendable.
(I'm not going to pretend that I'm not a little disappointed that there wasn't anything hot, heavy, and juicy here…)
Congrats to you two lovely peeps! Dave and I are celebrating today.
Nice photos..BTW.
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Happy Anniversary! Such a lovely story too
Thank you Babs!!!
I love this story!!! And the pictures are even better!!!
Happy Anniversary!!!