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Random Thoughts About Me and My Spouse

Category : Fun

This is kind of like the 25 things on Facebook – except there are pre-decided questions and it’s about you and your spouse or significant other, not just you. Come on, play along – inquiring minds want to know! ;-) Just copy this post into your own Facebook notes or blog and change the answers!

- What are your middle names? Douglas and Ann

- How long have you been together? We dated for a little over a year and were engaged for about 5 months. We have now been married for over 13 years.

- How long did you know each other before you started dating? We have known each other pretty much Kimmy’s whole life, because we grew up in church together.

- Who asked who out? I asked her out.

- How old are each of you? I am 35 and she is 33

- Whose siblings do/ did you see the most? We see mine the most.

- Do you have any children together? Yes, we have two kids. Hannah (11) and Caleb (9).

- What about pets? A dog, Zoey, who is a Silkchon. (That is actually her picture on that site.) We have a yellow parakeet named, Maizey. A hamster named, Shadow (I think!), and a fish.

- Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple? Job issues. I am unemployed right now and have been looking for a ministry position for almost 15 years, which has led to several “rejections”.

- Did you go to the same school? Nope.

- Are you from the same home town? No, I’m from Warren, MI and she is from Clinton Township, MI.

- Who is the smartest? When it comes to the kitchen, she rules; as far as computers go, I rule.

- Who is the most sensitive? She is but we are pretty close.

- Where do you eat out most as a couple? No where specific. We like to go to different places.

- Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Friday Harbor, WA to take a boat tour of the San Juan Islands aboard the Pacific Catalyst.

- Who has the worst temper? Me.

- Who does the cooking? Kimmy.

- Who is more social? Me, by far! I love being with people.

- Who is the neat freak? Neither one of us, but she does more tidying up than I do.

- Who is the more stubborn? Me.

- Who hogs the bed? Kimmy.

- Who wakes up earlier? When I was employed, me. Now, we wake up at the same time to get the kids off to school.

- Where was your first date? We went out to eat at the Apple Orchard Inn in Romeo, Mi and then went out to a movie.

- Who has the bigger family? I do, I have 3 siblings and she only has 1.

- Do you get flowers often? Nope. And I haven’t gotten her many lately.

- How do you spend the holidays? We alternate a lot of them, but make sure we do Christmas with both families.

- Who is more jealous? Neither one of us really is.

- How long did it take to get serious? About 18 years, which is her age when I asked her out. :)

- Who eats more? I am the man, so me.

- Who does the laundry? Kimmy.

- Who’s better with the computer? Me, by far. I am a computer geek.

- Who drives when you are together? Me, about 99% of the time.

Isn’t She Cute?

Category : Life, Tech

Would you like to buy her?

This is our very cute Silkchon (yes, the picture on that site is of our dog), named Zoey. And the reason why I am selling her is because I need to so I can buy a new computer. Now before you think I am cruel let me tell you why.

On Thursday my wife told me that our “cute” little Zoey had gotten a “little” wound up and ended getting her leg caught in the power cord of my 5 year old 800 MHz G4 iBook and knocked it down. When I got home I tried to boot it up and while I could hear the hard drive working there was nothing showing up on the monitor. I then tried to connect an external monitor and still nothing showed up. I am pretty sure that the video card is shot along with the monitor on the laptop.

Now you can see why I need to sell her (I really am not planning on selling her), so that I can get some money to buy a new laptop. I was in need of a new laptop since mine was getting up there in years, but I wasn’t planning on getting a new one since the iBook was still working fine. So over the weekend we ended up ordering a refurbished MacBook from the Apple Store. Let me tell you that it is worth checking the refurbished section of the Apple Store for Apple products, because you can save money and get the same great Apple products along with their warranty.

So later this week I will go from a 800 MHz G4 iBook with a ComboDrive (CD burner/DVD reader), 768 MB of RAM, and a 60 GB hard drive to a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook with a SuperDrive (CD & DVD Burner), 2 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. It will be nice to have the extra power to do some things faster that took a bit of time on my old laptop, but I really didn’t want to have to spend the extra money. But I still love my cute dog, I think?

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