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SwitchHitter Feb 08 2006 12:11 PM

15 years ago today I married my most wonderful and excellent husband. We got married quickly. We had been living together in Ohio and he had been looking for a job (because I have a previous marriage to a deadbeat and I said I wouldn't marry him if he didn't have a job). Someone he knew on FidoNet said that his company was hiring and the company flew him to Houston for an interview. They hired him. He proposed over the phone and we were married two weeks later. It was a Friday. On Monday he left for Houston with a U-Haul truck towing his car. I had to wait seven months before I could move to Houston because I had to deal with custody issues for my children. The most unusual thing about the wedding was that we had apple juice in the chalice because no one had remembered to bring wine. We also jumped the broom and we still have the broom on our mantle. (It's one of those decorative ones you find at hobby stores that you're supposed to put flowers and ribbons and stuff on.)

cooby Feb 08 2006 12:12 PM

Good incentive for him to find a job! Congratulations Annie.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2006 12:22 PM

Jumped the broom? I remember seeing that on Roots thirty years ago! I didn't know that that custom continued.

seawolf17 Feb 08 2006 12:24 PM

Congrats Annie!

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2006 12:28 PM

Oh, and yes, congratulations! I didn't mean to post cultural commentary without also commending you on your 15 years.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 08 2006 12:38 PM

Mazel Tov Annie - I hope that you and your hubby have a wonderful anniversary :)

TheOldMole Feb 08 2006 04:26 PM

Best thing in the world (except grandchidren). Congrats Annie and her lucky guy.

Rockin' Doc Feb 08 2006 07:57 PM

Congratulations Annie! May you enjoy an lifetime of happiness together.

Edgy DC Feb 08 2006 08:08 PM

Enjoy your anniversary and your online stocking shopping.

MFS62 Feb 08 2006 09:09 PM

Best of everything to you and your lucky hubby. And many more. Later

SwitchHitter Feb 09 2006 02:29 AM

Thanks everyone. We went out for a nice steak dinner (we're both dieting but we put the diets on hold). And I had the most incredible chocolate cake for dessert. It stood taller than....er....it was tall. And it wasn't a little sliver of cake, either, it was a regular slice. It was dense and moist and had someting like eight layers with chocolate cream filling between them. And the icing was so thick and chocolatey that it was almost solid. And I now have my very own copy of Win Shares. He said, "It looked like an important stat book."

SwitchHitter Feb 09 2006 02:32 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Jumped the broom? I remember seeing that on Roots thirty years ago! I didn't know that that custom continued. I don't know where else it continues but I'm Pagan.