Like most Yourhub.com users, when Thursday rolls around I grab the morning newspaper and look to see if one of my blogs has been published. For the last several weeks, to my dismay, I have not seen my smiling picture nor my words of wisdom.
Furthermore, after reading what does get published, if that's your goal, I am convinced that you've got to write mushy, love filled, "this is what I learned and I am now a better person for it", junk-o-la. Throw in one sexual reference, some embellishment, anything that offends senior citizens, or a few cuss words and you are on the Yourhub.com black list.
With that said, I'm going to do my best to play by the "rules":
(Visualize birds chirping, flowers floating on a gentle breeze, and warm fuzzy cupids flapping about.)
My wife and I celebrated our 10 th wedding anniversary on August 23, 2007. We officially started dating in high school, when for Valentine's Day I sent her a rose with a note that read, "How about diner and a movie some time?" Diner, dinner, she got the point. Therefore, I guess you can call us high school sweet hearts (this is were you go "awe, how sweet").
Over the past 10+ years I've found that one of the keys to a successful marriage is to buy insightful presents. Unlike most men, I have no problem buying my wife clothes. One time I saw a sexy, plaid, school-girl, skirt that I thought she'd look great in. However, I didn't know her size so I snuck a peek at her jeans: W 28. I then went to the mall and bought the skirt in a size 14. You see, 28 inches all the way around divided by two equals a size 14, right?
Wrong.
When she tried the skirt on it slid right off her hips and down to her ankles...which, from my perspective, wasn't all that bad. I now know her sizes (dress size 4, shoe 12, bra 34 DD)...that's what I learned and I 'm now a better person for it.
Furthermore, I'll leave love notes for her to find. Recently she bought a can of paint for our bathroom and asked me to slap some of it on the wall so that she could see if it was the right color. I gladly painted a sample of it as well as the note: M + A = <visualize a heart shape here> followed by an arrow pointing to two stick figures posed in a sexual position.
The best part was a few days later when the tile contractor showed up to give us an estimate. The three of us were in the bathroom when I said, "Hey babe, that paint looks good...what's that (me pointing at the stick figures)?" Yeah, the look on her face was one of surprise...and that's what I learned and I'm now a better person for it.
As we sat at a nice romantic table in our favorite sushi restaurant celebrating 10 years of marriage it was her turn to surprise me. Her gift to me was a creative Top-10 list of reasons she's more in love with me now then when we were first married. We also shared a nice 2004 Pinot Blanc from Trimbach. The key with this pairing is that the Pinot Blanc has a nice mineral after taste that complements the fresh sushi,or any other sea food for that matter, extremely well.
I know what you're thinking, what was her #1 reason?
It was because I'm an animal in bed who satisfies her every time to the point where her cries of passion wake up the senior citizens on our block who then yell out their windows, "SHUT THE #$&* UP WE'RE TRYING TO WATCH WHEEL OF FORTUNE".
Dang, blacklisted again and I was doing so well...and that's what I learned and I'm now a better person for it.