Fifteen years.

[Bouncy Ball]

I met Mr. Bouncy fifteen years ago, when he was a 22 year old soldier stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas. I was 19 years old and a junior in college.

One war, one wedding, two college graduations, one kid, five dogs, two cats, nine addresses, eight vehicles, three near-death experiences, and four career changes later, and we're still hanging on.

[intheflow]

1. Right on, Bouncy!

My longest relationship has been six years. It's my current relationship. Every other partner self-destructed in one way or another around the 4-1/2 mark.

Fifteen years is a bloody miracle in my eyes! Congratulations! :toast:

[Bouncy Ball]

3. Thanks, it's a miracle in mine, too

considering how young and dumb we were at the time. When I'm 38, I will have been with him half of my life. I keep threatening to trade him in on a newer model, but he knows I won't. He's too broken in.

[sasquatch]

2. Wow, you went to school early

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Heh?

I was a year ahead, because of skipping kindergarten, is that what you meant?

But I made up for it by staying in college five years! :D

[sasquatch]

7. DUMBASS

:evilgrin:

[Bouncy Ball]

8. ...

:crazy:

It's not like I missed anything in Kindgergarten. What was it, napping and fingerpainting?

:D

[Floogeldy]

4. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Could be worse. ;)

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Very true.

:D

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. We'll be married 30 years

next Thursday. Met in 72, right before the Watergate burglary. Hard to believe.

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Congrats!

THAT'S gonna freak me out when we start hitting numbers like that.

:D

:toast:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Thanks

and it does freak me out. Our oldest kid is now older than I was when he was born. Weird.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Wow! time sure does fly when you are having fun..Huh?

Congrats. Sounds like you two have created some great memories to discuss with your grandchildren.

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Thanks.

Heh, well yeah. I'm going to have to decide which stories are ok to tell. LOL!

Oh speaking of grandkids, proof of how much of a dork Mr. Bouncy is:

a couple of weeks ago, I see him obessesing over some quarters and I ask him what he's doing and he starts going on and on about how they are all those state quarters and I said "I didn't know you were into collecting those" and he says "Well they're for the grandbabies."

GRANDBABIES??? That cracked my shit up. Our child is TEN. But he's already collecting stuff for the "grandbabies." Talks about going fishing and shit with them. I ask him "what if our daughter doesn't have kids?" He didn't have an answer for that. She just HAS to. Otherwise, what the hell's he going to do with all these quarters?

:rofl:

[TheProphetess]

24. That's a very funny story!

And the way you tell it is even funnier - "that cracked my shit up" actually did crack my shit up! :rofl:

Many congratulations to you and Mr. Bouncy - and here's to many more happy years together. :toast:

[The Traveler]

14. That's called living life

together, and full throttle. That's good livin'.

[Bouncy Ball]

17. ...

:thumbsup:

I'm going to read your comment to Mr. Bouncy tomorrow. I like it.

[Wapsie B]

15. Congrats!

Sounds like you've had a full life.

[Bouncy Ball]

16. Yeah, you know

I never thought about it. But yeah. And I left out a LOT of shit.

But I thought everyone's life was like that, you know?

[Wapsie B]

18. I suppose if we stopped to think about it

even those of us who think we've lived fairly boring lives have done and accomplished quite a bit. It's time for me to have another high school reunion this year and I gasp at the thought of it being 30 years since I've been in high school. But when I think about it I seem to have done a few things in life.

[orleans]

19. yeah--i often think how amazing it is that life happens while

you're having a life.

and time sure flies, don't it?

(did you sign the letter?
here's the link)

[Wapsie B]

20. I signed it now.

Thanks for the link.

[orleans]

21. thanks for signing!

:loveya:

[Wapsie B]

22. back atcha orleans!

:loveya:

[Bouncy Ball]

23. I gotta say, orleans, I admire your

hard work on the Conyers petition. And yes, I already signed. LOL!

You ROCK HARD!!!!

[lady lib]

25. 20 years with lord lib.

Did you say three near-death experiences? Do tell.

[Bouncy Ball]

26. One is his and two are mine.

But mine aren't as exciting as they sound. His was in the first Gulf War. Mine were the result of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy (blood pressure was down to 40 over 20 and in shock when they decided to operate, I had lost too much blood, internally) and the second was appendicitis that was misdiagnosed and the appendix ruptured. Sheesh.

See, not exciting!

But still. Too close for comfort. The appendix one was the worst, believe it or not. Apparently having infectous crap spew all over your innards is not good.

[lady lib]

27. Not exciting, but scary and painful.

Did either one of you get to the point where you feel your soul leave your body? I think those stories are really interesting.

[Bouncy Ball]

28. LOL, oh no.

Nothing that exotic. When my blood pressure dropped that far that fast, I felt incredibly woozy and I remember hearing the nurse say "Oh my God" in a tiny sounding voice when she took my blood pressure and another person said "is that her bp?" and she said "Yeah" and then they started moving around really quickly and I was knocked out.

:shrug:

[Debbi801]

29. Happy anniversary!!

Very cool.

Debbi

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Cool For You!

That's a milestone to celebrate.
The Professor

[GOPisEvil]

31. Congratulations!

There is nothing in my life aside from a few friendships that have lastef 15 years. Congratulations again! I know it's a lot of hard work.

:toast: