Jen's ramblings of all sorts!: Reminiscing

I don't only think about getting pregnant (see my other blog http://all-that-glitters-and-sparkles.blogspot.com/ ) but today I have been thinking back to when I met Col. In november we will have been together for 7 years..which feels like a lifetime. I was 16 when we met and he was 21, I was out on a saturday night with my friends and I spotted a guy who had poured a drink over my friend a few weeks earlier so I collared him to give him an earfull and when we were talking his friend walked up the stairs and he introduced us and it was my husband! His friend left us chatting and dancing and stuff and we swapped numbers, I did what was my usual trick in them days of just giving him my phone to put my number in, usually (back then) I put my number in their phone but he didn't have his. I knew I wanted to see him again, else I wouldn't have bothered, so I dragged him down to the reception of the club and got a bit of paper and wrote my number down for him.

I reminded him a few weeks ago that, that night he had been going on about going to the gym and I acted all impressed (haha!) and he was lifting up his top to show me (there actually wasn't anything there but he was very slim) and he said he'd buy me a drink if I gave him a kiss (I wonder how many girls he used this line on!!) being one to do anything for a free drink I did kiss him but never got my drink. He went home and I went back to find my friends, his weirdo mate from earlier (Dave he is called, Col's best mate) found me and asked where Col was, when I told him he'd gone home he attatched himself to my group. We walked back to the taxi office, singing Babylon to Dave (as we thought he looked like David Grey). I got home and phoned Col...yes I was VERY keen! Anyway, Dave asnwered and I ended up talking nonsense to him and then Col came in ..god knows where he had got to I will ask him later. And we chatted for a while, he said he'd phone the next day and we'd go out. But I rang him first..this is often something Col winds me up about but I really liked him. I must've known we were meant to be though to put that much effort in because I hadn't done it with anyone else I'd met. We went out that night to the cinema and watched "28 days later" I was so shy and didn't know what to say to him. We met a couple of other times that week and on the thursday was when he asked if I wanted to start seeing him properly..that sounds so silly now when I think about it.

Anyway that was a bit rambly but it was a nice trip down memory lane. Here is a picture of us on that thursday night. Note the blonde hair, bad skin and very pale face, and Col's rather drunken face.