Monday, March 9, 2009

25 random facts about Charlie and Jenny….

  1. The first time they met Charlie thought Jenny was snobby.
  2. The second time they met they were kind of set-up by Jenny’s brother, Chris.
  3. Jenny knew the second time they met, while bowling, that they would get married. She stopped biting her nails that day so she would have pretty hands for a ring.
  4. Charlie asked Jenny out for coffee, which to this day they have never gone to do, after 3 days together with friends. They barely talked those 3 days.
  5. Charlie and Jenny learned more about each other over numerous hours of phone conversation and lack of sleep the week before their first date.
  6. Jenny blew off a Downhere concert, her favorite band, to have their first date a day early.
  7. Jenny kissed Charlie first…on the first date…at the beginning of the date.
  8. Charlie and Jenny’s first date was at a party with Charlie’s friends…no pressure!
  9. Charlie and Jenny’s second date was the El Greco art exhibit at Duke. Jenny has a stuffed lamb named El Greco from that date that she sleeps with every night.
  10. Charlie thinks Jenny tricked him into saying I love you first.
  11. Jenny did not trick Charlie but he did say it first, on their 3rd date, 2 days after their first date.
  12. The third date was at Pullen Park. Charlie helped Jenny grade papers and they rode in the paddle boats. They also jumped a fence, went to a forbidden area, and kissed under a beautiful tree.
  13. Charlie and Jenny’s first 3 dates happened in one weekend.
  14. Charlie and Jenny started talking seriously about marriage the second week they were together.
  15. Charlie has gotten Jenny to enjoy numerous things that she normally would turn her nose up at…like camping.
  16. The only weekend Charlie and Jenny have spent apart was the Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving. But they saw each other Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week.
  17. When Charlie and Jenny looked at engagement rings Jenny cried in the store and Charlie tried to play fight with her…karate type stuff.
  18. Charlie proposed to Jenny in her brother’s living room in front of her family by singing her a beautiful song he wrote for her. There is a Napoleon Dynamite blanket in the background.
  19. Jenny had a terrible week prior to that moment and was annoyed with Charlie the Friday night he proposed to her until she figured out what was going on.
  20. Charlie and Jenny love to watch the Cosby Show.
  21. When Charlie and Jenny watch a movie Jenny always sleeps through it.
  22. By the time Charlie and Jenny are married they will have been together 9 months and 1 day.
  23. Charlie and Jenny wish they could get married much sooner than the end of June.
  24. Charlie and Jenny find numerous eerie similarities about each other regularly. Like…they both had Gizmo stuffed animals as kids and Glow worms. There are more but they have escaped Jenny’s mind at the moment.
  25. Some of Jenny’s pet peeves about Charlie…they are always late and he never charges his cell phone. Charlie’s pet peeves about Jenny…she is extremely needy and cries at the drop of a hat.

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