~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?FReeper Canteen 1-11-07

[fatima]

~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?

At Last My Love Has Come Along Dedicated to To My Dear Husband, Peter by Anonymous My husband is currently serving in Iraq, and I dedicate our love story to all the soldiers whose love crosses the world this Valentine's Day. At the end of my first date with a man named Peter, I heard a perfect stranger telling him "he had better marry that girl".

The story goes like this.... I was asked out on during summer break by a man with whom I attended college. I was a nervous woman, but we had a fabulous time together in downtown Houston, Texas. Our night ranged from a Chinese restaurant for dinner, to St. Petes Dancing Marlin for strawberry cheesecake, until we arrived at a jazz cafe named the Red Cat Lounge. Peter had been a perfect gentleman all night, and I let him know I was ready to leave the jazz cafe as the night wore on. He kept stalling and saying that we would leave soon. After our agreed upon thirty minutes, I stood up and told Peter "Let's go". Well, that's when the lead singer of the band looked at me and said "You can't leave yet". At that moment, the lead singer looked at me and said "This is for the woman with the beautiful green eyes" and began playing the song "At Last" by Etta James.

Peter knew that was my favorite song and had apparently secretly requested it be played for me. He had never heard the song before, and did not even know it was a love song until he heard the chorus that night. "At Last My Love Has Come Along, My Lonely Days Are Over, and Life is Like a Song" is the chorus, and little did we both know that night the song actually had come true in the beginning of our love relationship. At the end of the song, the lead singer turned to Peter and said "you better marry that girl".

How pleased would that perfect stranger be to know that "At Last" was the first song that Peter and I danced to as a newlywed couple exactly two years later on May 29, 2005. Since we have married, Peter and I have longed to visit Hawaii to celebrate our love and our marriage. The thought of lying on the beach at night, sipping margaritas while lying in a hammock, while feeling the ocean breeze on our faces is a dream. To walk along the beach at night, explore the lushness and the vegetation, and to experience the mystery of the island would be a priceless experience.

I am planning on surprising my husband with a trip to Hawaii when he returns from his tour in Iraq. After being apart, I can't even envision the joy it would bring to be together in a fantasy land "at last".

I used to work as a probation officer in western Washington State. I had one difficult parolee who kept reoffending. I was forever convincing him to go to the eastern side of the state—out of my jurisdiction. Once there, he'd reoffend and another parole officer would get him to move back west! Finally, this other officer and I decided to meet to discuss the problem. "This other officer" is now my wife. We didn't invite the probationer to the wedding. —Bill O'Connor, Anchorage, Alaska

Late one night I heard someone banging around in the hallway outside my apartment door. It was so loud, I finally got up to investigate. When I opened my door, a man fell into my kitchen—passed-out drunk. I tried to shove him back into the hall, but he was too heavy. Instead, I left him on the floor, went to my bedroom, pushed the dresser in front of my door, and went back to sleep. Not long after, I married the lug.

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Beachn

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Mrs. Noseman :)
Hope you are feeling really good today!
Hugs!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning GB.{{{HUGS}}}
Feeling much better this morning.:)

[Arrowhead1952]

We had frost for the past few days, and now 55 before the sun is up. This is not good for allergy control. I've been sneezing since I got up today.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning Arrowhead.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning E.G.C.{{HUGS}}

[snugs]

Thanks for the ping by the way did have the pancakes yesterday.

Stilton and pork sausage
Bacon
Tomatoes
Buttermilk Pancakes
Maple syrup

Dessert
Buttermilk Pancakes with pecans and banana and maple syrup

[Arrowhead1952]

Back at you. My allergies are really acting up today.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning Meg.{{HUGS}}
Lovely pansies for a very cold but clear day here in the NW.:)

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning Beachy.{{{HUGS}}}

[beachn4fun]

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Well I have the sniffles so I sort of know how you feel.
I never knew you could have allergies in the winter.
Learned something new today.:)

[beyond the sea]

I met my wife of 33 years in a nice bar/restaurant in the winter of '72.

This is pretty funny. I was in a fraternity at my college in town and among others I saw one of my fraternity brothers there that night. We had graduated three years earlier. We had been talking among a bunch of friends and then he saw this very attractive girl sitting at the other end of the bar with her girlfriend. He was attracted. So he went down to her to "hit on her". It turned out it was his SISTER who was one year younger than him.

It turns out that she had had very long chestnut hair for many years, but earlier that day she had had it cut REALLY SHORT. In fact it was only about three inches long but it looked fantastic.

It seems there was this very prominent and highly paid hairstylist visiting a Department Store in our city that day doing some kind of promotion. He offered to cut the hair (for free) of two girls whose faces (eyes, cheekbones, etc.) he felt were beautiful and would suit what he wanted to do with them. My buddies sister was one of the two.

Well after my buddy finally recognized his sister after she said to him, "David, it's me ......, your sister."

LOL.

Anyhow, I also thought she was beautiful so I went over to her a little later and the rest is history.

One funny night.

[GodBlessUSA]

Oh no. I didn't even think of that possibility. Can you take anything that helps? Feel better Arrowhead.

[MountainFlower]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CRYSTAL!!! WOOHOOO!!

[GodBlessUSA]

This is great news Mrs. N :)
It's so good you had two days to rest.

[MountainFlower]

Thanks for the coffee, Kathy!!! MMMM! Nice and hot. A bit o'sugar, and some hazelnut creamer. YUM! ANYONE FOR A BAGEL? I have some blueberry, morning glory, or cinnamon struessel bagels. Someone else will have to provide the graphic.

Gotta run!!! hugs around!!!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Yup,it was a good thing that it hit me on my weekend.

[GodBlessUSA]

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, ladies. How's it going?