From love notes to Tums....the story of us.

I don't know what has happened to me these past few days. I have been bitten by the blogging bug I guess. I am seriously thinking that this is the only thing keeping me sane from the hours of 7am-whenever my husband comes home o'clock. By not working my adult interaction has gone from a moderate amount to almost zilch. So in addition to last nights post about marriage I figure I should explain how I came to be Mrs. Pingul.

This is no romantic love story folks, so you can put your tissues away.

Most of you that read this know Aaron and I so this post may really only apply to the few of you reading this that I don't know all too well. (If there is actually anyone I don't really know reading this thank you for taking time out of your day to listen to me ramble!) When people ask me how I came to be with my husband (this mainly happened at work when I was working with couples I was registering) I would start by saying we have known each other since we were in high school. So many people would then say "ahhhh, that's sweet...high school sweethearts?" Umm no, not at all actually. Sure we knew each other in school but we never looked at each other twice. I mean I can tell you for sure that I didn't and I am pretty sure that if he did back then he would have told me by now seeing that we are married and all. Since he hasn't I think it's safe to say there was no connection there whatsoever. I'm sure he thought I was some stuck up Cheerleader snot, that is if he even thought anything at all, which im pretty sure he didn't. It wasn't until after we started dating that my younger sister confessed that she used to AOL chat with him back in the day! Remember AOL chatting?!?! hahaha I got a kick out of that one! I can only remember us hanging out once or twice during school and that was because his BFF was my BF at the time. Mikey B and I drove his sparkly blue caddy, with daytons I believe, over to the Pingul's house which was the place to be for his group. Now I am going to back up for a second. Im sure some of you are thinking sparkly blue caddy with daytons???? Was she dating a thug? No, I wasn't. Mikey B was a nice boy, i'm not sure why he drove that kind of car but we used to get some looks when we would pull up to the "bad side" of the Tacoma Mall (near the food court) and people would see two 5ft tall pasty white teenagers exit the vehicle.

So what have you gathered so far? We defiantly weren't high school sweethearts. In fact, after high school up until a few months before we dating which was a span of nearly 5 years,  I only ran into him once and that was at the Steilacoom Fire Dept. He had gotten married after high school which I won't talk about too much because quite honestly it's none of my business. I didn't really know him then, sure I knew him and I know his ex. Like I said last night shes a great gal. We just weren't part of the same circle of people so we never saw one another.

Right before Aaron and I crossed paths he was single and I had just gotten out of a relationship. I had other boyfriends before but this one really did a number on me emotionally. (Thank you to all my great friends that were there for me during that time!) So he and I were both in the same frame of mind, which was LEAVE ME THE EFF ALONE. We would hang out in a group and watch football at Earl Strausbaughs house. That was it. Then one day, and I will always remember this, Aaron was laying on the living room floor watching football and in that moment I looked at him differently. All of the sudden I just wanted to hug him. We had known each other for years and like mentioned before, never though of each other in that way and im not sure what made it change but it did. However, I knew that hugging would be out of the question because like me, he had the huge sign on his head that said LEAVE ME THE EFF ALONE. Some time later a group of us were out at the Ale House, a local bar. One of my girlfriends said "Hey, you guys should date." Again, another moment I will always remember.... We were sitting in a booth, Aaron was directly across from me. I even remember what he was wearing, a blue O'Neil T-shirt that had white writing with a grey thermal underneath it. Ok, ok go ahead call me a freak for remembering those things I am just weird that way. I still remember what my first high school crush was wearing when he showed up to Campus Life one Monday night. You may consider it strange, I call it a gift. Haha, a past gift that is, since I can't even remember what day of the week it is nowadays. So anyway, there we were in that booth, and when our friend mentioned that we should date...here we go folks....Aaron and I bursted into laughter!! Full on hysterics. We were both still  bitter bunnies about the opposite sex at that point and nobody was going to take that away from us! It wasn't long after that we decided to become a "fake" couple when we were in public. Not that people were throwing themselves at us or anything. We just couldn't take any chances, you know, in case people didn't see the giant signs on our heads that said STAY THE...well you get the picture. Little by little I started looking at him the way I did the day I wanted to hug him..but I sure as heck was never gonna let him know! I had an awful day one day and we were all at a friends house. I may have had one STRRRONNNGGG adult beverage without eating the entire day and it knocked me on my butt. Aaron being the kind man that he is drove my car home and offered to walk himself home from my house. At this time we only lived a few blocks from each other but it was POURING rain that night. Most of the night may have been a tad fuzzy for me and my classy self but I remember that he dropped me off and walked home in the downpour.

Slowly, the giant sign I had on my head was coming down...we were chatting on MySpace one evening talking about worthless crap. In fact, I think we were talking about what we ate for dinner. Top Ramen or Mac N Cheese if I remember correctly. I don't know what came over me but out of nowhere I invited him over to help me decorate my Christmas tree! I think i used the excuse that I was too short to hang some of the decorations. This being true, I did have 2 guy roommates at the time and they were more than capable of reaching the things I couldn't but I didn't care. He was at my house in like 5 minutes. I don't even know if we actually hung any decorations but we started watching a movie with some of my roommates. American Gangster. We were sitting on the couch next to each other and I got the urge to hug him again. This time I didn't care if he still had his sign up on his head, I was somewhat confident that he was starting to like me.So throughout the movie I would gradually scoot closer, making sure my hand was readily available in case he wanted to hold it and I got NOTHING!! NADA!!! He was frozen in place on the sofa and he wasn't going anywhere. Eventually, (this movie was long) he was relaxing and right when I thought he was going to hold my hand...my giant, 10ft, reason for inviting him over Christmas Tree started to fall over!!! There was no stopping this beast of a tree! Crap! No hand holding for me all my efforts were ruined..... we had a mess to clean up.

Fast forward a few weeks, or maybe days I can't recall.....The day after we had our first "date" which really wasn't much of a date (we just got a pizza to go) I was at work and some flowers were delivered for me. Now I had NO IDEA who would be sending me flowers. I figured it was a mistake. I open the card and there it was.... Just because-From Aaron. That sealed the deal for me and from that point on our LEAVE ME ALONE signs were down for good and we were inseparable. He was leaving me surprise love notes or cd's in my car while I would be at work and it felt so great to have someone be so kind to me, and to have EVERYONE i know tell me how nice of a guy he is. I remember a co-worker of mine saying "Kenny, don't you mess this up, I think he is the one for you." If this would have happened to me at an earlier time in my life I would have never appreciated it the way I did then. He would have been "too nice" and I somehow would have ruined it. I knew he was the real deal, and I was finally ready for that.

The rest is history......We moved in together, had a baby, got married, spent the first year of our marriage in different countries, bought a house when he came home and here we are now getting ready for kid #2, who still has no name by the way. Not that long ago I was at work and having terrible heartburn from this pregnancy and called home to whine to Aaron about it. 20 minutes later he showed up with some Tums. I thanked him and he said "Eh, I figured there was a time when I would do this for you so I thought I probably should!" Hahaha we go from flowers and love notes to Tums!  I find it kind of funny how someone you never thought of in "that way" ends up being your husband.

I promise to cool it on the posts about my marriage for awhile....I just figure ya'll should know a little bit about me/us so that you will understand my sarcasm and take on things that happen in our lives!