I'm playing along!

This post goes out to Julie.... she got me, I'm playing along!


♥ What are your middle names?
Christine (me)
Erik-Michael (sean)

♥ How long have you been together?
We met in September of 1997, a chance meeting at a mutual friend's house.

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
"Dating" is kind of a wierd term for us, since we lived in different cities almost up until we got married in 2001. I think I first considered us "dating" after I went up to Dallas in Oct. 1997 to visit Sean.

♥ Who asked who out? Hmmm. We never had anything like a typical date. Our friend Van cornered Sean to ask him if he liked me, she gave us the other's email addresses and we started writing.

♥ How old are each of you? I'm 32, Sean is 31.

♥ Whose siblings do/did you see the most? Well, considering I don't have any, I'd have to say his.

♥ Do you have any children together? Yes. Daniel Quinn will be 3 in May. And Georgia is 13 months.

♥ What about pets? Names? Stassney, a 9yr old (we think) blue tick hound mix. She was found by Tim and Julie at running through the street in front of Crockett High School, hence her name.

♥ Did you go to the same school? No, though Sean did do 2 semesters of summer school at UT, my alma matter.

♥ Are you from the same home town?Kind of, if you consider the DFW metroplex a "home town". He's from Garland, I'm from Duncanville.

♥ Who is the smartest? I think we're both intellectual equals, in different ways. But, if you consider a person who excels at math and logical problem solving to be smarter, then he wins hands down.

♥ Who is the most sensitive? I think I am, but I also think that Sean is more sensitive than I usually give him credit for.... which also causes me to hurt his feelings without realizing it.

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple? Freddies (with the kids), as a couple we like Vespaio, Madam Mam's.

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? The Netherlands.

♥ Who has the craziest exes? Me me me!!

♥ Who has the worst temper? That would be me again. I've got one of those crazy red-headed tempers. But I'm really working on taming it. But Sean can hold a grudge like nobody's business.

♥ Who does the cooking? Me.

♥ Who is more social? Sean. This may surprise some of you, but he's usually the one saying to me "Hey, let's get together with friends" while I'm usually content to hang at home with him and the kids (not that I don't love each and every one of you, my friends who are reading this....)

♥ Who is the neat-freak? Neither? Yes, sadly two unorganized people managed to meet and marry. But I have aspirations towards neatness. Does that count?

♥ Who is the more stubborn? Sean. He's great at being stubborn. When he makes up his mind, he just blocks out any arguments to the contrary. Seriously, its like he can't even physically hear me.

♥ Who hogs the bed? I'm not sure. Snoring is the bigger issue with us!

♥ Who wakes up earlier? Me, though neither one of us has been getting much sleep lately.

♥ Where was your first date? I guess I would consider it the night we met. We were at a party (I have no idea whose house we were at), and he left with his friends in his cool car. I was sad. But then returned a few minutes later, and we were inseparable for the rest of the night (and wee hours of the AM)

♥ Who has the bigger family? I guess Sean, technically, since he has a sister and I'm pretty sure he has more cousins than me. And we both have extended families that don't live anywhere near us. But I think we actually see more of my extended family than his.

♥ Do you get flowers often? A couple times a year maybe?

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Usually with my parents, but we try to carve out a little time for just us too.

♥ Who is more jealous? Well, there's different kinds of jealousy.... jealous of personal relationships? Not an issue for us. Jealous of time? I get "jealous" of the time he devotes to work. I think he might be a bit "jealous" of the time I get to spend with my friends at things like mom's night out or bookclub.

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
The problem with long distance relationships is that there is a level of committment built into the situation even when you're not quite ready for that. It takes work from the very beginning to keep things going, to have good communication. I think, though, that we really got "serious" in the summer of '98, when Sean came to Austin for the summer.

♥ Who eats more?Sean. He's a snacking fool!

♥ Who does/did the laundry?Most of the time me. Of course, with 2 kids and cloth diapers, all we ever do is their laundry. Its a miracle Sean and I are even clothed.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
That would be SEan. He loves to remind me how much I hate technology.

♥ Who drives when you are together?
I think Sean does most of the driving.