Wedding Blog

What a fun idea Miss Lemon started! Here are ours:

Similarities:

1. We are both soooo stubborn but refuse to admit it! I find myself watching us from outside my body sometimes saying, “why are you even pushing this issue? You know you are wrong here - just back down already!” but I rarely do. I believe that he has these same out-of-body experiences…

2. We both love movies and have a knack for remembering obscure (and sometimes blatantly obvious) movie quotes. What can I say, it makes us giggle. For example, I was looking for some moisturizing body wash the other day while we were grocery shopping and I was having a hard time deciding but I was holding one bottle in my hand. After about five minutes of staring at the wall of options with no change to what I was holding Mr. Pumpkin says in his best creepy voice, “put the lotion in the basket!” I almost died laughing.*

3. We are both major impulse buyers. It is crazy what crap we will buy for no good reason other than it was by the register and we saw it while waiting in line. If we didn’t have this little problem we would have never bought “Little Man” on DVD or Old Navy wrapping paper. Man, I wish we could stop…

Differences:

1. We have complete opposite fighting styles; Mr. Pumpkin always wants to talk it out right away and I usually want some quiet time to think. This is very frustrating to both of us! Of course we both think that our style is better than the other - see above: “stubborn”

2. He is horrible with controlling his finances and I am completely anal. I open every letter I get as soon as I get the mail and if it is bill I pay it immediately. If it is my credit card statement I immediately go into the office (where I have kept every bill from the previous month organized by type of vendor) so that I can match up the bills to the statement, staple them together and file accordingly. I have a copy of every credit card transaction I have ever made. Mr. Pumpkin has mail from 1996 that he still hasn’t opened and if I didn’t make sure that at least the minimums were paid on his credit cards he would be in BIG time trouble.

3. He holds grudges against famous people, I do not. He refuses to watch Ben Affleck movies, I don’t know why. He loved Good Will Hunting and Armageddon but sometime after Paycheck I think he and Ben had a falling out. Now he refers to his movies as Ben Assflicks. I continue to buy every Janet Jackson album she puts out, even though the last two have been really disappointing.

* Silence of the Lambs