Mrs. Pumpkin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Blogger Since: April 10, 2007
Age and Occupation: 28, Lawyer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Farmer
Engagement Date: July 14, 2006
Wedding Date: June, 2007
About Me: I love movies, music and I am addicted to TV. When I have some spare time I also love scrapbooking and making personalized greeting cards and above all playing Hide & Seek or Duck, Duck, Goose with my two adorable nieces!
Similarities/Differences
May 21st, 2007 @ 1:25 pm by Mrs. Pumpkin
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
10 Responses to “Similarities/Differences”
what does it mean to be an “articling student at a law firm”?
you guys are too cute. though i’m the same with the celebrity crushes. i refuse to listen to any mariah carey songs even though a couple of her last ones have been pretty good. and i hate myself for liking them. lol
Hahahaha, Mr. Kiwi makes fun of me because I HATE Paris Hilton, but I liked “stars are blind”. Heck, even I’M ashamed of that one. I also hold celeb grudges, though.
I will not watch Brad Pitt or Meg Ryan movies anymore. 
I’m horrible.
My fiance and I share your fighting style, and it can be totally frustrating!I’m with you, I need a little distance from the situation to sort out my thoughts & feelings, while Jordan wants to hash it out right then & there, and be done with it. There have been times where I have been ready to discuss something, and my boy will have already forgotten the incident! *sigh*
While we’re not engaged (yet), my boyfriend and I have very different fighting styles as well - where mine lines up with yours (wanting/needing to step away from the emotion for a bit) and he always wants to plow through it. I am a communication studies major, so you’d think I’d know better, but I took a family communication course and things got a whole lot better!
And he will put up a fight to see a great movie because of who might be in it.
Oh, I thought I was the only one who did that with credit card statements.
Oh, I thought I was the only one who did that with credit card statements. Glad to hear I’m not!
Hey Missy Jenn!
After you graduate from law school you spend a year “articling” in a law firm while you study for the Bar exam. In Canada the bar course is run by the Canadian Bar Association and it teaches you skills that you need in your practice that you may not have learned in law school.
When you are articling you are sort of like an intern. You rotate around to all of the departments in your firm (real estate, criminal law, family law, litigation, etc) and spend some time learning more about each area while helping lawyers on files.
After you have articled for a sufficient amount of time and you pass the bar exam you are then “called” (admitted) to the Bar and you are officially a lawyer. I hope that helps!
you made me lol with #2! what a funny couple you are. my bf and i are big movie nerds too, and we always shout out lesser-known actors from the movies that we’ve seen before (like the blonde guy from 24, he was elliot’s ex on scrubs)
Thanks, Miss Pumpkin! 
I guess that’s similar to law clerks, what they call it in the US versus articling student in Canada.
