Small Talk Six Saturdays is a weekly Meme created by MomDot to engage conversations during the “slower” Blog Saturdays.

Every week, those participating respond to a different topic. The response is done in 6; either 6 words, 6 paragraphs, photos etc…

This Week’s Small Talk Six Topic:

6 Most Romantic or Unromantic Things that Happened to Me

I decided to mix it up and post some romantic and unromantic things that happened to me.

The Money Purse Teddy Bear:  When I was 17, I got a Christmas gift from my then boyfriend.  I am not Materiali:stic at all and I don’t want you to think that I am.  I do believe that it is the thought that counts but clearly there was no thought put into this gift.  I opened my Christmas gift from my ex-boyfriend and saw that it was a little teddy bear, about the size of a tennis ball that was strapped to a money belt.  The bear was cute but clearly, this was a toy that should have been given to a little girl.  Thinking it was a joke, I opened it up expecting the real gift inside, but it was empty.  Again, it’s not the price of the gift but the thought behind it that was unromantic.

My Special Lunch for Two:  In college I had a huge break in between classes and my ex-boyfriend (same one as Purse Teddy Bear) asked me to meet him for lunch, his treat.  I took the subway and met him where he was, a shopping centre.  Now we were in college so I wasn’t expecting a fancy restaurant.  I was expecting for us to just eat at the food court in the shopping mall.  When I got there, we met up and he asked me to wait for him in front of a grocery store.  He went inside, and about 10 minutes later came out with a cherry pie and a bottle of apple juice.  This was our lunch.  He didn’t even buy paper plates.  We ate out of the box and shared the apple juice.  In case it was unclear, this is one of my most unromantic things that happened to me.

My Honeymoon day 3:  I had an amazing wedding and was excited about my honeymoon.  Honeymoons are so hyped up that I had huge expectations of it.  Well, we were having an amazing time.  We spared no expense and stayed in a little cabin.  We even had a swimming pool in our room.  By the third day, I had developed one of the worse colds I ever got.  I had a fever, was coughing constantly and had Extreme Raccoon eyes.  Needless to say the rest of our honeymoon was unromantic.  I spent most of the rest of the time lying in bed with chills and nausea.  When it was time to eat, I couldn’t bring myself to get out of bed, so I sent my husband out to pick up some food.  Poor guy, what a way to start the vows of “for better or for worse”.

The Proposal:  Finally a little Romance.  One of my Most Romantic experiences was my husband’s wedding proposal to me.  We had been dating for 6 years and met each other in college.  He told me that he wanted to take me somewhere special.  He took me in front of our old college cafeteria where we met each other for the first time.  He then proceeded to read a poem that he wrote himself for me.  At the end of the poem, was his wedding proposal.  I was so excited that I didn’t even look at the ring. 

A Conversation with my Mother in Law:  This could be a post on its own because the story can be quite long but I will shorten it and only give you the highlights.  My husband and I were part of the same group of friends in college, but the group was so huge that we never really hung out together.  One day we were  going in the same direction and walked together.  The walk lasted about 20 minutes and we talked the whole time.  The subjects were not even about anything special but we connected.  I could not explain it but when we parted, I felt sad.  I felt extremely drawn to him and didn’t know why.  We ended up dating about 8 months after that.  One day when I was over at his house, his mom told me about that “walk”.  She told me that when he got home that day, he told her that he found the girl that he wanted to marry.  I thought it was so sweet.

The Walk:  The most romantic moment of my life has to be the walk down the aisle on my wedding day.  The moment I walked into the church and locked eyes with my husband.  I cannot even begin to express the emotions I felt.  We locked eyes the whole walk down the aisle.  The look in his eyes said more than any words could.  It was such a passionate moment.  One I will never forget.