My Morning Jacket

Off-Topic => Off-Topic Ramblings => Topic started by: wellfleet on Mar 08, 2006, 12:11 AM

Title: The "ode to your significant other" thre
Post by: wellfleet on Mar 08, 2006, 12:11 AM
So I thought that with so much heartbreak and heartache in the world, we should try and have daily reminders that there's also lots and lots of love and happiness and that human connection is a beautiful thing... So big-up your spouse, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your life-partner, your I-don't-believe-in-titles...

My husband (almost 6 months now, holy cow) sometimes brings me Slim Jims from the store. It's really kind of mortifying but I've developed a taste for them that I just can't explain and he gets that. Thanks, honey!

(for those of you yet to awaken to the wonder of the Slim Jim, it's kind of a thin pepperoni/salami stick beloved by truckers and well, me)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Mar 08, 2006, 12:27 AM
i don't really have much to say, seein as i'm dead tired, but here:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v351/eiseyrokker/la%20Jen/DSC00475.jpg)

that pretty much sums it up :)

(she's my girlfriend :))
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Mar 08, 2006, 09:06 AM
hard to believe, but on May 6th it will have been seventeen years since i married susan.  she's awesome.  

somehow, she manages to be a fantastic second grade teacher, mother to amelia, and put up with my shanigans pretty much at the same time.  when i first met her, she was one of a few punk rock chicks at my college.  imagine, if you will, late 80's rural Pennsylvania...filled to the brim with mullets and big hair everywhere.  here's this hot chick wtih combat boots!  orange hair!  safety pins!!  outrageous fashion!!!  needless to say i was hooked.

Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: ycartrob on Mar 08, 2006, 01:26 PM
OK, never thought I'd marry my best friend, but I did. Her name is Leigh Ann (or LA, her roller skating name).

I am a huge pinball freak. Our first Valentine's Day together she gave me this poster of my favorite pinball machine ( one of the greatest machines ever made).
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/ycartrob/IMGP0850.jpg)
So I thought, well, that's one of the greatest gifts I have ever received.

Fast forward 5 years to my 40th birthday. The big 4 0 (it ain't all that). As fate would have it, MMJ was playing in Knoxville on my 40th, so we had plans to drive over on that Sunday, get a hotel, and go to the show. The night before we left, LA gave me this for my 40th birthday
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/ycartrob/IMGP0845.jpg)
and I thought, OK, I guess when you turn 40, you get weird shit like this. A miniature DeLorean. Great. Couldn't really figure it out but went with it.

So, we go to the show, rock out (it was Bo and Carl's 2nd live show). When we get back to Nashville the next day, this was in our living room
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/ycartrob/IMGP0846.jpg)
My very own pinball machine. The single greatest, most thoughtful gift I have ever received (LA took up donations from family, friends and co-workers)

That's LA. That's what she does and that's who I love.
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: SiOuxTribe on Mar 08, 2006, 04:14 PM
You're a lucky man Tom.
ROrwl rowwwllll   :-*
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: wellfleet on Mar 08, 2006, 04:22 PM
yo tom i want to call you out for misrepresenting yourself in your avatar... i thought you had blond hair and a mullet... no fair!
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: Jon T. on Mar 08, 2006, 04:46 PM
Let me start by saying my wife doesn't "appreciate" music the way most of us in here do.  She likes listening to it but it just doesn't affect her.  So, last night I ask, "guess who is going on tour together?"  She says, "Hmmm, MMJ and who?".  I said guess.  And her reply................."The Killers"

God love her.
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: dragonboy on Mar 08, 2006, 07:40 PM
The love of my life!
Here we are at our wedding (no really?) last summer...

EDIT: My wife got very embarrassed when she saw her pic & asked me politely to take it down  :-[

Not to worry, here's a pic of my other significant other:

(http://web.telia.com/~u38304500/comeback1.jpg)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: ali on Mar 08, 2006, 08:53 PM
lovely photo!!! that is a beautiful dress!  :)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: dragonboy on Mar 08, 2006, 09:15 PM
Thanks Ali  :)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: whothrewthecake on Mar 08, 2006, 09:16 PM
dragonboy, you guys make a dashing couple! great pic.
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: dragonboy on Mar 08, 2006, 10:06 PM
Thanks Whothrewthecake!  :)

Just noticed the Viva Las Vegas poster in Ycartrob's photo.
Elvis Presley - the only person my wife will ever have good reason to be jealous of  ;)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: Hawkeye on Mar 08, 2006, 10:48 PM
"All Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah..."

Great PJ song...
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: dragonboy on Mar 08, 2006, 11:21 PM
Quote"All Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah..."

Great PJ song...

Enough with PJ already!!!  ::)  ;)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: Mr. T. on Mar 09, 2006, 06:20 AM
My girlfriend just got accepted as an assistent-paediatrician at the university of Antwerp! in five years she'll be a doctor :o

how cool is that!

(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f135/Tommer14/348da422.jpg)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: dragonboy on Mar 09, 2006, 06:22 AM
Congrats to you & your Girlfriend Mr. T  :)
Stick it out 5 years dude & then you'll never have to work again  ;)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: Mr. T. on Mar 09, 2006, 06:31 AM
 ;D

I am not allowed to say those things out loud. Luckily the mind's still free  ;)

Like Homer'd say:

it's funny... 'cos it's true

(actually it isn't)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: vielfras on Mar 09, 2006, 07:06 PM
Me and my angel last August.

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e127/vielfras/DSC_0102.jpg)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: wellfleet on Mar 09, 2006, 07:51 PM
AAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!

everyone here is so cute and so in love. i'm glad this thread worked out. this just makes me smile...

Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: Mr. T. on Mar 10, 2006, 05:20 AM
QuoteAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!

everyone here is so cute and so in love.
I'll say it over and over again:

My Morning Jacket lovers are better lovers
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Mar 25, 2006, 09:15 PM
Somebody thinkin' of somebody:

(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e41/63polara/100_2951.jpg)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Apr 25, 2006, 02:42 AM
me and muhlady had a happy Two Monthiversary today. t'was quite loverly indeed.

 :)
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: TEO on Apr 25, 2006, 05:22 AM
18 years of marriage and counting! She puts up with me running off to music festivals and she also loves MMJ! We saw them together at the Vogue in INDY and she loved every minute of it. She especially likes the "High Lonesome" sound of  "At Dawn". She is a real "people person" and goes into every meeting of new people with acceptance and Love.
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: ycartrob on Apr 25, 2006, 08:37 AM
Quote18 years of marriage and counting! She puts up with me running off to music festivals and she also loves MMJ! We saw them together at the Vogue in INDY and she loved every minute of it. She especially likes the "High Lonesome" sound of  "At Dawn". She is a real "people person" and goes into every meeting of new people with acceptance and Love.

Funny, "High Lonesome" is how my wife and I described At Dawn, the first time we heard it as we barreled across Nebraska and South Dakota 4 years ago...

Perhaps the ghost of Bill Monore kicking around Kentucky jumped into the boys...
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: velvet_cow on Apr 25, 2006, 09:16 AM
howdy!

been ages since i came on here, but it's probably the most welcoming msgboard i ever seen, you guys are awesome.
this thread is the sweetest, just reminded me my boyfriend and i will be 6 months together soon, on his 25th birthday. not as long as some of you all, lol, but hey, he is my first boyfriend so i think there is cause for a celebration ...  ;D
he's actually from milwakee and we might be coming to the states this summer together so i'm very much hoping i will be able to drag him to an MMJ concert...
fingers crossed!
Title: Re: The "ode to your significant other"
Post by: Tree on Apr 27, 2006, 02:19 PM
QuoteOK, never thought I'd marry my best friend, but I did. Her name is Leigh Ann (or LA, her roller skating name).

I am a huge pinball freak. Our first Valentine's Day together she gave me this poster of my favorite pinball machine ( one of the greatest machines ever made).
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/ycartrob/IMGP0850.jpg)
So I thought, well, that's one of the greatest gifts I have ever received.

Fast forward 5 years to my 40th birthday. The big 4 0 (it ain't all that). As fate would have it, MMJ was playing in Knoxville on my 40th, so we had plans to drive over on that Sunday, get a hotel, and go to the show. The night before we left, LA gave me this for my 40th birthday
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/ycartrob/IMGP0845.jpg)
and I thought, OK, I guess when you turn 40, you get weird shit like this. A miniature DeLorean. Great. Couldn't really figure it out but went with it.

So, we go to the show, rock out (it was Bo and Carl's 2nd live show). When we get back to Nashville the next day, this was in our living room
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/ycartrob/IMGP0846.jpg)
My very own pinball machine. The single greatest, most thoughtful gift I have ever received (LA took up donations from family, friends and co-workers)

That's LA. That's what she does and that's who I love.
that´s a great story!  :)