My Diary Entry 6/12/89

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In honor of celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary, I thought it would be fun to share my very first diary entry about my husband-to-be. I was twenty. He was eighteen. I had just finished my third year of college. He had just finished his first. I wrote the following in my diary 3 days after meeting him. I didn’t change anything except names.

Major News! Friday night, we went to a fraternity party and a couple of the guys came over to the sorority house after. Rick and Joe. We made a game out of answering the Book of Questions and played all night. I fell in love with Rick instantly. His answers were the same as mine and he seemed so fun & sensitive & great! He left at 6:00 A.M. He called me the next day, then he came over for a while Sat. night then Sunday – we went to a movie. We saw Annette, Melissa, and Genine there. We sat with them. He held my hand during the movie. It was so sweet. Afterwards, we went to Wendy’s new apartment. We drank and played caps. It was fun. Then we went to the fraternity house and drank some more and played more caps. Justin was there and we talked for a while about some girl he was in love with in Texas. He was really sweet and I’m so glad we’re friends now. Anyway, Rick and I went back to my house and went in my room… we mostly just kissed. It was so wonderful. He told me I’m beautiful. God, he turned me on so much, but I want to take things real slow. I want it to last. He’s so special. He’s very intelligent too. We can actually have a good conversation. It’s been so long since I’ve felt this way and since it’s been mutual!

*My blog tour for Is This All There Is? is going great. I’m having so much fun seeing the creative ways each blogger presents their feature. If you want to check out the first few posts, here they are. The tour is from August 5-26 and Is This All There Is? will be on sale for 99 cents for that entire time.

IS THIS ALL THERE IS BLOG TOUR STOPS SO FAR:  

ChickLitPlus blog tour page: http://www.clpblogtours.com/2013/07/is-this-all-there-is-by-patricia-mann.html

8/5 Interview with Laura Chapman: (highlights are that she included videos of 3 of my dance mix songs and asked me what my biggest decision in life has been) http://change-the-word.blogspot.com/2013/08/interview-with-author-of-is-this-all.html

8/6 Leigh Bennett: This one has it all: a guest post (me interviewing my 16 year old son), an interview, an excerpt, and a review! http://abroomwithaview.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/blog-tour-is-this-all-there-is-by.html

8/7 A review by DebDebs Reviews: I was thrilled to see this very kind four star review. I laughed out loud and you might too if you read what it was about my book that “scared the bejeezus” out of her. http://debdebreviews.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/book-tour-is-this-all-there-is-by-patricia-mann/

8/8 A very honest conversation about relationships between Lori Verni-Fogarsi (one of my favorite authors, whose book Momnesia shares many themes with Is This All There Is?) and me: http://www.loritheauthor.com/PatriciaMann/