Opposites Attract!

Ian and I are like night and day! We are soooo different it's actually amusing! Let's define just how different we are: He grew up in Carlsbad, CA; I grew up in Chino Valley, AZ; I went to school for business; he used to make fun of people who majored in business; I have 40 pairs of just flip flops; he has 4 pairs of shoes total; he likes to read novels; I like to read magazines; I take an hour to get ready to go somewhere; he takes 10 minutes; I want to shop at Prada; he wants to shop at the PGA Superstore; I love to dance; he likes to watch T.V. on the couch. I think you get the idea!

A recent incident gave me the idea to blog about this. The other day Ian took Rayliana to run some errands and to give mommy a break from the toddler! Their last stop was by Tim's Toyota Center to pick up our season tickets for the Sundogs' hockey games. After they were gone for almost two hours I was starting to get a little worried about them as I knew what errands they had to run and I knew the total time would be less than two hours. I called Ian and he said that they were still waiting to collect our season tickets. Eventually, they did make it home and he told me that they waited for about an hour at Tim's Toyota Center. I felt bad for him trying to put myself in his shoes; waiting around for an hour with a two year old just doesn't sound fun!

Later that night, Ian says to me, "After waiting all that time at the Sundogs' box office, we never got the tickets." I said, "WHAT!!!" I was fuming! I'm sorry but when I am told that something will be ready on a certain day, at a certain time, I expect it to be ready! It's especially irritating finding out that the tickets weren't ready after waiting over an hour for them! Also, this happened last Wednesday and the Sundogs' first home game was that following Friday. This was the next thing I said, and I quote, "Are they aware that the first game is this Friday? Or do I need to call them and remind them?" Ian just started cracking up, he said, "Our reaction is totally different!" I asked him what he meant. Ian said, "When they said that the tickets weren't ready, they apologized, and I said, 'Oh no that's okay-don't worry about it.' But if you were there you would've been p***ed!" We both just kind of laughed about it and agreed that we handle certain situations completely different.

I suppose we do have some things in common: we both love to travel with and without Chums; we both love our sleep; we are both close to our friends and families; we will both be satisfied with having two children and two children only; we both agree on religious, political, educational, and societal issues (for the most part!); and most importantly we both agree on how we should raise our little SugarRay (again, for the most part!).

So, to end I would like to say Happy Birthday Eve to my better and very opposite half! :-)