Did I win? The Valentine's Day Contest...

Originally posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013

Did I win? The Valentine's Day Contest...

I entered a "How Did You Meet Your Spouse" contest for Valentine's Day...

well, I didn't win, but I come away with a 200 word response to the question, so I'll print it for my 3 children and put it in their memory boxes.

I also made the "top 5" stories interesting enough to share.  :)  Click to read the contest finalists/winner.

2003

Valentine’s Day Contest:  

How I Met My Spouse in 100-200 words

by Emily C.

Following graduation, I lived for a year alone in NYC before finally being hired to perform in a sketch comedy group aboard a cruise ship.  Job manual in hand, little did I know my future husband was sprinkled on almost every page—in different costumes.  A soda jerk, an octopus on stilts, a football player, a clown—in endless explanations of comedy sketches.  I moved into my tiny cabin, #4111, which shared a wall with #4113—the cabin he’d vacated just months earlier.  After one month performing with my 3 other cast mates, the team captain, Ray, told me I “had to get onstage with Seth somehow”.  He said we were the male/female comedy version of each other.  One day while in port, Ray had me leave a message on his phone.  (We rapped it.)  That night, Seth called my cabin and we talked for five hours.  Seth flew to Miami a month later to meet me in person—just for the day.  Two months later, he replaced a cast member who got a pilot in L.A.  Six days into that fill-in, and three months after that first phone call, he pulled out a little black box and asked me to marry him.