Chris is such a great guy and I am so glad to have met him and gotten to know him. There is so much more to him than meets the eye. He is a Transformer in disguise.
So this is for those of you (especially those on my side of the family) that think they know Chris. Here are seven facts that I'm betting you don't know.
- He has a mean parallel park. Even though he sucks at driving. Maybe "sucks" isn't the right word... He's a terrifying driver. The one where you hold your breath half of the car ride and can't help but sporadically emit tiny screams of terror.
- He's so silly and weird. I'm dead serious. Trust me because I know him better than anyone. He's a crazy-pants. There are days when I can't get a serious word out of his mouth. Some times it's hilarious and some times it's hecka annoying. But it's him. And honestly NO one knows how silly he is. He has told me on many an occasion that his favorite part of being with me is that he can be as silly as he is on the inside.
- He's a talker. Oh my can he talk up a storm! One time we were washing dishes together and then had to go to the store and I decided to pose an experiment. If I stopped responding and just let him talk, how long would he talk for? Twenty minutes. He didn't even notice until we were almost to the store and he asked a question that wasn't a yes/no nod/shake head kind of question. That blew my cover and he was like "are you upset?" and I responded "no, I was just curious how long you'd talk for if I let you!" He's a talker. Especially if you start talking about biology or genetics. Then who knows when you're getting out of that one.
- He's a social butterfly. If he could he would invite our friends over every single night to play games and chat and just chill. He's always coming up with ideas for parties or group dates. He loves it. I don't. Haha it's such a compromise for us. "Hey let's have friends over tonight!" "But we've had friends over the last two nights in a row.." "Okay how about tomorrow night?" "Only if we can stay in on Friday" "deal."
- He's a night owl. My goodness this man can stay up LATE. On week nights I'm like "man it's nine - who's ready for bed?" and he'll be up until 11:30 at the earliest. On the weekends I can hold my own but it's doesn't even stand up to how late Chris can stay up. Since we've been married I have been staying up a lot later but I've also been getting a lot more sleep, as seemingly contradictory as that sounds.
- He's only awkward at first. That being said, he's VERY awkward at first. So many unnecessary awkward words and uncomfortable silences all at the wrong time. I'm pretty sure my dad still thinks the only thing Chris knows how to talk about is his mission because for the first couple months of their relationship that's all my dad could get out of him. He can be so awkward it's cringe-worthy. And trust me, I do cringe. And I don't hide it. He is aware that I find him devastatingly awkward.
- He has a lot of emotions. This ties into him being awkward. Because a lot of people only get to know the surface, awkward Chris they think he's like a little robot. Only one baseline emotion most of the time. For those of you that think that, you are wrong. This sweet hunk of man of mine can get incredibly angry, ridiculously romantic and mushy, and weird and psycho. I've seen him go to football games and get so upset that he almost breaks things (it's actually really funny since normally he's the least violent person I've ever met). I've watched him cry over how much he loves me (that being said, it's only been like, twice. He doesn't cry often). I have watched him beat himself up over mistakes and fill with pride over victories. He has a lot of feelings. But if you didn't know that it'd be very easy to not see it.
