Nathan and I met at the commercial in Dubbo in 2004 in March and the story is I was out
with my friends and he was out with his and he was drinking with his friends, sitting
outside having a few beers. I've come over with my friend who knew some of his
friends and they happen to be a spare seat next to Nathan. Actually she came over
to us and she sort of came up to me in a good mode of mind and she goes what are you
used to? Gay? What? So you gay? And so yeah things went from there. One thing to
another, a few drinks, a few dances that I don't normally do. Started talking, we
were still drinking, we went on to the dance floor and that's where we had our
first kiss. Who asked who? I did a couple of days later, threw a text message,
didn't have the nerves to do it in the phone so I'd done it through a text
message and she said yes, we went to the movies for our first date. He asked me
out, he sent me a text, the middle of the next week I think it was saying would
you like to go to the movies and I said yes and off we went. It was a scary
movie. Horrible. Yeah, Cold Mountain or something I think it was actually, it was
a really brutal not nice scary movie. I can't remember what movie when I watched
something queer and then we drove around for about four o'clock in the morning.
When did you figure out that he'd been the one you'd married or wanted to
marry? Almost straight away. We get along really well, it's never
awkward or anything, we just talk all the time, we get along really well, it just
works from the start. Probably a couple of years ago we were being going for a
fair while and living together and I don't know, just felt right, things lined
up and quite nice having her in my life, so.
And what's the best thing about?
Ah, everything, she just works, good personality, good to be around, so yeah
no, just a lot of little things, just all that up, so yeah no, she's very good.
I like our cuddles in bed, he does the best cuddles, especially in winter when
it's cold. And what's the most annoying thing?
Decision making, you ask her or she'll ask you and you just go honey, just decide
I've got something else on, I don't care, you just do it but she won't and then
we end up in an argument all the time, it's quite fun but yes that's the most
annoying thing about her, she won't make any decisions, she says I'll make enough
outside of work.
He's snoring, it's all right if I go to sleep first, it doesn't bother me
obviously because I'm asleep but if I don't go to sleep first like I
normally do and then he starts, oh my goodness me, it's all right I hit him
and punch him and yell at him and then that stops.
And who proposed? He did, yeah, no, he did.
It was on a birthday last year, I sort of planned it all a couple months in
advance, I brought the ring and I got the lady at the jewelry shop to put it in a
small box and then inside a bigger box and then inside a bigger box, there's a
lot of paper and everything inside it so she sort of,
she came home from work, we were getting ready to go to Port Macquarie
and yeah I said oh you got to happen your birthday present before we go
because we were sort of rushed, we had to get down there.
And I'm like hmm I wonder what this is and we're unwrapping
and I started unwrapping and and then there was more wrapping and I'm
getting down, I'm like what's going on here and then it was in cardboard and
then I had to get scissors and it was just, oh you know, so by the time I'm
like what is this? And so she sat down and I'm standing there
waiting for her to open it, she opened up the first box and found the smaller
box and repeated that and just as she opened up the
little box with the ring inside, I dropped down on one knee and said would you
marry me? When I'd realised, I started to think oh
what's this and opened it, he was on his knee and
she was very surprised, said yes and the ring was 22 miles too big,
he sort of slide off quite easily and I said you can't take it away, we've got to
take it back to the jury shop and get a smaller version of it.
So she had to wait for another three weeks after the proposal, actually where
they're in. Long three weeks I can tell you now,
long three weeks, but she finally got it and very happy with it.
So he hit it really well, he's very sneaky, I'm going to have to remember that.
It's all recorded, I know. So it was nice like just
hitting do it up, it was in our front lounge room and it was just
yeah, I was laughing and crying, it was just such a good thing.
My first present for um first Christmas resin or birthday present was a
fishing reel or was it the second? No the first couple
were jewellery, I was getting jewellery in all the nice things and when I started
to get serious I started to get fishing reels.
So you're giving them the shiny stuff to suck them in and then they get
practical stuff.
