Dear Future husband

I’m not a pet person, I never had pets growing up (The one dog I did have, nearly killed me-okay not really but I did get a fright-).

BUT: I am happy to compromise and get a dog with you,because I’ve started to become, dare I say it….a dog lover……..

I am happy to get a dog on the following conditions:

1: We MUST adopt the dog from a dog shelter(see www.broadwaybarks.com for the reasoning behind this )

2: I get to choose the name (you’re already letting me name our children, so why not the dog too)

I am not fussy about the breed (but might I suggest a small dog to begin with…?) can I also suggest that maybe we dont get a puppy, I think an older smaller dog will do just fine.

See there we have it, the first compromise of our marriage and it went off without a hitch! I can see we’ll be happy for a long time…..

Sincerely

Tarryn

Dear Future Husband

I love watching television as much as the next person, I find it a great source of entertainment, HOWEVER I feel obliged to inform you that I will under no circumstances allow you to put a Television set in our bedroom.

The Bedroom is supposed to be a calming place, a place where you can truely just relax and unwind, its a place where we can sit and talk or read books or….well you know….

The bedroom is NOT the place for you to watch sport nor is it the place for me watch old musicals on TCM, if you are someone who cannot fall asleep without a TV I suggest you fix that problem and quickly!

The same rule applies to laptops and series, while its fine and fun in our singlehood, I assure you it will not be in our marriage.

Of course if you’re home alone or sick in bed entertain yourself by watching series, but not when we’re together, we should be engrossed in each others lives not the lives of ficitional characters.

Sincerely

Tarryn

[Re-post] Dear Future Husband

The Festive season is upon us andI just wanted to let you know a little somthing…

Every year without fail I buy myself an advent calendar, its just something I do, I cannot explain it. I have had advent calendars since I was a child, its tradition and thats that!

However, since I’m now older and wiser I realise that eating chocolates everyday, no matter how small they are might not be the best idea…..however if you were to create an advent calendar for me where instead of chocolates, I found..oh I dont know..Carats, nice shint carats behind each window, I assure you I will be the happiest woman alive.

If you dont want to give me Carats-which by the way are healthy for you!-Feel free to get creative with my advent calendar ;-)

Yours Sincerely

Tarryn

Dear Future Husband

Someone to hold you too close
Someone to hurt you too deep
Someone to sit in your chair
And ruin your sleep
And make you aware of being alive

Someone to need you too much
Someone to know you too well
Someone to pull you up short
And put you through hell
And give you support for being alive - being alive
Make me alive, make me confused
Mock me with praise, let me be used
Vary my days, but alone is alone, not alive.

Somebody hold me too close
Somebody force me to care
Somebody make me come through
I’ll always be there
As frightened as you of being alive
Being alive, being alive

Someone you have to let in
Someone whose feelings you spare
Someone who, like it or not
Will want you to share a little, a lot of being alive
Make me alive, make me confused
Mock me with praise, let me be used
Vary my days, but alone is alone, not alive

Somebody crowd me with love
Somebody force me to care
Somebody make me come through
I’ll always be there
As frightened as you to help us survive
Being alive, being alive,
Being alive, being alive.

Sincerely

Tarryn

Dear Future Husband

I think its important that you know how I behave when I am down with the flu,just so that there are no surprises.

When I have the flu I will suffer for as long as I can before I go to the Dr,it doesn’t matter how many times you tell me to go,my phobia for Drs rooms will prevent me from making that appointment.

I also like to sleep alone,in a big cold bed,so unfortunatly for you it will have to be the couch until I am better.

I also have the tendency to feel quite sorry for myself(Chocolate will cure this I’m told) and I suddenly adopt this really nazal,nagging voice.

I also lose my appetite , so you’ll have to figure out your meals yourself.

I am also prone to cabin fever and I’m told a stack of DVDs,gummy sweets and trashy magazines will cure this, so there’s just a hint of how you can help me.

Apart from the aforementioned issues, I’m quite adorable when I’m sick,but I just thought you should know what to prepare yourself for.

Yours Sincerely

Tarryn

Dear Future Husband

I think its important that you know what foods I will not under any circumstances feast upon.

1. Chocolate Ice-Cream

2.Chocolate Mousse

3.Chocolate Instant pudding

4. Chocolate Milkshake

* Please note that I do however eat actual chocolate, its the flavoured rubbish I cannot deal with.

5. Milk

6.Raisins

7.Cabbage

8.Cheese(when its on a burger)

And I think that’s all, I just felt that you should be aware so that when you’re making dinner reservations or actually when you’re making dinner you know what NOT to add to the pot.

Sincerely

Tarryn

Dear Future Husband

It was brought to my attention by a friend that I never mentioned possible ideas for our Honeymoon….

This friend has just returned from a trip to Dubai where a newlywed couple were on their honeymoon…in 45degree weather!

So here are my views, I don’t think a honeymoon should be spent in a place where we will be sweating 24 hours a day, surely we’d like to hold hands on our honeymoon and I assure you ,I will not want to be touched in 45 degree weather!

So might I suggest that if you do pick a sunny location that there is a beach close by where we can cool off or if you pick somwhere where its snowing also ensure that there is a fireplace.

Sincerely

Tarryn