Hear! Hear! Excellent choice! And GO GRANDMA! I remember the story from the Blue family side and there was great excitement and pleasure. You are among the best additions to the family, and this is a great best-worst thing!
yankee transplant | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 4:57 pm | #

WOW, that's such a great story! Good thing you completely unleashed yourself to your Grandma. Perhaps Rabbi's Wife would never have called otherwise! I love stories of partnerships that begin as blind dates.. And HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
PS, as you probably guessed, I found my way here via YT... cuz!
Mama-to-Be | 06.15.05 - 5:00 pm | #

*clapping wildly*

Yaaaaaaaaay! Great story! Tell it again! (Oh, wait, I can just read it again...)
Angry Pregnant Lawyer | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:02 pm | #

I LOVE this story! It's wonderful.... Yay Grandma! Yay Rabbi's wife! Yay you for coming to your senses about the other guy! Yay Mr. Blue for calling you!
Friday Mom | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:12 pm | #

I LOVE this story!!! Maybe we should do a "how you met your significant other" meme. It would make for good stories!

I love Grandma and the Rabbi's wife! Good for her for taking it seriously!
halloweenlover | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:15 pm | #

Hi Mama-to-be! So glad you found your way over! Welcome to the commenting pixie party!

I like the meme idea, halloweenlover. Any takers?

The best part is that my PARENTS met via computer dating -- the first attempt to experiment with computer matches back in the 60s. And so I go and get myself set up by a reluctant yenta. So retro it's almost hip! And my grandma rocks, no?
Phantom Scribbler | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:30 pm | #

What a great story. I love your grandma making the rabbi do something!
Kathy | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:43 pm | #

What a wonderful story! Hard not to believe in the hand of fate, isn't it?
Rana | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:44 pm | #

Happy Anniversary! What a sweet story. I love the collusion of Grandma and the Rabbi's Wife.
Songbird | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 5:58 pm | #

This is such a great story, and reminds me so much of a post I just read on Daughter of Opinion. Thanks for sharing.
I'm trying to link it . . .
jessica
Amy | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 7:33 pm | #

Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, HAAAAPPPPY Anniversary (meant to be sung, not read).

...and many more.

Love,

me & Papa Go Blue
grandma blue | 06.15.05 - 8:43 pm | #

I just realized Scrivener already sang the same song to you. Well, now you've heard it twice.
grandma blue | 06.15.05 - 8:47 pm | #

What a wonderful story. It's quite possibly the best worst thing story I've heard.

Hurray for Grandma and the Rabbi's wife. And hurray for you and Mr. Blue. Happy Anniversary.
SuzanH | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 9:10 pm | #

Ok! I'll do it and then tag someone else. Hmmmm, got to get to writing my meeting my hubs story.

Have fun at the concert!!!
halloweenlover | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 9:32 pm | #

Hope you're having a great time at the concert. I'm sending Jonathan brain waves right now to play "Roadrunner" for you. Let me know if it worked.
corndog | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 10:46 pm | #

Okay, I'm a big ol' puddle of goop here.
liz | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 11:26 pm | #

what a really sweet story.
happy anniversary!
timna | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 11:43 pm | #

happy happy happy anniversary, and maaaaaaaany mooooooooore!
Jennifer | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 2:29 am | #

A wonderful story, and happy happy anniversary!!
Pilgrim/Heretic | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 5:43 am | #

That is a great story. I love it.
Andrea | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 7:50 am | #

Hey Phantom! Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of Great Story/Happy Anniversary!

Oddly, at PRECISELY the same time I myself was in a stupid relationship with a crap guy who I kept around because, well, better than nothing, which I assumed was the only other option. Must be some sort of Overeducated Girl pathology. (Here's a worthy point of discussion: How do we discourage said behavior in Baby Blue and Baby Vex?)

Anyway, our similiarities do not end there. Dumping my Mr. CrapHead did not directly to Mr. Wonderful, but it did lead me to my current career, which in turn lead me to my boss, who fixed me up with Mr. Wonderful. (Surely being fixed up by your boss is the WASP version of being fixed up by your rabbi!)

Hope you guys had a great night, you deserve it. XOXO V.O.C.
Vexatious O. Culbertson | 06.16.05 - 8:34 am | #

GREAT story...there's that "fate" again that I recently wrote about on my own blog.
jessica | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 9:36 am | #

What a great story. It is a wonderful idea for a meme too.
I don't know who Jonathan Richman is, but I hope you had a great time.
Rexroths Daughter | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 10:31 am | #

I. NEED. THE. RABBI'S. WIFE'S. PHONE. NUMBER. PLEASE.

Wonderful story...gives me hope.
Mindy | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 10:53 am | #

Welcome to the commenting pixie party, Mindy! I'm afraid that the moral of the story is that you never know who will turn out to be the rabbi's wife in your life...
Phantom Scribbler | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 1:10 pm | #

Sorry I'm so late to commenting on this thread, but great story anyway. And glad Grandma Blue recognized that I had been trying to sing down there in the earlier post.
Scrivener | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 2:46 pm | #

that's a great story! but i have two questions:

1) what is "the yenta type", or more specifically, what is a "yenta"?

and

2) do you live in boston? because i was hoping to get tix to the jonathan richman show tonight at the ME, but my hubs-to-be switched his schedule and we can't go
honey bunny | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 3:44 pm | #

"Yenta" is a Yiddish word meaning "matchmaker," honey bunny. And welcome to the commenting pixie party!
Phantom Scribbler | Homepage | 06.16.05 - 4:13 pm | #

Okay, I totally missed this one the first time around. How did that happen? But it's awesome.
ppb | Homepage | 06.28.05 - 11:42 pm | #