I have two recurring dreams. I wouldn't call them nightmares, exactly, but neither of them is very fun either. In the first, I am back in school, but I'm late to all of my classes, or I can't find my classes, and I'm behind on all of my homework, or finals are coming up and I haven't studied at all. It always takes me a little while after waking up to convince myself that I don't need to get out of bed right then and spend the next gazillion hours studying and writing papers in order to catch up.

In the other dream, I am married to somebody besides Hugh. It could be a guy that I was friends with in high school, or somebody who was in one of my college classes whose name I don't even know, but no matter who it is, I always wonder how I got myself stuck in this horrible pickle, and if there's anything I can do to get out of it. Once, I actually had a dream that I was married to one of these wrong guys, but that I had already been divorced from another one, and I figured that I had better just learn to live with it because I didn't want to get divorced twice. Luckily, when I wake up from these dreams, I roll over, and who should I find beside me, but Hugh. The scary thing is that if it weren't for Groundhog Day four years ago, this second dream might actually have come true.
Fortunately, four years ago today, some friends of mine practically dragged me to a Groundhog Day party. (I wanted to stay home and do homework so as to avoid my first recurring dream becoming a reality.) They convinced me to come along by insinuating... okay, by blatantly stating, that if I came, a certain other somebody would be willing to put of his homework and come too. 
As it happened, they were right, and Hugh was quite easily talked out of staying home to do his homework, and we all found ourselves, that fateful February second, seated on couches and floor, ready to watch Groundhog Day.

Over the course of the movie, Hugh managed to work up the courage to hold my hand for the first time. However, we were not quite so deep in the love cloud of oblivion that we could miss everyone else's sudden need to turn in our direction and pass the popcorn... over, and over... So, there you have it. We've been happily together ever since... except for that one time when I broke up with him for a week... but what's that in the grand scheme of things anyway?
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I feel like I had a role in all of this! :) YAY! Happy Groundhog's Day!
Love the story. Love you guys! We'll see you again someday even if it's when our boys both enter BYU.
~Nat and Thayne :)
I think I "passed" the popcorn back at least 15 times during the movie! And we thought we were stealthy... ;)
I'm confused about the popcorn passing - were they trying to interrupt the handholding or just taking a look at what was going on back there?
Nice pics!
It's like "Clutch Day."
The popcorn passing was merely a ploy designed to allow them to spy on us as much as possible without seeming intrusive. The only problem with it was that it was obvious.
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