Stare into those eyes.
Pupils grow wide and hearts thump fast as brains jolt and thoughts rollercoaster around. Conversation jumbles and stumbles before fading into footnotes as fingers touch and linger, thoughts twist together, and eye contact drifts and sways before catching and connecting as everything goes quiet…
AWESOME!
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34 Comments
July 6, 2010 at 12:04 am
Always an amazing moment.
Katie, all the best to your dad (and family)!
July 6, 2010 at 12:14 am
My favorite post yet!
“Stare into those eyes. Pupils grow wide and hearts thump fast as brains jolt and thoughts rollercoaster around. Conversation jumbles and stumbles before fading into footnotes as fingers touch and linger, thoughts twist together, and eye contact drifts and sways before catching and connecting as everything goes quiet.”
July 6, 2010 at 2:22 am
I have yet to experience that..and i’m 25 years old…*sigh*
July 6, 2010 at 9:06 am
I’m 24 and still dreaming…
July 9, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Your day will come ;)
July 6, 2010 at 6:55 am
<3
So great :)
Not sure how to feel about that moment when you remember the good times with your exes though. Bittersweet awesomeness?
July 7, 2010 at 3:56 am
Good way to put that, man.
July 6, 2010 at 7:11 am
I actually don’t remember mine and hubby’s first kiss. Is that a bad thing? We never really had a first date either. We just sorta started hanging out and then….BAM…we were married. I do remember the first time we told each other “I love you.” That was a very special moment.
On a side note…. I do remember all my other first kisses. Some more awkward than others. I do wish I remembered mine and hubby’s. :-(
July 6, 2010 at 7:26 am
Ooh, good one! Love it!
July 6, 2010 at 8:33 am
The first kiss is great, but that moment of anticipation before it is really awesome.
July 6, 2010 at 9:02 am
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July 6, 2010 at 9:39 am
I just recently had my first kiss with my AWESOME guy. I’m so blessed to have him in my life. I’ve waited a long time to find him but it was worth the wait. Gracias Antonio…you are so awesome… : )
July 6, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Cute one. I love this. Sometimes I try to pretend its my first kiss with my fiance in secret – but it never quite works.
Julia
http://www.britbride.com
July 6, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I still remember….wow, such a long time ago.
July 6, 2010 at 2:23 pm
good one!!
July 6, 2010 at 2:51 pm
With luck, I think I’ve experienced my last ever “first kiss” about 9 years ago..
And while I always enjoyed the moment of anticipation before every one of my first kisses before that one, I would never trade any one of my dozens and dozens of daily kisses from the love of my life for another “first kiss”.. I’m a very lucky guy..
July 6, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Freddo, this is very, very sweet.
Hopefully if your wife ever does read these comments, she sees this one.
July 6, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Well, it hopefully will help to make up for me revealing all her secrets about nutella covered snuggies and letting out little farts when she naps.. ;)
July 6, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Sigh. This is a great one :) Thanks for cheering up my day!
July 6, 2010 at 3:42 pm
The first kiss my husband and I shared was on our wedding day (on purpose and with some deliberation). Now THAT’S what I call memorable.
July 6, 2010 at 8:34 pm
now that’s dedication! :)
July 6, 2010 at 3:43 pm
I LOVE this. The moment right before is often better than the thing itself. Anticipation of joy becomes more joyful than the thing itself. BTW, I did something today that was supposed to be completely un-awesome, and instead it rocked! I joined the secret community of Those Who Rise Early. 5:30 AM! Awesome! http://www.livewithflair.blogspot.com/
July 6, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I ‘ve been on this community for a few months, and you do get some awesome days (not most of it). When you don’t feel tired at all, just happy because you had time to do everything you needed and still have time to have fun!
July 6, 2010 at 5:37 pm
I have never gotten a perfect kiss, but the moment before has always been like straight out of a movie: on a buss stop in the middle of the night when it’s raining, on new year’s eve at twelve, staying up late after a party and staring at each other’s eyes…
Somehow the kiss itself never quite lived up to the expectations.
July 12, 2010 at 4:48 am
Mimi, you’re perfectly right. This moment before, dozens of butterflies swirling in your stomach and then, the guy tries to hoover you…
July 6, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I’m so glad I finally found this blog. Where has it been all my life? I went back through and read all the top 1000. I will definitely be back!
July 7, 2010 at 12:19 am
As always, awesome!
Como sempre, incrivel!
(BRA)
July 7, 2010 at 8:31 am
Inasmuch as my first kiss with hubby was great, I’d have to say, when my grandkids first know what a kiss is, and they can give me one…that’s pure heaven!
July 7, 2010 at 8:50 am
What’s awesome is that I got the e-mail with this awesome thing before what ended up being the most awesome first date I’ve ever had. And also the most awesome moment of anticipation before a first kiss.
Doubly awesome!
July 13, 2010 at 12:14 am
totally!especially when its with someone you’ve liked forever and you never expected it to happen<3
July 18, 2010 at 11:26 am
kissing for the first time, with the one you like or love is priceless. – and i completely have forgotten that special feeling. sad, but it’s true. good thing i haven’t lost my appetite to love yet.
great blog. i would definitely buy the book if i come across it somewhere.
August 2, 2010 at 4:25 am
aahh… i want more of these…
August 11, 2010 at 7:54 pm
That was porbably, the best thing that ever happened to me, first kiss, awesome
August 16, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Me and the girl that I’m just, absolutely in love with, apparently aren’t anything anymore. She left me. I just read that and got sick to my stomach. I miss her so much.