An Ostrich Named Pooky

Curtis and I played MASH tonight with a bunch of friends. We created our future story off of the results. This is written as if we were telling as old folks...

Deba: Well, so Curtis and I were dating very happily right here in Provo. Things were going well and I honestly thought we were about to take the next step.

Curtis: After doing very well at BYU I applied to Harvard and was accepted.  I decided that it was too good an opportunity to pass up and I invited Deba to come with me.  She was too attached to Utah and couldn't bring herself to leave everything she has here.  So I left.

Deba: Curtis' memory seems to have been damaged a bit from his crazy years. Curtis got accepted to Harvard and I could not be happier, well.... except for the upcoming pile of debt from attending such an expensive school. I was so excited! And I absolutely love the east coast!! Well, Curtis came to me two weeks before we were to be wed and move to Harvard. He told me that the vision for his new life just didn't include me. I was devastated.

Curtis: ...I had a full-ride...  So I left, without her.  But when I got to Harvard, I was also devastated.  I could no longer pursue the plans that had previously been constructed around a life with Deba.  So I changed my major, to music.  With the change of direction I found new motivation.  I graduated at the top of my class.

Deba: When Curtis broke off the wedding my life was shattered. I fell into a deep depression. My grades dropped and when I applied to my Deaf Studies program I did make it in. Without Curtis and sign language in my life, I just didn't know what to do. I eventually began to rise out of my depression and applied for SLCC... the only college that would accept me. I changed my major to culinary arts because I had always loved to cook.

Curtis:  With my new music degree I ventured into the movie business.  I quickly became the newest sensation on the silver screen and landed a big lead role with Keira Knightly.  Working with Keira was really fulfilling both of us and we are eventually wed.  Keira didn't want to wreck her body with having children so we adopted 7 amazing girls from Africa.  Life was going great!!!

Deba: Well my life going great too! You see when I graduated from SLCC in culinary arts I quickly got a job as the master chef in a classy casino down in Vegas. I moved down there, made great money and bought myself a ritzy penthouse apartment in an extremely nice part of Vegas.

Curtis: Then my world was shattered! Brad Pitt left Angelina Jolie (whole different story entirely) and stole Keira away from me.  Unfortunately, I failed to sign a prenuptial agreement and Keira took everything I had achieved back east, except for the 7 girls, which she didn't even help care for.  I needed to leave my life back east and move to Boise and have my grandparents help me care for my children.  I crawled back to my dad and we worked together again building our investment business.

Deba: My job was so great as a chef that I decided I would do a couple things for fun. Well, mostly just get back into sign language. I dedicated so much time to it back in college that I figured it would be a waste to not  do anything with it. I began interpreting during the day and working as a chef at night.

Curtis: My dad and I were getting very successful and expanding our business down to Vegas.  We decided to do seminars down there and we needed to hire an ASL interpreter for our clients.  Little did I know that the interpreter that would be assigned to our seminar was my old fiancee...

Deba: I got hired to interpret for a seminar... not a surprise, I was kind of a big deal as an ASL interpreter down in Vegas. I was surprised though when I interpreted for my ex-fiance. Immediately after I finished interpreting I began to rush out of the conference center...

Curtis: SEE!!!! She was running from me!! I ran after her and caught her in the parking lot.  It was really hard to get her to listen to me but I apologized profusely! She wouldn't listen...

Deba: Curtis began to chase me. I could have easily outrun him, but I decided I might as well get the talk over with. He began to apologize. Really... really... really... the boy broke off our wedding and moved to the east coast... forgiveness was not going to be easy.

Curtis: But I am that good. Yay!  It took a very long time, but she was worth it. So I chased her for a while and she finally decided that she would stop being dumb and come back to me (I let her think I was in the wrong).

Deba: Well, Curtis finally earned back my forgiveness and love. I decided I wanted to marry him and we wed. Seeing as my place was a lot nicer, he moved in with me... and brought his 7 daughters. They pretty much loved me so much. I quickly became the favorite parent. I loved being a mother so much that I decided Curtis and I should have a couple of our own. I had a few good birthing years left in me. We had 3 more daughters and 2 sons.

Curtis: Life was good, but there was still something missing... we went to the local circus and adopted an elephant named Rocky and an ostrich named Pooky.

Both: and we lived happily ever after. :)

Hopefully our lives will be a little less dramatic than the MASH game predicted, but any way it works out, it will be wonderful.  We are so happy!!!!