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July 22, 2004
Jimmy. Nailed
Jimmy was my second real boyfriend. (I don't count Mike R___ski because we only dated for a month. I was 15. He was 19 and that weirded him out I think. Or it could have been the fear of jailtime for StatRape should we have actually gotten closer...I don't know. He was a cutie though...Different Story...I digress. )
Jimmy. My second boyfriend. He made moving to Fort Worth bearable at a time where I felt I was losing everything. In Wichita Falls I had a life; I was president of the Youth Group. I was on Drill Team. I was in the mix. In Fort Worth there was nothing...but Jimmy. We had a really fun summer watching his cousins and then he left for home which was Joshua Tx. I saw him once a few months after but that was it. We didn't have cell phones and emails back in the day...especially for high school kids and long distance was expensive.
Then in college I saw him in my dorm's cafeteria. We rekindled our friendship and dated a bit but a bizarre night at a party with my cousin put a quick end to that and I moved to a different college 6 hours away my Junior year.
A year goes by and I get a call. It's Jimmy, he's moved back to the Fort Worth area (where I went to school) and we became friends again. We even dated awhile...again. Soon we realized we weren't couple material but we were obviously meant to be friends. It was a little weird how we crept into each other's life on occasion, but comforting too.
I managed to see him while I was in Florida on tour a few years after college. He was stationed there. I met his then girlfriend that he ended up marrying. We stayed in touch for awhile but drifted once again.
I've looked for him at odd times. You just can't google "Jimmy M____" and get a useful response. So I knew I'd have to wait until he googled me.
A few weeks ago he did. He's living in Connecticut about an hour and a half away from NYC with his wife(same girl in Fl) and child with one on the way. I'm so pleased things are going well for him.
It's weird but I know that Jimmy and I will have this weird in touch/out of touch relationship for the rest of our lives. He's known me since I was 15 years old. And we keep popping up like bad pennies. Our inconstant contact is a constant in an ever-changing world.
About another Jimmy. When I was in London in 1992 there was a song that played constantly. I loved it. This girl would sing "I love you" and the guy would whisper "She's lying.". Somebody told me it was SNAP who did it but that was a lie. I was thinking it might be ABC. I've been looking for this song for 12 years!!! Seriously...every now and then I'd google various phrases and things to try to find this song. I'd ask people in record stores, chatrooms, and anybody European. Nobody knew until....
My Englishman had a visitor who is also part of
The Raging Horns. He has a reputation for knowing everything about music. As far as I'm concerned he does because after 12 years of impotent searching and frustration, I now have Ain't No Doubt on my IPOD. TWELVE YEARS!!!!
Posted by mermu at July 22, 2004 12:10 PM
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Who was the first? And who was third? We'd like to know.
Posted by: pseudonym at July 26, 2004 12:25 PM
Which cousin was it at the "bizarre party"? And what was bizarre about the party?
Posted by: Cynthia at July 24, 2004 08:18 AM
Looking at those lyrics was a little dizzying. But no, I could not. Apparently, Jimmy Nail's Aint No Doubt wasn't as popular as I thought it was else it would have had more websites. Perhaps that's the reason I couldn't find the song all those years.
Posted by: mermu at July 23, 2004 08:59 AM
BTW, Dale says he could have found that out for you years ago (he'd have phoned up his friend Nigel--you met him at our wedding--the one who works at EMI).
And couldn't you have found a site that had at least a passing acquaintance with apostrophes? Just glancing at the lyrics on the link made my teeth grind.
Posted by: Elizabeth at July 22, 2004 09:48 PM
That is hilarious that you like a Jimmy Nail song! I know him from Auf Wiedersehn, Pet (http://www.aufpet.com/aufhp.htm), which is wonderful. On one of the episodes he got to sing in a bar--he's got a nice voice, although I could barely understand his accent for a long time.
Posted by: Elizabeth at July 22, 2004 06:38 PM
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