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Sixteen Years – And We Forgot Again


10 Dec

Tags: anniversary, husband, Richard
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Cindy – thank you for the lovely card and we will be going to Olive Garden this weekend.

As you can see, Cindy (best friend, extraordinaire) has remembered our anniversary. Luckily the mail came early, so with the card, hubby and I realized that it has now been sixteen years of wedded bliss.

I have no idea why we both keep forgetting… argle.

I still love my husband as much as I did the day I met him sixteen years ago at Round Table Pizza in Monterey. We met through an ad I placed in the personals and we spoke for about a week before meeting in person. We walked down Fisherman’s Wharf, the Plaza and the Memory Gardens until I had to take the last bus home. I really had intended to just shake his hand (I don’t kiss on the first date) but at the very last second we kissed and I stumbled onto the bus. If the driver hadn’t known my stop, I would have completely missed it. I was pleasantly dazed.

Happy anniversary, Richard. I love you, dearly.

Fifteen Years Married


10 Dec

Tags: anniversary, fifteen years, husband
Posted in About Me | 4 Comments »

And thanks to Cindy, I would have forgotten this year, as would my husband. I don’t know why we forget. It does matter to us that we’re still married. We just don’t remember it one day a year, we remember everyday.

We’ve settled into each other after 15 years, and our bodies have settled, too. I have white strands in my hair and my husband’s hair is now grey and white. There’s very little of the soft brown left. I still love his smile and the way he looks at me. It amazes me that when he kisses me, and holds me in his arms, he still thinks I’m beautiful. I was never… beautiful.

I love my husband and I can’t wait to be with him for another 15 years.

Happy anniversary, Fuzzi Man.

We Forgot


14 Dec

Tags: anniversary, Memories
Posted in About Me | 5 Comments »

Our anniversary.

Best Friend Cindy remembered our anniversary, but it slipped past the spouse and I like it always seems to. We both forgot all about it.

Fifteen years ago on December 10th, 1992 at 10am on a beautiful Winter morning, Richard and I were married at the Memory Gardens in Monterey, California. It wasn’t a huge or fancy wedding; just my parents, his mother and brother, my brother Jim, Cindy and a couple of other close people.

I suppose one of the reasons we forgot was because we both had something on our minds. It sort of ruined most of the day for us.

It’s funny, though, even my mother forgot about our anniversary this time. She’s always been pretty good about remembering it. But, we make so little a fuss over it, I guess she’s no longer making a fuss either. It’s all right.

Our real anniversary is February 10th. That’s when we first met. We would have met on the 6th, but work and a short visit to his family took precendence. If it had been possible, we would have married on the 10th of February in 1993, but there was a very good chance my dad would not have been able to make it to the wedding and he really wanted to come. As it turned out, my dad passed away in 1993.

Our wedding was a do-it-yourself affair. We didn’t have much in the bank and we both wanted to go to Vancouver for our honeymoon. Alaska was the first choice, but a cruise was definately out of the question. A train trip along the coast was the way to go and we had a fantastic time; in the dead of Winter.

Anyway, so it’s been fifteen years. I still love my husband. He’s a very good man. Ain’t it great that he loves me, too?

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