One Year
Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary. All told, it's been a fantastic year, and it's gone by very, very quickly. I guess that's what happens when you have a wife and partner who is also your best friend.
We celebrated with dinner at Ruth's Chris. I'm not a huge fan of Expensive Restaurants (it's contrary to my pragmatic and cheap-ass nature), but when the moment calls for it, I won't turn it down. :-) It's nice to splurge once in a while.
Interestingly, one of the gifts Beth got me (I guess traditional year one is "paper") were gift certificates from Wendy's. Yes, Wendy's. That's a sign of just how well Beth knows me. As fast food places go, Wendy's can do no wrong in my book, and I go there more than I should. Tasty 5 piece chicken nuggets. Dr. Pepper that tastes like ambrosia. $.99 Double Stack with cheese. The blissful spicy chicken sandwich. The very fulfilling $.99 sour cream and chive potato,which is sometimes monstrously large. Fries that aren't loaded with salt (I hate salty fries, I'm looking at you McDonald's) and of course the greasy and oh-so-unhealthy double. Damn you, Dave Thomas.
We also had a bite off the top of our wedding cake which had been sitting first in my parents' and lately our freezer. Time was not kind to it, and it won't darken our doorstep any longer. I don't know how that crazy tradition got started, but it's just nasty.
So yeah, one year. It's been great and I look forward to many, many more. :-)
Comments
Congrats on the anniversary! And on the Wendy's coupons :) I have always thought the square hamburger patties were oddly appealing. It's like you are getting extra corners for free!
Posted by: Glenda | October 20, 2003 08:22 AM
Congrats! FYI, my wedding cake tested great after one year. Strange... Stranger still to realize that that was over 10 years ago...
Posted by: Matt Diamond | October 20, 2003 10:44 AM
Wendy's coupons...I need a girl who's that intuitive. Congrats on the one year. I'm sure you'll see many more.
Alex
Posted by: Alex Lawrence-Richards | October 20, 2003 10:58 AM
(Random drive-by posting here...) Not that it matters now, but, in case ya ever know someone else that is planning on following that tradition. When you pull the cake out of the freezer, let it thaw a bit, then soak the sucker in chambord. A good amount of the time the cake looses all the mosture content, and becomes something short of a brick. Pouring the chambord on it will put some liquid back in it, plus has the added bonus of tasting like chambord :-)
(Sorry - was googlin' for something else entirely, ran across this post, and had to comment!)
Posted by: Midnight Ryder | October 21, 2003 08:54 PM
Newbies! We're on number 10, this Oct. 30! ;)
Posted by: flargh | October 23, 2003 10:48 AM