now we are 4
oh yes. four years ago today (i won't say four years ago this minute, because i might not have been awake yet, but i would be awake soon), pretty much all day long i was a-shaking in my shoes, because on the evening of 6/8/2002 i got married.
happy anniversary to us, then!
we're going to stanley and seafort's for dinner, where we'll likely drop a pretty penny on food and drink. kara's developed a taste for the finer whiskeys and likes to broaden her knowledge. i don't know what i'll have to drink; i'll probably try something new. but they do good steaks and fish and things and we'll have something excellent to eat.
there's a small rush of anniversaries in our family coming up. my parents were married on 6/11/1966, which makes sunday their 40th. i find that impressire and inspiring. my sister and her husband rick (who is currently doing this) were wed on 7/1/1995, so their 11th is impending. my cousin ian married betsy on (i think) 7/5/2002 (correct me if i'm wrong, someone), so they are in the same boat as kara and i.
quite a month, then. happy marriages to all! i still think it's weird that i'm married. it's wonderful, don't get me wrong. there were just a lot of years in which i couldn't imagine such a thing happening. it's not what i had expected to happen.
but then, how much of what i'm doing with my life (being married, living in tacoma of all places, working as a transcriptionist of all things) would i have forseen a decade ago? heck, in 1996 i was living with the abovementioned ian [this is an old, old site] in a small apartment in carrboro, nc, spending time with christa, working at visart video.
or had i moved to blacksburg, va, already? no, i didn't move to blacksburg (definitely a retarded move on my part) until 1997. that was still in my future, while thankfully it's now in my past. anyway. blacksburg is a story of a totally different girl, a story i don't particularly enjoy reliving.
but being married to kara is the best thing that could have happened to me. i cannot imagine living out my life with anyone else. kara is my life now. i love her like crazy. and tonight we're going to eat a really good meal!
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i do not mean to suggest that spending time with ian and christa was a bad thing. au contraire. that life was great. leaving the chapel hill area (especially the way i did it) was among the dumbest things i've ever done.
of course, things get tricky, because the subsequent chain of events eventually led me to seattle, where i met kara ...
what if i had never left chapel hill, and continued that good life? where would i be then? i think of such things.
i should investigate quantum physics.
i think ian and betsy's anniversary is 6 july.
and i'm truly glad, happy, comforted, ecstatic that you and kara found each other. as i've said elsewhere.
so -- happy #4 plus one day! and tell us about your meal of last night.
i think it's weird that you're married, too, because my memories of you are of a geeky, shy video store clerk. and who would marry THAT guy??
kidding. :-)
congratulations to you both! i love thinking about the "what ifs" of our lives. an episode of 'my name is earl' focused on that, as did the movie '20 dollars', if i'm not mistaken.
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