Yesterday, Bobby and I celebrated twenty-one years together. We celebrate the anniversary of when we started dating, not when we married. We were young nerds in love, at the end of our 9th-grade year. I was 14, and he'd recently turned 15. We had been friends for the entire year at our magnet school for math, science, and computer science. (Neither ( Read more... )

As of yesterday, Bobby and I have been together for 18 years.

I have told the story before of how we got together at the ages of 14 (me) and just-barely-15 (him) at a dance at our nerdy math-science magnet school, so I won't repeat it now. Suffice to say that we have been together for well over half of our lives by now with no plans on changing ( Read more... )

I was so busy this week with graduation that I didn't get to post about last weekend. Friday was Bobby's and my seventeenth anniversary. (We celebrate in years together, not in years married; I was fourteen and he'd just turned fifteen when we started dating ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the presidential election. World, breathe a sigh of relief; our years-long election cycle will again grind to a close. Of course, it will start up again soon enough ( Read more... )

First of all, a happy birthday to my dear friend hrymfaxe! I miss you and hope our paths will cross soon ( Read more... )

( The Dog's Breakfast beneath the Cut )

Today is Bobby's and my 15-year anniversary! A half of a lifetime together! Obviously it is not a wedding anniversary; that would put us married at ages 14 and 15. Yikes. However, we've always celebrated the anniversary of the day we got together as our anniversary. Although we have fond memories of our wedding day, it was mostly official/ ( Read more... )

And I didn't even remember it until Bobby was home for sometime and said, "Hey, today's our wedding anniversary ( Read more... )

Today was honestly one of the happiest days in a while ( Read more... )

I have promised you all a post about my ten-year anniversary and skating show yesterday....

( So Here It Is! )