Single best post ever...
I had planned to update this a week or so ago, and never got to it. It probably doesn't help that my internet has been spotty at best lately. I had planned to tell you about how I now have a job as a high school teacher in Frankfort, IN, how I have my very own apartment in West Lafayette now, and how I've been dating this wonderful girl, Jenny, since the week before graduation. All of this is true, of course, but I had a far more important realization the other day that begs a more immediate post.
I spent Saturday morning running around town with Jenny trying to get some errands done. I had failed to get most of it done for assorted reasons, the primary being that the DMV and the bank are not open past noon on Saturdays. To top it off, I had gotten a speeding ticket the day before, other chores around the house had been neglected, and Jenny's car was in the shop. Also, it was our four month anniversary.
We were sitting on the couch watching TV, taking in what had happened that morning. I turn to Jenny and say something of this sort: "It's our four month anniversary, but there's dishes in the sink, I've got a headache, the credit card isn't paid, the car is in the shop, and I still need to do laundry. Yet I am perfectly happy"
I stopped to think for a minute and added: "One day it will be our 14 year wedding anniversary. Dishes will likely still be in the sink, the car will be on the fritz, and the credit card probably won't be paid. Laundry will need to be done because the kids will need socks for soccer practice. But, I will still be perfectly happy." Then I added "and one day it will be our 40 year anniversary, I won't be alowed to drive the car anyway, I'll still have a headache, with a back ache to match, and the credit card still won't be paid. I will still be 100% perfectly happy with my life."
I haven't told many people this yet, and I know it will still be a few years off (Jenny needs to finish school, 2 more years), but I honestly, truly, want to marry Jenny one day, and am fairly certain that I will.
She told me today she spent her lecture practice signing her name as Jennifer K. Seidl.
I spent Saturday morning running around town with Jenny trying to get some errands done. I had failed to get most of it done for assorted reasons, the primary being that the DMV and the bank are not open past noon on Saturdays. To top it off, I had gotten a speeding ticket the day before, other chores around the house had been neglected, and Jenny's car was in the shop. Also, it was our four month anniversary.
We were sitting on the couch watching TV, taking in what had happened that morning. I turn to Jenny and say something of this sort: "It's our four month anniversary, but there's dishes in the sink, I've got a headache, the credit card isn't paid, the car is in the shop, and I still need to do laundry. Yet I am perfectly happy"
I stopped to think for a minute and added: "One day it will be our 14 year wedding anniversary. Dishes will likely still be in the sink, the car will be on the fritz, and the credit card probably won't be paid. Laundry will need to be done because the kids will need socks for soccer practice. But, I will still be perfectly happy." Then I added "and one day it will be our 40 year anniversary, I won't be alowed to drive the car anyway, I'll still have a headache, with a back ache to match, and the credit card still won't be paid. I will still be 100% perfectly happy with my life."
I haven't told many people this yet, and I know it will still be a few years off (Jenny needs to finish school, 2 more years), but I honestly, truly, want to marry Jenny one day, and am fairly certain that I will.
She told me today she spent her lecture practice signing her name as Jennifer K. Seidl.