Tag: Jen

10 Years

Today is a special day.

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This photo has special meaning that relates to why it is a special day.

10 years ago tonight I ate dinner at a different Outback Steakhouse location.  The one in the picture is in Methuen and the one I went to 10 years ago was in Lowell.  The Outback isn’t the special thing about today.  What happened at the Outback, now that’s the special thing.

10 years ago today, I went on a date with a really nice woman.  I had a great time.  It was the best first date ever.  That first date lead to a second date, and a third, and a within a couple of years it lead to marriage.

Yes, that’s right.  10 years ago today, my beloved bride and I had our first date.  That was the first day of the best 10 year stretch of my life.  I love Jennifer more than words can describe.  More than any words I could ever come up with at least.  She is everything to me.  I adore her.  I love her.

Happy Eighth First-Dataversary

I know most of the Western Hemisphere is wishing each other a happy Easter right now, but I’d much rather take this opportunity to wish Jennifer, my beloved, brilliant, charming, witty, sophisticated, gorgeous wife, a happy eighth anniversary of our first date.  Since that day our paths first crossed in person, I have learned what being In Love truly means.  I have learned what caring for some one really means.  I have learned just how good life can be.  I have learned what real happiness feels like.  And it’s all Jennifer’s fault.  Thank you so much for that first date, and every single moment that followed it.  I love you with all my heart, and I always will.

I know you don’t like me posting pictures, but I want the whole world to see the smile I so adore. 

 

Celebrate

We’re celebrating tonight.

Eight years ago tomorrow was the first in a string of life changing events.  Eight years ago tomorrow I went on my first date with my beloved, brilliant, beautiful wife.

We’re going out to dinner with the kids tonight to celebrate our 8th Dataversary.

I’ve made a slew of bone head, dumb ass moves in my day.  Meeting Jen was not one of them.  Nope, it was exactly the opposite.  It was the start of something wonderful that keeps getting more wonderful with each new day.

Love you, sweetie!

I Was Such a Tool

I thought it would be fun to pull all of my old myspace blog posts onto wordpress.  Yeah.  Fun.  The archive files I got from myspace are on the desktop of my laptop so I only go through them when I am using my laptop, which is only once every couple of weeks or so.

What have I learned?

Nine years ago I was a major tool!

I swore a lot more.  I didn’t have to worry about kids reading over my shoulder, so there was little to no self censorship.  My attitude was idiotic.  I was pissed off all the time.  Even when I was writing about things that made me happy I managed to sneak in snide comments about something or other.  I just wasn’t happy with who I was or where I was at that time.

I’m still sifting through posts from 2006.  They are only a little more than eight years old.  They aren’t that old.

But something important happened in April of 2007.  Something Earth shattering.  I don’t know if it is going to show through in the posts from that time or not, but the major event really changed my attitude.  It changed the very foundation of who I am.

What happened in April 2007?

I met Jen, of course.

We started chatting online late in 2006, met for reals in 2007, got engaged in 2008, got married in 2009.

Everything about me is different now.  Everything about me feels better now.  I am so completely in love with her, I can’t even put it into words.  Jen has made me a better person.  I owe her everything that I am.  I love her so much.