judecorp | A little more about birthdays

Well, it only took two or three coronaries, but my Jennifer's birthday gift finally arrived today. It was a good time, because she was totally surprised and very very happy. So here's a very special THANK YOU to everyone who chipped in and helped out. You made my sweet wife's day!

Speaking of birthdays, here's hoping today was extra special for both my good high school buddy

Jeff and one of my favorite newlyweds,

Joy. I hope today was filled with many many of your favorite things (and people).

Do you want to know how awesome my cats are? They got on the subway and went downtown to City Hall to get me a copy of our marriage certificate for my birthday. Can you believe it? What a great gift! I am impressed that they ducked under the turnstile and risked their cute little whiskers to get me a present. (They actually got two - one that we can save or whatever and one that we can take with us when we travel out of state.)

Also, I love looking at our marriage certificate. It is so awesome to have a real honest-to-goodness marriage certificate with our names on it. *insert incredibly sappy and dorky faces here*

But I have to say, it was kind of surreal to look down at the date that the JP signed our marriage license and declared us legally married. May 13, 2005. It was only five months ago, but it really feels like so much longer. So much has happened in the short time since May 13th and I feel like Jen and I have been through the wringer and back since that happy day. Five months ago, my father was still alive and we had plans to see a PawSox game over Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend came and he cancelled on me because he wasn't feeling well. The rest is total history.

I feel like I aged a lot this summer. Even though I don't feel 30 (whatever 30 feels like), I know that I feel significantly older than I did on our wedding day. I was just a happy-go-lucky kid then, giddy over the "I now pronounce you legally married" part of our day. My biggest concern was that my mom was kind of ticked that I hadn't told her ahead of time. My, how things change. We said 'for better or for worse' that day - who knew that we'd go through both in just two weeks' time?

This got a lot more serious than I'd intended. So I'll end with this - B ( . ) ( . ) B S