Happy Anniversary to Me, er Us

I am back. I am interrupting this "normal" post to prattle on about something, an event, in my life. Today is the day that my girlfriend became the Wife. Yup, it is my 15th anniversary today.

I cannot believe 15 fucking years have passed.....and the Blue Jays have not been to the playoffs, let alone won a World Series since.....the Maple Leafs have not won a Stanley Cup (though to be quite honest, they had none won in the 25 years before I got married, but I am just saying)......the Raptors did not exist at that moment in time, so it is business as usual for them.....Kurt Cobain, Diana Princess of Wales, Barry White, Luthor Vandros, Paul Newman, and some other folks have died.

In fact, in that time, we have "lost" my grandmother, my mother-in-law, father-in-law, my aunt and other family and family friends. I know that seems rather careless, and I guess at some level it was, but they have gone on to the great beyond. To temper that there have been many births, our child, The Lad, friends' children and the offspring of my siblings and siblings in law, those are rather positive.

I was looking at our wedding album (I was jealous of how much hair I had and it was not grey) and had to note the number of couples (our friends) who were not together. It was astounding. I think the number of couples who have divorced exceeded the number of couples who have remained together. The most interesting tidbit, is that one of the couples that is still together, had been dating/living together but got married (a surprise wedding as my friend and his girlfriend had their first baby--something that he said he was never going to do, and it was their baby naming ceremony/party) in 2007.

That is all that want to say other than this goes out to the Wife..Happy 15th Anniversary and here is to another 15 (I figure I can mentally manage a series of 15 years).

Ciao!