Category Archives: Marriage

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad

I’m not the best with dates and such. I knew Mom & Dad’s anniversary is today, but I didn’t realize it’s their 40th wedding anniversary. Why aren’t we partying? I hate that we’ve gotten out of celebrating special events like birthdays and anniversaries. We did have most of the family at my niece’s wedding Nov [...]

Our First Motorcycle Group Ride

Back in March I took a Basic Riders Safety course at a local community college. One of the instructors, Jim ‘Ape Anderson, took everyone’s email to keep in touch with his students. I don’t really know how many he’s had, but I know he taught pretty much every weekend until this weekend. I talked him [...]

Happy 12th Anniversary!!

Happy anniversary Duck! I love you more than when we got married, and I definitely didn’t think that was possible. It seemed like it took you for-evah to figure out you wanted to marry me, but when you made up your mind, you really make up your mind.
Duck said that our 10th anniversary was the [...]

First Day of the Journey

We survived the first day of the journey. We rode about 225 miles (I’ll have to get the exact mileage off my bike). When we checked into the hotel, I left my bike parked and rode with Duck to get a snack. It just would have taken more energy than I had at the moment [...]

Enjoy the Journey

Don’t worry about the destination, just enjoy the journey. That’s what Duck’s been saying to me this week. We’re packing up and heading out. We’re riding our motorcycles north to the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Leaving this afternoon and coming home Sunday. Keep us in your prayers for safety if you don’t mind [...]

Not exactly according to plan

Yesterday didn’t go at all according to my grand scheme. I was not able to stay off the computer as much as I’d hoped — I had a work project to complete. I did refrain from reading blogs, and only checked email for ones regarding the project. Duck worked from home which always throws my [...]

Birthday and Mother’s Day Follow-up

Soliloquy had a birthday last Friday and came here to ask what I got for my birthday.
When I was little, I loved celebrating birthdays. I got to choose what I wanted for dinner (most of the time Mom’s spaghetti) and I got a chocolate pound cake. Oh yeah, and tons of presents As I’ve [...]

Life from the Laundry Room

It really sounds like a blog name, but it’s just describing my day — today. Because you see, I don’t go to the laundry room that often. At least, not as much as I should.
Today I was determined to “just do laundry” if I did nothing else. I was on a roll. Folding clothes from [...]

“My Only Love” by the Statler Brothers

I should have remembered this — it was the song Duck also sang at our wedding He got down on one knee at the front of the church and played his guitar/sang to me. The video has degraded and skips, but I just captured it to my computer so it wouldn’t totally be gone. [...]

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend

12 years ago today, my Genius Better Half proposed to me and oh, he got me good! I never saw it coming!
We had been dating for about a year and half at this time. He sent me a dozen red roses at work that Friday with a note saying something to the effect of “you [...]