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Liralen Li ([personal profile] liralen) wrote2002-08-09 09:37 am

15th Anniversary

John and I had our 15th Anniversary yesterday. It was cool. We ate good food at Dolan's. I wrestled a lobster into yumminess. We walked up and down Pearl Street Mall, drinking espresso drinks, buying birthday gifts and cards (most of them late), and then stopping at the Cheesecake Factory and getting slice to go and eat out on a bench while people watching.

Fifteen years. So much time and so little, too. Two high school reunions, three houses, one kid, one dog, and ten jobs on my part... hee. We've also made mistakes, and figured out how to communicate. We thrashed through a lot of really nasty, hard emotional things that I'm still battling today, but now I know John'll help and that he has all the tools that make it much easier for him to help than anyone else in the world. We've also had quite a few adventures.

I don't think that when I got married at 23, that I'd have believed that before I was forty we'd already mostly own, out-right, our own house, that I'd have maid service very other week, or that we'd have a dozen people out in the yard trying to reclaim it. Hee. Or that I'd have moved, yet again, and found the move a nice way, again, to restart my life. It's also good to know that the marriage, right now, is strong and solid and stable. Comforting and... more importantly for me... encouraging...

Well, here's to many more decades of wedded courage and adventure.

[identity profile] rowanf.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulation! Well, here's to many more decades of wedded courage and adventure. So Mote It Be!

Russell and I will have our 19th next month. I am also looking forward to "many more decades of wedded courage and adventure."
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[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Many thanks!

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Anniversary!

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was great fun.

Well, congratulations!

[identity profile] kathrynt.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Here's to fifteen and fifteen and fifteen more.

Re: Well, congratulations!

[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
And fifteen more after that!

Hooray!

A.

Re: Well, congratulations!

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray! Hooray! I can always hope! Greedy me. Yay!

[identity profile] silkiemom.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary!

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!!
incandescens: (Default)

Congratulations!

[personal profile] incandescens 2002-08-09 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Enjoy today, and many more happy decades to you both! (hugs)

Re: Congratulations!

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-09 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
{beam} And many more! Yay! {hugs}
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[personal profile] bryant 2002-08-09 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats!

Is it true that in Hong Kong, the 15th wedding anniversary present is automatic weaponry? Just asking!

[identity profile] rmd.livejournal.com 2002-08-12 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
i think in some parts of colorado it's battle-angel armor and land rover parts.

CONGRATS!

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-12 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Yeah! All the above and some time to teach Jet how to maintain and use all of it! I mean, with a namesake like his, he'll have to learn, somehow...

*giggles*

Thanks for the congratulations, they're very welcome.

[identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com 2002-08-12 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
awwww; excellent! we'll have been together 10 years in November and it's such a long and short time indeed

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-12 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! Congratulations with your relationship, too!! It is such an odd blend of both feelings... long with all the things we've managed to do together yet it does feel so short, too.

hugs!

Wow!

[identity profile] kjc007.livejournal.com 2002-08-12 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! And many MANY more!

Re: Wow!

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2002-08-12 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! *Snoopy dancing*

[identity profile] diony.livejournal.com 2002-08-13 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Belated congratulations!