first anniversary.
So, cold weather has finally come to Ohio….I had to scrape ice off of my car windows this morning. Saturday was our Fall Festival at work and I was out in the cold for 8+ hours working in the food booth with two of the sweetest ladies… (one of them was from Germany and had the most wonderful accent.) We all were gathered around the grill (full of Italian Sausages) like it was a bonfire, warming our hands on the lid. I feel like I have not fully warmed up since that day. My feet and hands are permanently icy and all I want to do is take a long, hot shower, put on a hoodie and lay on the couch under several blankets (my plan for this evening).
Wednesday is Halloween and it’s free burrito day at Chipotle if you dress up in tin foil. I was just thinking about Halloween two years ago, and I want to share one of my favorite memories with you:
It was a mid-week Halloween that year and Funnel was at Cedarville and I was at Otterbein (the good old days of our long-distance relationship). Halloween was our “anniversary” (one year prior, on Halloween, we had become “official”) but we had celebrated it the weekend before in Cedarville. We were chatting on IM and I was telling him how I wanted to go to Chipotle but no one wanted to go with me and I would feel completely ridiculous going by myself, dressed up like a burrito. He said “I’m on my way” and then put up an away message. All it said was “I’m serious.”
I was beside myself with happiness. “Is he serious? He’s serious!!!” I knew he had a lot of homework and studying to do, but he was driving over an hour to Westerville just to have Chipotle with me. He had to leave pretty soon after he came, but just getting to see him unexpectedly mid-week, even if it was just for twenty-minutes made it one of the best days ever.
Speaking of anniversaries and “best days ever”… our wedding anniversary was yesterday. All day yesterday, I was thinking about what I was doing at that particular time last year … getting my hair done, reading the letter Funnel wrote me, seeing my handsome groom for the first time as my dad walked me down the aisle, our dance to “the Luckiest.” It was a very special day, and this year has been so happy… starting our home together and learning more about each other every day. He is my very best friend and I love him with all my heart.
And where was I before the day
that I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday,
and I know that I am the luckiest.
((someday))
October 29th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Hey Jen
That is so sweet. I was Thinking about you and Funnel the Sunday .WOW!! How the year has flown by !!!
See YOU.
Barb
October 29th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I love your entries so much. They only make me a little bit jealous.
But mostly my happiness stays sweet.
Thanks for asking for my e-mail address. You can use
sarahmartindell@yahoo.com.
Take your time writing back.
I’m so glad to kind of look at you as a big sister whom I can ask these important questions about love!
October 30th, 2007 at 5:44 am
i love your writings. I agree totally about putting on a hoodie and being under the blankets and watching a good chick flick. It’s one of the best feelings, when your man’s away. well congrats on making it to a year, may there be many more happy and blessed years to come. Love you, and thanks for having lunch with me. It always brightens my day. love ya sis.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:57 am
Aww that is so sweet! I know the feeling of the long distance relationship and the wonderfullness of a brief, unexpected mid-week visit. Congrats on the one year mark and best wishes for the many, many more years to come.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
This post is wicked old, but that was our wedding song too. Aren’t the lyrics just perfect?
(of course out band butchered it so badly that I can barely stand to listen to it anymore… just imagine it performed in the style of sinatra. Yeah, it was painful.)