Anniversary... Year One.. and... ACTION!

Yes. My first wedding anniversary is approaching. It should be an outrageously exciting time, but instead the house is shrouded in sadness. We're too broke right now to do anything at all. A friend suggested having a romantic picnic in the park to celebrate. That's a fun & very precious idea, but I don't think we'll do it for two reasons: Spiders & Snakes. Tis the season for the little buggers and I don't want to come up against one while we're dining in the grass. Plus, I have been trying for months now to get Sonny out on a picnic. The idea doesn't thrill him, I suppose.

I keep reminding myself that it doesn't matter what we do: Dinner, Dancing or nothing at all... we're together and that's what counts. But at the same time, I can't help but trip over the fact that you can never have your first one year wedding anniversary again. When it's over it's over. I mean even if you remarry, it won't be your first one year wedding anniversary. I'm kind of torn between believing that it doesn't matter and knowing that it does...

For our first Valentine's Day as Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Boy, we didn't do anything. Nada. We worked that day and went home at the end of the night exhausted as hell. I had planned days in advance, to pop a bottle of champagne that night and toast to the occassion. But that champagne is still in the back of our fridge, unopened, ignored and forgotten. Sonny's just not as romantic as he used to be since we moved here, I guess. He doesn't seem excited about our upcoming date. Doesn't seem to care, really. I had to remind him of which weekend it was, as a matter of fact.

I've got just one word: Ouch :(