It's been just a little over a year since CC and I got married. I still get the occasional question about how "married life" is. I can't really answer it. The people who ask usually are looking for some sign that I've had to "adjust" to being married or that I've somehow changed in a dramatic way. But the truth is, I happen to LOVE married life and I think this is the sort of thing I was actually MADE to do. When I look back and I think of all the things I've done over the years, I can't think of a single thing that I didn't get tired of at least once over the course of a year. But not marriage. I love it :-)
We didn't have a party to celebrate. Actually we didn't even get to do much on the specific DAY of our anniversary. Things just didn't quite work out that way. Instead, it's been more of an anniversary PERIOD instead.
Thursday we went out to dinner. We had Italian at Macaroni Grill. CC's parents paid. How? Well they'd put some money in her Philippine bank account for us as a present.
Friday we got two packages from Judy and John (more about those later). I also sent CC flowers at her office. It's not the same getting flowers at home. You have to get them at the office so people can SEE you getting flowers :-)
Saturday is our actual anniversary, the 17th. CC had a lot of running around to do so I took her to the mall for noodles at our favorite spot.
Sunday? Well, CC had a baby shower to go to for her boss. They gave her some of the flowers being used for decoration. A HUGE boquet of yellow...uh...flowers :-) in a nice vase. They gave them to CC for our anniversary, which was nice of them :-)
As for presents, well there's the Mucha print for CC, which should be here some time this week. She got me a Dallas Cowboys shirt, the one that ties in to tonight's Ring of Honor ceremonies. I got her flowers, roses. Her parents got us dinner. Judy and John, WOW did they send some great stuff :-) First, the candle holders. I saw these and I said something like, "holy COW! Those are GREAT!" And they went right up to the mantle, where they do, indeed, look great :-) I love them. I told CC, "my mother would kill for those." They also sent us another Painted Pony. This time it's the Anasazi Spirit Horse which is flat out gorgeous! It's one of their best horses, if you ask me :-) They also sent CC some clothes, which helped out more than you might think :-)
You see, for the past month or so now CC has been wondering what she's going to dress as for Halloween. Last year she went as Sadako, the dead ghost chick from The Ring, or rather Ringu, the Japanese version. This was not long after The Grudge came out so that whole image of long hair and pale skin was still fresh in people's minds. She had folks afraid to approach her at the office it was so good. Anyway, so this year she had NO idea what to go as. I told her not to worry about it. Something always presents itself before long, you just have to be ready to catch it. WELL, Judy sent along this GREAT vest and blouse. The vest is khaki and the blouse is a sort of rust colored knit. You wear the one over the other and it has a very casual, rugged sort of look. Very comfortable. It also looks fairly close to what they wear in Crocodile Hunter. We did a little brainstorming. If she wears that vest and blouse with some olive shorts, thick socks and my work boots, yup, that's just about perfect :-) So this year she's going as Crocodile Hunter. I told her, "this is great. Perfect costume and it cost absolutely NOTHING." Even better, it's made up of normal clothes that she can wear again and again so there's none of that worry you have when you buy a costume and it sits in the closet having only been worn once.
One thing I thought was pretty funny. Yesterday, CC and I were talking about things and she'd remarked that the women at the baby shower were a little surprised that it had been a year already since we got married. I noticed that too. But what's also very interesting is that it seems like FOREVER since we had our last vacation . . . which was our honeymoon! It's true. It doesn't seem like nearly a year since the wedding, but MORE than a year for sure since our vacation. Go figure :-)
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Being sick sucks. Being sick and sore sucks even more. That's where I've been lately. The shoulder is on the mend, thank god. It doesn't hurt nearly as much but I still get occasional pinches now and then and I still can't sleep a full night in the bed. The problem is, I wake up after maybe 6 hours or so and I simply can't find a comfortable position anymore. Shoulder hurts too much.
CC and I have been battling some sort of cold-like virus as well. This one is a real pain. It doesn't make you quite sick enough to give up and take to your bed for proper recovery but it DOES make you sick enough to make you totally miserable. When it was at its peak for me, Thursday night, I slept on the sofa. CC was a little surprised by that but I figured that there was no way I'd be able to lay still. I'd end up tossing and turning all night plus there would be frequent bathroom trips. There are always frequent bathroom trips when you're sick. I didn't want to wake her up. It worked out fairly well. I slept on the sofa until about 4 am, THEN went to bed.
Well now we're into the work week and CC's starting to get run down by this thing. She's ok as long as she has her energy but towards the end of the day it really starts to get her. We laughed last night. Her right nostril was completely plugged up. My left one was. Together we had ONE fully-functional nose :-)
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Every year the folks in TV land prove to me that I was right to give up watching the Emmy awards several years ago. I got SO frustrated when every year they would totally ignore X-Files. No matter HOW good it was, X-Files never won anything until the series was about over. They ignored The Sopranos for a LONG time too. Same with just about every good show that isn't on the big three networks. Oh sure they'd go on and on about how many NOMINATIONS that HBO got but until recently, they only gave out non-network awards for things like mini-series.
They've gotten better about that now but I still have to wonder about their choices. First up, no major awards for CSI? Nothing for 24? Nothing for House? Hell those are the three best shows up there. Yeah, Lost got one but to be honest, I'm not so sure Lost is that great. Why? Well, I saw the first two episodes, then the last two episodes. Missed everything in between. Didn't have any problem understanding it at all. It was like all those bits in the middle weren't necessary. The cast members keep talking about how they really like it that they don't know what the writers are going to do with their characters. I'm starting to wonder if even the WRITERS know what they're doing. Honestly, they need to make a decision as to which direction this program is going.
It was nice to see Monk get his award, especially given that the rest of the comedy categories ended up a sort of Everybody Loves to Kiss Raymond's Ass. I never did get what was so funny about that show. It was ok but nothing I was ever overly impressed with.
Desperate Housewives. Honestly, where to begin? Nah, not worth it, I'll skip right to the award that it won. Ok, you have the big three wives up for best comedy actress. So, who wins? The one with the LEAST funny moments! Let's not kid ourselves here folks, the blond may be the more likable character. She may be the more dynamic character or even the most NORMAL character but hell even I'll admit that Terri Hatcher has a FUNNIER character. If it were me, I'd have given it to the red head. That woman is so anal it's almost painful and as a result, she gets all the best lines.
I figure the worst one went to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. That's got to be one of the LEAST funny comedies since SNL 2000. I've seen it. I've seen "best of" clips. It's just not that funny. The whole thing is supposed to be topical humor. What it mostly ends up is jokes at the expense of Republicans and the President. Here's the problem with that: in order to make topical jokes appealing, they have to be grounded in the truth. What made Clinton's jokes about himself so damn funny, and what made him seem so charming, was that he poked fun at things that were, more or less, true. These guys at The Daily Show, they're like Michael Moore. Their jokes are grounded in half-truths and sometimes outright lies. So instead of being funny, they end up just being rants. If you want funny, topical humor, skip The Daily Show and watch South Park or Robot Chicken.
Damn . . . that was one long blog entry :-)
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