May
5
May 5, 2006
Today JB and I have been married for five years. Five!
One of our first dates; this is early 1999, I think. Notice anything weird about this photo, other than our vibrant youth (does JB look fifteen here, or what)? I totally Photoshopped out my armband tattoo so JB could send the picture to his parents.
(They know about it now, of course, and since I have finally provided them with a male heir to the JB dynasty I believe it’s possible I have been at least partially forgiven.)
The moment JB proposed, caught on camera on New Year’s Eve, 2000 (the armband is back!).
Our wedding day in 2001.
Our honeymoon; we took a cruise to the Western Carribbean.
A random moment from 2002.
Another cruise, this one to Mexico in 2003.
Hiking somewhere near Coos Bay in 2004.
Pregnant in Hawaii in 2005.
Oh, five years have just flown by. I look back on these photos and remember all that we’ve done, all the days and moments that we were together, and I feel impossibly rich; I am so lucky, we are so good for each other.
My future has never shone so brightly. My past has never seemed so worthy. I feel like I am perfectly aimed, I am walking in the right direction, hand in hand.
Happy anniversary, baby.
May
4
May 4, 2006
After some serious googling involving quotes and boolean strings and every damn search term I could think of, I finally unearthed the one photo I know of from my fabulously charming goth-girl phase. And so, behold:
Yes. Ahem.
Well.
My hair certainly was mushroomy and…crimped, wasn’t it? Crimped. Hmmm. Because the undead carry the burdensome clanking vestiges of their corporeal life in the form of crimping irons, I guess.
The eyeshadow, I’m sure, was provided by the good people of Wet ‘n Wild cosmetics, which had the advantage of 1) coming in hideous colors such as “Charcoal Ash” and 2) costing $.99. Also, I believe this was during my phase of drawing a pointy black eyeliner outline on my lips and filling them in with red lipstick. For that subtle come-hither-yon-young-Lestat-look. I imagine it was very attractive, especially when it rubbed off on my teeth.
That there on the left was my boyfriend at the time. He was very into Robert Smith. Perhaps you can tell?
Anyway, there you go. And with that, I believe I have officially discarded my last wisp of dignity as far as this website is concerned.
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