Seven

I have officially been married for seven years today. Seven years and 3 hours, to be exact.  I can say that, since jackass still hasn't signed the papers.  So, I googled traditional and modern anniversary gifts by number of years.   My findings:

                                                  7th Wedding Anniversary

For the seventh anniversary, traditional materials are copper and wool and the modern materials are brass and desk sets.

With copper and brass, ideas might include jewelry and home decorations such as sculptures, furniture, or appliances.

Coincidentally, I used my best buy gift cards today and got myself an external hard drive, a wireless mouse for this laptop, and a new norton antivirus disc.  I think these pass as desk sets. Sooooo, happy anniversary to me.  Guess it wasn't a total bust.

 

 Poet's walk.  Literary walk.  The Mall.  Or to me, my favorite spot to sit and read in Central park. Also, the aisle I walked down to be married on the first day of summer, June 21, 2004.  We lived 4 blocks south of this spot at the time.  It was my favorite place to walk the dogs, take a book, or just sit and people watch.   We got married standing right there.  No permits.  No closing the area off to the public.  I wanted to get married in the spot and atmosphere that was my favorite part of my town at the time.  Our family and a handful of friends formed a circle around us and the priest led the ceremony. It truly was beautiful.  New Yorkers and tourists alike continued walking past us- business as usual... just two people getting married in the middle of one of the most beautiful spots in NY.   A guy on roller blades wiped out just feet behind where the priest stood... no one batted an eye.  It was perfect.  It was NY.  It was our life at that time.  I had no idea how fleeting it was.