With the Summer Olympics on, I can’t be the only person with this question.
(Of course, I broke my wrist going off a bike jump a couple years ago and broke my leg playing beer league hockey about a decade ago. So maybe sports dominance isn’t in my future, no matter how “easy” the sport?)
Sure, we have three anniversaries but today happens to be one of them so I thought I’d mention it! 🙂
For those who don’t know how we ended with *three* wedding anniversaries, here’s the story…
First off, due to the red tape and expense of a legal destination wedding at the time, we chose to get legally married in our living room in February 2003, wearing jeans and presided over by Calgary’s cheapest Justice of the Peace – I know because I called them all! 😉
My cousin and his girlfriend, who were both undergoing divorces at the time, stood up with us, and when she heard that, the JP admitted she had been divorced multiple times. Turns out there was maybe a good reason she was the cheapest in Calgary! At least that hasn’t been a jinx on our marriage…so far!
A month later, we had a beach wedding in the Mexican Mayan Riviera with a handful of family and friends. This is the wedding we consider our “real” anniversary even though all we got were a certificate printed out by our wedding coordinator and an officiant who we requested to keep all religion out of the ceremony but who couldn’t help himself at the end when the wind came up and he observed that “God was blowing our wind around the world!” (A phrase which has become a bit of a running joke for Shea and I during an inclement weather.)
Our final “wedding” was basically a reception for all the family and friends who couldn’t make it to Mexico to celebrate with us. Initially, the plan was to have a mock wedding at the start of the festivities to jokingly share our “Mexico wedding’ with everyone. But some late arriving guests and others who got shy at the last minute, it meant that plan got scrapped. So even though there was no wedding – legal, ceremonial or mock – we did have a big boozy reception/party and we still think of this as another “anniversary”.
In those pre-smartphone days, our MC even snuck a bunch of friends into a side room, one-by-one, to video tape messages which we still have to this day. The one from my brother-in-law is a personal favourite…
The joke is that most men have trouble remembering one anniversary but I’ve set myself up to have to remember three (or made it easier because if I forget one, I can still remember a different one!) 🙂
Anyhow, Happy Anniversary Shea. It’s been a great, uhm, how many years again? 😉
Live music is slowly coming back including Jason Isbell covering R.E.M. at Red Rocks the other night.
(Not to mention, that same night, I got to see a local artist covering an Isbell song at the Nickle Lake beer gardens which was just as enjoyable!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alO-SjJrKwE
“Driver 8” – Jason Isbell (R.E.M. Cover)
Can’t wait to check out (er, pun intended?) this little library out this weekend (and on a related note, I was hanging out with the new Weyburn Library Branch Head last weekend too. Yep, I’m that cool!) 🙂
The “Beaver Den” is the park’s arts & craft shack but I’m still bitter that my entry “Nickle Make” didn’t get chosen!
Not sure if I’d call it “best city to live” as this video claims but it’s where I spend most of my summer (well, at a nearby lake with occasional trips into town for groceries, booze and camping supplies) but it’s where my parents got married, my wife graduated high school, and my in-laws currently live so it’s okay by me!
We’re off camping for a couple weeks so blog posts will likely be rare to non-existent during that time.
Feel like I might’ve posted a pic from this photo shoot before but still love it (and believe it or not, I still have that shirt though it’s migrated from “suitable for a casual photo shoot” to “wear it camping while sitting around the fire, may have a few burn holes”!)
Always sad to hear libraries that are facing great challenges. 🙁
