I may have mentioned a few years ago that it was my anniversary and, this week, I realized that “HOLY COW IT IS MY 18th ANNIVERSARY!”
18 years. Holy cow. The marriage is old enough to vote. (No politics.)
When I woke up, she woke up, and I told her “holy cow… it feels like we’ve only been married 3 or 4 years” and she told me “that’s because you only remember the good parts”. [Ed. note: I was teasing! Mostly!]
As someone who only remembers the good parts, let me tell you:
I am the luckiest man alive.
(Insert meandering essay about how I can’t believe that it’s not the 90’s here.)
It’s good to have someone who remembers when you were in your 20’s. But is willing to overlook what you were like in your 20’s.
Anyway, I asked her “what do you want me to make you for dinner? I’ll make anything. Well, except for a slow cooker meal. That will take hours and hours, and I only have hours. Do you want me to buy you a ribeye and slice it thin and make steak nachos?” and she said “Nah. I had your habanero pineapple chicken nachos last night. You know what? I haven’t had your cheeseburgers in a long time. Could you make me those?” and I said “Absolutely.”
So I bought (or knew that I already had on hand):
Ground Bison
Shredded cheese
Sharp Cheddar slices
Brown Mustard (the thick kind with the really big mustard seeds)
Roma tomatoes
Romaine lettuce
Potato bread hamburger buns
butter
bacon
Crinkle fries
I mixed the bison, shredded cheese, and a couple of strong squirts of mustard together and mixed them up and made some patties.
I ripped the romaine into bun-sized pieces and cut the roma tomato into slices thick enough to hold flavor but still thin enough to include on a burger + bun and then prepped the oven for crinkle fries. After picking her up from work and bringing her home, I got to cookin’.
Put some butter in the frying pan. Put the fries in the oven. Put the patties in the melted butter. Flip the patties. Wait a bit. Flip the patties. Wait a bit. Flip the Patties. Wait a bit. Flip the Patties. Wait a bit. Flip the Patties. Wait a bit. Flip the Patties. Put butter on the buns. Put the buns in the oven. Put the cheddar slices on the burgers. Put the bacon on the buns in the oven. Wait a bit. Put the buns on a plate. Put the patties on the burger buns. Put the condiments on the burger. Put the bun tops on the burgers. Get the fries out of the oven. Places the fries near the burgers.
Serve.
Look forward to next year and then start hoping, in earnest, for (at least!) another 18 years.
So… What’s on your docket?
(Image is “Dennison’s Bogie Book for Halloween (1920)” by Dennison manufacturing co.)
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Jaybird has been a bright spot in an incredibly difficult week.
I'm really looking forward to 10:15pm tomorrow.Report
Congrats. My marriage lasted about that long, and my 20s were with the future “Tech Girl”, so…might want to not get complacent :)))
I have to go to some Halloween Gala this Sat. (The things you do for women folk). This causes me to have to wear 1) a coat and 2) a tie. So I’ll be too warm to really enjoy it. Also, I except to be waylaid into dancing. Ugh.
On the positive side, Skyrim Enhanced edition is out (and free) so I’ll be playing that, and there is jujitsu. All in all not a bad weekend.Report
Thank you.
We’ve never been complacent, I think that’s part of why we’re both still so schmoopy about each other.
I’m sorry it was rougher for you.Report
18 years…mazel tov! My wife and I celebrate 12 years on Sunday. She asked me the other day if I would purchase a $20 ceramic Christmas statue for the front porch. Done. I asked her for 2 packs of Field Notes. Done. The simple fact that we’re good with that makes me incredibly happy. Now I just need to make her something equally as delicious-sounding as the above meal and remind her that she made my life about 100 times better when she said ‘I do’.
Congrats again to Jaybird and Maribou. Wishing you many more.
P.S. I’m confused about putting bacon on the buns…That doesn’t turn into a greasy mess…?Report
I generally bake my bacon in the oven on Sunday for the coming month. So, like, a couple of pounds.
I prefer my bacon to be crisp (Maribou tends to call it “burned”) and Maribou prefers hers to be just a little al dente.
So it’s this al dente bacon that gets put on the bun and it gets heated enough to bring the fats to the surface.Report
Ahhhh…so the bacon is pre-cooked. Gotcha. That’s what I figured. I prefer my bacon to be cooked just enough that it won’t kill me, and I’m good.
Now I’m thinking we need hamburgers for dinner tonight.Report
Thanks @mike-dwyer. And congrats to you and Miz D as well.Report
To say it another way, your marriage is a millennial.
Damn, none of the jokes I can think of are OK for MD.Report
@mike-schilling The irony of the ever-shifting line between gen x and Millennials is that in theory my marriage and I could both be Millennials. How… ungenerational. :D.Report
Oh, you crazy kids! Happy Anniversary! Still batching it, as I have been for the last 2 weeks.Report
Thanks @aaron-david !Report
Happy anniversary!!! How wonderful you two are for each other and for the world to see. 🙂
Junior is spending a special weekend with his granny. I am determined to have more social time with my adults only weekend. Last weekend was a little too quiet with all of that alone time. Relaxing, but quiet. I should probably get TV or a radio or something. I’m thinking I’ll skip working Job #2 this weekend. Maybe run off to the beach with a friend or something.
Two weeks until I’m pregnant. The countdown continues!Report
Thanks @miss-mary! I’m glad you have some free time to figure out what to do with.Report
Congrats to you & Maribou!
As for the weekend, Halloween party for the kids tomorrow. Trick or Treating isn’t until Monday, but the kids can still get dressed up & play in their costumes while us adults interact with other adults.Report
Thanks @oscar-gordon !Report
Happy Anniversary!!!
It’s a testament to how made-for-each-other you guys are that I always think of you as newlyweds. 🙂Report
Or how immature we are… 😉
Thank you, OurTod.Report
Congratulations to you both.Report
Thanks, @james-k !Report
Best wishes to Jaybird and Maribou!
Weekend:
H.S. football playoffs begin tomorrow for me.
Watching the World Series. I remarked to a friend the other day how both of my kids have now seen both Chicagos in the Series, something I had to wait 53 years for. Now all I have to do is avoid Cub fans for a few more days and life can return to normal.Report
Go Cubs!
Sorry – couldn’t resist.Report
Thank you, @slade-the-leveller.
As for the world series, I have to admit I’m sneakingly grateful the Jays didn’t make it, just so I don’t have to hear play-by-plays of the game from my mom 3 or 4 times each :D.
(The first time is actually pretty fun – maybe in another life she was a radio announcer …)Report
Imagine if the Blue Jays hadn’t been to a Series since WW II, and hadn’t won it since Teddy Roosevelt. That’s what I’m dealing with here in Chicago.Report
Congratulations to both of you! It takes an ongoing effort to make things continue to work (we celebrated 36 years a couple of months ago, and are still working at it).Report
Thanks @michael-cain !Report
Congratulations @maribou and @jaybird !!!
Have the Halloween Train tomorrow regretting my choice of costume as it will be 86 degrees tomorrow. A party tomorrow night. Having an outlet fixed Sunday that is getting alarmingly hot (breaker is off) and then my BIL&SIL Harry Potter themed anniversary party Sunday night.Report
Thank you.
And you have my sympathies; it’s hard figuring out costumes when it’s hot. After 19 Hallowe’ens in Colorado, I’m still not used to trying to find the sweet spot between “cozy” and “summery”. In eastern Canada, it was “cozy, put on winter jackets underneath if it becomes TOO frickin’ cold and/or starts to snow.”Report
When I lived in Denver it seemed like it would be beautiful right up till Halloween then …..COLDReport
Co Springs is in a box canyon. Much warmer weather unless we’re having a big storm. Better in February confusing in October.Report
Thanks to all for your wonderful well-wishes!
I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween weekend!Report