4 posts tagged “anniversary”
I'm just amazed at how quickly time has flown... today is my one year diet-versary! My journey started after having spent a week in Florida with my family for the Christmas holiday. I was so excited to get home, unload the memory card and review the hundreds of pictures I had taken during my vacation. But I found myself in tears as I photoshopped the fat from my body. The camera was showing the real me, the obese me, and I was so embarrassed that I was manipulating the truth. It was the breaking point for me, things had to change.
A month later I took my first steps towards healthy living. Of course they were baby steps but they were in the right direction and week after week I found it got easier, I was even enjoying myself. I used MyFoodDiary to track my progress, I realized I didn't need to eat such large portions, I fell in love with fresh vegetables, I taught myself how to run and I even purchased a gym membership. I now felt fresh, healthy and energized, to top it all off I needed a whole new wardrobe because during that time frame I had gone from a size 14 to a size 10! I had lost 26 pounds and 19.5 inches!
Some days I wake in the morning, step on the scale and half expect my weight to be back to 170, like this whole thing was a dream. But I look down and see 147 pounds and my heart skips a beat because it's real. With each pound lost I get closer to my goal, I still have another 12 pounds left but I know that I'll reach it soon enough and once there I've promised myself to maintain my healthy weight for the rest of my life because this isn't just a diet, its a lifestyle change. So here's to a lifetime of a healthier me and a happy diet-versary.
To celebrate our wedding anniversary we had reservations at one of the nicest Italian restaurant in town. We arrived all dolled up and looking forward to a nice private dinner over wine and good food. We were seated close to the bar and even closer to the talent for the night, a jazz musician. When I say close, I mean the saxophone was six to eight inches from my shoulder. I couldn't concentrate to read the menu and since we were seated right next to the entertainment everyone was staring. I felt uncomfortable and upset, it wasn't romantic in the slightest. Jon being the wonderful guy that he is noticed how uncomfortable I was and immediately asked for a manager and a new table. A half an hour and a few glasses of wine later... we were seated in the dining area at a quiet white linen table filled with good food and I was all smiles. It ended up being a lovely night and a perfect example of why our marriage works so well... we are there for each other.
On this day, four years ago, Jon and I were married in bare feet with sand between our toes. We promised then to love each other and spend our days growing together.
These past four years have flown by and with each day I find I love him even more. I couldn't dream of a better person to spend my life with.
I love you, Jon.
Today is a special day, one that makes me smile. Today is my anniversary, 3 years of marital bliss with my husband, the love of my life. I woke up this morning to soft kisses but unlike any other day of the week, I received a gift in my bathrobe with my hair wrapped in a towel. A gift means the world when it comes from the heart and I’d received a leather bound (traditional 3rd anniversary gift – leather) album / scrap book. It was beautiful and inside was a letter, written the night after we’d met that spoke about the promise of our future. And today here we are. Jon and I have saved all of our letters since the beginning of our relationship and this album is a place for them, it’s perfect.
To celebrate this special day I’m going to tell a story, our story.
I was 20 years old and I had just moved back home with my mother (after college). It was a hard transition and I spent a lot of my time locked up in my room on the computer trying to sort out my future. I was looking into moving to Tampa and had gone into an MSN Chatroom for Tampa College Students. I ended up talking to a student from NIU (Northern Illinois) who wanted to transfer he asked me for info, of which I had none but we kept talking because we had so much in common. I had butterflies in my stomach, it was as if someone had taken all of the qualities and interests that I had and put it into someone of the opposite sex. We just clicked. That night we exchanged email addresses and for the next year we had a long distance relationship. I received hand written letters in the mail, poems, pictures, drawings, mixed cd’s.. and I saved each and every one. It had finally gotten to the point where we needed to meet face to face. I needed to stand next to him and feel him breathing, to know he was real.
He booked a flight for Sarasota airport and was to arrive at eight. I sat by the large fish tank in the waiting area of the airport and watched the fish stare back at me in confusion. My nerves were killing me. His flight arrived and I waited and watched everyone pass by, none which I had recognized. There were only a few people left waiting and I was giving up hope, thinking he had backed out. I stood there with 3 people all of us staring at the long walkway out of the terminal, anticipating our loved ones. And there he was, the second to last person. He walked up, dropped his bag and hugged me with a huge smile. I remember thinking he smelled good and we locked together so well as we hugged. That night we had gone to my favorite beach, I wanted to show him the ocean, it was perfect, calm warm water and clear skies. I had a moment with him and I knew for sure right there and then that I wanted to be with him forever, I had fallen in love. The rest was a blur, he’d gone home and our long distance relationship went on, he would fly down to Florida whenever he had the chance (about once a month). We both moved to Tampa and our relationship grew. A year later we were back on that very same beach, dressed in white at sunset, we were married.
I’m still as happy as I ever was and with each passing year I fall more and more in love with him. I never thought that this would happen to me, but it has and I admit as cheesy as it may sound, we complete each other.
