Happy Sweet Six

Hey you handsome nerd over there! Yeah, you - the one wearing the shirt with an inside computer joke that I still don't get. So, do you remember what's coming up this weekend?

I meant besides The A-Team movie!

Yep! Six years ago you were standing at the front of a little church, waiting for me to walk up the aisle in my ridiculously huge wedding gown. You looked me in the eyes and told me you loved me and wanted to be with me for the rest of our lives. :)

Happy Anniversary, Babe! I thought about writing something witty or lovely, like a poem, for you. In the end, laziness or perhaps exhaustion or more likely extreme lack of talent prevailed. And so I present you this most appropriate poem, lifted from a much more talented and nerdier one than myself:

Like two foci of an elliptical
Your eyes entice me
Cause my cardiac muscles
To palpitate
As I estimate the distance
Between us

I’ve arrived
At the conclusion
That you’re sitting
Approximately 5 feet and 23 centimeters
Away from me
7 and one half millimeters closer
Than yesterday

As you sit there
And I calculate your potential energy
I find myself wishing
That I could change
Y= mx + b
Into y = Unext2me
You are my complementary angle

I long to whisper
That Newton’s laws
Were created just for you
Of course that’s not true
But logic doesn’t matter anymore
Because my feelings for you are growing exponentially

Like radiation, you penetrate through my skin
You watched my veins branch like fractals
While I reached for the pencil that you dropped
You listened to the logarithm my heart produced
At a near inaudible frequency
As I returned the pencil
To it’s rightful owner

Like absolute zero
All molecules within me halted
In that moment
Your centripetal force sent me spinning
And though they say opposites attract
You didn’t even utter a thank you

It figures
Seeing as the probability of you noticing me
Is exactly .41 in 10,731
But I long
To cosine my name on a love note
Addressed to you

You are the Pascal behind my triangle
And you can count on the fact

that I’ll calc-u-later

I love you, Chris, always and forever. xoxo

The Right Dress

Kelly is hosting a 'Show Us Your Life Friday" each week, and today's theme is "Your Wedding Dress."  And so (drum roll please!) here is my wedding dress:

A few weeks after I got engaged, I drove from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania to see my mom and go dress shopping.  It was a bit of a time crunch, since we knew that this was really the only weekend we would have together to do this.  We had to find the right dress!

We found this huge pink place that had thousands of dresses and a special "clearance" floor.  This floor had all kinds of dresses at drastically reduced prices, usually because they were "last-season" or it was the only dress left in that style.  If you found one you like, you had to really pray that your size would be available.

I knew exactly what I was looking for.  I wanted a sleeveless, a-line dress with minimal decoration and no "fu-fu".  The consultant smiled patiently at me and brought out several dresses in this style.  I quickly realized that my "chicken wings" (aka shoulder blades) would not allow for such a dress.  Trust me, it was not a pretty sight!  Then my mom chose a dress with little sleeves, a beaded bodice, a HUGE skirt, and impossibly long train.  I had my doubts but tried it on anyway.  They say you just know when you've put on the "right dress," and that's exactly how it was for me.  I felt like a princess.  No, I felt like a bride.  It was the greatest feeling!

Now that dress is tucked away in my closet, a beautiful memory of a very special day.  I look forward to the days when my daughter and I take it out and ooh and aah over it, talking about brides and weddings.  And perhaps someday, the Drama Queen herself will wear that dress on her special day.  But only if she feels it is the "right dress" when she tries it on.  Because I would never want her to miss out on that feeling...

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