today marks quite a special occasion for me.
five years ago,
LadySun and i decided that this would mark the date we officially became a
couple.
i'm still not sure why that day was decided.
it falls neatly in between
valentine's day and
her birthday. that helps.
the first time we saw each other after we made it
official was
March 21, 1997. it's possible we chose this date to make it
one month from when we started dating.
how do you measure
five years?
sixty
months.
one thousand, eight hundred and twenty six
days.
forty three thousand, eight hundred and twenty four
hours.
two million, six hundred twenty-nine thousand, four hundred and forty
minutes.
MILLION.
not that we spent them all together.
the first two years were spent on separate
coasts, with one or both of us in
college; part of it, we were even on separate
continents.
and we managed to survive the distance and the time, going as many as five months without seeing each other.
our
son was born in 1999.
later that year, i finally
graduated and moved back to
my hometown.
from then, we were rarely separated.
in late 2000, we started
seriously living together, sharing first a
twin bed in a
small room in an apartment we shared with my
mother, my
aunt, her
boyfriend, and three
dogs. we later moved to a house in
the Rockaways and up to a
larger bed.
after numerous
disasters, personal and
otherwise, we moved to
New Jersey, our first house together.
a year ago today, i asked her to marry me. i didn't know her ring size, so i grabbed her
thumb ring off of the TV and proposed to her, holding it out as my
offering.
five
years.
they haven't all been
perfect. what can be, for so long?
we've had our share of
fights. but they've been more than tempered by the
love.
she's at
work now. i won't see her again until late
tonight
i think the wait will be
worth it.
I love you with all i am,
Jenny.
always.