anniversaries

September 10

Anniversary of me - my birthday!  We took the ferry to Governors Island and rode tandem bikes, and then had a delicious meal at Morimoto. Drooooool.  Homemade tofu made right in front of our very eyes.  And there's nothing better than that toro tartare that looks like a painter's palette.

September 10/11 (the actual date is kind of vague since we met the night of Sept 10)
P and my SEVEN year anniversary.  Woah.  The number is starting to sound scary though it doesn't feel that long.  At least we're married now so we can start back from there - happy 4.5 month anniversary!  Yay!  We still sound young!

Out of curiosity, I looked up the traditional wedding anniversary gifts by year:
1. paper
2. cotton
3. leather
4. books/fruit/flowers
5. wood
6. sugar/iron
7. wool/copper
8. bronze/pottery
9. pottery/willow
10. tin/aluminum
11. steel
12. silk/linen
13. lace
14. ivory
15. crystal
20. china
25. silver
30. pearls (nowadays, diamonds)
35. coral
40. ruby
50. gold
60. diamond
70. platinum
75. diamond

I've only listed the traditional gifts here, but if you look at a modern day list, there are gifts for every SINGLE year.  Did you also see how diamonds jumped up in years?  It now only takes 30 years to get a diamond whereas it took twice that in the old days.  The marriage industry is JUST LIKE the wedding industry! Hmph!

By the way, if you make it to 100 years, you get a 10 carat diamond (modern gift). Haha... so ridiculous.  Have... to... make... it... to... 132 years old!  And so does HUSBAND!  LOL