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Family Forum / Marriage / Marriage / August 200713 years today!
My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs office for various minor ailments. It is hard to dream up an anniversary celebration or dinner or something when your head is pounding from a sinus infection! We spoke last night and decided we want *at least* 13 more! Stephanie > My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary > plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stephanie Congrats! > My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary > plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs office [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stephanie With so many poor choices and divorces, it is quite refreshing and heartening to see that some folks are getting it right. Congratulations! Larry G. > My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our > anniversary plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > We spoke last night and decided we want *at least* 13 more! Good for you! > My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary > plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs office [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > We spoke last night and decided we want *at least* 13 more! Congratulations! We've found that it pays to be very flexible about exactly _when_ we celebrate anniversaries! >> My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary >> plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > We've found that it pays to be very flexible about exactly _when_ we > celebrate anniversaries! In our case, we are flexible about *what* also. Tonight it is a piece of steak (hopefully not TOO nice of a cut), some fresh corn and fresh veggies served on the nice plates. A bottle of wine. Put the kids to bed early and maybe play cards. We decided from the get-go that anniversaries were going to be about spending time together, without adding stress of gift selection / affording. Also we did not want to add stress that the occaision was to be a big deal. Some years our anniversary was celebrated with a hike. Some years a visit to the annual fair. Stuff like that. >>> My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary >>> plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >served on the nice plates. A bottle of wine. Put the kids to bed early and >maybe play cards. Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player games. >>>> My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our >>>> anniversary [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player > games. We play rummy. It is not about the cards. I never ever win. And I am not the least bit competitive. It just gives our hands something to do. > Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what > sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player > games. We play 500 quite often. We both played it quite often in school and university and although it's better with 4 people it's a good relaxing (and not at all taxing!) and quick game for two that you don't have to concentrate on much at all to enjoy. I wonder if you call it something else, though? It's like euchre or a modified bridge in that it has trumps,a simple points scoring system and the first person to 500 wins, of course. :) When I was a child our family would go camping every summer and there would be great canasta competitions going on amongst all the holidaymakers. I loved that but my husband and children don't like the game so I've been dead out of luck, there. >>Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what >>sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > loved that but my husband and children don't like the game so I've been dead > out of luck, there. I vote for cribbage with 2 people. Spades or Hearts with three of four. S >>>Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what >>>sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >I vote for cribbage with 2 people. Spades or Hearts with three of four. I know a lot of people love cribbage, but it bores me out of my skull. Gin rummy or canasta is ok, but a lot more fun if you play for money... and that's kind of pointless. There are some good double solitaire games, like Russian Bank. We used to play backgammon a lot, but again, that's better if you play for money or something. If you have more people... I'm with you on Hearts or Spades with three, and if you have four, you can play those or bridge. But we can never seem to find four. >> I vote for cribbage with 2 people. Spades or Hearts with three of >> four. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > three, and if you have four, you can play those or bridge. But we can > never seem to find four. I played Mah Jong for a few years and I have a friend who is married to a chinese man and they play a fair amount of it themselves but we never seem to be able to schedule a game for the four of us even though we still talk about it periodically. Other people seem to find it much easy to organise the odd evening devoted to cards or board games or the like than we've ever been able to. I think it has something to do with us both (my friend and I) being allergic to commiting to a regular monthly (or whatever) arrangement like that. >>> I vote for cribbage with 2 people. Spades or Hearts with three of >>> four. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >being allergic to commiting to a regular monthly (or whatever) arrangement >like that. I love Mah Jongg! Haven't played in years. I used to play Bridge all the time, but in those days, there were another few couples who played, and so it was easy. I really miss that, and DH likes to play cards, so I'd really like to try harder to get something like that going. >>>> I vote for cribbage with 2 people. Spades or Hearts with three of >>>> four. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > cards, so I'd really like to try harder to get something like that > going. Bridge is something I fully intend to take up One Day when I feel as if I can commit to it properly! My mother has been playing for years and occasionally when I've been staying with her she's had a game with me but I can tell I'm too much of a novice for her to find it at all fun. :) When my father retired he started to play Bridge too and expected Mum to partner him all the time. My mother found it a sad trial and may even have been a marriage-wobbling moment for her.... she was very gracious about it though and played as his partner until he found other more interesting things to do. Then she happily went back to her old gang and quietly basked in the glow of good-wifedom, to boot. :)) >>>>Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what >>>>sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > three, and if you have four, you can play those or bridge. But we can > never seem to find four. I used to play bridge, but found the conventions oppressive. Other games for two people would be Chess or Go. S >>>>>Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what >>>>>sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >I used to play bridge, but found the conventions oppressive. Other games >for two people would be Chess or Go. I like both, but I have to say that I don't find either "fun" in the sense that I have to concentrate very hard to play them. (I've played bridge since I was about 9, so I never had to think all that hard about that!) >>>Sounds nice to me... and congratulations! Curious, though... what >>>sort of cards? I've always found it hard to find good two-player [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I vote for cribbage with 2 people. Spades or Hearts with three of > four. I love playing cards! Many of my fondest memories of time with my in-laws were playing cards.. Cribbage is an *excellent* game for two.. my children learned how to do simple counting learning cribbage. Skipbo is an okay game for two as well (made by the same company that puts out Uno.) My family has enjoyed playing a game called aggravation (not the board game, but card game).. it's long, though.. has 11 'levels', and you can't go on to the next level until you read the 1st, so you can sometimes play many, many hands of cards to reach level 11.. anyway.. SO is just not a card player, sadly, much to my and my children's chagrin. > It's like euchre or a modified bridge in that it has trumps,a simple > points scoring system and the first person to 500 wins, of course. :) It's an amazing thing. For most of my life, I've believed that the only people who knew euchre were from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and the western part of Pennsylvania (or had been taught by someone from one of those areas.) I guess I have to add Australia to that list. :P Tracey >> It's like euchre or a modified bridge in that it has trumps,a simple >> points scoring system and the first person to 500 wins, of course. :) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the western part of Pennsylvania (or had been taught by someone from > one of those areas.) I guess I have to add Australia to that list. :P Add New Zealand, too, because that's where I've played it most. :) >>>It's like euchre or a modified bridge in that it has trumps,a simple >>>points scoring system and the first person to 500 wins, of course. :) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Add New Zealand, too, because that's where I've played it most. :) You've totally blown my world view, you know. Tracey Congratulations on you anniversary! > In our case, we are flexible about *what* also. Tonight it is a piece > of steak (hopefully not TOO nice of a cut), some fresh corn and fresh [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > to be a big deal. Some years our anniversary was celebrated with a > hike. Some years a visit to the annual fair. Stuff like that. We've celebrated our anniversaries in lots of ways over the years, from very quiet and low key moments all the way through to one or two fairly extravagant occasions on the day or shifted to the most convenient time but I think the one common factor is that we always share a meal on the day itself, in the breaking bread together sense, and reflect on the past year and where we think we are heading as a couple. That sounds deeper or more serious than I mean it to but it's just that anniversaries seem to lend themselves to that kind of thing! >>>My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary >>>plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Some years our anniversary was celebrated with a hike. Some years a visit to > the annual fair. Stuff like that. Congratulations! Your priorities seem in the right place. Life is in the doing, not in the buying. S >>My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary >>plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs office [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >>We spoke last night and decided we want *at least* 13 more! Congrats! > Congratulations! > > We've found that it pays to be very flexible about exactly _when_ we > celebrate anniversaries! We are not flexible about *when*. We celebrate as soon as we remember that we missed it -- which could be months later! > My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary > plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs office [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stephanie Congratulations, Stephanie. Tell me, am I being an airhead that forgot that we both were married within a day of each other or did we never figure this out before (we celebrate our 13th anniversary tomorrow.) Tracey >> My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary >> plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Tracey That is not a detail that I could possible remember! But I don't know that I ever mentioned it before. I remember being at the Canadian border unable to remember my daughter's birthdate! I would loose my head if it were not attached! Congratulations! May all your anniversaries, tomorrow and forever after, be filled with love and joy. > >> My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our anniversary > >> plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people to the docs [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Congratulations! May all your anniversaries, tomorrow and forever after, be > filled with love and joy.- Congrats to both of you! Or rather - all four of you. :-) jen > Congratulations, Stephanie. Tell me, am I being an airhead that forgot > that we both were married within a day of each other or did we never > figure this out before (we celebrate our 13th anniversary tomorrow.) Congratulations to you and your husband as well, Tracey! You've weathered a huge amount in your years together and I gather this year is a good one for you both. :) > My only regret that, being Monday, he has to work. Alas, our > anniversary plans may be simple since I have to get 2 out of 4 people [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stephanie Congrats, Stephanie and Mr. Stephanie :-) |
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