June 23, 2003

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  We beat the odds!

  
  

  Thirteen years ago today, this auspicious occasion took place:

  
  

  

  
  

  This is one of my favorite wedding photos (too bad it didn’t scan well, it looks like the top of my head was cut off, and his beard is too dark, among other things – but you get the idea).
  

  Yes, that is a baseball bat.
  

  I met Bernie at work (we were both Mail carriers in Princeton at the time). It was against all my personal rules to date a coworker, but after careful consideration, I decided there would be no harm in going to see him play softball with the team he was on. So my girlfriend and her son went with me, and we watched the game. Not technically a “date”. After the game, she went home and Bernie and I went out for a drink and a bite to eat. We sat on the hood of my truck in the parking lot and talked half the night.
  

  The rest was history. And what a long strange trip it has been.
  

  We lived together for around 5 years and when we finally saved up enough money, and decided since we hadn’t killed each other over all that time, we had a lovely June wedding. Somewhere in those 5 years he stopped playing softball.
  

  Between the ceremony and the reception, we went for photos to the park where the softball field is. My girlfriend who had gone to that fateful game (one of my bridesmaids) and the captain of the softball team (the best man, and Bernie’s best friend) saw to it that there was a bat available, so we could take a few shots by the field for fun. This is my favorite. One day I will try scanning it again and see if it comes out better.
  

  We have no real plans for celebrating, actually we both more or less forgot it was our anniversary. I realized it when I was at the lab for blood tests this morning (more about that experience in a later blog) and asked what the date was while I was filling out paperwork.
  

    

  
  

  In other news, we went out this weekend and got two more great bargains for the house.

  
  

  Saturday we got a new Maytag Wide-by-Side Refrigerator which is being delivered Wednesday. We bought a store display model and saved a huge amount. List price: $1,799. Our price after sale price, open stock discount and manufacturer’s rebate: $699!

  
  

  I am Super Shopper!

  
  

  We also got a display model (with a dent) GE Triton dishwasher, that we brought home ourselves from Home depot. Total savings on that, including the delivery charge we avoided, was around $100.

  
  

  But now we need to get both a plumber and electrician in to hook it up, since the old dishwasher was installed in the 70′s and hasn’t worked for 20 years, and the plumbing and electrical connections need to be updated.

  
  

  Nothing is easy in an old house.

  
  

  Oh well, at least I am going to have a dishwasher for the first time in a very long time!!! Yipppeeee!!

  
  

  

  
  

  update: in reference to your comment, Rem: I am a total and complete non-athlete. I do not play softball. I have actually never successfully hit a ball with a bat even once in my lifetime. However, I have been known to beat up on things with one now and then… Bernie, on the other hand, is both a pacifist and quite an accomplished athlete in many sports.

  
  

   

  
  

   

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