Today

Today is a day that everyone remembers for the tragedy, in the Squirrel house, we remember it as the day this journey started for us.

I think of today as the anniversary of the beginning of what my life is now. Three years ago today I met Sailorman in person for the first time. I didn't know what was going to happen, I didn't know if he was a crazy person, a jerk, or if he was going to be as funny and sweet as he had during our chat and text sessions.

It turns out it was a bit of both. He can be a jerk, he's kind of crazy, and he was and is the funny, goofy, sweetheart who made me fall into the like that prompted me to go down to San Diego to visit him in the first place.

He hates whenever I mention this in public, but our first date was McDonald's. I'm not a picky person, it was lateish by the time we left the airport, and I was REALLY hungry. So I told him I didn't care what we had, just as long as it was quick and on the way. The choices were McDonald's or Church's Chicken, and I'm actually not a huge fan of fried chicken. Since then we've always referred to Sept. 11th as our McDonald's Anniversary, seeing as how the day we became official was Oct 1st, also our wedding date. We figured less dates to remember was a good plan, especially for Sailorman who isn't really known for his stellar memory. (In fact he's forgotten so many things at home that at work it's now known as "pulling a Squirrel" whenever you have to go back for something.)

I guess the point of this post is an effort to get back into blogging, I've seen seriously slacking on this front for a long time. Another point is that though today is the anniversary of a tragedy, there is always something happy to look at. So I'm going to focus on the happy of today, the anniversary of me meeting my husband, and once he gets home, we're going to be going to McDonald's.