How We Spent Our Anniversary

As you may know, yesterday was our 42^nd wedding anniversary ( A Wedding Album ).  Many friends visited the wedding album I posted Tuesday evening and quite a few people wrote to ask if we had a nice day.   Here is a brief description of our anniversary day in response to those questions.

I got up early as usual, drank some coffee and sat down at the computer to read my emails.   My husband woke up briefly, rolled over, got up again about 8:30, swallowed a collection of pills and sat down in front of the TV. 

At approximately 9:05 AM, both the cable TV and cable internet stopped operating.  Several minutes later we heard a loud bang from the vicinity of a power pole across the street. The lights went out momentarily but fortunately they didn’t stay out.   After about 20 minutes I was able to reset the internet connection and get back on line, but I never could get the TV working. 

We stared at the blank 65 inch TV screen, chatted for a little while and finally decided to go out for brunch at about 10:30.  After enjoying a relatively inexpensive meal at IHOP (we split a huge omelet and the pancakes that were served with it) we returned home, hoping to find that the TV issue had been resolved – It wasn’t but we did see a truck from the electric co-op and several men who seemed to be working busily.   

Once we were at home, I called Comcast and was advised that technicians were in our area. Although I was told that service would be restored as soon as possible, the representative was unable to estimate how long that might be.  My husband took a long nap and I spent several quiet hours gathering. 

It was late afternoon by the time my husband woke up. We ordered a take out anniversary dinner from an Italian restaurant and did some exercise in our new workout area while we were waiting for the food to be delivered.  After dinner and a second call to Comcast, we walked down to my son’s house for a short visit, chatted about shared memories and spent the remainder of the evening watching a video tape of the George Burns movie “Oh God”.

Although the day was not what some people would call exciting, we thoroughly enjoyed the pleasure of each other’s company and the sweetness of our many blessings.