So, I understand that over the last few days, blog posts have been disappearing and reappearing. LIKE MAGIC. I have zero explanation for why that’s happening, but I emailed the technical powers that be and hopefully we’ll be right as rain in no time. Are all your fears subsiding? Good, good.
D’oh. It now occurs to me that *this* post may have already disappeared, too and well, you’re probably not feeling at all informed or reassured. Sigh. It wasn’t for lack of trying.
Today’s a fun day. I mean, minus the part where I’m at work and it’s gloomy outside. But one year from today, the Dork Lord and I will be gettin’ hitched! And that makes things decidedly more celebratory. It’s like our negative one year anniversary. I hear that’s the ‘spontaneous flowers and the groom makes dinner tonight’ anniversary. ARE YOU LISTENING, HONEY? Flowers and dinner totally beats the first year anniversary gift of… wait for it…paper. Uh, yeah. Paper is so hot.
I just read that the first year anniversary flower is (according to Wikipedia) the carnation. The what?! That’s not even a flower! Along with some food coloring, it’s a third grade science experiment. I say we piggy back off the 25th anniversary and skip right to the iris. Now, that’s a real flower.
Hopefully the Dork Lord reads all this before it disappears. I don’t want to spend our first anniversary making blue carnations to give to my mom on parents’ night.
I can’t tell if they are appearing/disappearing, but your alignment’s all rearranged. From the same problem?
It MUST be – though, I’ve emailed them about that more than once. I friggin’ hate the centered text. It’s driving me nutso.
For the record, paper can actually be romantic. For our firsst anniversary my husband gave me a ream of very nice paper on which to print my very first novel. It may have also helped that he bought a beautiful Lladro figurine to go with it, but whatever.
Carnations? Really? Honestly, I’d rather have a dandelion.
YAY! Today is my one year anniversary. We’ll be anniversary buddies!
I fondly remember putting a white carnation in food coloring to watch it change colors. You could even split the stem and put it in two different little bowls of colored water to get a bi-colored flower. Fun science experiment, but not such a great anniversary flower.
My best friend and her hubby just celebrated their one year anniversary and decided to embark on pairing the traditional gifts along with following the ‘modern’ anniversary gift list. So for their first round they went with paper (traditional) and plastic (modern). Her husband made her origami flowers and gave her an Amazon gift card for books to add to her Kindle (they met working in a bookstore).
Doesn’t seem the most romantic, but I was visiting their house the night before and watching him getting frantic because his origami skills were lacking a bit (while trying not to tip of his wife as to what he was doing in the other room) really showed how much love he was putting into it and he wanted it to come out perfect!
She now has flowers in a bud vase that will never die, and plenty of new books for her read all courtesy of her #1… so sweet!
we totally celebrated our -1 anniversary! ours didnt include flowers or homemade dinner, but did include brooklyn, thai food & New York, I Love You – which fit since we kinda stole some of their promo images for the dreaded wedding website…
its a totally legit celebration – enjoy it!
Wooohoooo! May 21, 2011 Awesome.
Yay for a May Wedding! Such a beautiful month to get married… and yay for starting the countdown! Congrats and happy Pre-Anniversary!
My fiance and I almost picked 5/21/10 in a delicious location away from home.
But we moved it up to this September when we decided to just go to a similarly delicious location and do it by ourselves.
For our paper anniversary I gave the hubs a box of high-end business cards and he let me choose a piece of artwork from Etsy with zero opinions from the peanut gallery.
Ahhhh…the pre-anniversary, my boy and I just celebrated ours, it’s great practice for remembering the real thing later. Hope you got your flowers and dinner!
I think you’ll find that your blog is going all funny because ‘they’ have gone and implemented an advertising code into your actual posts. Check out the hypertext words in this post, fishy. They are mouse-over ads that run a little video should you hover for too long. They are even in our comments! Look. I’ll write a few words: food tasty delicious yummy eat. Let’s see what happens.
Heather, ‘they’ have implemented mouse-over advertising into your blog posts. Probably why things have gone haywire.
Food.
Tasty.
Delicious.
Sorry, I was experimenting.
Kitchen.
I’ll stop now.
Yummy.
Awww, the poor carnation, put down by everyone! I love the carnations. It’s so ruffly & cute, like a tutu on a stick.
I just wanted to tell you that you’re getting married on our 1 year anniversary =)
Usually I get your blog via RSS feed so don’t comment, but wanted to tell you that, and to say I really enjoy reading your blog.