When I summarized our anniversary activities, I forgot one other thing we did that day. M took down the huppah, which had been up in our living room since our wedding. This was not because of any Jewish tradition that would require it to be left up so much as we had no compelling reason to take it down in the first place ( Read more... )

Our first anniversary was two weeks ago. As you may have heard, the pandemic that made us conduct the entire wedding online via zoom has continued, plus we've got this baby, so we didn't go out. Instead:

- I made M her favorite Pan-Grilled Sea Scallops. I did think about recreating our wedding dinner of Scallops & Cherry Tomatoes with Caper-Butter ( Read more... )

When we got married, M didn't have an engagement ring yet for the sole reason that she hadn't picked one out. Part of the reason for this was that she had a long list of ring requirements, chief among them being that she didn't want a diamond or anything unethically sourced. Shortly after the wedding she found a ring featuring a sapphire that met ( Read more... )

1. The "days without eating in a restaurant" counter now stands at 202, and I'm becoming increasingly sure that it will make it a full year without any challenge. The "days without takeout" stands at 33.

My stat block is increasingly pointless, but I've kept this far so I might as well keep rolling with it until the end of 2020.

Restaurant Stats ( Read more... )

1. The "days without takeout" reset at 29 days and now stands at 5. The "days without eating in a restaurant" counter now stands at 174 ( Read more... )

On Sunday, August 23, M and I got married. A brief timeline:

- We met online; our first date was Monday, March 3, 2014 when we had sushi at Pacific East and saw We Were Promised Jetpacks together at the Grog Shop. My friend Eric was at this show, so he's the first one of my friends to have met her.
- We broke up once briefly in 2014 and longer ( Read more... )