A little over a week ago, I posted that it was my Hebrew Anniversary: 1st of Sivan (סִיוָן). Well, today, it is my English anniversary. A year ago today (it was a Sunday), my wife and I got married in St. Louis, MO.
A lot of the history of how I about barry page. But let me revisit some of the past year, at least things I publicly wrote here.
On October 2, 2005, I proposed via Ask Jeeves to my wife. It got lots of buzz and inspired others with ideas on how to propose to their girl friends. On May 25, 2006, I went off to get married, which took place the Sunday after, on May 28, 2006.
The shopping began, returning stuff to stores, yada yada. I expressed my dislike to shopping. I also expressed my appreciation to my friends for the BBQ grill, a sweet wedding present. Another cool gift was the Philips 7FF1AW Digital Photo Frame and I have to thank Matt Cutts for his donation. I also can't believe how much stuff I had to move to get my wife moved in, but it turned out not to be that bad - or was I wrong!
I talked about our great adventure to see one of the world's largest Amoco signs, but does that top my Leaning Tower of Snapple story? Talking about great blog posts, my post on scoleciphobia took off pretty well, ahem...
Anyway, since getting married, I not only traveled for business, I traveled for pleasure. So it started adding up. I blogged about The Traveling Geek and then followed it up with an analytical comparison of Traveling With The Wife Vs. Traveling Without The Wife. Deep, deep thoughts... But sometimes, I was able to convince my wife to join me on business, here is a nice picture of my wife, Danny Sullivan and myself at Google (note: I also visited Google NYC thanks to Vanessa. Once, we saw Jesse Jackson at the airport. But then, my wife thought it would be fun to travel with out me - no fun. I then encouraged my wife to come on business again but she really just wanted to see her friends.
Then came weight issues. I knew I had a serious problem with my addiction towards Super Double Big Gulps, I guess admitting I had a problem was the first step. I then started my new no soda diet, which now means just drink Fresca at home. Oh, apparently, I also have a dressing problem. I think the diet caused my to break out in hives but who knows for sure? I know it wasn't from wearing a wedding ring, because I don't do that.
We even expressed credit card fraud - yes a true sign of a successful marriage is when you get through not having a credit card for a week and still remain married. ;-) But then we almost got Cell Phone 9 Scam but it turned out ok. But all was good, I was able to buy Leopard slippers for my wife. But then I was invited to Hugh Hefner's Vegas Suit in Palms Hotel, which required me to buy a robotic cleaning pet to make sure our home was in order - which is was. But one of our worst traveling days together, turned out to be awesome - which I was too happy about.
Any who... How fitting is it that our first year of marriage, my favorite baseball team loses to her favorite baseball team in the playoffs? I.e. Mets lose to Cardinals and Cardinals won it all, which was great. Even thought it may be considered the most dangerous city in the U.S., I was still proud.
After that, Danny, Chris, myself and others made the move from Search Engine Watch to Search Engine Land.
My wife and I went out our honeymoon on January 7, 2007. Here is the picture of the plane that took us to Israel. We looked at my old soccer field, we visited the kotel, almost got scammed by a woman, then almost died from electrocution, visited a client who has a picture by Bucky Schwartz (no joke), saw Israel in miniature form, went to the zoo, and finally yad vashem. I was happy that Canon fixed our camera as a honeymoon present, thank you Canon!
Since then we have been religiously been going out for Thursday night dinners, I always look forward to them. Even when my car gets stuck in the snow time and time again. But then I realized I need to hire a sidekick so I can free some of my time up - has it helped? Yea, a bit and should help more and more as time goes on. Where will I spend that time? Wife? Well, I did get a new PlayStation 3. Just kidding. I had a birthday, where my wife took me to one of my favorite places to eat, I like simple food.
Well that was our first year together. At least the stuff I blogged about.
Get ready.... Here is some mushy stuff...
In all honesty, people say the first year of marriage is a couple's hardest. I can honestly say, this was the easiest and most enjoyable year of my life.
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