Yikes, I've found a new toy that could become dangerous.
My friends celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary yesterday and I wanted to make them a CD filled with music from 1981. So I finally caved and joined itunes, as Mare has been encouraging me to do for a while. Oooooh - what fun!! And so easy to download songs with just a click for "only" 0.99 each. Click click click clickity click.
DH was kind enough to point out that it probably won't reach the proportions of my infamous on-line donation to John Kerry. I don't think I had this blog going when that happened. Let's just say that wine, credit cards, and the internet do not mix well. (It was JUST one extra zero)
Twenty five years of marriage.
I wrote up a little speech for them, relating things that happened in 1981. For example, stamps went from 16 cents to 18 cents. Charles and Diana got married. AIDS was not yet named and was only beginning to be discovered. The internet did not exist. Justin Timberlake was born. We went from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan (aagghh!!!) Blondie was big on the music scene and "Ordinary People" was a hit movie.
That's a long time to be married. And I tried to look at them and figure out what it is that makes a marriage successful. There's patience and commitment and balance, of course, blah blah blah. But what I think is also necessary is a sense of humor and the ability to have FUN. You've got to keep laughing. And that's not limited to marriages. I think that's the key to living well in general. That sense of humor, it's right up there isn't it?
P.S., Speaking of laughing, and to complete my wine/credit-card/internet/John-Kerry-donation story, I was able to speak to a woman at John Kerry's campaign headquarters about my erroneous largess. She removed the extra zero but only after laughing with/at me for a bit.
5 comments:
Congrats on discovering the joys of iTunes! Be sure to check out the "iMixes," which are "playlists" people publish. You find a lot of great music that way.
Next thng I need to work on is switching you to a Mac and then my job will be done :)
Dedicated to improving the world's computer experience,
Mare
Switching to a mac may be too much of a strain on my marriage for me to bear. DH is a total PC snob. But I love him anyway. ;-)
I wondered how you were doing when they were talking about Norfolk and Virgina Beach on the Weather Channel. Glad you are OK and powered up again. Good news on E's hearing test! Were they wrong about there being no fluid in her ears before, or what?
Thanks Jodie,
Yeah, I'm guessing the young nurse assistant who did the two tests in the ped's office just didn't know what she was doing (though it seems like it would be hard to screw up a tympanogram.) When the specialist repeated everything using her (much fancier) equipment, the results were very obvious. I felt silly for shlepping E to a specialist when she ony had congestion in her ears, but I was going by what the pediatrician told me.
By the way, E was more than a little miffed by the whole thing, too. She accused me of scaring her by telling her she had "hearing problems" and delighted in saying "I told you so" when everything was pronounced fine. Am I too cliche by saying I really really hope she has a daughter one day that is just like her? :-)
Jen
Mac, crack..... let's see how much I can get stirred up with that one itsy bitsy comment! LOL... God, I don't know if I can remember anything from 81!!!
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