Five

Yesterday was our 5 year anniversary. Yup, five years ago we got married in Joliet, IL. We've been together for 95 months (just under 8 years). Actually, it's prolly less than that, considering how many times she broke up with me that first year. My lovely wife actually broke up with me once during our drive home from Detroit. We were coming back from an Eminem concert, which she bought for me as a birthday present. Why during the drive? Cuz I opened a bottle of water myself. Her exact words: "You don't need me. My exes all needed me to open their water bottles for them."

For gifts, I made her the garden she's always wanted. Feeling bad for not getting me anything YET AGAIN, Sandy bought me the Roland Skinnard photo of Bermuda I'd been talking about since we moved here.

Friday night, we went to our customary anniversary dinner at The Waterlot. Originally, we had made reservations at Ascot's. But Thursday night, we were watching TV and happened to flip to the Travel Channel, which had a special on the best steakhouses in America. AND it just happened to be showing Chicago. I almost ate my own arm when they were talking about the mouth-watering steaks at Gene & Georgetti's and David Burke's. So we decided to have steak that night instead. Caesar salad prepared tableside to start. Cowboy ribeye for me (with foie gras on top), cowgirl for her (with soft shell crab). Creamed spinach, truffled mac & cheese and truffled french fries as sides. Sticky toffee pudding to cap off an amazing dinner.

We made dinner plans for Friday cuz we were supposed to go to Kim's bday party Saturday night. Sandy ended up having to go into the office that Saturday after lunch with Pong. We ordered KFC for dinner, even though Sandy had just spent the previous hour photocopying diet recipes from Jacqueline's Insanity book. At least I ordered the 5 piece meal instead of the 9. Of course they messed up our order and didn't even apologize for it when I had to go all the way back to replace my nuggets with hot wings.

We didn't end up leaving the office til late, and Sandy was too tired to go back out by the time we got home. No, that's not code for something else.

Today, we took a trip out to Dockyard and had lunch at the Frog and Onion. Then we walked around the mall. Sandy bought a book called "Tea with Tracey", which is basically about Tracey's experiences of living in Bermuda. Sandy read some funny stories tonight, which made me decide to start blogging again. We came back home and Sandy planted the seeds in her new garden: cucumber, pumpkin, sunflower and lettuce. Looking forward to 6. That is all.