This was meant to be a Love Thursday entry but with Thanksgiving, well, that just didn't happen. In any case, I love this picture of my mom and me from our wedding last year. I was originally going to tell the photographer, a friend, that we didn't want any posed pictures, but this series in the garden of the inn where we were staying actually came out pretty well. She was able to tell us to look at each other and smile and we were able to do it and mean it. I love how happy we look here.
This photo was taken at our wedding in July of last year. My cousin (on the left) had just made the acquaintance of Yan's cousin (on the right), and as you can see, took to him immediately.
Liam, the older cousin, could not have been a better host. He taught Jonah to play bocce ball, ran around with him all weekend, and even with his 12-year-old image to uphold, allowed Jonah to hug him as much as he wanted. And as you can see, Jonah is very huggy guy.
Love Thursday entry #4: My favorite picture of Yan.
Taken when we were on vacation here last March, having no idea we'd actually be living here in a matter of months. He's out of town for work this week, so I'm missing him especially.
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Incidentally, I was thinking the title of the movie My First Mister was My Favorite Mister (and wondered why I couldn't find the link anywhere). But I'm going to keep my title the way it is. Because My First Mister? I mean, ew.
Matilda: 1998-2006
My mom bought me a new laptop, a PC, two years ago, but I've never been able to part with Matilda, the first-generation iMac I bought for myself the year I graduated from college. Matilda replaced the Color Classic that got me through my undergraduate days, which like the iMac, was already outdated by the time I bought it.
Now that we're moving I was forced to face the truth: Matilda must be reformatted and then donated.
As I perused Matilda's contents, I came across several old letters I had written to Mari in 1995-1996 (apparently I had also transferred these from the old Color Classic). Here are a few choice excerpts:
"I really want you to come visit me if you ever have a long weekend or anything. I like my room a lot this year. We have our own bathroom that we share with suit mates. That’s pretty cool, except that they keeping coming to use the restroom while we’re in the shower--gross! I think one took a dump while I was in there today because she was in there forever and I was stuck in the shower waiting for her to leave." [Damn those dirty suit mates!]
"How are you? Things here are kinda shitty, but anything is better than last year. Last night Ex and I got into this HUGE argument (on the never-speak-again scale), and we ended up in this deserted parking lot outside of my dorm w/ both of us crying. I hadn’t seen that one for a while! I’m getting to the point where I seriously think Ex and I should just be friends, and I should go for ERIC! He’s just so wonderful." [Note: Ex and I would continue down that path for three more long miserable years. ERIC! was a friend of Ex's. Obviously, it didn't work out.]
"Guess what? Lynda said she’s not surprised David asked me if he had a chance w/ me b/c I was really flirty when he was here ... Kinda sucks, huh? Now, I’m going to have to watch every move I make around David b/c who knows how he’ll take it!" [And David? Also a friend of Ex's.]
Um, yeah. Cringe, indeed.
Once I duly transferred the contents of all of these insipid little notes as well as some old pictures and a handful of writing samples, I reformatted Matilda for her new owner, an older woman in need of a Mac for email and iPhoto (believe it or not, it works on that old thing) whose daughter I found on Freecycle. When Yan returned from the gym, I announced proudly what I had been up to. And then I almost started to cry. Matilda was no longer Matilda but a blank slate ready for her new life.
And the PC? Well, you just can't name a PC.
This week's Love Thursday entry:
Yes, the beagle strikes again. I'm telling you, she really loves my husband. Maybe more than I do.
