{"id":1776,"date":"2008-11-02T00:36:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:45:11","slug":"my-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1776","title":{"rendered":"My Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xander<\/a>
Today my crazy husband turned 34 years old.  The other night in bed he threatened to divorce me because for some reason or another I thought he was going to turn 35.  In my defense, he had me up talking for ages and I was so tired my eyes were starting to wobble.<\/p>\n

We also realized that we have now known each other for 14 years, have been together for almost 10 years and married for almost 9 years.<\/p>\n

Then we laid in bed and pondered how quickly the time has gone by.   Man, when our parents told us how much more quickly time goes by as you get older, they weren\u2019t kidding.   I\u2019m frightened to think of what other things they\u2019ve said that might be true.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, back to my aging husband.   Thankfully we don\u2019t do the surprise gifts thing.   We tried that last Christmas and he didn\u2019t use a single thing I got him, EVEN THOUGH they were truly awesome gifts that I put a lot of thought into.  <\/p>\n

Since then we\u2019ve gone back to the tried and true \u201cWhattya want?!\u201d method where I ask what he wants, he tells me, my eyes glaze over and he goes and orders it for himself.  It goes generally the same on my birthday, and it works for us, although my birthday requires a narrowing-it-down process because I always want tons of shit.<\/p>\n

Not that my husband doesn\u2019t.  For his birthday this year he got almost \u20ac300 worth of electronics (he\u2019s a robotics nerd).  Somehow we skipped the narrowing-it-down thing and he just went hogwild.<\/p>\n

His birthday requests were the electronics (which he couldn\u2019t wait for and ordered weeks ago), a pork roast for dinner (done) and a movie (done).  Easy to please or what!  I usually include some sort of massage and getting out of something I don\u2019t want to do around the house in my requests.  I love that he can\u2019t say no to me on my birthday.<\/p>\n

It still blows my mind when I think of how we met<\/a> and all the shit we\u2019ve gone through together since then, that here I am celebrating his 34th birthday with him!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nowhere in the world I\u2019d rather be, not even Canada!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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