Anniversary

The end of my week unfortunately did nothing to erase the crap from my shitty week. I was lucky enough to mark my first anniversary of marriage. Symbolic of our first year together the anniversary weekend was filled with emotional highs and lows. I have no complaints about the first year of marriage only about what life threw at us in the last year.
Top on the list of life's curveballs was my dad being killed in a work related accident 4 months ago. Suffice it to say my emotional and mental well being weren't 100% before his death and has certainly been anything but 100% since. The one constant thing that has kept me going it the love and support I have received from my wife. This isn't the first time she has helped me deal with a hard situation as my mom dealt with life threatening health issues three years ago which my wife helped me get through.

Normally I am not one to mark what I consider arbitrary and artificial calendar events, such as any Hallmark holiday, christmas, thanksgiving, etc. you get the picture. Birthdays are the only such events I find merit any attention. Though I must admit a fondness for May day. This last year I added two dates to remember, the day my father died and the day I was married. This is symbolic also as I am always in search of (and rarely ever close to) balance in my life. Again I have my wife to thanks for balancing the good and bad in my life.

Reminds me of the vows I said to her a year ago today. To paraphrase, I stated that I am person that doesn't believe in anything but love and friendship and I was lucky to find both in one person. Happy anniversary Booger, I love you.