This and That
An old friend of my wife came in town last night. He does media relations for a new brand of toilet paper. We went out to dinner, laughed, drank, made predictions about Six Feet Under. I ate the duck, drank a bunch of merlot, plus a scotch or two. Woke up today at 5am. Was supposed to go out tonight for more of the same, but cancelled. Tomorrow is my mother's birthday. Saturday my wife graduates, Summa Cum Laude no less. Saturday night we celebrate. Sunday is mother's day. Monday is our one year wedding anniversary. Tuesday we'll finally eat that frozen chunk of wedding cake in the back of the freezer. A week later I fly to Virginia to attend a three day wedding of someone I don't know. Strangers will ask what I do. I'll anxiously wipe the condensation off the side of my glass, smile, and act upbeat.
Comments
Umm... word of advice: you may think the bit about eating the year-old frozen cake is romantic and all -- and it is -- but do yourself a favor and skip it.
Let me just say, the sight, smell, and taste year-old frozen wedding cake is NOT what you want to base the first year of your marriage on. Unless your first year has left you feeling dry, crumbly, and freezer-burned.
Congrats on one year and counting (my wife and I celebrate eight years on the 21st). And try to get some rest between celebrations, OK?
Posted by: Bob at May 9, 2002 10:48 PM
you do more stuff in a week than i do in a year
Posted by: circles at May 9, 2002 11:15 PM
whoa, did i just stumble into textism?
Posted by: jsp at May 10, 2002 12:17 AM
Fortunately (in my opinion) we had a really good cake, I guess. The guests ate the whole damn thing. And it was no wilting lily of a cake. We tried to grab a piece for the whole freezer ritual deal and were informed the cake was gone. So I guess I'll miss that tradition when my unum annum rolls around on 9/1. Let us know how it is.
Posted by: Corey at May 10, 2002 1:05 AM
wow - where did this ritual of frozen cake come from? I've never heard of it. Is this a modern custom (ie. was the cake salted and wrapped and stored in the cellar in the days before freezers?) and if so, was this some sort of promotion-turned-ritual (like Coke's jolly red Santa Claus (or is that just an anti-commercialism myth?)?)?
I can imagine some turn-of-the-century (last century) promo from early Maytag 'Store your wedding cake forever in the new Maytag ice-box!'.
What a strange lot we all are...
Posted by: Stv. at May 10, 2002 12:31 PM
