Tuesday night Erci and I celebrated the 14th anniversary of our marriage. It just does not seem like that long. We get to celebrate twice a year because we did the legal transaction about 8 months before we pulled together the big scary public ceremony. We’ve had a fabulous adventure together so far.
Fourteen years ago she was a database administrator at the Defense Intelligence Agency, actively fighting with rattan in the Society for Creative Anachronism, cooking medieval foods for her friends and household, bicycling, already involved in La Belle Compagnie, traveling to NATO (Brussels) and London quite often for work, and she had ferrets (I still miss Mudge and Newt).
| Back then I was still in the United States Air Force on active duty, stationed at the Pentagon, flirting with everyone in the SCA, tinkering with my Amiga computer, running, playing occasional games of pickup football (the kind with goalies) with locals, and bicycling all over the Washington Area. She was unstoppable. She amazed me. She still does. |  |
We’ve lived apart (the USAF sent me to freakin’ Omaha for about 7 months of enforced separation). We’ve been in tiny apartments, a small townhouse, and two very large homes. When I got out of the USAF my income jumped so much that I literally paid more in taxes for 1995 than I grossed for all of 1994! We gradually got less involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism as we got more involved with La Belle Compagnie and as we got very involved with ballroom dancing. She pulled me into La Belle, and I pulled her into Scuba diving, and Marine Aquariums. She helped me re-discover Buddhism. We’ve had several more ferrets, and now a cat and several aquariums. We’ve traveled to England, Jamaica, Mallorca, Greece, Turkey, Curacao, Cozumel, Belize, Bonaire, Japan, the Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Michigan, California, Arizona, Nevada, and New York together. She has become a chef, part-time, while continuing to be an amazing IT professional at work. We have had the opportunity to build our dream home. She is still unstoppable, and I am still amazed.
Tuesday night we went to Le Tire Bouchon, a cozy and quiet little traditional French restaurant in old Fairfax. There were ony two other couples there at that time, and one couple finished and left shortly after we got there. We had excellent food, good wine, and got to talk a lot (mostly about work, but talking about anything is fun with her).
She remains my partner, sharing the awesome adventure of life with me as an equal. Sometimes she leads, sometimes I do. We are incredibly blessed and fortunate to have many, many close friends. She’s cooking up another Windjammer cruise to someplace warm and exciting.
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