i totally forgot

so mrs. rider calls the bookstore yesterday and says, "happy anniversary"...

so in a split second my eyes raced to the calendar above my desk...sure enough it was the 8th of July...out of all the things my brain had a chance to say..."OH CRAP" was all it could muster...so those are the words that it sent my tongue...

you know that internal (i just messed up really bad) frenzy feeling...it pretty much had completely filled up my body when the thought crossed my mind..."did she wait until now to see if i would remember?" or "did she forget too?"...i planned for the worst and hoped for the best!...

it was the latter...somewhere in the midst of our passionate marriage we partly forgot our anniversary...at least we caught it halfway into the day...okay...she caught it...i dont like to think about when or if i would have thought about it...anyway...

mrs. rider...i love you...the last 8 years have been wonderful...i look forward to many more...

some of you might have noticed some photos of the coacher wedding on hillenblog...there are a few photos of the wedding...a couple were shot from behind the "minister"...at first sight it would appear that he is balding...but upon further review and analysis with really high tech equipment it has been determined that it was just a funny reflection from the lighting...

what a wedding...WHAT A RECEPTION...

i look forward to another in the fall...and i found out i am NOT the maid of honor, but i am still invited...anyway...

have to work...

later from 3rd St.