Eleven Years

[thewayne]

Saturday was our 11th anniversary. I was so very lucky to meet Russet, though it was she that found me via an on-line dating site that is no more. There have been many ups and downs, and it's a certainty that there will be more, and it's frustrating having moved from Phoenix to rural New Mexico, but overall I certainly can't complain.

Yesterday afternoon we drove up to Ruidoso for dinner and a movie. The restaurant that Russet picked was chosen for one specific feature: they had a bacon-wrapped date appetizer – a dozen to the order! The rest of the things on offer also looked quite good, your basic surf and turf bar and grill. And the dates did not disappoint – in fact, I'd rate them as the best tasting non-dessert that we had. I was quite pleased that they had crème brule on offer, and even more pleased when the waiter explained that the kitchen warmed up the custard in the microwave before the brule torching, so I was able to avoid that atrocity. Russet had their massive chocolate cake that was also quite good, though so big that she only ate a third of it or so. And as we didn't have an ice chest with us, though we had two 50 lb dogs with us, it was not possible to bring the remaining home. Fortunately I made chocolate mousse in chocolate shells yesterday afternoon, so plenty of chocolate is still available to us.

We went and saw the new X-Men Apocalypse movie and quite enjoyed it. I am of two minds when it comes to the X-Men movies. I was a huge fan of the comic in the '80s and '90s, then I drifted away from collecting, and I think the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen series are amazingly wonderful and a pretty faithful interpretation of the comics. I was disappointed when they didn't do an X-3 movie after Professor X was killed then reincarnated, and you saw Magneto regaining his power. Oh, well. I did just see Stewart is listed as in an 'untitled Wolverine sequel' (due March '17), so there is hope yet.

The McAvoy/Fassbender X-Men? Well, I'm less keen on them than the Patrick/Ian ones, but they're still lots of fun and reinterpret the characters in interesting ways. So a definite plus, and I know I'll be buying it when it comes out on DVD.

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! You spent the day in a great way: Good food and fun entertainment.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Moira! It was a very nice day.

[silveradept]

Congratulations on your anniversary.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Thank you, good sir.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

One imagines your photos on said site were superior to those on any official ID, for which the imagery always seems mandated to depict the bearer as some kind of psychotic. =:)

And a dozen of those dates to an order! Wow. Maybe see if they could stuff them with goat's cheese as a special order next time.. that combo does go rather well. ^_^

Eleven years! Wow. Good going. ^_^ ('Course, I also have to wistfully wish I'd been so lucky. Though I'd've probably nudged my partner toward The Jungle Book - from what I've heard, they've done a pretty good job with it)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was quite out of the blue when my wife-to-be contacted me through a dating web site 12.5 years ago. I was in Phoenix, and she was going to go to a fanfic convention in LA and didn't think her elderly dog was good for the trip, so alternatively I invited her to spend the weekend with me and we could do the renaissance festival, so she came to Phx. She said that I gave good hugs, and the first hug gave her the impression that we could be the one for each other. And about 1.5 years later, we wed.

A few of my friends managed to make it stick over a decade, a few, like my sister, have had multiple spouses. I'm glad ours has stuck. I like to say that we have very compatible insanities.

We saw Jungle Book opening weekend and quite enjoyed it. I really love Idris Elba in movies. BTW, Zootopia released on DVD last night and my copy is on the top of my racks. When I added my DVD purchases to my spreadsheet last night (+The Martian and Hail, Caesar!) I found I was over 610. I probably should slow down my DVD purchases. In a very rare splurge, I also got three Paul Simon and one Peter Gabriel CDs, all for a little over $90.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I just realized what you meant by my picture on the site (I just got up half an hour ago, brain is only slowly coming online). Actually, my profile picture here on LJ is the same as I used on the dating site -- me in full ren fest garb. She said that most people's pictures don't look like the person, or they're so idealized that they're practically a glamour shot -- but mine was certainly different.

Not only does she like to ren fest, but she's twice the National Scottish Harp champion and those competitions were held at ren fests.