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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

DOO DAH DAY

SWMBO - 2012 Edition
My ever-loving, ever-patient Missus: She Who Must Be Obeyed, my helpmate of thirty-five years.

She walks in beauty, like the night 
Doo dah, doo dah 
She walks in beauty, like the night 
Oh, doo dah day

As the above ditty - it’s been running through my head the past couple of days - would seem to say, my innermost self is an admixture of the sublime and the ridiculous, proportioned out in a manner at once carefully measured yet completely unpredictable.  And yet, it has a few constants - the stars by which I make my dead reckoning as I navigate the Waters of Life.

The most constant of those constants, of course, is She Who Must Be Obeyed, who, as of today, has also been The Missus for thirty-five years.  She has, somehow, managed to put up with me for all of that time, not to mention the not-quite-eighteen months immediately preceding our nuptials.

She is a woman of infinite patience, clearly.  How else to explain it?

Elisson and SWMBO in 1977
Elisson and SWMBO, thirty-five years ago today - getting ready to start the honeymoon.

Look at her, the wide-eyed innocent in the photo above, taken just before we departed the Wedding Premises.  Innocent... and yet there is a mischievous sparkle in her smile.  Meanwhile, the Man-Clod next to her wears the same dopey, shit-eating grin with which he has plastered his face for the entire duration of the wedding.  It’s the Elisson Wedding-Face.  Hell, I can’t blame myself even unto this day - you’d’ve been grinning too, were you in my position.

Thirty-five years later, I’m still grinning.  Still very like a teenager in love.

And we can still get into those nutty T-shirts.

12 comments:

Richmond said...

Congratulations to both of you. :)

Claude said...

All that....And the best is yet to come!

Warm congratulations!

Dax Montana said...

Congratulations...

Back in the day, she looked cute...now she's down right sexy...As for you...Well, there never was much hope...Thirty-five years just confirmed that...

I only hope that I could be so lucky...Just Damn!

Teresa said...

I love that pic! You two are among the luckiest people in the world. You found each other. That is a wonderful thing indeed.

KeesKennis said...

You Got Lucky, I have been lucky as well so I know

Kevin Kim said...

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary!

Anonymous said...

Mazal Tov!

May she be willing to endure many more years with you! :-)

Anonymous said...

That Anonymous was from me (treppenwitz). :-)

Joe said...

congrats

Shelly said...

Love you guys. I can attest that you still have that corney smile of love on your face when around the missus all these 35 years later. Wishing you 35 more

BobG said...

Congratulations and best wishes to both of you; may you celebrate many more.

Anonymous said...

Congrats! you turned out OK for a guy who started out looking like Tony Orlando.