Friday, August 14, 2009

T minus 24 hours...

...and the countdown begins.
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Tomorrow is my parents' 50th Anniversary party. Their actual anniversary is September 6th but we figured a party before school begins was the best way to go. We've been planning this for several months now but it's crunch time. No more "Oh! We should have done this!" or "Let's invite them!" or "What if we get some of these?" What's done is done. What we've planned will all come to fruition and what we've bought/made/decided is pretty much FINAL.
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We're throwing a
BIG OL' BASH!
...pig roast, roast beef, hot dogs, a ton of sodas and water (and my personal stash of Twisted Tea!). We sent out 70 invites....current count of people attending - ONE HUNDRED! Holy Big Party Batman!!! 50th Wedding Anniversaries don't happen every day, ya know?
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I'm am SO excited! and SO tired! and SO ready for the party to begin...
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Only one more day. Surely I can wait ONE.MORE.DAY.
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Is it 2pm Saturday yet? Is it? Is it?
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The weather is supposed to be great (though a little HOT - but NOT raining, so no complaints!) and I will be with family and friends...some whom I haven't seen in 10 or 20 years...some whom I've never even met...some whom I see all the time but just can't get enough of (I'm a glutton for punishment you know! *wink*).
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My parents, who drive me CRAZY! (whose parents don't?), who can be demanding, loving, generous, a little challenging and a lot maddening, well...they deserve this. After all, they've been together for half a century....they were married before all this crazy Internet thing, and Facebook, and cell phones and all the other things we take for granted and "can't live without." They were married before anyone ever heard of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Regan (as a politician, at least!). They were married before man walked on the moon, listened to cd's, or did the moonwalk....
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1959....the year they were wed...
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Best Picture: Ben-Hur
Billboard #1: The Three Bells by The Browns
Average Price of Gas: 25 Cents
Average Price of a New Car: $2200.00
Average Price of a Loaf of Bread: 20 cents
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1959 was the year that Alaska & Hawaii became the 49th & 50th States. It was the year that the Barbie doll was launched, the Grammy Awards began, and Bonanza premiered on TV.
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Fifty years is a LONG time to spend with the same person and I am so blessed to be able to celebrate such an amazing milestone for the two people that have influenced my life in a way that I can not put into words - and to celebrate it with the people in my life that I simply could not live without :)
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Is it Saturday YET???
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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well said Jo :)

Ji

 

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