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Three years ago I took the plunge into uncharted waters and said I do<\/em> to Mr. Gadget.\u00a0 I had assumed that I would marry young and be a stay-at-home-wife-and-mom-extraordinaire.\u00a0 However.\u00a0 My twenties drifted\u00a0into my thirties.\u00a0 The thirties marched relentlessly on.\u00a0 Relationships I found this Van Gogh painting with a dark haired buxom woman and a reddish blonde bearded man.\u00a0 It was us.\u00a0 Perfect for our wedding invitation.\u00a0 We sort of eloped.\u00a0 Decided to just go for it and do it.\u00a0 Take the plunge.\u00a0 The beauty of it is that my closest friends and family made it, even though it was short notice, and even though it was miles away.<\/p>\n When I returned to work, I sent this picture to my coworkers to announce what I’d done.\u00a0 They all thought it was a joke.\u00a0 An elaborate April Fool’s prank.\u00a0 It was for real though.\u00a0 (Sure wish that was my<\/em> bejeweled showgirl figure.)<\/p>\n Happy Anniversary to my Gadget Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three years ago I took the plunge into uncharted waters and said I do to Mr. Gadget.\u00a0 I had assumed that I would marry young and be a stay-at-home-wife-and-mom-extraordinaire.\u00a0 However.\u00a0 My twenties drifted\u00a0into my thirties.\u00a0 The thirties marched relentlessly on.\u00a0 Relationships crashed and burned waxed and waned.\u00a0\u00a0Ours is not a magical tale of love and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}crashed and burned<\/strike> waxed and waned.\u00a0\u00a0Ours is not a magical tale of love and romance.\u00a0 There is love.\u00a0 There is romance.\u00a0 Occasionally.\u00a0 It’s not the stuff of country songs.\u00a0 It’s not what I’d dreamed it would be.\u00a0 Thank God!\u00a0 Left to my own devices, I might have been a Stepford wife.\u00a0 We are very different, the Cool Cat and I.\u00a0 We have good times.\u00a0 We have difficult times.\u00a0 Communication is one of our biggest struggles, but when we laugh, oh how we laugh.\u00a0 We are good together.\u00a0 I like being a couple.\u00a0 I like sharing a home, sharing a life.\u00a0 I love sharing a child.<\/p>\n![\"Wedding](\"http:\/\/www.sueeeus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/weddingannouncement450.jpg\")
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