8 FREAKING YEARS!!!!!

it has been an awful terrible 8 years and also a wonderful amazing and awesomely great 8 years ( and no we obviously have not been married for 16 years)

last year we had just moved, the year before we were just about to move,  the year before that matt was a student , and the previous 2 times same, so it has certainly been a while since we have been able to celebrate!

Since Matts motorcycle accident  i have been taking him to work and picking him up, when i dropped him off this morning i was in the mood to buy me some clothes. I have been wanting to buy a few clothing items for months - a swimsuit- for example, since our tax came in last week i felt carefree enough to just go and do it! so i headed to one store and there i found a dress perfect for my date. I was also able to pick up a few other items and since the store was having a big sale i got 7 items for a little under $120 - yeah that sounds like a lot but for clothes in my size it is very very cheap!!!


Anyway i continued my shopping spree(Picking up a friend on the way) and added earrings and shoes to my outfit.

Then i picked up matt :) it was a loooong shopping day and a short work day for matt (i dropped him off just after 10 and picked him up  just after 4!


 Matt took me to  Angelo's an italian restaurant, it was AMAZIIIIING!!!! they catered completely with what matt wanted they brought out buttered bread for matt while i enjoyed  garlic bread, instead of a side of pasta with some red sauce on it they  just made buttered noodles for him (there was parmigiana on the table) . our waitress was amazing she teased matt but made sure everything was unseasoned  and to his liking. Matt obviously had steak  with a side of pasta and salad (which i ate-choice of soup or salad)  I was able to have cream of asparagus soup it had some fresh veggies in it and was really really good! that was the side to my LASAGNA  i think i have done a post previously about my love of my Dads Lasagna , i have not been able to find anywhere here to even come close, in fact they are usually  blah in comparison. every time i try a new restaurant and they have lasagna i have to try it incase its any good. Since i was eating in an Italian restaurant they of course had lasagna. it was soooooooooo goooooood amazing wonderful yuuuuuummy! still nothing on my Dads lasagna but when i crave lasagna, i now dont have to travel to Ireland to satisfy  my tastebuds!

....Dad that doesnt let you off the hook though.....

anyway we had a great evening i wore my amazing dress -it felt Grecian goddess to me-, managed to not lose my earrings until after our date. and  matt even put a shirt on (as oppossed to a T-shirt , generally he doesnt walk around without a top on...) and wore his church boot.

So 8 years, what have we learned

after 8 years we may fight less but boy we still have some whoppers, 

we dont see eye to eye on some things , but on eternity together, we do

we dont enjoy the same things, movies outings activites , shopping, even socializing we dont agree on!!!

we still love to hold hands after 8 years  and hope to one day be one of those old couples  who still hold hands... unless one of us is pushing the other around in a wheelchair....

 probably other stuff but hey i cant remember!!!

   nyhew it was a great day