Psychoblog

it was mine and carl’s one year anniversary yesterday. amazing how time flies by. also, today is the first day of the new university year, meaning we are entering our 8th year together.

we had a great weekend to celebrate our anniversary. we were originally going to stay in york in a nice hotel and order pizza and coke to our room just like we did on our wedding night. unfortunately york turned out to be quite an expensive place to stay, so we settled on a day trip instead. it’s quite a good journey for a day trip though, you just stay on the m1 until you fall off the end.

york is a very pretty place and the people we met there were nice and friendly, with a good sense of humour. we didn’t manage to do much of the touristy things. the castley place had lots of steps and then charged you for it at the top and the minster was closed by the time we got to it. we stood and admired them though, along with the narrow lanes with oldy worldy houses leaning in to whisper their secrets to each other.

went to a great shop called fizzywigs, which we thought was a very harrypotter name. had a nice romantic 3 course meal at a restaurant called russell’s too. the food was so nice, despite the ditzy waitress trying to make up our order as she went along (she was friendly though so it was okay). they had some piano music playing that resembled popular songs and one of the songs they played was bridge over troubled water by simon and garfunkel. this is a song that has meaning to carl and me and it was like they were saying happy anniversary by playing it. like on our wedding night when we were watching tv in our hotel room and robbie williams was on singing angels live (our first dance song), he was really saying congratulations to us.

being the cultured people we are we also went to a photography gallery whilst we were there. thought it would be interesting to see the kind of photographs that get displayed in proper exhibitions. turned out to be a collection of disturbing pieces exploring the emotions surrounding the death of people’s children. highly inappropriate given our current situation, although this inappropriateness amused me slightly. what were the odds? bet next week they have an exhibition of pretty flowers or something.

the past year has on the whole been good for us as a couple. another very eventful one. i remember before our wedding i read about how the first year of marriage is often the hardest one. people can have unrealistic expectations of how their partner/relationship will change when they become husband and wife. a lot of people apparently get depressed after the anticlimax of the big day too, which can put a strain on things. none of this has affected us though. we were under no illusions that we might suddenly become the perfect partner when we got married. carl still checked out the waitress’s bum at our anniversary meal and i will never be a great housewife with a good level of common sense. we don’t care though. and as much as we loved our wedding day and honeymoon, we were very happy to get back to “normal” afterwards and carry on with our lives.

so a happy weekend to celebrate a happy year together. all is well and we are looking forward to what the next year is going to bring us.