On this, the day of our 7th wedding anniversary, Paul greeted me in his own special way.<\/p>\n
“Need any cortisone?”<\/p>\n
“For what?”<\/p>\n
“Got a 7-year itch?”<\/p>\n
Seven years of these jokes, and yet, I’m nowhere near as insane as one would suspect. And I still have a sense of smell. These must be proof that Paul and I were meant to be together.<\/p>\n
Seven? That is a number close to 100, right? Because certainly it takes a number that big to hold all the things that have happened since we got married.<\/p>\n
Now we consider our lives in two units. One is the current era, the SITKOM era, where we are essentially defined by a Single Income, Two Kids, Oppressive Mortgage. (To be fair, I do bring in an occasional teaching or consulting check. But truly, SITKOM sounds much better than DITCOM.) <\/span>The other, previous era is the DINK era, where we were Double Income, No Kids. This is also known as a dream state where we frivolously whiled away our days. Had we known what we know now, we’d have learned four languages, traveled the globe in a kayak twice over, and painted reproductions of Michaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece in every room of the house. And don’t even talk about the missed opportunities for sleep.<\/p>\n We’ve lived and learned and now we’re SITKOMs. Somewhat predictable in plot, using a laugh track to keep things moving.<\/p>\n And I wouldn’t have it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On this, the day of our 7th wedding anniversary, Paul greeted me in his own special way. “Need any cortisone?” “For what?” “Got a 7-year itch?” Seven years of these jokes, and yet, I’m nowhere near as insane as one would suspect. And I still have a sense of smell. These must be proof that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}