{"id":709,"date":"2003-07-26T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-709.html"},"modified":"2005-08-28T00:26:32","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T00:26:32","slug":"10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/07\/26\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>1 car<\/li>\n<li>2 career changes<\/li>\n<li>3 residences<\/li>\n<li>12 jobs<\/li>\n<li>2,349 books<\/li>\n<li>4,927 nappies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10 years.  1 marriage.  I love you, Abi.<\/p>\n<p>(Abi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/abi\/archives\/2003\/07\/24\/10_years\/\">does a much better job<\/a> of the whole reminiscence thing, though.)<\/p>\n<p>The actual anniversary was last Wednesday, 23rd July.  We didn&#8217;t do anything special during the day.  Abi was at work, and because I don&#8217;t work on Wednesdays, I spent the day stripping wallpaper with Alex.  In the evening, though, Scott and Ange came round to babysit, and Abi and I went out for dinner at the Pompadour restaurant at the Caledonian Hotel.  Very posh, very nice.<\/p>\n<p>We were also stuck for a present to get each other.  I got Abi a diamond ring when Alex was born, and I don&#8217;t wear any jewelry other than my wedding ring.  A romantic holiday would have been nice, but tricky to arrange.  So what could we fall back on?  Books?  CDs?  That didn&#8217;t seem terribly special for a ten-year anniversary&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The answer came in the form of <em>tools<\/em>.  Abi&#8217;s hobby is <a href=\"http:\/\/bookweb.sunpig.com\/\">bookbinding<\/a>, and recently she has been craving leatherworking ornaments and various other bits of esoteric hardware.  My main hobby right now is computers (sigh), and I&#8217;ve been craving a brain transplant and a spinal upgrade for Frankenstein, my PC.  So we decided to reward each other with a cash budget to blow on our favourite tools.<\/p>\n<p>It may not sound romantic, but we&#8217;re both fairly practical types, and we much prefer getting presents that we <em>want<\/em> and know we&#8217;re going to <em>use<\/em>, than trinkets that&#8217;ll end up lying around in drawers.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Ten years.  I often get surprised looks when I tell people we&#8217;ve been married for that long.  I was 21, fresh out of university; Abi was 22 and herself only six months past her graduation.  By modern standards, we married <em>really<\/em> young.  Still, it seems to have worked out okay so far. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A very pleasant thought struck me yesterday about the next ten years.  In 2013, Alex will be just 12 years old.  The last ten years seem like a long time.  That means there is still an equally long time of Alex&#8217;s childhood to enjoy.  That feels really nice to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>1 car<\/li>\n<li>2 career changes<\/li>\n<li>3 residences<\/li>\n<li>12 jobs<\/li>\n<li>2,349 books<\/li>\n<li>4,927 nappies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}