So what were you doing 28 years ago today? We had just washed the Just Married shoe polish off the Buick, jettisoned a few balloons and streamers along Highway 54 and eaten our first meal as a married couple: chili dogs at the Sonic in El Dorado Springs, Missouri.

Our anniversary lunch today was a trifle classier (Italian at Johnny Carino’s), but other than that it’s been a decadently lazy day puttering at home, ironing, and watching a DVD of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel nabbed cheap at Dollar General. Part of developing a lifetime relationship is learning to love being companionably boring together.

Sorry. Tea.

Heavy lunch needed a nice, light counterpart. This is. A sweet melange of fruitiness. Raspberry really needs equal time in the title, but Pomegranate Grape Raspberry Green is a little long—you can only fit so much on a label.

yyz

Congratulations!

Nicole

Congrats! Companionably boring is a very sweet way to put it and very true.

scribbles

That’s awesome! Congratulations!

Jillian

Congrats :)

ashmanra

Congratulations! We will have #27 next month! And now I want to head to our Dollar General and see if they have a copy of that movie! We saw it at the little art house theater downtown.

Tealizzy

Congrats!

gmathis

I don’t think Maggie Smith is capable of a bad performance. She was hilarious.

Terri HarpLady

28 years ago I lived in Rolla, MO, & was pregnant with my daughter Arianna. Congrats!!

Calochortus

Congratulations! Twenty eight years ago I was… erhm, nonexistent.

yyz

To answer your question 28 years ago today I was either at a friends house, visiting my grandparents, or possibly my mother and I were out on one of her pick a direction and drive adventure in the countryside. That year I had the infamous ‘harridan teacher’ of my school. I never had a huge problem with her other than having more homework than I ever had again (including university and high school). A lot of people transferred out of the school early in order to avoid having her again.

K S

Congrats! 28 years ago my wife and I were living in a mobile home in my parents back yard. No kids at the time.

I used to see older married couples sitting silently in a restaurant and I thought that meant they couldn’t stand each other. Now I completely understand and better yet I now have a term to describe it!

Terri HarpLady

Although I don’t seem to be able to pronounce “companionably” , I totally agree with that statement. Once the newness of a relationship wears off a little & you really get to know the person you’re with, with all their idiosyncrasies & baggage, it really boils down to that.

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yyz

Congratulations!

Nicole

Congrats! Companionably boring is a very sweet way to put it and very true.

scribbles

That’s awesome! Congratulations!

Jillian

Congrats :)

ashmanra

Congratulations! We will have #27 next month! And now I want to head to our Dollar General and see if they have a copy of that movie! We saw it at the little art house theater downtown.

Tealizzy

Congrats!

gmathis

I don’t think Maggie Smith is capable of a bad performance. She was hilarious.

Terri HarpLady

28 years ago I lived in Rolla, MO, & was pregnant with my daughter Arianna. Congrats!!

Calochortus

Congratulations! Twenty eight years ago I was… erhm, nonexistent.

yyz

To answer your question 28 years ago today I was either at a friends house, visiting my grandparents, or possibly my mother and I were out on one of her pick a direction and drive adventure in the countryside. That year I had the infamous ‘harridan teacher’ of my school. I never had a huge problem with her other than having more homework than I ever had again (including university and high school). A lot of people transferred out of the school early in order to avoid having her again.

K S

Congrats! 28 years ago my wife and I were living in a mobile home in my parents back yard. No kids at the time.

I used to see older married couples sitting silently in a restaurant and I thought that meant they couldn’t stand each other. Now I completely understand and better yet I now have a term to describe it!

Terri HarpLady

Although I don’t seem to be able to pronounce “companionably” , I totally agree with that statement. Once the newness of a relationship wears off a little & you really get to know the person you’re with, with all their idiosyncrasies & baggage, it really boils down to that.

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Steepster “geezer;” tea barbarian who has no systematic method for storage, preparation, classification, or rating; lover of strong unleaded builders’ tea. Never quite grew up—I cut and glue, play with Legos, design kids’ curriculum, and play with fifth graders every Sunday.

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