Almost 16 years

On the 10th of July (Saturday), I will be crossing over a milestone. Not many people brag about 16 of anything, but I feel like it's worth saying something. Even if it is here. No one reads this (that I know of). No one follows, or subscribes to (or whatever) my blog. It's just my little world. No one IRL really cares about what I have to say or what kind of crap-tacular info is echoing in my brain, but maybe someday I'll be famous, and someone will care. They will read this and know that the day didn't go by unnoticed.
16 years ago (on Saturday) I got impatient behind a man driving a white Geo Tracker up a hill. He was headed to Alpine, California to go to a meeting. I was racing to Alpine from something (I can't remember what), and was running late. I am not a patient driver (I'm better now than I was then), and I just couldn't follow him for the half mile it was to the exit. So, I whipped around him and cut him off and exited the freeway. He turned on his blinker and followed me. I turned right at the stop sign blew through the green light, around the corner to the next stop sign. I had to wait for a pedestrian. I may have honked at them to hurry up. They did not. I looked in my rear-view mirror and sitting right behind me was the white Tracker I had cut off. I turned right and so did he. I turned left at the appropriate street. So did he. I was starting to worry that something bad was going to happen, or that he was going to follow me until I stopped, and then yell at me. I got to the house I was going to, thinking that I'd lost him on the curvy road. Just as I was getting out of my car, I grabbed my things, looked behind me, and there he was. White Tracker had found me. He got out, didn't say a word, and followed me into the house. I later found out his name. I remember thinking that he was funny, and charming, and WAY too old for me. I was still 18. The group was for 20-somethings. They said I was close enough. He was on the other side of that age-group...just about out of his twenties.
We met on July 10th, 1994. White Tracker became my husband eight months and eight days later.
We're still married. Sometimes we're frustrated, sometimes we're silly...but we've always been in love. We've worked very hard to stay together. We've been through enough to tear our marriage apart, at least three times, but we've stuck it out.
It has been so worth it.

So, to the cosmic void that I am writing to, YAY for me! 16 years!