Happy 7th Anniversary Mommy and Daddy!
So, a couple funny things about this picture. Because it wouldn’t be like a 24/7 Kiyo post if there wasn’t something funny about it.
- Kiyoshi took this picture. At 3 years old, he was learning how to handle a Nikon with a zoom lens on it. We told him Grandma will be so proud.
- This part . . . This part you wouldn’t believe in a million years. Or in 737 years in this case. Yes. On our WestJet flown Anniversary Itinerary, this picture that Kiyoshi takes is… you guessed it. DSC_0737.JPG yes, actually. I didn’t guess it. I went to find this picture for this post and as I’m writing down photo numbers for uploading I did a double take and said what?!? As if! Right?
And as strangely coincidental as a number from a digital photo may be, it strangely coincidentally tells the story of our lives. Numbers, superstitions (we call them stupidstitions), and memories of a time when Tara listened to country music. Kidding, that part never happened.
Our lives crossed in many directions, long before we knew each other. We often laugh about where we were at different times and me living in Kelowna and Tara passing through every rink in BC over her years of watching hockey. And how she is so familiar with the Winfield arena and how the heaters worked some of the time, where I played beer league hockey (uh, no really I didn’t drink the beer) and the Memorial Arena in Kelowna where I played midnight shinny. While I was growing up on the farm, Tara was often just a few miles down the road at Kin Race Track placing bets on horses. And then further down the road, a short time after I moved to Vancouver, I was on stage at a company presentation (long ago back when I worked in IT doing conversion projects), and imagine that, Tara was in the audience. Although at the time she was thinking something along the line of “who’s the freak with long hair”. I’ve cut my hair since then.
We often say to each other when something peculiar happens “that was random”. But in reality, that describes the road that we travel on, where random passes by just like moments, and takes us in directions we never thought of. Like Calgary. We ended up here how? Thank you to Lori Roche for that. Lori you brought us Alberta Bound on an adventure on trails we could have never expected. (Like Bow Trail, Deerfoot Trail, Glenmore Trail, Crowchild Trail…). And for parents born BC through and through, Kiyoshi’s birth certificate says Calgary! What?! Would never have imagined.
Hedley. Here’s to random and silly. It could have happened this way. Tara might have been putting eyeliner on and me I’m Asian I don’t need an excuse for crashing into something. Except I didn’t hide Tara’s ring in my mouth, she got Spock ears instead.
And we’ve never looked back. Although the fact checkers on CNN will say hold on let’s pause right there – and I can somehow hear John King saying “Wolf that’s only partially true”. We do look back (often) at the ocean air and the sandy shores, the winding rivers, the mountains that reach from Sea to Sky, the Grouse Grind and grass that’s green through winter spring and fall. We haven’t made any extended visits home because Tara is worried she might decide to stay there… and me, I think I’m on The Province website more than I am on the Calgary Herald website.
Oh and please disregard the bad Caroline Dawn Johnson reference to passes by like moments. Dress Rehearsal is the song if you have 4 minutes that you aren’t worried about getting back ever. Don’t worry it didn’t make the cut. Although Jessie Farrell did somehow with when it’s dark, .. out. I got nothing. Sometimes it happens for a reason you may or may not know.
So traditionally, 7 year anniversary gifts,… copper, wool, brass,… really? Must be true I read it on Google. And really, staying with our own theme, there’s nothing traditional about us. And since we’re going with non traditional, today we are releasing our Anniversary CD on this 7th year, where strangely coincidentally, our November 16th anniversary falls in 2016, taking us back to numbers and stupidstitions. Which goes back to anyone who might look back and wonder why we had our wedding on a Monday.
And, since it is 2016, and as Nick Wilde puts it “Who still buys CDs?” here’s the download link to what we call our 7th Anniversary OST. For anyone that would like a copy of the CD they are available on request 😆 Each limited edition CD comes with a complimentary lifetime subscription to 24/7 Kiyo.
And as an aside . . . those of you who were there, might remember we had two wedding CDs partly because we couldn’t agree on music. Now, seven years later, we’ve been able to combine ourselves into one playlist :). How far we’ve come! Oh and for those of you who are wondering, OST means “Original Sound Track” because after all, our life is like a directors cut extended edition movie with additional footage and built in special features and bonus content.
Thank you to everyone joining us on our anniversary! And for being here to hear me Thinking Out Loud.