On a dark dreary drizzly Friday night on the day after Thanksgiving 23 years ago at Saint Patrick’s Church in Norristown I married Danielle Romano (aka Avalon). It’s been 23 wonderful years. We’ve raised three great kids and had a lot of fun along the way. We’ve been lucky to have our families close by and we’ll be seeing them a lot over the next month. We met at the Jersey Shore and we still have a great time whenever we go down to Wildwood.
I’m looking forward to the next 23 years. It only gets better.
This was our wedding song, back when I had more hair and less weight. We danced to it a few weeks ago at my niece’s wedding.
It’s cheering to read about a happy, enduring marriage. So many people just can’t get it right. But if you can, it’s one of the most satisfying relationships in the world.
May you two be together and be happy for the rest of your lives.
Thanks for sharing the joy (and picture) with us. Congratulations.
Admin,
What was Avalon 12? Happy anniversary, me and my missus just had our 23rd on November 3, weird we were married the same month, the same year good thing I was born in 62′ not 63′. Best wishes and prayers for you and your family.
Bob.
I was tearing up so I could not spell my name right. No really, you can trust me. I’m not like the others.
Bob.
Congrats, you’re both very lucky. You got to stay topside on the whole marriage thing, and you’re obviously very happy.
As I prepare for my once-a-week day with my children, and as 1/3 of my income goes to my ex-wife as a reward for her running off with her now third husband, I’m glad you’re happy. 50% of us men folk get screwed to the wall by the whole marriage thing.
Best wishes on many more happy returns ..
May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow few as your blessings increase.
May the saddest day of your future
Be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
May your hands be forever clasped in friendship
And your hearts joined forever in love.
Your lives are very special,
God has touched you in many ways.
May his blessings rest upon you
And fill all your coming days.
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EF
A role model in more ways than one. Thank you for your leadership. Congratulations on being so alive.
It is painfully OBVIOUS that Admin PHOTOSHOPPED a hot blonde as his supposed wife.
The shadow on that table looks like my … oh, nevermind.
Happy Anniversary
Congratulations – the hard part is almost done – the sugar and cream comes next!
@AWD: No wonder you’re a grumpy old man…. My sweetie told me 55 years ago (two years into an oh-so-sweet marriage) , “It’s cheaper to keep her!” and I believed her. Next June will be 57 years and I love her more today than the day I married her.
It’s never easy or simple to stay committed to one person for that many years. Each person has to give a little more than they get – and if you think that statement is an oxymoron, you’re wrong. Learn how to say, “I’m sorry!”, first – and mean it. Never take an argument under the covers and the older one gets, the more important it is for kisses, hugs, snuggles and caresses to happen – anywhere, anytime and anyhow.
So, to you, Jim and you, Danielle may the next 23 be even better than the first.
When the last kid is out of the house, then you two can get down the “us” time of life where you start adventuring, traveling and like Annette and I have done, do a minimum of one absolutely new thing every year. And then just do it. When you get to be toward the 65-68 year age mark, your bodies will start to fail you (no matter how hard you try to fend it off) and energies lag behind “want to do” —– so do not fail to use the years between kids out of your hair and advancing age to sail to Tahiti, climb a small mountain or two, love and laugh outrageously and do one absolutely new thing that you’ve never done every year – and sometimes do two new things..
It will provide you both with things to talk and laugh about and share forever more and you will never regret it. Take it from two people who have done it and regret not one minute of it. Take a job overseas in the neatest or most fascinating place you can find. Screw security, you’ll either get it or not, so instead go where the wind blows —– combine big bucks with it if you can —- but that’s secondary.. Do new things every chance you can and at every fork of the road, take the path less traveled because that will expose you to more opportunities, neat things to go and see and do and you will both love it.
My very best wishes to you both and may you both and your kids enjoy the best of health and happiness in the years to come..
Your friend..
Old Muck
Admin looks Chinese (three Chins)
How’d he land such a hottie?
AWD
BM
AWD
Do you have Aspergers?
What are you trying to say? I’m a social retard?
My ex-wife might agree with you
Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger disorder (AD) or simply Asperger’s, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and atypical (peculiar, odd) use of language are frequently reported.
Admin, I admire and envy you for many things. I was married in 1990. Now I am divorced and you are not. I never had the opportunity to raise my kids. I never liked my inlaws. I don’t even like my sister and my parents have been dead for years. I hate the holidays. Thanksgiving is just another day to me.
You are very fortunate. Happy Anniversary. Tonight I will drink for you!
Congratulations You Two!!!!
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Z find a nice Jewish girl and settle down. It’s a great life if you do weaken.
Damn auto correct, if you do not weaken
Sensetti, You might be on to something. One day I might be able to celebrate the death of Israel by banging a Jew.
Lol
As long as you don’t convert.
Sensetti,
Thanks for the laugh on the Zara advise, needed that today. Jim and Avalon’s great fortune today brings me only a tug on my heart as I miss my wife.
EF
efarmer
I still have the picture you sent me of you, your wife and kids on my desk in my downstairs office. I’m sure the pain of losing her never goes away.
BTW Jim, my bucket list includes sipping wine with you and Avalon. Or bourbon or whatever.
EF
efarmer
Maybe we’ll get a chance to sip wine when we show up at your farmstead looking for jobs after the SHTF and commuting through West Philly becomes like the Hunger Games.
Congrats on your anniversary. May you enjoy a lifetime together. Now that you posted a clear picture i will be watching for you wherever i go. If i am fortunate to spot you, it would be my honor to spoil you and your lovely wife for an evening of food and drink..
Enjoy your day and give Avalon an extra hug from me.
EF
Congratulations admin and avalon! My wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary this year. Like Muck said and you know, it’s all about give and take. As long as you are heavier on the give than the take, it works out fine.
I_S
nice admin. congratulations.
Congrats admin. Im sure Avalon will be just as years from now as she walks beside your cruise ship rascal. =)
Congrats admin. Im sure Avalon will be just as striking years from now as she walks beside your cruise ship rascal. =)
AWD says:
“Admin looks Chinese (three Chins)
How’d he land such a hottie?”
Clearly Avalon is a sapiophile.
That damn Stucky has had me vexed all day, wondering if I’m really afflicted with Asperger’s. I think so. Does that mean I can’t make comments anymore? Oh Stucky, your wit cuts to the bone. Or maybe I’m just a selfish prick that makes obnoxious jokes at other’s expense.
Admin’s a good man, a leader, and as I’ve said, he’s like a professor around here, and chief shit-stirrer. I’m glad for the blog, and his sharing his stories with us. I enjoy his perspective and attitude. There aren’t so many good men left, my hat’s off to him.
Had to look that one up, Z, for the less learned:
1. Sapiophile
Sapiophile (noun) means someone who is sexually attracted to intelligent people
Monica (or Avalon) is a sapiophile, she gets turned on by intelligent men and cannot resist to end up having sex with them
May the dance continue.
You guys are a rarity in these times.
A real inspiration.
Well fuck, I have sent a physician to his dictionary. My job for today is done.
Congrats on your anniversary! My lovely bride and I celebrate our 2nd on Monday and like y’all we got married the day after thanksgiving too!
God bless , my grandparents were married for 58years.
Happy anniversary!
Best wishes, Jim and Danielle.
(Jim, you just got lucky boy. That’s all I can say. God has a soft spot for INTJ’s.
This marriage’s success is easy to figure out. Two intelligent people, one a hot-tempered, chunky (heh) Irishman and the other a pretty, feisty Italian, got married. What could possibly go wrong? The Irishman and Italian CLEARLY never had a moment of friction and lived happily ever after. Am I right?
Happy Anniversary, you two.
Happy Anniversary. You have been married about the same number of years as me. My wife says it is about 175 dog-years.
A belated congrats on 23 years married, Jim… and three kids… two older girls? and a boy still at Penn State?
The pix of you and your wife says a lot. Despite all your pissing, moaning and blogging about “the sky is falling” and long commutes, you look like a guy who’s satified with himself and his lifestyle. Maybe your wife has a lot to do with that. She’s leaning towards you in the photo, she has her hand on your shoulder – pretty good for you, I say, for a woman married 23 years – and she, too, looks comfortable with herself and you, her husband.
If you have your families close by, your luckier still.
Thanks for all the nice anniversary wishes! I’m the lucky one 🙂
Congratulations Jim and Avalon – as God made ’em he matched ’em!