Cheap Shot

It's official. I'm dieting. I found my motivation by challenging friends and family for money. Deep down I think there may be something wrong with that but for now I'm going to call it motivation. You can read about our journey at 30 Before 30. I won't torture you with how miserably hungry I will be in this blog. The tone of this blog may however be directly affected by actions taken in the other. You have been warned.

July 4th was our very first anniversary as a married couple. I can't believe it's been a year already. Brett and I had a 4 day weekend and as the date approached I realized we were not going to be making any plans. Partly because we were trying to save some money and partly because it was 4th of July. Neither one of us enjoy being around large crowds or sitting in traffic and a hotel room anywhere on the 4th doubles in cost. It took a few weeks for me to settle into the idea that we would be spending our first anniversary at home doing absolutely nothing. Now I'm not saying that I settled into this idea willingly however. Every chance possible I made it known that I was not happy about our lack of arrangements. When friends asked about our plans my response was "Absolutely nothing" in a matter-of-fact tone and when they would ask "Really? Are you at least going out to dinner?" I would say "Nope, just staying home" and give some sort of audible harumph. Most of my close friends could pick up on my tone right away and a few even called me out on my 'Debbie Downer' attitude. Brett would usually roll his eyes and change the subject or sometimes leave the room. I made my jabs as often as I could. I was not happy about not doing anything for our anniversary. I didn't blame Brett, I knew it was a decision we had both made but by the time I realized I didn't like our decision I figured it was to late to change our minds. I was pouting.

On the 4th we slept in like any normal lazy day off. At that point we were two days into our long weekend and we were pro's at being lazy. Brett rolled over and pulled my anniversary card out of his night stand and handed it to me. I was extremely surprised that the envelope had my name written across the front. Usually the cards he gives are addressed to some funny nickname he's just made up. Inside the card it said "Ask me what your gift is". He surprised me with a hotel room and dinner reservation in Half Moon Bay. Apparently he had it planned for weeks. I was stoked. We packed our bags, left a note for the dog sitter (thanks Josh!) and we were out of the house around Noon. We stayed at the Oceana and had a fantastic dinner . Due to budget issues, Half Moon Bay canceled their fireworks show so we didn't watch fireworks this year but I can't imagine anything would compare to the show we watched during our wedding last year.

Thanks for a fantastic anniversary Brett! (I promise to cut back on the jabs for next year!)