Time moves...

This week I celebrated my 24th year with Apple. In the midst of the congratulations, well wishes and even jokes, I found myself remembering things from the past and how much technology has improved and grown during my career. One coworker even said to me, "wow, you joined the company before I was even born." Well don't imagine she will even know what this stuff is. So here is a brief stroll down memory lane.

My first go into "technology" was an Underwood typewriter in the 6th grade like this one.

Celebrating a milestone...

We recently attended a dinner in honor of my husband's 25th anniversary with Lockheed Martin. It was fun getting all dressed up for a night on the town. The food was good, the company at our table was wonderful, and the dancing was phenomenal. The night had a Paris theme complete with the Moulin Rouge and Eiffel Tower. Love the commemorative wine glasses and Murano glass winestopper we received.

The celebration continued...

On Saturday, July 16th we had a group of friends over to the house to celebrate our anniversary. My daughter who served as our hostess did a phenomenal job with the food, appetizers, decorations, cake, etc. We had so much fun and we're to happy to have shared this milestone with our family and friends.

Weekly update

As I mentioned earlier, Patrick and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this week. On Wednesday we took the day off from work to spend the day in San Francisco, which is where we went on our first date. We started at Ghirardelli Square and walked all the way down to Pier 39 casually walking through the shops, people watching, and taking photographs.

Around 4:15 p.m. or so we started our walk back towards our car in hopes of avoiding the commute traffic and working our way across town to our favorite pizza place. We come around the corner on Bay Street to find all cars were gone...including ours! Turns out we could NOT park there after 4PM and our car was towed. We then had to walk back the way we came to a hotel on Van Ness to find a taxi cab to take us to the impound lot. I don't think I said a word from the moment I discovered my car missing till I had to pay the fine to retrieve my car. Can't say our time in SF was priceless since it cost us, $20 to get across town in a cab and $392.75 to get my car back. I so wanted to just come home but hubby insisted we keep on our celebration so off we went to have our pizza.

The next morning as I was getting into my car I noticed there was something under the windshield wipers...oh yes, a parking ticket!! $75 for parking after 4PM! LOL!!!! Yes, I can laugh about it now. Lesson learned!! BE CAREFUL where you park in the city and read ALL SIGNS posted!

20 years!

Our official anniversary portrait.

Our Anniversary

This year Patrick and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary. So I thought I'd share a few photos of our years together. We met on July 6, 1990 and married exactly one year later.

Happy Anniversary!

This weekend Patrick and I will be celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary. It's actually what we call a "double-anniversary" since we went on our first date on July 6, 1990 and married exactly a year later. It's been an incredible 19 years and I pray we have many many more happy ones together. I dug into some old albums and find these.