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Yes. It is quite common not to mention a lot of fun.

Local Greek restaurant used to do it on a regular basis...along with dancing, was fun. Sadly it’s shuttered its doors

Was at a steakhouse (owned by a Greek family) one New Years Eve. At midnight, plates were smashed on the floor. Opa!

I saw the name Kris Evans and my first thought was the now retired Belami model.

I have.
 
It’s great fun.
 
Of course it helps if you’re on a remote island in Greece and
they’re playing traditional Greek dancing music....and you’re
stuffed from some crazy lamb dish and drunk as a skunk off Ouzo.

We celebrate the day we met, because it was also the day that we decided to live together for the rest of our lives. He never can remember our wedding anniversary, which was almost 45 years later.

We celebrate the day we met and spent the night together.

I didn't remember the name of the hair salon.
 
It was nice to catch up on all the gossip with the two ladies. They knew me but I didn't recognize them. But that's how it usually is.

We met and spent our first night together on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. So the Sunday after Thanksgiving is it. We never celebrate our actual wedding anniversary.

We met on World Aids Day...moved in to a house we bought in May 15 1992....So we celebrate May 15...Never ever had a disagreement...Really!...We are both easy going..I travel a lot..and both very very frugal (cheap)...

We always celebrated the anniversaries of our first date and our wedding.

Love it.
 
But don't use green grapes! They're so bland when they're green. Wait until they're amber and they are sweet.

Which one? The day I met @Robster online, the day I moved out here to be with him which is also our wedding day in Canada years later or the California marriage we did in the window between the time the CA Supreme Ct. struck down the ban and before Prop 8 passed.

She falls into the Abe Vigoda 'He/She was still alive?!?' category that you'd have thought died a long time before. Doris Day is that category for me now. Every once in awhile there's a headline about her & I find myself surprised that she's still alive.
 

Wilson Menashi palmed a squid in his left hand and extended his arm into an aquarium tank, watching as a giant Pacific octopus stretched out arms to greet him like a friend.
 
Freya latched some of her 2,240 suction cups onto Menashi’s arm, using their powers of taste and smell to gather information about the 84-year-old man known as the octopus whisperer — and the seafood treats he was bearing.
 
“She’s just contacting me and she’s saying, ‘You come to me,’” Menashi said of Freya, a 3-year-old predator weighing 35 to 40 pounds. Her arms span 14 feet and pack enough strength to kill sharks and other enemies.
 
But this afternoon’s gentle interaction left no doubt that Menashi has a special way with the cephalopod, whose body includes a large, sac-like head and eight powerful arms.
 
More than 25 years ago, Menashi retired after a career as a chemical engineer and began volunteering at the New England Aquarium in Boston. He’s spent 7,800 hours — the equivalent of about four years working full time — hanging out with octopuses, the aquarium said.
 
“I’ve been able to interact with them from the beginning. I do not know why. I cannot explain it, but I can connect with them,” Menashi said, standing in front of the Olympic Coast Sanctuary exhibit that is home to Freya and Professor Ludwig Von Drake, a younger male giant Pacific octopus living in a separate tank.
 
Menashi’s eyes twinkled with mischief as he acknowledged that his encounters with the octopuses have left a mark on him.
 
“I will come back home sometimes with hickeys all over my arm and my neck,” he said.
 
So how did he explain them to his wife?
 
“Not too difficult when you have about 10 or 15 marks next to each other,” he said. “It did not take too much. She also knew where I was, anyway.”
 
Menashi’s volunteer work has included designing puzzle boxes for the octopuses as well as rubbing their backs and wrestling their arms — all intended to ensure that the highly intelligent animals receive the mental stimulation to thrive and stay healthy.
 
Two decades of working with the largest members of the octopus species has not dulled his sense of wonder at the animal’s adaptability and mysteries.
 
Experiments have shown these animals to be color blind, but they are supreme masters of camouflage. A complex system of pigment cells, nerves and muscles allows them to change skin color in the blink of an eye to match their surroundings.
 
“What I find totally surprising is how they could tell different people and react differently,” Menashi said.
 
“I’ve also made them a few toys, made up some boxes and…I put different latches so they could get in and figure out how to get the food that I put in the boxes. However, I’ve had some that said, ‘It’s too much time to figure out how you do the latch.’ So they just crushed the box.”
 
That eye for detail, patience and willingness to experiment makes Menashi a perfect octopus whisperer, said Bill Murphy, a senior aquarist.
 
“Every octopus is different. So then you can’t use the same rules for every octopus,” Murphy said. “You need to change it up. And Wilson does that.”
 
Menashi said spending time with octopuses and other animals gives his life a whole new purpose in retirement.
 
“Just being here has been, to me, a lifesaver,” he said.
 
“Gave me something to do. Gave me different interests and showed me the world is a wonderful place to be.”

The day we got married

Why did you never visit Rome or England? London is only a six hour flight from the east coast. I did not visit Rome until 2006. But, my first time in Italy was 1973, but just San Remo near Monaco.

True! I have never been anywhere. I have an idealized picture of what Rome, England etc. should be. If I were ever there I'd be disappointed. Now it's too late to visit. All I have is the fantasy.

I’ve been away from the forums for a bit; glad I was able to find my favorite thread quickly.
 
Congrats @BasketBaller - glad it went so well for you!
 
My boyfriend met my children, my in-laws, my parents, and my siblings & nephews last year. Now I am out to all of them. And I met his mother at Christmas. So I know it can be nerve-wracking.

We celebrate both. We went on our first date on Columbus Day of 1992. We always go out to dinner on or around Columbus day. We got married on December 29. We usually go way for a couple days to celebrate that.

Perphas you just have a romantically, outsized view of Rome.

Kaye Ballard was a treasure. I remember watching the Mothers-in-Law growing up because my Mom was such a fan of Arden and Ballard. Many fond memories and such a talent.

RIP
 
I fondly remember that show!
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothers-in-Law

RIP
 
I fondly remember that show!
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothers-in-Law

I’m SO glad you got the haircut, because I was starting to get an image like this in my mind: