sometimes i plan to celebrate the anniversary of certain events and then i realize that i can't remember anniversaries to save my life and when i go check the date it turns out that the anniversary already passed. and since i'm already late, i drag out the celebration until i don't even feel like celebrating anymore. and then i write a blog post about it.

the most recent instance of this is me not remembering that is has been exactly one year (and then some) since i released my first ever book of prosetry. i announced it first here on my blog. you can reread that post for nostalgia reasons here. if you didn't buy the book for whatever reason, you should click that link and read all the reasons that you should buy it. and then go buy it from amazon. i mean, you can get the kindle version for just under three bucks and get the kindle app for free and then you can read it almost instantly.  or you could wait a little longer and pay a little more and get a copy you can hold in your hands. or you could do both. you know, if you really want to.

one of the reviews i got on please listen was that some of the pieces seemed melodramatic. since it's been a year, i'm going to address that comment. i wrote a lot of those prose poems either as a way to work through or a result of getting through stuff. some of that "stuff" was depression-related, and if you know nothing else about depression then know that it is all melodrama. the worst thing is always happening and never ending. (notice that i didn't say "it seems like..." that was intentional.) so yes. a bunch of it is melodramatic and over-the-top and  you know what? i'm totally okay with that.

i haven't read any of the pieces in the book for a while, but some of my favorite things i've ever written are contained within those pages. (i also think i have most of it memorized from the number of times i read through it while putting it together, and yet there are still typos i didn't catch.) though i'll probably always look back and think, "if i only did..." i will also always be proud of please listen. no matter what happens in the future. for more reasons than i can list.

end shameless self-promotion. 

with these things there's no telling, we just have to wait and see, but i'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery

today my marriage turns two years old, and i find that really weird because it feels both too young and too old at the same time. if it were a baby, it would be in one of the cutest stages of its life, but also the most bratty.

to celebrate this momentous occasion, here are a bunch of random facts about two years, marriage, married couples, and other random things that are only vaguely relevant.

• the average person spends around 2 years on the phone in their lifetime. (i'm not sure how much i believe this fact. i mean, my sister will sit on the phone for almost eight hours a day nine months out of the year, which means she's been on the phone for one year about every four years. so unless she dramatically decreases her phone usage, she should fill out her two years any day now.)
  
• 101 dalmatians and peter pan are the only two disney movies that have 2 parents that are around and don't die in the movie. (in peter pan 2, though, the dad is at war and i can't remember if he dies or not. my family and i used to watch peter pan 2 on repeat every summer for my little brothers.)
  
• washington dc has the lowest marriage rate in america. (i'm not sure if i am surprised by this or not. at first i was, but then i tried to think of a state that would have a lower rate and i couldn't think of one so maybe that means that i'm not.)
  
• lions generally only mate once every two years. (from all of the nature documentaries and animal books and shows i have gone through with my brother, i should have learned this before.)
  
• the wife of a married, male millionaire is statistically most likely to be a teacher if employed. (i don't know how they came up with this one or if it has any basis in truth at all, but now that i posted it it will sit in your mind and you'll randomly remember it at parties and tell other people and pretty soon everyone will believe it.)
  
• in america, tv soap opera weddings tend to have more viewers than a presidential address. (this does not surprise me at all. not even a little bit.)
  
• the title for this post is from bright eyes' first day of my life which was the song my husband and i danced our first dance to. (i don't think there will ever be a time that the fact that i played bright eyes, muse, the script, and savage garden at my wedding will not make me happy.)

*First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes