5 Years Ago Today

Five years ago today, Mrs. Undaground and I went on our first date. We had known each other for a year; we met at a Super Bowl Party the year before through a mutual friend. After a few months of her batting her eyelashes at me, I decided to stop playing hard-to-get and asked her to join me for the cinematic classic that is Saving Silverman.

Mrs. Undaground had just read "Mars and Venus on a Date" to prepare for our courtship. In it, the book apparently directs the reader to remain positive at all times. After we walked out of the movie, she did just that. "That was a pretty good movie", she said. Oddly enough, I had not read the same book, so I responded, "Who are you kidding, that movie sucked." That exchange became the solid foundation for our relationship today.

That night I learned that she liked sour-patch kids, but only the red ones; she liked angry woman music, yet she was not a lesbian; and for some strange cosmic reason, she liked me and was at least slightly amused by my general dislike for other people.

Now, five years later, as we walk through life hand in hand (little, porcelain doll hand in large, wookie hand), she is the yin to my yang, the Edith to my Archie, the attractive cat to my French skunk. Happy Dating Anniversary Mrs. Undaground. We'll always have "Saving Silverman".