Finally, a prince

I am an extremely lucky woman to have found the one thing I never thought would come my way - a wonderful, loving husband. I've kissed a lot of frogs in my time, including:

• The boyfriend who would booty call me at 10 p.m. on a school night, then have me make him pasta with Tabasco sauce.
• The not-very-serious boyfriend who made snide fun of me for having a subscription to US Magazine rather than, say, the New Yorker or something, then took a copy of it up to the bathroom with him while he took care of business.
• The boyfriend who told me he loved me one day and then broke up with me the very next day.
• The boyfriend who left me a sinkful of dirty dishes to come home to after taking care of my cats while I was on a business trip.
• The boyfriend who blogged about me in alarming detail after a night together, whilst dating a half a dozen other women simultaneously, then posted an open letter to me on his blog, requesting that I cease to read it (that's why there's password protection, genius. Also, you spelled the title of your blog incorrectly {snicker}).
• The boyfriend who participated in a live-action role-playing game in which he was a vampire.
• The boyfriend who had RAGE tattooed across his midsection in Gothic script (that one didn't last long, thankfully).
• The boyfriend who didn't have a checking account until I took him by the hand to the bank and made him open one.
• The boyfriend who wouldn't use the word goodbye, because it was "too cliche."
• The boyfriend who bought me an expensive boombox after I found his cache of sexually-explicit letters from his good friend's wife ("Nothing happened! I swear!").

As of Saturday, I have been married for a year, and Booby showered me with love and affection in the following forms:

• wedding cake and sparkling apple cider for breakfast in bed (a non-alcoholic beverage early in the morning is the best bet, especially if you're me and have recently suffered from the annual bout of drinking-to-excess-itis, or, the Oh, You Damn Fool, Don't You Know Five Drinks Is Too Many?! Flu).
• a very cool clock radio with a dock for either my iPod or his iPod Shuffle, which also allows the iPod to be charged as it's docked.
• a trip to see the Andrew Wyeth exhibit at PMA.
• breakfast at the Morning Glory after yet another IUI (now with more cramping!).

Baby, me luvs you. Squirrel + Nut 4-EVA.