{"id":43348,"date":"2019-07-22T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43348"},"modified":"2019-07-23T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T19:04:44","slug":"happy-18th-wedding-anniversary-mrb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/happy-18th-wedding-anniversary-mrb\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 18th Wedding Anniversary, MrB!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MrB and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today &#8212; not to be confused with a date-a-versary. In February 2018, I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/throwback-thursday-partying-like-its-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20th date-a-versary post<\/a> and a few people have been befuddled by the number of years ever since. Sorry, y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_43349\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/what-wendy-wore-ten-years-ago-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43349\" class=\"wp-image-43349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/weddingcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/weddingcake.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/weddingcake-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/weddingcake-300x311.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">July 22, 2001, with our special cake from baker Ron Ben-Israel.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/throwback-thursday-partying-like-its-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I haven&#8217;t been able to find the rejection letter that I sent MrB as he was attempting to woo me in 1998<\/a>, I recently found this 1996 response to a Christmas card I sent him.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wsjletter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wsjletter.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wsjletter-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wsjletter-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wsjletter-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At the time, MrB was the managing editor at the Wall Street Journal. I had left my far lower-level job at the WSJ in the summer of 1995 for a job at CNN where I wound up working for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/confession-i-worked-for-birther-lou-dobbs\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deplorable Lou Dobbs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendyBrandes\/status\/1153353732643610628?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For reasons that I got into in a Twitter thread today<\/a>, MrB was the only WSJ executive who I felt could be a good future job reference for me, and I dutifully sent him a holiday card each year. I would deliberately time the card so he&#8217;d get it on the last possible business day before Christmas, so that he &#8212; being a nice guy &#8212; would have to respond during the holiday week (look at the date on the note). What can I say? I left the Journal with bad feelings and I enjoyed this teeny-weeny passive-aggressive act. I didn&#8217;t expect him to notice; it was like an in-joke with myself.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/3o6vXTScYiK4ITgq0E\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/bigbrotherafterdark-big-brother-bbad-3o6vXTScYiK4ITgq0E\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I certainly didn&#8217;t predict that those cards would lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/throwback-thursday-partying-like-its-1998\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dating in 1998<\/a> and a wedding in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/what-wendy-wore-ten-years-ago-today\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aisle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"553\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aisle.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aisle-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aisle-300x333.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A lot of WSJ people attended the wedding, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendyBrandes\/status\/1153357664124096512?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the guy who gave me one of the worst performance reviews of all time<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/kanye-interrupts-imma-let-you-finish\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OF ALL TIME!<\/a> He wished us well, of course. To think I was entertained by the petty holiday-card timing thing! If the Oracle of Delphi had sworn that the guy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendyBrandes\/status\/1153357664124096512?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who wrote this about me<\/a> would someday be congratulating me on my marriage to his boss, I would have been like, &#8220;Damn, oracles aren&#8217;t what they used to be!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I guess my relationship advice is that holiday cards are better sent late-ish than never. Nah, actually, my best advice is to give extra consideration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/loyalty-and-devotion\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">people who are kind to pets<\/a>, like MrB is.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43365\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dogs-at-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dogs-at-wedding.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dogs-at-wedding-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My parents&#8217; rescue Peke Molly is the black dog. My dog, Mr. Chubbs, is on the right.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Animal guests always add a lot of cuteness to a wedding.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: A part of my six-page rebuttal to the worst performance review OF ALL TIME is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendyBrandes\/status\/1153358488564879362?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MrB and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today &#8212; not to be confused with a date-a-versary. In February 2018, I wrote a 20th date-a-versary post and a few people have been befuddled by the number of years ever since. Sorry, y&#8217;all! 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