THEN

1. Start planning for the anniversary from a month ago
2. Buy gift for him & me & tell him to gift it to me.
3. Order his favourite cake.
4. Chill the Champagne. 2 bottles for the eve & the day of the anniversary.
5. Write long letters
6. Do special dinner with flowers & candles to bring in our anniversary. Or
7. book a table at a special restaurant, get them to make it special.
8. Get cake with love you written on it.
9. Chill an expensive champagne, bring out the crystals and clink glasses looking into each other’s eyes
10. On anniversary have a big party.
11. Get a beautiful flowy gown.
12. Bleach face, colour hair, put face mask & dewy make up & get a voluminous blowdry
13. Look sexy for the party
14. Call friends & family who have bought us closer
15. Get one more cake
16. Raise a toast to eachother promising life long love & togetherness. Odes to each other.
17. Get everyone to say nice things about us as a couple
18. Wear sexy lingerie & crash before I hit the bed or land up with my head in the pot puking the cheers out

TODAY-

1. Remember the date only cause someone else reminded you
2. Remind spouse
3. Too late to plan anything
4. No need for cake. Have some half dead Diwali raisins it’s good enough
5. No need to write a to do list for home and kids in a letter
6. Forget dinner. Eat what is cooked
7. Don’t like it eat maggi
8. No need for cake found some ice cream we get for the pups
9. No champagne no crystal. Have beer or gelusil depending on what the intestines choose today
10. House under renovation no need for party
11. Go for someone else’s wedding & together laugh at their folly
12. Bleached face for Tomorrows shoot & someone else’s wedding but face burnt and I look like red brick .
13. Find sari to complement moneys ass coloured face.
14. Meet friends at the cost of someone else’s wedding
15. No cake don’t want diabetes… Oh somebody did sent cakes & flowers, so do hell with diabetes
16. Get covid test done not for safe sex but for shoot tomorrow
17. No gift saving for multiple work related rtpcr tests in the future
18. Raise toast to our survival instincts and resilience and tolerance of each other
19. Thank god for keeping us covid free and all our nonsense and normalcy, for our ups and downs and still being strong and tolerant of each other and our 4 babies that bind us like super glue
20. Try not hitting each other’s head off
21. Await kids zoom call not for the wishes but to see what colour their hair is as of today
22. Roll eyes send copy cut paste broadcast message of thankyou to all who wished us
23. Wear worn out night wear and snore away to glory with 2 fluff babies in between us
24. Put old happy pics (clicked at gun point) for all to see. And a reality check once to remind us of how special each day is in its normalcy
25. Happy 21st anniversary to us