I have two seconds to sneak in this post in between all the celebration, but I'll try not to make this too mushy! 

It's one of those big celebratory years again! Last year was our 5th wedding anniversary, which was a big deal for everyone in the family, whereas this year is our 10th real anniversary!  

Tapi and I met each other when I was 17! A month later, on the day that I turned 18 (today), he gifted me 
   a blue pot that he painted with yellow flowers, 
       a cute red elephant that he uses even now to drive me up the wall! 
          a sketchbook with his sketches of calvin and hobbes, mowgli, baloo and bagheera, 
             a book about France because he couldn't give me the real holiday,
               two striped pajamas for when I think of him at night
                  a purple scented candle, 
                    and a box of ferrero rochers .. 
 
Everyday since (almost actually!!) he has had a surprise for me, like the little contact lens kit he hid in the car yesterday so that I can crash at a friends place after one of those wild nights, or today's masala dosa breakfast! :)  

Tapi and I have never been big on celebrating anniversaries and birthdays. He thinks there is nothing he can do specially on that one day that he doesn't do everyday! I think he should think harder! (I can totally rustle up a laundry list of new things he can do that will make me ecstatic)
 
Last year, I wanted to do one of those sappy posts about Tapi for our fifth anniversary and couldn't bring myself to say anything that would even come close to describing who he is or what he means to me. 

There are some words that I am sure were created with him in mind, like being 
 
sensitive (in the good way, bad way, every way)
nice (in the ramudu manchi baludu (rama is a good boy) way!)
tolerant (in the "you can't be for real" way)
cool (in so so many ways)
funny (in the intentional, unintentional way)
adorable (in the things he does and the things he says way)
loving (in the more-than-necessarily overwhelming way)
melodramatic (in the guilt-tripping on an exponential scale way) and
completely selfless! (in a very admirable way)
 
Come to think of it, there isn't much else I can add to this list! :) But that still doesn't do much to explain the overwhelming love that we have for each other! I feel like I'm a better person everyday just by being married to him! :)
 
But, now I have decided to find real reasons to fight with him and make him look bad for a change!
 
So here's to the third of my life I've spent with him, the last 10 years that we've agreed to agree and the next 10 years where we will disagree for the sake of disagreeing! 

Louse you Toipeepoosxx!

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Aaaaaaw! I can't remember the last time a gift made us this happy! xx
Love you Aru Ananthanarayanan. Dr. Engraver!