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[driftsintobuffetline]

At what point have you acquired too many "anniversaries"? When does applying significance to days become excessive? Or can you, through the course of years spent with someone, end up with 365 days of milestones--and that's okay?

Because 365 days of anniversaries kind of sounds like a life-goal, if you're asking me.
(Excuse me, 366...because leap year)

Like, there's absolutely nothing stopping me from deciding that the first day they let me borrow their pen is not somewhat important. I mean, there's a "Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day" somewhere, so. Everyone's got one, right? At least one? A day that is significant for a relatively ridiculous sounding reason, but it's not ridiculous because it means something?

Back me up here, guys.

Anyway.

I'm not getting sentimental. I'm not. I'm really not.

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[dendarii]

Never. I adore anniversaries.

[driftsintobuffetline]

[yay! Miles approves!]

Of course YOU do. You’re a sentimental nerd. |:

[dendarii]

You knew that from the start, my dear friend.

But I quite like the idea of an anniversary for every day of the year.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Sadly, I did. You sap.

It is kinda nice, huh. Kind of a reminder that every day is significant, not just the big major obvious ones, and you realize how embedded in your life some people are.

[dendarii]

Just so. It means you're intertwined. Quite romantic. Does your husband not see it that way?

[driftsintobuffetline]

I didn’t ask him because it’s stupid.

[dendarii]

He thinks it's stupid?

[driftsintobuffetline]

I think he’ll think it’s illogical and ridiculous and I don’t want him to think I’m stupid.

[dendarii]

He... probably will think you are stupid, alas. Knowing him.

Fondly, perhaps.

[driftsintobuffetline]

oh, I feel so much better.

[dendarii]

But the fondness is important too, yes?

[driftsintobuffetline]

Welllllll The fondness is the only reason he can get away with looking at me like I'm stupid.

[dendarii]

It could be part of the charm?

[ No, he gets it. He’d rather not be looked at like he’s stupid either. ]

Perhaps there’s something else sentimental you could both enjoy..

[driftsintobuffetline]

I will admit that that face has a certain charm to it while irritated with me.

I'm sure there is but I’m trying to keep this post G rated.

[dendarii]

[ Oh, Newt. Offscreen, Miles stifles a chuckle. ]

Well. In that case. Take solace in having that.

[microbrobotics]

who the heck puts a pillow in their fridge
thats my question

[driftsintobuffetline]

On, not in. Though supposedly, I mean, idk, but I GUESS for turn-of-the-century Europeans/Americans it was supposed to be good fortune and bring abundant food/fertility to put a piece of a blanket or something bedroomy in your pantry.

And I guess modern hipsters thought they'd update it with a pillow on the top of the fridge.

BUT IDK

A chilled pillow in summer might not be a bad idea.

[microbrobotics]

what

that's so weird

wtf does a blanket have to do with fertility

[driftsintobuffetline]

Biologically, nothing.

[microbrobotics]

right exactly
i dont even get it as like a metaphor tho
its a BLANKET

[driftsintobuffetline]

And where do blankets go?

[microbrobotics]

............

ok i guess i get that but a) thats a stretch and b) gross

[driftsintobuffetline]

Pretty sure fertility goddesses were usually associated with both harvest and parenthood, but as for blankets and stuff, I don’t pretend to understand cultural anthropology and whatever this falls under.

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[kanyounot]

After a certain point, you might start to lose track of the actual dates of things. Or at least, I did. Probably doesn't help that we traveled around so much, the day-night cycle is pretty meaningless in space and when you're on a new planet every other week.

But you never forget the important stuff.

[driftsintobuffetline]

True. Though I'm with a methodical, anal detail-oriented mathematical nerd. I'm pretty sure there's a nice dayplanner around here with a million notes keeping track of this shit so I don't have to. But that said, if a few dates here and there slide, I can deal. I don't expect details to last as well as the impressions.

What do you weigh as most important?

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY How'd you managed a planet a week? What kind of fuel and engines are you using, because last quoted estimate I heard was something like 130-260 days to our nearest worthwhile planetary friend. Are you traveling intra-system or between star-systems?

[kanyounot]

A day planner might work.

The most important moments... the first time we kissed. Oh, and the first time we outflew a squad of TIE fighters.

We travel between systems via hyperspace.

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[driftsintobuffetline]

Hyperspace. Okay. So. I live with a theoretical physicist with a boner for space travel..,you wouldn’t happen to be versed enough on how that works to talk nerdy with him, would you? Because this sounds killer. And I’m always looking for brownie points.

I mean, I respect the “I only drive the ship, I don’t know how this works” thing, but if you are willing to talk shop...

no probs

[kanyounot]

[ Kanan can't say he knows exactly what "brownie points" are, but he thinks he can understand the general concept. ]

I only know the basics, I'm not really an engineer, I'm afraid. Hera would probably be better at it than me - green skin, head-tails. She's a pilot but she modified her own ship quite a bit.

[vanto]

You should do what makes you both happy, if you want 366 days of anniversaries, why not? Being here has its advantages and not everyone who is here has this chance back home — to be with the people they love, I mean.

So do it.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Oh, I'm not asking for approval. I'm doing it. We are--without a doubt--doing what makes us both happy, or what makes ME happy in this case because I don't really care if he wants to play the one-a-day calendar of anniversaries with me. I'm doing it.

I'm so doing it.

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[knaval]

how do u have the energy to celebrate something every year?

[driftsintobuffetline]

Uh--Because it's worth celebrating.

[knaval]

but

EVERY year?

[driftsintobuffetline]

What? You don't do birthdays?

[knaval]

no
i knew humans had stuff like this but not yearly...

[driftsintobuffetline]

Yearly. Every year.
Every. Year.
Hence “anniversary”: from Latin annus versus “returning yearly.”

You want to do a birthday? Sounds like you’re overdue for a few.

[knaval]

whys it mean early if youre oding it the same day? i dont get it

um yeah almost four million

[tropism]

... it's difficult to put in perspective, but 365/366 isn't really a lot of time.

And I don't know, all of that seems sentimental to me. At the same time, why should that matter?

[driftsintobuffetline]

It doesn't. I just wanted opinions so I could go "I don't care, doing it anyway."

365 days is less than a tenth of the time I've known him--it's hardly any time at all. But that said, each day can count as a marker for something that has happened at any time during that decade+. In any order. In that way, every day serves as a different kind of reminder of how far we've come.

It's really sort of logical, I guess. Instead of one day being a major milestone--a wedding anniversary, a first date, whatever--each day is something. A year-round reminder, I guess?

Wow, that sounds lame. I'm deleting this comment.

[He's not.]

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[am_i_a_monster]

I've had days that felt significant since I came here. Not relationship stuff, but first job and things like that. It's good to see all the amazing things here and be happy for them. It can help me get through the not-amazing stuff too. So I agree - it's not ridiculous if it's meaningful.