Weddings, memories and a giant weed

We went to a wedding yesterday and had a good time as Christine got to see some high school friends and classmates she hasn't seen in years. This morning, Christine mentioned that it has been some time since we've attended a wedding - June 24, 2006, to be exact.

I was able to determine the precise date because I remember listening to a SoxandPhils Saturday afternoon game as we drove up to North Jersey. Curt Schilling struck out 10 in six innings, but Manny Delcarmen blew his 3-2 lead. David Ortiz ended the game with a two-run homer in the 10th off Tom Gordon. Brett Myers started for the Phillies. He struggled in the game, but had a worse day off the field.

When Brett Myers made his debut on July 24, 2002, we were honeymooning in Niagara Falls. The next year, we took a nicer honeymoon in Hawaii. We bought a little souvenir - a little twig that was supposed to grow into a hibiscus. It grew, and grew, and grew. It never bloomed until last year when we finally planted it outside. Sadly, those were its only blooms. It did not survive this miserable winter. I had to throw it out today as I did the yard work I usually do on Saturdays, but had to postpone a day because of the wedding. Farewell, Hawaii, we'll miss you.

On the plus side, I did not fall off any ladders this weekend, but I bought that taller one.

You might have noticed I didn't write about today's games. What's to say? The Red Sox are off to their worst start since 1996 after dropping their third straight to the Rays, 7-1, and on a day that Cole Hamels channeled his 2008 mojo against the Marlins, the Phillies offense continued to channel the 1996 Phillies offense's mojo.

Finally

Christine and I have joked for quite a while that Jimmy Rollins has been with Johari Smith a little too long for her to be just a girlfriend. We were starting to wonder about J-Roll.

But then we read a gossip item that he's planning a wedding.

That leads credence to our jokes that he promised her a ring after the Phillies won a World Series. I guess she wouldn't go for the "I meant when the USA wins a World Baseball Classic" bit.

Funny, the other day I was watching more of David Cone's 1991 19-strikeout game against the Phillies. The announcers brought up the Braves, and they mentioned some woman in Atlanta who was very happy because her beau promised to get engaged when the Braves won a pennant. He never saw that year coming.

Back to J-Roll and the future Mrs. J-Roll - congratulations and all, but you've been together quite a while, long enough to do a spread together in Playboy - so why wait until January?

I know the season is about to start, but it took Christine and I five months from proposal to wedding, including buying and moving in to a condo. After all this time, I guess Johari doesn't mind waiting another year.