This week's Ten on Tuesday topic is:

10 Things I'm Happy About Right Now

I'm going to riff on that today because it's our 30th wedding anniversary.
{{{ 30 Years! (?) }}}

30 Things for 30 Years!

1. We met through work -- the company Rusty worked for was a customer of the company I worked for.
2. Our first date was about 3 weeks before my birthday.
3. At the time, I was thinking of moving back to Wisconsin from Oregon.
4. He was interesting enough to reconsider that thought.
5. We went out to dinner at the Lake Lytle Restaurant on our first date and then took a walk on a wide, low-tide beach at Rockaway (memorable because it was beautiful, and also because I wasn't wearing appropriate footwear for beach-walking).
6. He gave me a small jade plant for that birthday. Perfect!
7. We cooked (both together and for each other) and played a lot of Scrabble back in the (early) day(s) at my apartment.
8. And we got hooked on watching Reilly: Ace of Spies on Mystery and had a standing date at his house.
9. When we'd hang out, he'd paint or draw while I knit.
10. I enjoyed sitting out in the sun room/patio watching Rusty build a porch.
11. Then I offered to help.
12. We finished his house at Cape Kiwanda together.
13. And expanded it with an addition.
14. We got married at that house... 30 years ago.
15. The stage was set for many years of home improvement.
16. I'm good at demo.
17. He's good at finishing.
18. We're a pretty good team.
19. There's an 11-year difference in our ages.
20. Rusty never thought he'd have kids.
21. Surprise! We have three amazing daughters!!
22. And we're grandparents too!
23. We've always given each other space.
24. He does his thing.
25. I do my thing.
26. We do our thing.
27. It works -- sometimes better than others. These 30 years have had the highs and the lows.
28. Lately, we seem to be travelling more -- separately and together.
29. We used to take impromptu trips -- just get in the car and go! One memorable trip was to Seaview, WA, though we didn't know that's where we were headed when we started out. We stayed at The Shelburne Inn and loved the whole area so much we went back a time or two.
30. Our upcoming trip to Mexico is the first since we were married that we're not going with someone, or meeting up with anyone -- there's not so much as a "stopping by" to visit anyone we know. From the time we get on the plane in Green Bay until we step back off a week later, it's just us and a new adventure!!