Q&complAints #106 : Currently Thinking About

What are you thinking about right now?

Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! But if you don’t write anything, I’ll have to assume you just aren’t thinking anything at all.

What are you thinking about right now?

I’m thinking about the same thing right now as I have been daily for more than 12 years. Person—not thing. It was on August 7, 2009 that Phoebe and I married. Would you look at that—today’s August 7^th. I’ve never understood that classic troupe of a husband forgetting his anniversary. Just get it tattooed on your body if it’s that difficult to remember! Every time I hear the term anniversary, I think about that special type of person who would say, “Today’s our 12-year anniversary.” Might as well go full redundant and declare,

“Right now, today, my wife and I, we’ve been married as a wedded couple for a dozen years, celebrating our 12-year anniversary.”

Anni- derives from annus, meaning year. The same annus that gives us annual: “of, for, or pertaining to a year.” So there’s no need to include year anywhere near a sentence containing anniversary. And don’t get me started on the absolute absurdity of young lovebirds who celebrate their “3-month anniversary” of “going steady.” They could legitimately call it a “quarter-anniversary,” without drawing my ire. I’m done contemplating love lives of teenagers—too busy thinking about Phoebe.