in a nut (caramel and nougat) shell

our 5th year anniversary this weekend (it's a hard matter to call exactly, this technical matter of our anniversary falling on the 15th or the 16th. since this was the year when the dates all lined up as they were in 2003, we made it the weekend.)

nica, those are the hairsticks you gave me there on my head. not that you can really see them.

( surprisingly indulgent anniversary weekend update, behind the cut )