Seriously, wait until you hit 40. And then 41. It super-sucks. One day last week, I forgot to put on antiperspirant. WTF is THAT about?

Since we are veil-bragging... here is my veil, having been picked up by the wind as we descended from the top deck of the boat on which we were married to the reception below. One of my all-time fave pictures from our wedding!

I don’t have an engagement ring at all because we decided we had better things to spend thousands of dollars on, like moving in together, furniture, food, travel, etc. Rather, I have a wedding band that gets scads of spontaneous compliments (white and yellow gold with a beautiful engraved design) and - bonus! - a…