Christmas Letter 2000
Copyright © 2000, By Odell Sneeden Hathaway III
Dear Friends,
I’m very sorry that I was so busy with planning the wedding and everything that I didn’t manage to get my Christmas letter mailed until January—but I don’t want to lose touch with you, so here goes.
Well, another millennium is almost over, and somehow we’ve managed to survive a year of Y2K, global warming, Survivor, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, politics, and Chad. Another thousand years draws to a close, and we stop to look back all the way to the birth of a small child just two millennia ago. As the year and millennium close, I find myself looking back and wanting to share some of it with the people I consider my friends.
As last year was ending and we were all facing the supposed end of the world due to Y2K, I wrote to you about a wonderful woman named Linda and how I was in love with her. But the fact that she lived ninety miles away made things difficult—and, let’s face it, we’re two very different people. Well, not long after the New Year, Linda and I decided things just couldn’t work out between us, so we broke up.
But in March, we both noticed something: we were still spending all our free time together. So what’s the point of being broken up if you’re still together all the time? We decided to give it another go—or, more honestly, to admit that something was happening between us that neither of us could control. Shortly after getting back together, I decided to end the problem of distance and asked Linda to move in with me. She did. It’s wonderful having her here—someone to share my daily life with. It’s also hard sometimes, but the good far outweighs the bad.
After she moved in, Linda got a job at Southwest Washington Medical Center, very close to our house in Vancouver. In August, I asked her to marry me, and she said yes! We’re planning a wedding in 2001. We had hoped to be married on June 30th—two years from the day we met—but other commitments have made us move it to August 4, 2001, here in Vancouver. Invitations will go out in May or June. In the meantime, we’re planning the wedding and honeymoon, looking forward to our life together, and, hopefully soon, starting a family. I’m planning to create a wedding homepage but have been too busy to start.
When I do, the address will be posted here!
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
I’m not sure I have much of a life outside what I’ve already said. Linda and I joined a gym and work out several times a week. We swim. It’s been thrilling lately to go swimming when the temperature outside is below freezing—the pool is a wonderful 25-meter, waveless indoor pool.
I’d love to tell you about all the wonderful things I did this year—and I have—but they all center around Linda.
In any case, I do hope that each of you is living a wonderful life and that you’re healthy and happy.
So, as Tiny Tim said: “God bless us, every one!”
Love,
Odell
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