Our anniversary is coming up (actually it was on March 16th) and we are celebrating with friends and family in California. It took me a year to settle on the idea of having a party and it took also a lot of negotiations about what to do and mainly how many people to invite. I simply don’t need big crowds to celebrate my connection with Rajendra and beside that, big crowds make me extremely nervous when I am in the centre of attention!

We will only do a tiny little celebration in the middle of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. BBQ and cakes from my mother and my sister friend Anja, a pomegranate juice, prosecco with blueberries in the beginning and a little surprise. Everyone is asked to add a page to our Buch Über die Liebe (Love Celebration Book).  It can be a poem, an illustration, a photo or anything else people are  inspired to create when they think of us or the celebration of being together or being on the ocean with dolphins.

Here I want to share a funny RSVP conversation:

Guest:

nice! planning to be there…

Carmen:

NICE!

Does “planning to be there” mean you will be there 🙂 ??

….still trying to understand the bay area language dance around

solid answers …

Great that you come or plan to!

Guest:

You are savvy to ask.

My being there: 82.5% likely. Exceptions would be if I decided to go out of town that weekend, which is unlikely. But I don’t plan very far ahead, so it could happen.

Rajendra said I could bring a date. I hope that’s ok. At the moment, I say there is a 73% chance I would bring a date. But here we are dealing with the whim of a woman, and calculations are complex.

Are you comfortable with these numbers?

 Carmen:

very comfortable Mr. J and curious about the whim of a woman too!

If you need help convincing her, let me know maybe I can help 🙂

Guest:

Update: The Woman, L, is giving us a 85% to be in attendance, together…

Progress.

Carmen:

Very good
Very good
Very good

But still 15% to go…!

Guest:

Well, I slipped a little somethin-somethin into her mimosa this weekend and now apparently she puts our odds at 99.5% that we will be in attendance this Sunday.

Carmen:

I think this is the best rsvp conversation I ever had!

Miss L and Mister J – great name combo too 🙂