news flash: real life is not like the movies.

five years ago, mike and i broke up. well, sort of. he was moving to illinois, i was going to calvin, our previous history indicated our relationship wasn't going to be able to handle that so we decided we'd let it go. but before we did that, we made a date. on august 8, 2008 at 8 p.m., we would meet at the top of the sears tower to see how we were doing.

of course, this was straight out of a movie. the only reason we didn't say the empire state building to begin with was because we both foolishly assumed we would be closer to the sears tower. but the empire state building was the clear choice at this point.

so, this past friday, there we were. now, in a movie, we would have just known to be there. we would both have showed up by 8 o'clock. there would have been flowers. my prom dress and a tuxedo. a romantic windswept greeting. a sunset. and a romantic dinner afterwards.

instead, we talked about it the day before. i arrived at the top at 7, but mike didn't make it until 8:30 (i'm not sure my other self would have waited for him that long). the lines to make it up to the top were incredibly long. instead of flowers, i got two stuffed animals and some blackberries (yeah, my husband knows me). and then it was freezing at the top so we didn't stay long in the cold night. but when we tried to leave, it turned out that the elevators had broken down so we had to wait another hour to actually make it back down. and the romantic dinner? by that time it was 10 p.m. so we went to the wendy's across the street.

the point, though, was to see how the other person was doing in the jolly year of 2008. turns out, we're doing pretty well. and you should see our spouses: they're awesome.