Every time I have a birthday or anniversary with Rachel, I appreciate anew how very easy we have it with each other. We still love each other, we're still in love (well, usually), and it takes very little other than some Magpie's pizza, a good movie and no interruptions to make us happy.

In this particular case, our 5th anniversary yesterday, we got each other a few gifts (which, I must admit are wildly skewed in the cost department): I gave her a quarter-circle of strawberry cheesecake in a bag I decorated, and I got the Complete Calvin & Hobbes. I turned off the phone and computer, and we watched Castle in the Sky.

For the record, the Magpie's Hawaiian pizza, with piñon nuts substituting for peppers, is our new favorite pizza.