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strangetomato) wrote2009-01-12 08:30 pm
strangetomato) wrote2009-01-12 08:30 pm
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Lurk no more...
Did you know that today is Delurking Day out there in the blogosphere?
That's right. So, let this be an invitation to anyone who'd like to introduce themselves and say hi. You know I'd love to hear from you. No pressure, of course, but you may as well delurk on Delurking Day, right? Come one, come all. Get a conversation started. I'm all ears.
This was a great day for me. I made some real progress on the next update, and there was RL good news all over the place. I was asked to interview for a job that had over 50 applicants and was pleasantly surprised to be offered another job that will stretch my experience significantly. I was also asked to be a bridesmaid in my "brother"s wedding this summer (actually a cousin, but we grew up together like siblings). I'd fully expect to win the lottery too, but I don't actually ever buy tickets.
Now, I should go out there and delurk too, shouldn't I?
That's right. So, let this be an invitation to anyone who'd like to introduce themselves and say hi. You know I'd love to hear from you. No pressure, of course, but you may as well delurk on Delurking Day, right? Come one, come all. Get a conversation started. I'm all ears.
This was a great day for me. I made some real progress on the next update, and there was RL good news all over the place. I was asked to interview for a job that had over 50 applicants and was pleasantly surprised to be offered another job that will stretch my experience significantly. I was also asked to be a bridesmaid in my "brother"s wedding this summer (actually a cousin, but we grew up together like siblings). I'd fully expect to win the lottery too, but I don't actually ever buy tickets.
Now, I should go out there and delurk too, shouldn't I?
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Scroll down a bit and there they are, the church bubbles.
I think I know what you're talking about with the hair. "Bubbles" also made me think of the hideous dresses with poofed sleeves (or worse, where the skirt is poofed, like something Judy Jetson would wear).
The dresses (for SILs shindig) weren't UNflattering, it just needed to be about two inches longer on the bridesmaid (her shape went well with the dress and all that).
There were no attendants at my wedding. Just me, the wife and the pastor. It was about five minutes of "do you?", "do you?", "it's done, kiss" then LET'S EAT! We all know that's why people come to weddings (that and free liquor, which my wedding didn't have--kept it cheaper and kept the riff raff side of the family away).
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Hmmm, but don't you need two witnesses to sign for the marriage to be legal? Or maybe it works differently in the U.S.
Sounds like a fun time, but my SO wouldn't hear of anything that casual for our wedding. He was about the "go hard or go home" approach, but not in a frilly, tacky sort of way. It worked out well, I think. People had fun, so what more do you need?
It's not actually that common to have an open bar at a wedding around here. When I read that in U.S. Wedding magazines I was amazed that people would consider it wrong to not offer free booze (and I would seriously go broke, with the drinkers in my family. Yeesh.)
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Did you have a wedding in a church? Maybe that's the catch. I wasn't married in any type of religious building. My marriage license just has the sigs of me, the wife and the pastor. It must be ok since I used it to get my passport updated.
My wedding was completely dry. It was held in my parents backyard and they're not drinkers so it would be rude to demand a keg or something. And if someone didn't want to come because they wouldn't get free booze then no big loss to me. (oh, I lied, it wasn't completely dry, my sister had a wee bottle of rum in her boobs!)
(all this wedding talk made me realize my wedding was a lot like a sim wedding--just BAM, lets get married in the yard)