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Thanksgiving and other randomness
Such a lush I'm turning into... I think I've had alcohol 5 days in a row now. Tra la! :)
It's a lovely thing to have four days off work. On Wednesday my friend L-dawg came to stay with us for the night (and go to yoga class with me and my bug); then we all went together to B's wedding on Thanksgiving.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluechromis, I was thinking of you and really wishing you could have seen it. It was so simple and unpretentious and super-cheap, but still elegant -- just like B -- and all us girls fell in love with D just a little bit because he made such a perfect groom. Sigh, gush, flutter... they are a great couple. It's good that they're married.
I might have made it through their ceremony without crying, by the way, if only they hadn't chosen to also make vows to the groom's two existing children, who were there and acting as leaf-girls... B promised them to always take care of them when she was with them, think of them when they were gone, and never be a wicked stepmother; and D told them that he loved them and would always be their daddy, and that although he hoped to have children with B to be their brothers or sisters, that they would always have a special place in his heart as his first two little girls. Aw... that was so sweet. One more bad thing about kids -- they yank on the heartstrings too much. *looks stern, but sniffles*
I wrapped a lot of presents yesterday morning, to the sound of the nice Brazilian carpenters pounding away on our front porches. (It's a cold nasty day to be working outdoors, but... after many delays, we told them to be done by Thanksgiving or we'd pay them less than the agreed amount, and it will only get colder and nastier. So it's a fine thing that they're out there.) Wrapping presents is always fun... actually, a lot of this social nicety stuff is, now that I've figured out how to do it. I think I have a slightly Japanese attitude about such things: if I know what society expects of me, I don't mind doing it, as long as society then does its part by accepting me and not asking for more than the contract specified. It's kind of funny how sometimes people think I'm generous (or at least not-stingy) when mostly I'm just happy to be Following The Rules. Even people who have heard me musing on this topic before. ;)
Cleaning out old papers in search of a doctor's phone number, I ran across a list of 10 things I intended to do with my life, or obtain, or whatever, written in the summer of 1997 on an index card.
1) A degree from MIT --> engineering
2) Financial independence/security
3) Maintain/improve body in all ways
4) Friendships with good people
5) Become a martial artist
6) A good sex life with a good person
7) Write a book
8) Learn to sing
9) Further body modification
10) Become very well-read
Amusing. #5 and #9 are entirely off the list now (unless I come up with a truly irresistable tattoo idea), and #7 is just weird... what kind of goal is "write a book" if there's no topic associated with it? But I'd still stand by some of those.
It's a lovely thing to have four days off work. On Wednesday my friend L-dawg came to stay with us for the night (and go to yoga class with me and my bug); then we all went together to B's wedding on Thanksgiving.
bluechromis, I was thinking of you and really wishing you could have seen it. It was so simple and unpretentious and super-cheap, but still elegant -- just like B -- and all us girls fell in love with D just a little bit because he made such a perfect groom. Sigh, gush, flutter... they are a great couple. It's good that they're married. I might have made it through their ceremony without crying, by the way, if only they hadn't chosen to also make vows to the groom's two existing children, who were there and acting as leaf-girls... B promised them to always take care of them when she was with them, think of them when they were gone, and never be a wicked stepmother; and D told them that he loved them and would always be their daddy, and that although he hoped to have children with B to be their brothers or sisters, that they would always have a special place in his heart as his first two little girls. Aw... that was so sweet. One more bad thing about kids -- they yank on the heartstrings too much. *looks stern, but sniffles*
I wrapped a lot of presents yesterday morning, to the sound of the nice Brazilian carpenters pounding away on our front porches. (It's a cold nasty day to be working outdoors, but... after many delays, we told them to be done by Thanksgiving or we'd pay them less than the agreed amount, and it will only get colder and nastier. So it's a fine thing that they're out there.) Wrapping presents is always fun... actually, a lot of this social nicety stuff is, now that I've figured out how to do it. I think I have a slightly Japanese attitude about such things: if I know what society expects of me, I don't mind doing it, as long as society then does its part by accepting me and not asking for more than the contract specified. It's kind of funny how sometimes people think I'm generous (or at least not-stingy) when mostly I'm just happy to be Following The Rules. Even people who have heard me musing on this topic before. ;)
Cleaning out old papers in search of a doctor's phone number, I ran across a list of 10 things I intended to do with my life, or obtain, or whatever, written in the summer of 1997 on an index card.
1) A degree from MIT --> engineering
2) Financial independence/security
3) Maintain/improve body in all ways
4) Friendships with good people
5) Become a martial artist
6) A good sex life with a good person
7) Write a book
8) Learn to sing
9) Further body modification
10) Become very well-read
Amusing. #5 and #9 are entirely off the list now (unless I come up with a truly irresistable tattoo idea), and #7 is just weird... what kind of goal is "write a book" if there's no topic associated with it? But I'd still stand by some of those.