OK, so my mechanics have been driving the car all day (mind you, I've not driven it since Friday)...and they can't get it to slip. Not one bit. And I KNOW it was slipping. But now it's not. And the engage is right where it should be. So they are gonna keep driving it and I'll pick it up in the morning barring it suddenly starting to slip again.
Huh. I'm torn between thinking my car was gaslighting me and thinking I must be a complete moron. Which, given how stupid I've been feeling of late...yeah. Weird. At least it is only $100 weird and not $600. That's a fucking weird kind of relief.
Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: “I will screw him in the ass!”
"In a totally non-gay way, of course. Figuritatively, like.
Not that there's anything wrong with the gays. Except that they're an abomination in the eyes of Our Lord and Savior. And they don't vote for me.
Next question."
Do all Catholic Priests require you to promise to raise the kids Catholic?
It appears as if they've altered the wording. According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:
The non-Catholic spouse does not have to promise to have the children raised Catholic. The Catholic spouse must promise to do all that he or she can to have the children baptized and raised in the Catholic faith.
It seems to be a relatively recent change.
Okay, so Bob wants a Catholic wedding, not just formal. Several of Scott's Catholic aunts and uncles (East Boston Italian Catholics and Charlestown Irish Catholics) tolf us we had the nicest ceremony they'd ever been to, which is why I asked.
Most of my friends and about half my family is Catholic. We're in a very Catholic area. Most of them did not hate the Pre-Cana course. Maybe Bob could find a local Eastern rite parish and ask them help him find an appropriate church in Phoenix, and work out some sort of deal where you could do the engaged encounter weekend, like Maria suggested. Since it is important to Bob and isn't important to you, it sounds like it is worth doing. That's how we ended up with a protestant wedding. It was important to me and wasn't important to Scott.
It's funny. Sometimes I think wedding planning itself is one of the best preparations for being married.
Huh. I'm torn between thinking my car was gaslighting me and thinking I must be a complete moron. Which, given how stupid I've been feeling of late...yeah. Weird. At least it is only $100 weird and not $600. That's a fucking weird kind of relief.
I hate that kind of relief, and I totally understanding feeling that way, but but I still want to make a "nope wrong" buzzer sound at you being a moron, because you just aren't, at all.
I have a sinus headache and I already am trying hard not to puke, so I think I need to just ignore all the Bush stuff.
It's funny. Sometimes I think wedding planning itself is one of the best preparations for being married.
I'm beginning to think that there's no such thing as organized religion - it's all a wedding planner conspiracy.
I don't think they still require you to raise children in the Catholic church anymore, but they used to.
The thing with getting married within the Catholic Church is that they have their rules, but each parish/priest is going to follow those rules a little differently. My divorced cousin got married for a second time in the Catholic Church without an anullment of her first marriage (a pretty major Cahtolic no-no) pretty much on the merits of her father being a super-devout, super active parishoner who the priest thought a lot of.
On the upside, bon bon, nobody does ceremony like the Catholic church. I'm prot to the bone, but when I attend weddings, funerals and baptisms, I always walk away thinking they've got it all over the protestants.
Thanks for your advice, Cindy. We definitely have some stuff to think over. I think I will probably go through with the whole thing-- engaged encounter sounds like something that I can deal with, and if he wants to try to raise kids catholic that's fine too. His mother was Jewish and raised him Catholic, I can probably let him try.
