I like the idea of getting all of my family together to celebrate, and I really hope they can all make it. The elopement for me is really about avoiding the fuss. Flower, dancing, cutting the cake, people clinking glasses all night, etc. I want the brunch to be more of a relaxed family party where hopefully the focus isn't all on me all day long.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Jun 03, 2008 6:25:13 am PDT #1740 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Nora Deirdre - Jun 03, 2008 6:25:24 am PDT #1741 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I think there should be a winter F2F in the keys.
Love this idea!
meara - Jun 03, 2008 6:54:29 am PDT #1742 of 10001
I'm currently taking an anti-inflammatory that warns me to discontinue use if I start vomiting up stuff that looks like coffee grounds. It's not quite "Warning: do not attempt to stop chainsaw blade with hands or genitals"
BTDT. Trust me, you'd notice. It's kinda weird and freaky.
Hil R. - Jun 03, 2008 6:57:49 am PDT #1743 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ew, covered in coffee grounds is a bunch better than toner.
Yeah, the issue with toner is that it's sticky. He was scrubbing at that for like half an hour just to get it down to a dull grey.
Why does my computer spell-check not recognize "grey"? It's a perfectly acceptable spelling. Huh, how many words do we have that have more than one acceptable spelling? Grey/gray. Ax/axe. Blonde/blond. (Actually, my spell-check underlines one of each of those pairs. Weird. And it accepts Grey with a capital G, but not with a lower-case one.)
hippocampus - Jun 03, 2008 7:04:17 am PDT #1744 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
D - you around or swamped today/tomorrow?
Connie Neil - Jun 03, 2008 7:11:13 am PDT #1745 of 10001
brillig
Grey is the British spelling, isn't it? Your spellcheck must be feeling patriotic.
Odd that it doesn't accept the female/male division on blond.
Hil R. - Jun 03, 2008 7:18:01 am PDT #1746 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It also only accepts ax, not axe. Now I'm staring at "axe." That is an OK way to spell it, right? I'm doubting my ability to spell first grade words now.
Steph L. - Jun 03, 2008 7:18:05 am PDT #1747 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Don't worry, I won't stalk you guys, we'll just hang around the Alchemist till you show up! Tough work indeed.
You could stalk me! Is it stalking if I *want* you to?
TCG and I need to get up to Vermont soon and start looking at possible elopement places
sj, my bro got married here: [link] It used to be called the Caravan Bed & Breakfast, but apparently it has new owners. The web site doesn't really have good pictures to show you the property, so I'll pimp my pictures: back porch, garden in which the ceremony was held (not many guests were at the ceremony, so the garden was the right size; the B&B has a lot of land where a bigger ceremony could be held); if you look past my SiL, you can see the gazebo; the barn (part of the B&B) where the reception was; the barn has a loft for tables as well as room for tables on the ground floor.
(That damned B&B should pay me for the PR I'm giving them!)
t edit And if I had read more closely, I would have realized that you don't need a place that has room for a reception. D'oh. (But the pictures are still cool, right?)
The elopement for me is really about avoiding the fuss. Flower, dancing, cutting the cake, people clinking glasses all night, etc.
That's EXACTLY why, should I ever get married, I'd rather elope. However, I also love a good party, so I'd be happy to throw a HUGE hootenanny some time after the entirely hypothetical elopement.
Did you say the iguana is sitting in water?
There is a water dish (actually, it's a rectangular glass dish that I normally put leftovers in....never again) in the tank for the iguana, so she can either sit in it, or sit on the dry "carpet" (it's special reptile-tank carpet -- for real; I saw the box it came in).
Vortex - Jun 03, 2008 7:25:02 am PDT #1748 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
What part of "your budget is X" do people not understand? Do not send me a list of supplies that is X + $600 (and don't think I didn't notice the $500 piece of equipment that you added, which I suspect might be used for something other than my program). And you REALLY shouldn't call me and say "well, this stuff is backordered, so we can take it off the list, so the supplies are now X + $300, is that okay?" NO IT'S NOT FUCKING OKAY. Your budget is X. I have made that clear. Apparently, despite having a Ph.D., either you can't read or you can't add.
Steph L. - Jun 03, 2008 7:26:43 am PDT #1749 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, and, if further proof is needed to demonstrate how petty I am:
Given that the dalmatian keeps trying to throw down with Guest Dog, and given how stressful it's being, I think that, if the worst-case scenario happened and Friend said "Uh, I can't take my pets back," The Boy would probably say "You get them NOW or I'll tell you what shelter I'm taking them to."
Because as compassionate towards animals as The Boy is, his *own* animals come first, and if the Guest Pets are stressing out the Resident Pets, he's going to act in favor of the Resident Pets.