I am javachik. "We're very pretty."

Happy Birthday Strega!

happy birthday, Strega.

I'm in the corner with the 'get the state out of marriage and make civil unions - a legal contract- the state business"

One of the reasons I can't see civil unions becoming the default any time soon is then one'd have to admit that as much as they may hope for "till death do us part" it's not at all mandated by the procedure.

Neat article on CNN.com on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission. [link]

Happy birthday, Strega.

One of the reasons I can't see civil unions becoming the default any time soon is then one'd have to admit that as much as they may hope for "till death do us part" it's not at all mandated by the procedure.

People might plan a little more sensibly if they admitted this. I'd be cool with an option of civil unions that were renegotiable after a specified amount of time. Maybe a couple wants to plan on 60+ years together. Maybe they want to get together long enough to raise a couple of kids, but want to pursue their own bliss after the kids are grown. Maybe they want to form a union to support one another for 5 or 10 years after college while they're getting their careers started. People seem to want a lot of things out of their unions, and I'm not sure all of them can be wrapped up in "to death do we part."

I'm with Kat on the love for Obama eating spam musubi! I had to send that article to my mom. Yay, spam!

I love both balsa and paper airplanes. Oh, and we did origami with our kiddoes last year. Mentioning that the paper cup you can make will actually hold liquid? Was a mistake. I mean, it was fine for the teenagers who were all, oh, cool, and drank the pop. But not so much for the little do's who poured the sprite in their paper cups and then held them and held them and held them until the dye in the paper leached into the pop and eventually the pop all mushed out the bottom of the cup. Yeah. We didn't really think that one through.

Oh, and ha about the elementary strings. I have finely developed senses that allow me to ignore instrument cacophony at will. Handy skill.

People might plan a little more sensibly if they admitted this.

No shit. I wonder how many "till death do us part" marriages have pre-nups? I mean, they don't belong on the same page. Un-loving and unmarried as I am I don't have any problem with pre-nups, but don't ask me to sign one and tell me you'll love me forever and we'll last for eternity.

Good things don't have to last, do they? Is it a mark against us for not being permanent? Or do we really have to know this before signing up for matrimony, and otherwise just stay outside the institution? Then there shouldn't be government perks.

A lot of weddings don't have "till death do us part" any more, as far as I know, regardless of the actual intentions of the participants.

So ridic tired. Mac not asleep yet. DhjdkdjjdKjl