Everyone should be ordained than we can all perform the ceremony for each other simultaneously.

I'm getting a definite Reverend Sun Myung Moon vibe now ...

(And I'll try to flood less with pictures in the future, sorry! I probably seem like a total fan girl with all that! Oops.)

FLOOD MORE.

Happy birthday, PiBaby! Also, more pictures.

Happy Birthday, PiBaby!

In far better political news, Maryland legalized gay marriage, effective 1/1/2013. [link]. I understand the usual troglodytes are planning a referendum to try and overturn it, but still--yay MD Gov!

I feel like crowing "How's that States'-Rights-take-precedence thing working out for you now?" to right wingers since individual states are falling into marriage equality like dominos.

So. Looks like my family might be doing some kind of big summer vacation this year. A week somewhere. (Long story -- our usual plans aren't working out, and my parents were supposed to go to Israel during the spring, but they're canceling because my father is scared of war with Iran, and so my mom wants to do something big to make up for not going to Israel.) She's asked my sister and me for suggestions as to where to go. I'm trying to think of good suggestions. My mom suggested Nova Scotia and PEI, and while I would love that (Anne of Green Gables stuff! And, whatever else is out there), I'm pretty sure my sister and father would be bored. Where should I suggest?

I've never shipped to Jamaica, so I can't help you out with process, sorry.

I need to get ordained online and just stop talking about it. Then I will simply sit here and whine about how I never get to marry anyone and how much life sucks. Where did you get ordained, Lee?

I had it explained to me yesterday again how I clearly spoke "weird" ("t" thing was cited), but it seems that in most people's estimation it isn't elevated to the level of accent, but is instead in the realm of oddity, and also to where people get to tell me I'm saying things wrongly. Still have no idea what that looks like, though.

but my weight and age are consistently under guessed.

I'm probably oversensitive on this front, but I read *so* many things going across people's faces when they find out my age that I generally avoid revealing it unless I'm telling it to someone who's also about 43. Usually that's what it seems to be about -- "you're not my age???" So when I can actually be saying that, it's cool.

Birthday happies to PiBaby!!

I'd like to flatter myself and think I either sound *this* smooth on the phone (::insert barking laughter here::), or I'm the Spanish Inquisition. Not sure which one I'd prefer.

Well, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, so...

I've never shipped to Jamaica, so I can't help you out with process, sorry.

Oh, thanks. Clearly I'm making stuff up in my head. I remember tales of getting stuff there, but they must have been about how to pack it for flying. Which I am not doing. Sadly.

Happy Birthday PiBaby.