Be Ready to Be Jealous: We are having dinner tonight with Aims and Em!

Whaaaaaaat. Pictures!!!!!

So excited. DH's brother's BIL is a renowned chef and stuff so we are going to his restaurant for the first time. Excited about that too. [link] But not as excited as I am to see Aims and Em because really I could eat Pouchon's food anytime, I just haven't been to his restaurant since it is 2-1/2 hours away in Kissimmee.

The last time DH saw Aimee she was pregnant and she ran and jumped up in his arms. I should conspire with her for a repeat.

I'm almost done getting certified and background-checked to help resettle refugees.

Hil, that's awesome.

askye, I'm sorry you had such a sucky day, but glad you're feeling better. Hope you get your rest time finally.

I need to stop working and go do something fun. Tonight is Board Game Night, but I don't think I'll go. They moved the venue and it's such a long way now, and the new digs are not as comfortable, and... I guess I just don't feel like it. If I really wanted to go, none of the rest would matter.

I went to grandma's and my aunts...well really it's my aunt for the weekly Friday pizza night. Every Friday they, my aunts "great friend" as Grandma E calls him (aka my aunt's boyfriend but she's 64 and he's 72 and it seems weird to say boyfriend ) and whatever family member decides to drop by eat pizza and watch either BBC cozy mysteries or bad Sci fi.

And then I spent the night and spent longer talking than I planned. I'm back at the beach cottage in the ax with my tiny view of the water. When it gets closet to sunset I'll venture out for a walk. The heat index is over 100.

Oh damn it. 4 cars of people jusr arrived. One set if relatives built a fancy place and rents it out because the taxes are so expensive. Well it's the weekend hopefully they'll be quietish.

Ever kind of feel like you're #OutOfIdeas?(not story ideas, FWIW I have a lot of those, and the rejections to remind me how well that's not going, overall.) I like activism, but the kind I do is not the sort of stuff that anyone is going to write an oral history of...there's no Bletchley for phone number finders(Not that I want to be famous...just to make some kind of mark.) Just like I wish I were making money, but not really because of buying anything, although it's not like I *wouldn't*, but I'm not, I don't know, saving up for a car.(we could use more cash but my wanting it is not really about keeping the wolf from the door and shit like that. Not right now anyway, although hell yeah, I'd love to know I could do it) I meant lifewise, though. Everything I can think of is like something I tried already.And there's no partner and kids to be like "THIS is what's Really Important(TM) and if I tried that with the cats, they'd run away.) Forty more years of "retirement" is suddenly striking me a bit excessive, is all. Though I know I'll be lucky to have that, and that some of you might wish you could have such problems.

Our BFFs (a couple), who are having a tiny casual backyard wedding in August, asked us if we would officiate!!!

!!!!!!!!!!

I have no idea what to do, but, you know, I got married and my brother officiated, so I think I can do this. So so SO AWESOME.

And then, as is our way, the conversation (via text) degenerated into insults that ended with me proclaiming (in all caps) "I AM EASYGOING AS HELL" (which is perhaps the biggest lie on the planet) (which, duh, our friends know because they've spent more than 30 seconds with me).

That is super exciting, Steph!!! What an honor.

Teppy, that's fantastic! Are these the kind of friends who would accept you throwing some Marvel references into the ceremony?

"May the strength of your love be as strong as Captain America's arms. The depth of your love as deep as Tony and Bruce's. The supportiveness of your love quietly there at all times, like Agent Coulson.