Oh, hey, we are going to get our marriage license tomorrow morning!
WOO LICENSED TO MARRY!!!
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Sep 11, 2013 4:54:45 pm PDT #4969 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
-t - Sep 11, 2013 4:58:11 pm PDT #4970 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo, official!
sarameg - Sep 11, 2013 5:02:27 pm PDT #4971 of 30000
Make sure it is the right county! (My parents' marriage license is shifty. From county A, but signed by judge from county B and there's something iffy about the dates it was signed on. But it's been 45 years, I think they're legit by now.)
flea - Sep 11, 2013 5:02:51 pm PDT #4972 of 30000
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Let me know if they still make you swear you don't have syphilis. (I swear to god, mine did. Hamilton County, 1998.)
-t - Sep 11, 2013 5:07:53 pm PDT #4973 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We did ours in the wrong colored ink. They have to be in black ink in Louisiana, we used the blue pen the clerk gave us, our rabbi traced over everything in black before he signed.
Hey, what's the blood test supposed to be for, anyway? They aren't checking for syphilis, are they? We didn't have to do one, my sister and her husband did.
Hil R. - Sep 11, 2013 5:10:18 pm PDT #4974 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I am going crazy with my email dinging at me. WebAssign, the online homework system we use, is having server problems. Students can sometimes log on to do their homework, but sometimes not. I sent an email to all my students, telling them that I know what's going on, and that I'll change the due dates on the homework if I need to. Even so, they all keep emailing me to let me know that each one of them is having problems logging on. I'm getting a new email every five minutes or so.
(OK, just looked at the time stamps, and it's not quite every five minutes. It's still annoying. And the email from the president of WebAssign says that the problem will be corrected "within a week," which is totally not a time frame I can work with.)
Zenkitty - Sep 11, 2013 5:13:52 pm PDT #4975 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
-t, I think the blood test is to make sure your blood Rh types are compatible so when you have babies you don't die. Something like that. According to my mom.
Steph L. - Sep 11, 2013 5:13:53 pm PDT #4976 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Let me know if they still make you swear you don't have syphilis. (I swear to god, mine did. Hamilton County, 1998.)
If they ask that, I'm going to angrily turn to Tim, point, and say, "How does THIS GUY know you have syphilis?!? 'Working late,' my ass!"
Hey, what's the blood test supposed to be for, anyway?
I think only a few states even still require a blood test (Ohio doesn't), but it is for some STIs, as well as sickle-cell anemia and Tay-Sachs.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2013 5:22:58 pm PDT #4977 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Massachusetts got rid of the blood test sometime in the past ten years.
-t - Sep 11, 2013 5:23:40 pm PDT #4978 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Do they not let you get married if you're results aren't right, whatever they are testing? That's fucked up.
Come to think of it, I don't think my sister's marriage license was from the county where they held the ceremony. But they had a Unitarian minister to sign it, and she might have been from the same county as the paperwork.
Eta; and now that I am looking for the, there don't seem to be any states that really require blood tests. The ones that have it listed as a requirement either recently got rid of it or you can sign a waiver and not do it. So I guess that's moot. But I don't really understand it historically, either.