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It's a Pity Party and You're Invited!

STOP BEING DEPRESSED, STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT. YOU'RE DOING IT TO YOURSELF THIS TIME. YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF EVERY YEAR THIS TIME OF YEAR.

Speaking of Never Getting Married

From

audheim: The Anti-Wedding.

How You Know Sister Girl Is an Adult Now:

"I'd really like a mixer for Christmas."

More Tales of Cleo the Quick Study:

"Which color mixer do you like the best? I kind of like the cornflower, the ice blue, the reef blue--"

"Ice blue."

"--the grape, and the--"

"Ice blue."

"--surf green."

"Ice blue. I would get ice blue."

"Really?"

"It's light, it's the most neutral of the colors you liked, and it'll help the kitchen feel more open than if you pick a dark or deep color."

"Hmm. Maybe I will, then, maybe I'll go with--"

"ICE BLUE."

HEY IT'S A MEME

On the twelfth day of Christmas,

cleolinda sent to me...

Twelve dolls drumming

Eleven blogs piping

Ten biographies a-leaping

Nine linguistics dancing

Eight werewolves a-milking

Seven books a-writing

Six movies a-publishing

Five fa-a-a-airy tales

Four virtual pets

Three movie scores

Two short stories

...and a cloverfield in a sleeping beauty.

By the way, I finally broke down and fulfilled my destiny on this earth:

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My wedding was planned in 3 weeks, held in my father's cramped living room in front of a small Christmas tree with 15 people milling uncertainly around while a JP did the shortest ceremony she had (which had been lightened by several paragraphs by myself and the Boy - sum total talking, 1 minute) and then we all went to a steak dinner.

It was brilliant. It was relatively cheap. It was fun. And I did not lose my mind or turn into Bridezilla and everyone who went liked my wedding hundreds of times better than the $25000 wedding of a cousin who had gotten married a few months previously.

Rock on, anti-wedding progress!!

Edited 2008-12-03 22:14 (UTC)

Hi, I'm apparently internet stalking you today. Didn't the 'oh, we're too cool for real weddings' tone of that article bug you? They told the bride she couldn't have a gown! Or flowers! If someone had deprived me of my (75%-off, tried-on-in-a-utility-closet) princess dress, I would have punched them in the head.

I internet stalk you, you internet stalk me - it's all cool.

The tone was a little "Nyyyyyaaaaahhh" (and I also had a dress, and it was awesome, and it was even cream-colored with lace bits) but I do kind of love the idea of thumb-in-the-eye of the wedding industry. (I had a bad experience with theknot.com in which about 18 women there told me my ideas for the wedding were gauche, in poor taste, cheap and really, why was I even bothering getting married again?)

Besides, there's something deliciously anti-wedding about the thought of you punching someone in the head and I totally would have paid to see that, and cheered you on. ;)

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