White lace and promises -- a kiss for luck and we're on our way.

[raybear]

Apparently it's Let's-Marry-Raymond-Month, but no one told me. On Thanksgiving Day, someone at dinner noticed I was the only one not drinking and asked if I was mormon. I thought that was an interesting thought process. Later in conversation, someone mentioned that doctors in Utah are among the highest-paid in the nation, so I joked to Quincy that she should work there after she graduates since I'll be moving there because I'm mormon. Now we're in the process of selecting my other wives (and husbands) to live with us.

Today I went to the drugstore and on the walk back remembered Next Door Coworker craving Arby's yesterday and complaining that they don't deliver (they're on the other side of the block from us). So I called her and asked what she wanted, then picked it up for her. When I got back she said, "would [Lowenstein] mind if we got married? I'll call her and ask. 'I'm sorry, [Lowenstein], it's just that.....he brought my Arby's!'"

Also, the sign of a coffee mug being too large is when the coffee gets cold before you get to the bottom to finish. Or maybe I just can't drink it that fast. Not that I need a coffee mug the size of my head, but it was the only one clean in the office.

I'm on a crazy text messaging kick via livejournal. If you allow messaging through your info page, you're at risk.

Comments

[crafting-change.livejournal.com]

buahaha...

'you aren't drinking, so you must be mormon' is a riot...

well if you're mormon...

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

you can marry all of us and there's no problem.

Re: well if you're mormon...

[raybear.livejournal.com]

that's what i told her!! except she didn't want to live in utah. i told her she could telecommute. she suggested i could then have a spouse in every city.

Re: well if you're mormon...

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

or maybe it could work like corporations incorporating in delaware, but being located somewhere else. we'll just go to utah and get married, then live here.

wives and husbands

[mrmaxdaddy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, how many are you planning on? It sounds like fun!

Re: wives and husbands

[raybear.livejournal.com]

the more the merrier!!! no pun intended. well, maybe intended a little.

mormons, etc.

[mrmturtle.livejournal.com]

so uh, my sister is a mormon. not family upbringing but chosen life as an adult and after two wasted and/or useless husbands.
and when i visit i dry out and bring my own coffee and sometimes a gf. and they are always accepting and welcoming.
the mormons are no longer poly as some of us are. and they believe in UFOs as i do.
there are many differences and not a religion, as most aren't, that i would choose to join. but i am always in awe of such disciplined behavior. even if they do eat enormous amounts of sugar.....ah we all have vices.
and illinois is the first site for mormon settlement.
turtles are usually practicing buddhists.
mr. turtle

Re: mormons, etc.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

my brother and sister-in-law live in ogden, utah (20 miles north of salt lake city), because of work, not religion. but obviously many of their friends and neighbors are mormons, so i had some interesting conversations with them when i visited several years ago. we also toured the main temple which was weird, only in that they tried to slip some proselytizing in to the conversation....several times. i suppose mormonism, like most every religion, has the spectrum of laidback liberal members to wacko conservatives. i'm less fascinated by their polygamy and more intrigued by the mormon underwear. shhh, it's a secret. don't tell the non-mormons.

what a perfect song for marriage talk...

[writeli.livejournal.com]

...before the rising suuuuun, we flyyyyyyyy, so much of life ahead, we'll start out walking and learn to ruuuun...


*at top of my lungs* SHARING HORIZONS THAT ARE NEW TO US, WATCHING THE SIGNS ALONG THE WAY, TALKING IT OVER JUST THE TWO OF US, WORKING TOGETHER DAY TO DAY.....TOGETHER....TOGETHER....*EVEN LOUDER* TOGETHER...

*quiet* and yes we've just begun....

Re: what a perfect song for marriage talk...

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I obviously know who I'll be asking to lead the congregation in singing this song at MY wedding!

mormon's in my path

[stickfire.livejournal.com]

Through some insane path I have walked down I always end up with very cool mormons as friends. I mean very cool, in so many ways... one of which that they can talk without cussing. Shortly before I "quit caffeine", I had been in awe of all the things that the nasty drug inhabited. I learned this from not my mega-hippy-earthy-vegan-anti-non-recreational-drug friend, but my mormon friend who would only watch g-rated movies and her biggest wish in life was to drink a cup of green tea (even decaf stuff has trace amounts). Mormons ROCK is what I'm trying to say.

[clockwatcher.livejournal.com]

On another note, I HATE when people point out when someone is not drinking. It ain't none of your business!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I have several vague reasons for not drinking -- I'm cheap and don't like to spend money at bars, I only occasionally like the feeling of being drunk, my partner is sober and I like to be respectful of that by not smelling like liquor and being incapicitated when we're together, and I have hypoglycemic moments and drinking makes your blood sugar drop even more. But I don't "not drink" -- it's just that usually one or more of these factors is present in any situation causing me to abstain. But most people just assume I don't drink and will occasionally bend over backwards to accomodate me, which is what sometimes draws attention to the fact that I'm not drinking (and was the case at Thanksgiving dinner). So it is amusing when I might bust out and order a beer or a jack& coke, people look at me as if I might need an intervention, worried I've fallen off the wagon or something.