Electrolicious

Friday I went to go get my legs waxed, and I ended up with the same friendly esthetician who’d done my legs last time. We were chatting amicably about how the other was doing, and she asked how my boyfriend was, and I said “Oh hey! We got engaged!”
“ME TOO!” my esthetician squealed, and held [...]

…of having an independant designer work on your wedding outfit:
1. Said designer may be on a bender and stand you up for a meeting at said designer’s own house.
2. When you finally meet with said designer, they may be recovering from said bender and cry through your consultation.
But I’m overlooking this and moving forward anyway.

Dre and I deliberated for ages before we decided to get engaged. Mostly we were weighing the pros and cons of making our relationship legal. Pros include discounted healthcare, taxes, and the ability to have access to one-another in the hospital. Cons of course were heavily focused on the inequity of marriage when it came [...]

Congratulations are due to my auntie Andrea and bride, Stacy. After 15 years together, they were married last Friday in San Francisco. HURRAH!

Who’s getting married? WE ARE! Who’s a geek? I AM! Who doesn’t like answering the same questions over and over again? ME! Therefore who makes a retarded engagement FAQ? I DO!
Was there a proposal?
No, there was a collaborative decision.
When’s the wedding?
Most likely August 7th. Needs to be early enough so that folks headed to Burning [...]

Saturday night I went to go see my old friend Laura Etling perform with her band, Soul Provider. They’re a 12-piece gang of funk that plays ’60s and ’70s soul. It was good. Really good.
My date for the evening was my hoop. As I walked down the street towards the bar, two scruffy guys with [...]

Six years ago today, I was just waking up and finalizing my plans for New Years Eve. I was headed to a party called “Oberon’s Palace” that evening, and had been preparing for over six weeks, abstaining from my most favorite intoxicant so that I could guarantee that I would be really, thoroughly, completely delerious [...]

Sunday afternoon we returned to Missoula for Andreas’ step-brother Chris’ law school graduation party. I spent most of the gathering under meddling duress from Dre’s family friends regarding Andreas’ and my hypothetical wedding plans. Somehow, the fact that we’re committed and yet the wedding is not yet a reality is really bothering some people. I [...]

|| Unmarried to Each Other ||
Looks like an interesting book. [via East/West]

After reading sweet (and highly anticipated) engagement stories like these, I become keenly aware of the downside of being a post-feminist liberal left-coast gender-fuck dating an equally liberal raised-by-lesbians Euro-weirdo: I miss out on all the romantic traditions.
Andreas and I are deeply and completely committed to each other, four years behind and another 70 ahead [...]