Has anyone pointed out to her that she could start saving money on the rent right away and still get married on the original schedule? Most married people I know started saving money on the rent well before the wedding, in some cases decades before.

Very practical! Plus, small intimate wedding right away is much cheaper than a planned Summer wedding!

Has anyone pointed out to her that she could start saving money on the rent right away and still get married on the original schedule?

I'm sure she's afraid of scandalizing the (Southern Baptist) family. If she asked me I'd tell her to go ahead and shack up, but I don't expect anyone to ask for my opinion.

I took the taxi home from my appendectomy at 14 because I was tired of spending time in hospital, and could not be arsed to wait until I was officially discharged (or given my antibiotics script, for that matter). Simpler then, not to get the fam to pick me up. Worked out just fine, and started a long history of cabs to and from the hospital, bleeding or not.

We totally kept my ex-aunt-in-law in the divorce. We liked her better. We kept her.

When one of my uncles got divorced in his midlife crisis after decades of marriage, we kept our aunt as part of the family in her own right. The new girlfriend didn't become part of the family in the same way, and was kind of outraged that she wasn't the one treated as the grieving widow a few years later at his funeral. (Whatevs, losing the father of your children trumps losing the boyfriend your lack of support helped send on his downward spiral, Ms. Cheap Substitute.)

I can't imagine a hospital discharging a 13yo unaccompanied, into a cab these days. I suspect that CPS would get involved, so there's that.

I've privately told my SIL that no matter what happens to her marriage she'll be part of my family. Not that it's been necessary, but since my brother was going through a fraught (inpatient alcoholism treatment) time it seemed like a good thing to remind her that she was free to make her own decisions without fear of losing our side of the family's support.

I think any of my siblings would pick me up. They don't always like me, but they wouldn't leave me stranded.

A pox on Sumi's brother! Not on, dude!

Hey, all!

Merry holiday aftermath!

I caught up in Natter when we got home last night, but I was too tired to post. Sumi, that's terrible. Your bro needs a little nad jab.

Amy, I LOVE the "12 Days of Buffistamas!" We should film it and watch it every year...

Lessee, Xmas was great! M was disappointed we didn't have a white Christmas, but it was sunny and clear the WHOLE time we were traveling, so Dan and I were thrilled with that.

My in-law's are really nice people, and we had fun at their house. My MIL introduced me to candy cane martinis, with are quite yummy, as well as festive. Dan was googly-eyed with tech lust [link] as he got a slammin' surround-sound system for the TV. He plans on putting it up tonight, and we are gonna test drive it with Thor tonight. I got him and M the 4-7 Harry Potter Wii game, and he got the Avengers coffee mug from me, the caffiene molecule travel mug from my mom, t-shirt material sheets, and a really nice sweater and cords from Banana Republic from my sister, who took him shopping to get the size right. Plus other assorted geekery. Best thing I ever did was pointing my mom at ThinkGeek.com

I got this: [link] from ThinkGeek from mom (IT IS SO CUTE!) and M got a Lego Star Wars alarm clock from there that's out of stock now -- my mom starts shopping in January, yo. He aso maxed out on Angry Birds: [link] and [link]

I got the freaking metallic Smashbox cream eyeline palette, WOO, and some other stuff, including a shitton of owl stuff and the new coat I've been wanting! [link] and [link]

Also, Wii Jeopardy is very frustrating the first time you play it, but then it just addictive. As a team, Dan and I KICKED ASS. Directly competing with each other, though, it could destroy our marriage....

Today is The Great Clean Up, Target run, Eyemaster's run (M's glasses arm broke, and grocery store run.)

I slept like a frickin' ROCK last night.

Does this look like me: [link] ? My sister thinks she looks like me. All can see are the differences.