Apparently July is the month I tease about stories and never actually post them.  Last year it was Costa Rica.  (I’d link to the story, but, you know, I never wrote it.)  This year, it is the wedding.
 
So…the wedding that wasn’t.  There were no pictures.  No people.  I wore a blue sundress I bought at Target three years prior and he put on a clean polo when he got home from work.  We went down to the court house and after a brief crisis where I did not have my photo ID (they accepted my signature match on a Homestead Exemption Tax document that Tom had slipped into my glove compartment a few weeks prior, on the day we decided to get our butts in gear and we bought my rings actually…), we were hitched.  We used a silver ring of mine during the ceremony, and found him his ring after the fact at an antique store 3 minutes before they closed.

 
Marriage hasn’t changed us one bit, which is how we wanted it.  Of course, I have insurance now.   Both families are very happy for us. 
 
That is the exact copy I’ve sent in several emails this week, finally getting back to friends who responded to the e-card that was our “official” announcement.  (OK, the real copy had a smiley face inserted somewhere.  But I do not believe my blog and smiley faces should mix.)
 
When we played around with the idea of that Friday, neither of us had realized it was the 13^th.  Once I figured it out, I really wanted to make it happen.  So of course, we had no AC, Tom was super late from work, and I left my picture ID in my workbag.
 
Yet, here we are!  Whee!
 
I will admit that right after we got my rings, I toyed around with some of the more traditional wedding ideas.  Not an actual wedding mind you.  But…a new dress?  A small bouquet?  A little party?  Some wine at least?
 
In the end, I’m glad I nixed all of that.  We got to focus on the important things – like getting ST Chinese food for dinner.
 
And it probably doesn’t need saying here, but when I say nothing’s changed?  I mean my name as well.  I cannot describe how awesome it is for me to not go through that bullshit again.  ST has already been called “Mr. In Progress” by a telemarketer.  HA!
 
I haven’t written because life has been busy and wonderful and difficult.  Much of this week’s stress revolved around getting shit done before we leave town tomorrow.  We’ll be at the farm, then the cabin, then round off the vacation with a day of Chicago site-seeing.
 
I’ll have the laptop with me, and now that I can check my work email from wherever I will probably make a point to grab some Internet here and there.  I have definitely felt some tension that I think writing would help, so perhaps I’ll get back on the ball of regular posts. 
 
If not, see you in September!