back from brother-outlaw's wedding

the wedding was really great. every time i spend any time with wax's family, i come away feeling extremely warmed and happy. i've loved and relied on my extended family my whole life, and i'm lucky to have landed, halfway around the world, in one which completely enchants me.

i'm going to post a couple of pictures even though it's a bit out of order since i've never posted any of our pictures from germany and france.

     
( some selected pictures mainly to illustrate our dresses and the awesome old house the reception was in )

our family doesn't have many surviving photos of my paternal grandmother, because all the time my dad and aunts were growing up, she was the one who took all the pictures (many of them have oblongs cut out of one edge where she accidentally got her fingers in the frame). i'm probably doomed to the same fate since wax_jism hates taking pictures, and is even worse at it than i am. however, there are certainly some more of me from this wedding (in which i'm not making silly faces) since wax's sister-in-law (not to mention the wedding photographer) took zillions. we'll probably get to see them later.

one more thing about marre's wedding...

the funny part! at least, i have been assured this was the best anecdote ever. perhael may have been exaggerating about that, but you'll have to take it up with her.

( and now for the bible trivia part of tonight's entertainment! )

10 Things I Assume You Know About Me if You Read My Journal

Completely revised and up to date: January 2023

Abstract. I am a (1) Fandom OldTM (2) USan (3) expatriate living in Finland because (4) my wife waxjism is Finnish. I am also a second-generation science fiction fan, a (5) voracious multifannish reader, writer and reccer with (6) 3 cats (Snookums and Tristana, Anubis) & 2 bunnies (Rowan & Japp), (7) socialist/green politics, (8) social anxieties and other neuroses, and (9) a secular Jewish heritage which is important to me even though I'm an atheist. Also (10) my dad is quadriplegic and in a wheelchair due to a car accident when I was in college.

( Those 10 things in order, with a paragraph of elaboration apiece. )

i do believe that is the quote of the day.

randwise_gamgee: I'd slash my managers, but they are all women.
cimness: you can!
cimness: you could write femslash!
randwise_gamgee: I don't know man.
randwise_gamgee: I don't think I can party with two vaginas in my brain.