i can haz huzben?

[muckefuck]

Tonight, another step forward on the unrelenting treadmill of ever-closer coupledom: monshu and I opened a joint checking account. I told him that, once we have a place together, we will definitely qualify for domestic partnership under my employer's guidelines. Hello, brave new world of quasi-semi-marriage! If I believed in augurs and portents, I'd make much of the fact that, as we signed the papers, the sky darkened behind the clerk and the wind began to blow from the north. When we stepped outside, we found that cool breezes had blown away the stifling humidity and made the outdoors once more a pleasant place to be.

Comments

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

How charming and low-key. Speaking personally, I always found that relationships like that are the ones that last - not the ones running off to California to get married months after they've met. Good on ya, Da.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That's what most impresses me about our relationship--it began with a burst of passion but it's carried on long after that's died down. And not out of inertia or a fear of loneliness, but because we keep discovering new things about the other person that draw us closer.

Aber wem sag ich das doch?

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

what cpratt said. I think I misread you at first.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Oh, do tell!

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

it's nothing particularly dramatic - I was referring to that previous comment, that I deleted, that said your tone in your post seemed a bit ambivalent. Afterwards I read over it and thought I sounded mean-spirited, or something, which I certainly didn't mean to be.

This is the moment in movies where the embarrassed idiot just keeps talking and winds up accidentally saying something offensive. I'll stop.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Absolutely no one does that better than you Brits! Do you and your lovely wife also have piles of corpses to dinner?

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

? The only thing I can think of is Kenny Everett's Bloodbath at the House of Death: no doubt there's a much more obvious reference I'm missing.

My lovely wife is Brazilian, so that rather offsets my own penchant for painful embarrassment, thank god. She's also slowly training me to stand in the way, complain to officials, talk back to doctors, park illegally when the need is pressing and loiter in my car outside shops, rather than driving around for 10 minutes looking for a valid space in order to do a 3 minute task.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

OK, got it. No, we avoid the English like the plague. Or at least I do, to the eternal bemusement of my wife, who thinks this is a basic cultural difference between our two countries.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Opening a joint checking account with my (now) husband was about the scariest commitment I made, and certainly the one that's made me feel the most "married".

That's a big step. Congratulations!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Not as big as buying the house will be!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Ring-buying will be in a couple months, if all goes well. (The one I bought him last year is too big for his ring finger so he wears it on the middle one. Oh, the symbolism!)

Oh, and, hello there! What brings you to the Death of Imagination?

[nitouche.livejournal.com]

Well, if you were to decide to actually get married, it would be a fine excuse to come visit. And Simon could be the flower boy.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Not the "ring master" (as my young nephew recently styled himself)?

[lhn.livejournal.com]

While that does suggest a certain Barnum and Bailey quality re the proceedings, you only really need to worry if he starts styling himself "the Lord of the Ring".

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

monshu and I opened a joint checking account.

So where are you registered?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Boutique d'Enfer. It's just off the Dis stop on the Red Line.

[areia.livejournal.com]

Hurray for quasi-semi-marriage!

As for your quasi-semi-wedding present, have a not-so-funny Dutch pun about marriage:

Echtgenoten: verleden tijd van echt genieten.

[ladytiamat.livejournal.com]

Mazel Tov!