I know I haven’t been posting much and for that I don’t apologize. Since we got back form Scotland I have since been hired on as a permanent employee at work and that means a couple things, First, as long as I can stay healthy until October first, my health care woes are finally over. Second, it means I am also working a full schedule and trying to come to grips with less free time. But it is a very small price to pay for peace of mind and the extra cash that come with a full schedule.
But there are even more changes for me, in less then two weeks I will marry my best friend and soul mate … Dawn. We have both been down the isle before and frankly the idea of a traditional ceremony seems a bit … well … not us. Also, we realize it’s not the ceremony, it’s not the party, and it’s not about supporting the Wedding Industrial Complex (WIC). It about us, our feelings for each other, and knowing that we want to spend our lives together.
So we sort of decided that since the state of Michigan requires that our marriage license be “solomized” (be careful who you say that in front of…), we would do it in whimsical fashion. So sometime next week end on Mackinaw Island Michigan we will be having a pirate wedding in order to signify the money we will be stealing form the WIC. They will not have our money damn it, we will spend it ourselves.
In that vain however I thought it would be amusing to show off my groomsman outfit.
What a dashing Pirate am I!!! and fearsome too!
Introducing my Pirate name .. Rupert Slaughter *
* Brought to you by the Pirate Name Generator
Congratulations! May your matrimonial voyages safely and happily navigate the sometimes stormy seas of life for all your days. Your wedding plans sound a bit different, all right, but the vows and feelings behind them are what really matter, as you say.
And more congratulations on the job change and health benefits. Just don’t catch a cold on Mackinaw Island, or anything.
I look forward, once you’ve set your course through calmer waters, to seeing you post some more here and maybe make a few port calls at Oh!pinion.
Rick, and Dawn. All my best. I’m sorry I can’t be thereto help you celebrate, but for obvious reasons you understand. May you become a happy old married couple like many of us are. After 25 years of marriage this October 23, just some advice, mountains are easy, it’s the small grains of sand that get in your shoe that drive you nuts. I am just so happy for you both. May God bless and keep you both healthy and happy and may we 25 years from now be celebrating your anniversary. I hope you both will be as blessed as I have been with my wife the last 25 years. I am glad your health and benefits have changed for th better as well. Take care, God bless and best wishes to you both. May you breed well and prosper. Sorry, I had to throw in the Star Trek stuff. All the best!!!
I SEE ‘YA BE WEARING VELVET PANTALOONS, YA POOFTER!
Not to mention the frilly cuffs to hide the snuff. I need a beauty mark to really set the whole thing off. Perhaps a bit of lip color…
AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
May your trade winds blow warm and your booty be ne’er plundered (unless you’re into that kind of thing).
Congratulations guys!
First, congrats on the great news about the job. Fantastic.
Second…..dude, you gotta wear an eye-patch.
Third, it’s doubly-fantastic that you’re no longer going to live the sexual life of a heathen. Okay, that was a joke….best of luck.