end of the summer

[low_delta]

I guess summer is over. For the last few years, September has been nice, and sometimes the first half of October, but it's been getting steadily cooler. It doesn't sound like it will get out of the sixties this week.

We had a wedding to go to yesterday. It was my stepbrother's. I wasn't real happy about going, mostly because I don't think he should be getting married, and partly because I've got other things to do.

People were trying to talk him out of getting married. His wife is untrustworthy and immature. I guess he thinks they should be married for the sake of their kid, and he hopes that if they're married, she'll stick around. People tried to tell him that, no that won't make her stick around, and she'll take half of what you've got when she leaves.

It was a nice day, though. The weather was great, at least for the ceremony - one of those ten-minute attorney deals, in the park. Cindy and I came home after that, because the happy couple and two dozen of their friends were going bar-hopping after that. I wonder how the bride made it through that, since I hear she was pretty hungover that morning. We went back out to their house for the buffet dinner. A cold front came through so it turned chilly and rainy. I spent quite a while talking with my stepsister. I don't recall ever exchanging three sentences with her before, so that was nice.

I'd still rather have been home, though. Like I said, the weather was nice, like the last day of the summer. I wanted to finish that painting, outside. And the lawn could stand to be mowed. I thought the wedding was in the early or mid afternoon, but it turned out to be at noon, so I lost a couple more hours I thought I'd have.

Comments

Way out west

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

We're having an earlier season change this year, too. Yesterday we had the high treetop winds that bring down all the needles, cones, and I don't know what they're called, but they are like little catkins from the Doug firs. Also, the dwindling but still present in sufficient amounts to induce sneezing seasonal pollens.

Last year at this time, I was prepping the deck for a complete makeover, and managed to finish the first week of October, just ahead of the treetop winds and rain. This year, the rain came first. (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=waning_estrogen&itemid=35575)

[hinterland.livejournal.com]

People will make their own choices in life. If your step-brother is happy, if he loves his wife, I hope you too can be happy for him. Having negative vibes from one's own family can cause so much unnecessary heart-ache.

How old is the kid?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Nobody's sure he *is* happy. I think everyone treats her well enough, and everybody gets along. Maybe they just didn't get as much in the way of congratulations as other couples do.

The kid is four, and he's a holy terror. The joke was, "I don't know what to get them for a wedding gift." "How about a book on child psychology?"

[redthread.livejournal.com]

I had someone try to talk me out of marrying my first husband. She was right, but of course I didn't want to hear it at the time.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I tried talking a friend out of marrying - well, I *recommended* that he shouldn't have married the woman who turned out to be the psycho. But you can't really do that, can you?

[redthread.livejournal.com]

Nah, people are going to marry psychos if they want to, regardless of what others say. I know -- been there, done that, lived to tell the tales.

Is your friend still married to the psycho?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No. He's remarried. But the psycho spent some time in jail for attacking him and his home.

love and other people

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

sad. people don't generally listen to others in matters of the heart~
ah well, live and learn~
a childhood friend of my ex's married a desperate woman a year ago~
everyone was against it but they were inseperable...i mean really, because she's the
ultimate in "cling"~
my ex emailed me recently:
Chris and Diane are expecting. They were trying to get pregnant and
she was late but that did not stop them from going wine tasting on
the way to Fort Bragg. She felt ill on their second round of wine
tasting on the return from Fort Bragg and thought that it maybe from
all the wine they were drinking. They decided to get a pregnancy
test and it was positive. some time in mid april they are expecting
their alcohol poisoned bundle of joy.

eeshka babeeshka.
so okay, sometimes we live
and do not learn~
whatever.

*MWA*

Re: love and other people

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

At least we can learn about others, if not ourselves.