jlanthripp's Journal: Turned in my amateur status today...

..and went pro. We did a civil ceremony at the courthouse, but the judge also happens to be an Episcopal priest. So I guess nobody can say "we're not *really* married because we got married at the courthouse."

I imagine it'll take a while to get used to the ring, and to calling Gail "my wife" instead of "my fiancee".

On a side note, I just checked my voice mail for the day because I forgot to take my phone off silent alert and left it in my jacket in the hallway. My mom and stepdad called me twice - on my wedding day - asking me when I can come work on my mom's computer. Her computer is 2 weeks old, a new Sony Vaio. My nephew tried plugging a joystick (not USB, an old school 15-pin joystick) into a computer with no joystick port, and they can't get any of his games to work on the computer.

I hate to break it to them, but I have two weekends to spend with my wife before I go out of town for two months or so for CDL training and OTR training, then I'll be gone for the next year, being home every other weekend at best. They're gonna have to wait until at least late March, probably closer to mid April, before I can go up there again. Or they can suck it up and call Sony.

I spent every weekend between Halloween and New Year's, except for Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas weekend, at their house working on their computers because my stepdad has an affinity for deleting C:\NTDETECT.COM (I tried setting him up as a limited user in XP, but he can't capture video using Adobe Premiere as anything but an administrator). I'm NOT going to go up there to make some games work in the two weekends I have to spend with my wife before I leave town for 2 months.

Time to cut this post short; I have a wedding to consummate :-)

[voice="homer"]mmmm consummate [/voice]

[Red Warrior]

Let me be the first to congradulate you. Well, at least electronically. Well, at least in this JE.

Have a great honeymoon!

Congratulations!

[dexterpexter]

You too? [slashdot.org] :)

I wish you the best, and hope that you find more time to spend together than you expect. May your best times be ahead of you both, and may you live happily ever after! :)

Family members can certainly be quite the characters!

Re:Congratulations!

[jlanthripp]

Your JE sounds remarkably similar to our wedding day. Only, it was $0.50 to park on the street, the courthouse charges $97.50 for the marriage license (they accept Visa too, BTW), and the judge did the ceremony for free - and he turned out to also be a priest in his spare time, and read the vows from the Episcopal prayer book if I'm not mistaken.

He also had a copy of the Torah on his desk, which I found interesting. Our civil servant at the county clerk's office was all smiles though, and offered her hear