Saw this phrase elsewhere

"sized to fit a normal human being"

I don't know the original speaker at all and don't know how it was meant. What came to my mind when I read it was the Size-Related Insult War, both sides of which claim to be the only "right" size. (I hereby declare my opposition to anyone who thinks that there's only one right size.)

At first I though BOTH sides of the Size-Related Insult War would dislike that phrase. Then I thought no, wait. I bet both sides would use that one! I also bet each would quickly decry it as all kinds of judgmental if the other side used it.

(Alongside it I also saw an excellent response. I wouldn't have been half so graceful. :) )

A good anniversary

No details about the morning's activities will be provided. Now we are going to South Lake Tahoe for lunch. :-)

Anniversary thoughts

Today it has been ten years since rfrench and I stood in our living room and promised to stay together for life. At that time we had been together seven years, minus a coupla months.

His proposal was vastly romantic. "If the tax consequences wouldn't be so terrible, I'd ask you to marry me." My reply was equally sappy. "If the tax consequences wouldn't be so terrible, I'd say yes."

So we scrabbled together some vows, and with no witnesses at all, we looked into each others' eyes and spoke. It suited us.

We didn't know it then, but we'd already been through most of the tough stuff we would see for quite a while. Most. We were about to go into a rocky patch that might have separated us had we not promised to try really, really, really hard. It's odd, now, thinking that I'll never be sure whether the timing of those simple words changed the outcome.

A few days later we went to the mall and bought rings. We're not legally wed, but hey, I don't invite the government to my parties, either. The only somewhat-unpleasant side effect of this we've seen is that neither set of parents thinks this relationship is all that serious.

I just asked him to glance over this LiveJournal entry and he nodded. :-) Life is calm, and I'll take calm.

Life imitates art

Did y'all see the tornado warning for Los Angeles this weekend? (It was later retracted. I can just imagine the guys at the National Weather Service. "Uh, we're rebooting everything, sorry folks.")

Somebody's been watching too many movies.

Organization

Rob spent a chunk of the evening going through the steel shelving in the den and listing stuff on Freecycle. I think he's given away about twenty things this evening. Wow!

I've looked at a big pile of crap on top of the tall filing cabinets. Five boxes (big ones), all photos. Mostly it's stuff I've looked at before. That'll save a lot of time. This time I divided it into chunks of a size I might be able to tackle in a weekend or two. The project is just too big to take on all at once, because a) I have a day job, b) we have cats, c) we hire house cleaners. I can't leave stuff lying around all over the place.

I divided it into "1997 and before", "1998 - Jan 2003", and "2003 - 2004". That middle pile was beautifully sorted until I came across a coupla more rolls that go in that time frame. Ah well. A weekend apiece, and I can at least have everything chronological and labeled. Another weekend apiece and they'll all be in albums with the negatives in sleeves. I think I'll start this project on my next free weekend, which is some time in October.

I think I have just enough sleeves and albums and such that I'll run out when I convert to digital.