Marriage Blah Blah Blah

The subject of convenience marriages came up the other day, and that made me remember a particular incident of a couple years ago. I was friends with a girl involved in that type of marriage (she married a guy to get permanent citizenship, tsk). She had a male friend who wanted the same scenario, and, as I was her only single girl friend, she tried to set that up with me.

I remember having to give that serious thought. On one hand, that would have been pretty much illegal and ugh, the paperwork and stuff. But on the other, all this dating crap would have been a non-issue. Besides, I tend to agree with the mentality that you're just gambling with your choice of partner and that you really do have equal chance of happiness (or contentment, at least) regardless of the partner you choose.

Could just be my bitterness talking, but digest that for a bit. I was told more than once that people are on their best behavior while dating (and, to an extent, while living together), but once they're married, all holds are off. Well... *I* can fake being a pleasing, sweet, dutiful partner for a solid length of time, so theoretically speaking, I could just trick someone into marrying me and then turn into a sour, horrifying mess of a woman because mwahaha, it takes effort to get divorced! Rar!

I don't think that this happens often to that particular extreme... but it happens in small ways all the time. The point, I guess, is that you never *really* know a person until you're in a legally binding relationship that's difficult to walk away from (especially in Texas). You might find that, ten or twenty years down the line, you aren't compatible at all anymore. You've grown apart. That sort of scenario happens every single day.

Maybe I'm just not exposed to many relationships that work in the long term anymore. Fidelity seems outdated. I haven't seen but a handful of marriages that are built on respect and friendship.

I know I'm rambling. I'd apologize, but... nah.

Filling in the Blanks

I refuse to be "that girl" who always apologizes for not living up to expectations. In that vein, mwahahaha, I have deprived you of my mad blogging skills, and it was awesome in many ways.

I can't even begin to think of all the things that have happened since late September, but I'll gloss over some of the highlights so we're all back up to speed.

1. I turned 27! Not much changed there as I'm still in the same age bracket as before, don't have any additional rights, and am doing the exact same things as I did when I was 26. I keep thinking of myself as 28, though, which is probably an indication of early onset senility.

2. Jess and I went to the Dallas Webcomic Expo! We met some wonderful fellow comickers and even sold a few things. We also gave away some hats. After the convention, we spent an entire Sunday running around with said fellow comickers taking silly pictures and molesting statues.

3. Halloween was in there somewhere! Jess was in a car accident on Halloween morning - she is okay but still a bit on the sore side. That resulted in her taking tons of medicine and unfortunately missing the Halloween party she helped plan. She had painted a mural on the wall of the party location, so she was there in spirit ^.^

4. We went on a massive road trip to Chicago! And by road trip, I mean, we actually DROVE. It was a 22 hour trip one way, and we drove it in one day. The trip was to see Trevor and also menace the city as only Jess and I can do. Awesome trip, awesome company, awesome city. We took entirely too many pictures.

That brings us up to speed on the most major events, I think.

Next week is Thanksgiving - I'll be spending that with Jessica's family this year - it'll be a bonus road trip AND holiday!

AND for a final little story: Jess and I got free tickets to see "New Moon" for its theatrical debut at midnight last night. The situation was laughable - the line was all the way around the building, and there were only a handful of over 18 NON parent people there. ^.^ It was a horrible movie experience - the movie itself wasn't that bad, incidentally. But the lights were left on in the theatre as well as the light in the projector room which left a giant projector-shaped shadow on the screen the whole time. (They didn't fix that even after being asked.) THEN someone apparently called in a bomb threat, so about 20 minutes til the end of the movie, everyone was shooed out the theatre. Okay. Imagine a bunch of panicked high school girls. Irritating. I kept getting shoved around by the ones behind me because they were freaked out and wanted to get away from the building. *sigh* We got back in to finish the movie, at least, and afterwards, if you wanted, you could get a free pass to another movie. Jess and I have those. So yay. And that's my New Moon adventure.

Also it's raining outside.