Two women seeking equality in a state where some couples are more equal than others.

Friday, February 17, 2012

MI Gay Friday

It's time for another one of these . . .

11 am - I woke up late this gay morning because I am still very gay sad about my brother's passing and also about the passing of our dear gay friend Sue, one of our most ardent supporters, a valiant crusader for serving the medically underserved, and the coolest grandma I know. (She is not gay, just us.) It may be surprising that gay people can have straight friends, or old friends, or that we would feel sad about things just the way that "normal" people do, but there it is. Sue was so excited to come to our commitment ceremony, and we were so excited to have her there, because she is one of our chosen family members. Someday we will name our gay clinic after her (the clinic will be for gay people and normal people, but we are gay, so it will be a gay clinic).

11:10 am - I start work on gay wiki tasks for the gay module in the gay course I'm working on. As previously discussed, these things are not gay, just me.

11:30 am - My gay, lesbian, homosexual, female partner kisses me goodbye to go to a gay meeting. The meeting is not gay - it is about the medical honors society she's in - just her.

11:45 - I have a gay breakfast of a gay cupcake. This cupcake is gay in the old sense of the word, in that it was confetti with sprinkles (and almond cream cheese frosty, to give it some class). I realize this is not the breakfast of gay champions, but it's what I had in the house that sounded good, and some morning are just sad enough that a cupcake for breakfast is warranted. This is one of those gay days.

12:00 - I return to work on my gay module.

12:50 - My gay, lesbian, homosexual, female partner returns home with a gay surprise - gay Munchkins and gay coffee from Dunkin Donuts. A new DD just opened close to our gay home, which makes us very happy.

1:00 - I return to work on my gay module.

3:00 - I prepare materials for my gay thesis data collection. The thesis is not gay - it's about medical communication between medical students and speakers of English as an additional language - just me. My gay, lesbian, homosexual, female partner has been the medical side of this.

3:20 - We go down to gay campus to meet our gay participants. (The campus is not gay, although East Lansing was the first city in the country to add anti-discrimination policies for sexual orientation and gender expression. The participants are not gay either.) Data collection goes very well.

6:20 - We return home, filling up our gay car with gas on the way. (As previously discussed, the car might be a little gay, given that it is a Jeep and we are lesbians.)

6:45 - I return to my gay work.

7:30 - I eat a gay dinner of leftover black bean tacos and watch Parenthood, a delightfully wholesome show about normal people and their normal lives.

7:45 - I reheat some gay chicken soup for my gay, lesbian, homosexual, female partner so that she can eat while she studies for her gay cardiology examination.

9:00 - I write this gay blog post while contemplating a return to my gay work. I will go to bed in a couple hours and fall into a deep, gay, sad sleep.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Invitations

So you may remember my post about amate, in which I confessed that we had spent more than we intended and created extra work for ourselves.

That consequence has arrived. Tuesday we went to Staples and found an invitation kit for about $35. This doesn't sound too bad until I remind you that we already spent $50 on the paintings.

Now not only do we need to print up the invitations and RSVP cards, we also have to glue in the paintings and tie an accent ribbon. And then of course all of the other things that normally come along with sending invitations.

Fortunately, Rebecca's sister has volunteered to help with assembly, an offer for which we will ever be grateful. We're hoping to get a good start on that this weekend.

I'm hopeful, though, that the invites will be pretty enough to justify all of this work.

MI Love: Bacon

I've come to a realization.

I love bacon.

I used to think that I only love the scent of bacon (and it is perhaps true that I love the smell even more than the taste), but in the past year, I have come to understand that I do in fact like bacon.

My most recent bacon purchase was from Horrock's - we found Kowalski thick cut, which is a meat company out of Hamtramck.

How do we use bacon? One favorite is corn chowder. Apparently, a soup cannot be called a chowder unless it contains bacon, and so we usually do buy bacon for it.

Given that corn chowder doesn't use a whole package of bacon, what else do we do? Another recent use is a facsimile of the Tim Horton's BELT, which is a BLT with egg on a bagel.

Yum!