Tag: wedding
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Pooping in a Parking Lot and Other Adventures in Marriage
Alex and I have been married for 7 years today. We were basically babies when we got hitched, the first newlyweds of our college friends. Our family and buddies piled into the Dallas Women’s Forum off Ross Avenue on a very hot day in August, with just a few air conditioner units. Everybody was very…
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Sister Wedding Recap
Well, the wedding was last weekend. I want to say it’s weird that my sister is married but it’s not weird. It feels just right. The wedding went off without a hitch and man, was it beautiful. I’ve noted that my family is notoriously emotional but I would say that we all held it together pretty…
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Unsolicited Advice for My Sister #5: It’s Okay to Cry
There was alot of crying in my family growing up. Not because we were all abused or sad- just because we had alot of feelings. Specifically, there were tears when we were feeling really happy, scared, angry, sad, touched, ashamed, sentimental, and insane (thus the patented Feemster laugh-cry). The other day Leah called me to…
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Unsolicited Advice for My Sister #3: Fight Clean
Alex and I don’t fight alot- only if we’re both hungry or we’re playing board games. If we’re hungry and playing board games, then someone’s going to get their eyebrows scratched off. Sometimes we start off “play arguing” and then it escalates into a situation. EXAMPLE: My car is my sanctuary. My dirty teenage girl…
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Unsolicited Advice for My Sister #2: Put that Bridezilla away.
I only had two Bridezilla moments before my wedding. At least that’s all I can remember. Birth control was pulsing through my system and so I may have had moments where I transformed into a hulking green bridal monster and ran through brick walls slicing through innocent bystanders’ arteries with my incisors. Maybe I did.…