Bob and I are done with our pre-marital counseling! We expected at least three more sessions, but our counselor told us that since we’d already discussed just about everything that is normally covered in said sessions we might as well save ‘em and come back six months after the wedding. She thinks by then we’ll have issues. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Ah -- you won't need them in six months either! I mean -- that's what you have Hatrack for, isn't it? Everyone gets their advice HERE first!
Farmgirl
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
6 months later. . .
Bob: Dana drives like a madwoman.
Dana: So do you.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Six months later...
Dana: I just feel like I don't know Bob anymore... It's almost as if he's some sort of asexual yellow sponge!!
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Bob: I can't stand it. At least once a week she starts preaching at me and everyone else in earshot.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
LOL Dan.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Obviously they'll need counseling when Dana falls madly in love with LavaLamp.
Hobbes
[ February 15, 2005, 11:27 AM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Dana: He's such a backseat driver. It's like he thinks he Mr. Traffic Safety or something.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
This is totally not what I thought this thread was going to be about. Dana, is it somewhere else? If you don't brag it up, I'm gonna. Unless, of course, you tell me not to. Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
ElJay, please do! Especially if it's what I think it is.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Nope. Her news, her call. If I cross the line, it gives her permission to do it later.
Besides, I already got chided once for saying something prematurely here, I ain't doing it again.
(Added: Not like this isn't just as bad, but ya know. I can only behave so much at a time.)
[ February 15, 2005, 11:48 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
*taps foot impatiently, waiting for the REAL news*
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Now I didn't mean to imply this wasn't real news! Don't go putting words in my mouth.
The more I think about this, the more I bet I'm in trouble already. Maybe I should edit out everything.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Dana knew what she was doing when she posted the thread with this title on this day.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Now Dana, that's not telling me to keep my mouth shut. You have to be pretty blunt, ya know, I'm a bit dense.
[ February 15, 2005, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Dags, of course she did.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Recommended for Full Membership and Elder's Orders.
And they gave me chocolate.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Chocolate? Bonus!
*bouncebouncebounce* Congratulations!
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Congratulations! I remember you posting that you would hear about this today. I'm glad it was good news. (Not that I doubted it would be anything else.)
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Woohoo!
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
I'm guessing that this is a Mormon thing...?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Woooo!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
YAY!!
Congrats, dkw!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
THT? Dana is a Methodist preacher, not Mormon!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
*rotfl* No Human Target, dkw is United Methodist!
for dana!
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Hehehe...you mean they're not the same thing?
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Methodists don't eat babies.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
No, you have to be older to be an Elder in the UMC. Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Well congratulations on the thing...for the place! It seems like it's a pretty big deal. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
(It means she's going to be ordained. She's been a... they don't call it probationary, but I can't remember what the word is... minister for the last 5 years. Now she'll be official. So yeah, it's a big deal.)
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
Hey hey hey, that's great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Way to go Dana.
Hobbes Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
What Adam said.
Congrats. Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
Congrats!
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
Yay!
Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :
Yay! Both excellent bits of news. Congratulations!
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Congratulations.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Congrats, DKW!
Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
dkw, Congrats on both accounts!!!!
WOOHOO... Oh sorry, didn't mean to shout. Woohoo!!!!
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I never doubted that she would succeed. I was under the impression that it was pre-ordained.
Congrats Dana!
[ February 15, 2005, 05:04 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Congratulations! It is getting so close!!!
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Congrats!!!!!
Does this mean that you can marry you and Bob?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
If they got married in MN, I could perform the ceremony. I am a licensed officiant. But then I couldn't be the maid of honor, and heaven forbid I might get to pick my own outfit out.
Besides, dkw wants to be married by a minister. Picky, picky.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I’ve been legal to officiate at weddings for five years now. (Think of this as like getting tenure.) When we got engaged the kids in the parish did a hilarious impersonation of me performing the ceremony – “Do you, Bob, take me, Dana” “you may now kiss . . . me!”
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*giggle*
Out of curiosity, would that be legal? (Both in terms of church policy and US law?)
And if it is, could you also stand in as proxy for the groom?
"Do I, Dana, acting for Bob, take me, Dana . . ." *dizzy*
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Congratulations on the ordination and the counseling!
quote:Bob: I can't stand it. At least once a week she starts preaching at me and everyone else in earshot.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Hey, dkw, you're still up and posting? I called you an hour and a half ago and left you a message. Wassa matter, you don't want to talk to me?
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Did you try calling my real phone? The cell phone is in my purse, so if I'm at home and it's in a different room I don't always hear it.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Oooh, lookit dkw's pretty post-count.
Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
I think I'll leave it that way for awhile.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Which raises a different point. Can a ghost officiate at a wedding?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I never actually dial the phone, I just find the right number on the caller ID and hit redial. So I called whichever number you called me from last.
Also, you have a ghost? Don't you have to be dead to have a ghost?
Anyway, go listen to your message and then just post "yes" or "no." I'm lazy, I don't want to find your real number.
[ February 16, 2005, 12:38 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Congratulations, dkw. Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
*scans handy-dandy "What Officiants Need to Know" flyer from the Iowa Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Records*
Hmmm. It doesn't say anything about needing to be alive. You can't be a riverboat captain, but it doesn't say you can't be a ghost.
Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
Oh wait. "physically present" might be a problem.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Why can't you be a riverboat captian?
Have I asked you that before?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
"Must be physically present to win!"
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Probably because she hasn't had riverboat captain training.
Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
ElJay -- yes. I was going to suggest that.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Okay, I totally bust out laughing at that one. rivka, you win for the night.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Cool, Ghostie, I'll take care of it.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
By the way, buried up there I asked a serious question.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
You?!?! No wonder she missed it. Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
Technically, I guess you could be a riverboat captain as long as you were also "An Iowa judge, magistrate, or associate judge serving on the supreme court, court of appeals, or district court;" or "An individual ordained or designated as a leader of a religious faith, regarless of the state of residence or service."
But they're very specific that just being a riverboat captain does not qualify.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*giggle* Actually, I elsewhere today I posted a thread titled "Serious Question" and subtitled "Yes, I do have those sometimes." Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
No, I don't think I can officiate at my own wedding. Although it doesn't actually specify . . . I wonder if anybody's tried it?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
You could be the test case. But Cindy and Ben would probably be a bit hurt.
Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
Yeah, only fifty or so of my close friends and relatives are clergy. Why don't I just do it myself? Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Now that would be micromanaging a wedding.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
And it would be soooo cool. Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
I, for one, would be highly amused to see Dana perform her own wedding. Of course, if the state decided such a thing is not legal, then she and Bob would be living in sin! Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
And, under Iowa law, if a wedding is performed by someone not authorized to do so “every member of the wedding party” can be fined. I really would like to see them try to justify that, though. They’re going to fine my flower girl if I have someone shady officiate?
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