Busy weekend

Although I have had a busy weekend so far (and since I have Monday off, it is not over yet - more on my weekend later) I know there are many people who have had an even busier one. Some friends who come to mind started their weekend by getting in line early Friday morning to get married!

I am very excited for them. They had had a wedding ceremony about a year and a half ago, so it rocks that they were able to both take personal days with such short notice and participate in this historic event and receive an actual marriage certificate. They were seen on TV and in the newspaper in background shots of the lines. I have included one behind the cut where they are visible in the upper right of the photo (difficult for me to point out unless you know them, but they look like they are on either side of the the guy in the tan sports jacket and blue tie).
( Thea & Jeanine in line to get married )

This seems like the most appropriate place to add this meme:

Marriage is love.

Apparently, although there were many people who jumped at the chance to help out with this process, there was lots of confusion. Jeanine told us about how they actually ended up doing the ceremony twice because the first time, a misguided volunteer minister invalidated their first certificate by crossing it out to make "corrections" which was not allowed.

My weekend - long post with cuts

As mentioned, my weekend so far has been somewhat busy. Therefor, I will make Sunday a separate post.

( Friday night )

.

( Morning, noon and... )

( Square Meals Project )

( Toy & food shopping )

( V-day revisited )

( The finale; )

All in all, a satisfying Valentines day.

Sunday

Some time ago I got invited to a UFO (UnFinished Objects) party for Feb. 15th by the same friend who taught me to knit. I was not planning to go at first, but when the after-party dinner plans were mentioned in an attempt to entice me, I decided to float the idea to my BF. We are both fondue fanatics, so I figured it might be enough that we would be eating at la fondue after to convince him to join in this day of hanging out with people he does not know (aside from me, my friend and her partner) to work on whatever project was portable enough to bring with you. I figured correctly, and we agreed to participate in the days activities.

We managed to get up on time and leave with what seemed like just barely enough time to run a quick errand on the way to meet up with the friends in San Francisco so we could all carpool down together to the UFO party which was down in Sunnyvale.

The day before, some friends who have been trying to sell their house, asked if they could, again, hostel their cats with us while they had an open house. Since we were leaving before they would be able to bring the cats over, I decided it would be easier to just give them the key. They have been doing this most Sundays, and since their cats stay in a separate room from our cats, it has not caused any problems, so this no longer needs our direct attention. Anyway, these are close friends who have lived with me before, and it is probably a good idea for them to have a spare key.

On the way to drop off the key before heading to SF, my BF noticed the husband of this very couple walking along the waterfront path with their two boys. Good eye! I was able to make the next exit, which allowed us to, with only a minor detour, swing right past them, and hand over they key!

Well, that saved us some time, which meant we got to SF with plenty of time for our friends The & Jeanine to show off their newly acquired marriage certificate before making the drive down to the party.

Well, the details of the party are not much to report. I worked on some knitting, and helped Thea work on her website design. I was pleased to be able to point her to a really cool web tool I recently discovered when noirem and I were working on her site. My BF worked on a computer programming project that he has been working on for over a year, but found all the chatting a bit distracting.

Of course, la fondue was fabulous, although I think in the end, we all over did it, as is so easy to do with fondue. I still think we make better cheese fondue, though.