racoon

there is seriously a film debuting in theatres today called "leslie, my name is evil". my name is rarely used in pop culture, it's sucky that on one of those rare ocassions it's being juxtaposed with evil :S

so... in approximately 35 days brendan is moving into the maxipad. during most of his time at the house famous they did not own a television. due to an overwhelming compulsion he has to watch it and allow it to take over his life, he has quite strong opinions about not having a tv. when we reached the point of knowing that we were going to spend the rest of our lives with each other i says to him "we're going to have to have a conversation about the tv" and he strongly agreed. he presented his case, and i counted with my point of view. which is... you can't simply put the blame on the tv set. many people who don't own tvs still watch tv shows on the internet. that seems to give them the chance to still watch their favourite shows while still technically doing without a tv. that's all well and good, but it's somewhat impractical when having guests over for a movie, or even watching as a two-some. so our final verdict was to keep the television, but lose the cable. when we eventually have a bigger home and in the market for newer furniture we'll buy a large unit to house the box so we don't have to look at it when it's not in use. we're both pretty pleased with that decision, collaborating generally leads to the best end result. so anyways... this next month will be my last month without cable tv, 'so long old friend, i wonder if i'll miss you'. i wonder if when we're old if b will concede and want a few more channels. only time will tell.

hey... thinking of when we're old... have i ever told you how old brendan is?? he's 21. i'm 8 years and 10 months older than my future husband. i think it's funny now, and forget that it's really weird to people just learning this fact about him/us. at this point i just shrug off people's judgment about it, because b's not your typical 21 year old, nor am i your typical 30 year old. anyone who knows us understands. besides, it keeps things pretty interesting because we grew up in totally different generations. the weird thing about our culture is that if b was 30 and i was 21 people wouldn't think much of it. i often wonder about this discrepancy, and about why even i found it weird at first. it took almost 2 months between our first and second date before i was able to overlook the gap. but really... what's age other than a number indicating how long you've been alive?!?!? i have more life experience than him, and he has much more hope and optimism than i do. i think those differences are huge benefits, just like different personalities are assets. that being said... b's age is one of the biggest reasons why we don't want to have kids for a while. i'm hoping we won't have kids until he's 26 and i'm 34/35, that seems like a reasonable age for both of us. anyways, this age thing is an amusing coincidence because i once wrote a blog entry about how i'm perfectly ok with marrying a significantly younger man. haha.

even at the swiftest speed, we couldn't break from the concrete.