Rob and Scott's Big Fat Gay Disney Wedding-TR Pg 92; Photo Update pg 133

[rpmdfw]

Hi,

I just stumbled in here and I'm reading and I'm at page 20.

You are talking about cufflicks. Would it be wrong to suggest wearing all of them? Superman on your right, one of the theatre faces on the left, and then for your partner he gets to wear Papa's to symbolize his joining of your family?

I totally dig your symbolizations.

Ah the great cufflink dilemma! Seems so small now in light of the whole "They're closing Pleasure Island, Please Save the AdvClub" stuff I'm living with every day now.

My partner will be wearing a pair of his Dad's cufflinks, as a representation of his family and past. Which is totally fitting.

I think I've solved the cufflink dilemma, though. My current plan is to wear the Superman cufflinks. They symbolize the part of my life where I started to stand on my own two feet. I'm very proud of "paying my own way", so it's an important symbol to me.

On connections to my past however, I've come up with a couple. When my sister got married I gave her my grandmother's wedding rings. I'd been wearing them on my pinky since Grandma died. They were my gift to her, and her "something old" for her own wedding. She's loaning them back to me so that I have "something borrowed". While opening up the box that has the cufflinks in it, I found that I have one of Papa's watches, and that it still works. That will be my "something old". That way they're both with me that day. Oh, and just for the sake of letting y'all know before you ask. My suit and shoes are "new" and as mentioned before, my tie is "blue". Superman blue, which ties back to the cufflinks.

All I can find on the "old, new, borrowed, blue" tradition is that it's "for luck" or "prosperity", so we're gonna keep it. If it had been "for fertility" or "large family" we'd have skipped it.

 

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

Awwww.....that's so sweet. I love the way you tied your grandparents into your big day!

Also, I am glad to see cuddly Rob back here today. I like this side of you much better!

 

[Handbag Lady]

I was so sorry to hear of the AC closing. I never got to see it and I won't since we won't be returning until October.

But. You are getting married the day before I turn 40. So that's a party right there in itself.

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

I love the way the rings and the watch are working out!

Don't forget a penny in your shoes! That's for luck too.

 

[wallyb]

Well, who doesn't love a mischievous imp with little horns?

Little horns?
They do grow ya know!

 

[rpmdfw]

Yikes!

Two months exactly from today!

So much left to do!

Spoke to my mom over the weekend. She's gotten a stress fracture in her ankle (same exact place, opposite foot as the one she broke in Italy last year). It doesn't appear to be very severe, so we're crossing our fingers as hoping that she'll be out of the "boot" in time to dance with us at the wedding. I'm just glad it's not as bad as last time. She was in a lot of pain for over a week in Italy (and maneuvering on crutches or a wheelchair in those ancient city centers is a nightmare). At least this time it's not as bad, and she's at home.

 

[ConcKahuna]

Ouch!

I hope your mom's OK!!

 

[wallyb]

Spoke to my mom over the weekend. She's gotten a stress fracture in her ankle (same exact place, opposite foot as the one she broke in Italy last year). It doesn't appear to be very severe, so we're crossing our fingers as hoping that she'll be out of the "boot" in time to dance with us at the wedding. I'm just glad it's not as bad as last time. She was in a lot of pain for over a week in Italy (and maneuvering on crutches or a wheelchair in those ancient city centers is a nightmare). At least this time it's not as bad, and she's at home.

Maybe Mom should go with a more
sensible footwear choice when touring?

 

[rpmdfw]

Ouch!
I hope your mom's OK!!

She'll be fine. And we'll work around whatever we have to work around.

Maybe Mom should go with a more
sensible footwear choice when touring?

I'm choosing to ignore that.

Be thankful.

 

[wallyb]

I'm choosing to ignore that.
Be thankful.

I forgot!
Yes sir - I'm sure she'll be fine in no time sir.

It was Louie Sir.

 

[turkygurl]

Tell mom not to worry. Don't you remember the Cosby Show episode where they were supposed to go out, but Claire had broken her foot and didn't want to go out with an ugly cast and Cliff's dad went and talked to her and spruced up the cast and made it all glittery and fun and she carried her sparkly cane and wound up dancing and having fun anyway...

I watch too much T.V.

 

[rpmdfw]

I watch too much T.V.

 

[turkygurl]

Ssshhh. Don't tell JaxPiper, he already thinks I do, so I try not to give him more ammunition for his case.

But seriously, sparkly cast... as Tim Gunn would say, "Make it Work!"

 

[rpmdfw]

Ssshhh. Don't tell JaxPiper, he already thinks I do, so I try not to give him more ammunition for his case.

But seriously, sparkly cast... as Tim Gunn would say, "Make it Work!"

Sparkly? Really?

I'd think that spray adhesive and about a yard of blue satin acetate in shade that matches my tie and/or her dress would be a better fix.

(Did I ever mention that I've got a Bachelors Degree in Theatre Arts and spent a year working in the costume shop in college as their "crafts person" making hats, masks, etc as well as dying fabrics?)

 

[turkygurl]

Did I ever mention that I've got a Bachelors in Theatre Arts and spent a year working in the costume shop in college as their "crafts person" make hats, masks, etc as well as dying fabrics?

Did I mention that I absolutely love you? My mom has her Masters in Theatre Arts and wrote/directed/performed plays for years. Now she refuses to do anything at all (retirement). I started acting (natural drama queen) at a young age, and wound up competing in Reader's Theatre in college. I'm waiting til the kids are a little older, and I'm going to try to break back into the local scene. When it's in your blood, you know?

And a satin cover for the cast in a matching shade would be great. Satin in shiny, and shiny is just as good as sparkly.

 

[rpmdfw]

Did I mention that I absolutely love you? My mom has her Masters in Theatre Arts and wrote/directed/performed plays for years. Now she refuses to do anything at all (retirement). I started acting (natural drama queen) at a young age, and wound up competing in Reader's Theatre in college. I'm waiting til the kids are a little older, and I'm going to try to break back into the local scene. When it's in your blood, you know?

And a satin cover for the cast in a matching shade would be great. Satin in shiny, and shiny is just as good as sparkly.

Will you love me even more if I tell you that Scott also has a BA in Theatre Arts? He's currently in rehearsals for a production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in Clermont. He has to miss my 40th birthday because of dress rehearsal. The upside is that he looks very sexy with the goatee he's had to grow.

I don't do much in the way of theatre these days (except watch it) because I got badly burned once upon a time by a partner who embezzled from our small not-for-profit theatre company and then left just as the IRS got involved. I was the Artistic Director, he was the Managing Director. It was ugly.

The fact that Scott and I are both theatre geeks probably explains a lot of why we love the Adventurers Club, though, doesn't it?

 

[turkygurl]

Now I do love you more! It probably explains why I loved the AC on sight though. When do Scott's shows start?

 

[rpmdfw]

Now I do love you more! It probably explains why I loved the AC on sight though. When do Scott's shows start?

August 14th. Two weekends. WAAAAY! out in Clermont.

 

[wallyb]

Sparkly? Really?
I'd think that spray adhesive and about a yard of blue satin acetate in shade that matches my tie and/or her dress would be a better fix.

Love love love it!

That'll just be the bees knees!
I'm going to do this positive ray of sunshine crap
for a while - and see if I can turn this hating
on wally thing around.

 

[rpmdfw]

Love love love it!

That'll just be the bees knees!
I'm going to do this positive ray of sunshine crap
for a while - and see if I can turn this hating
on wally thing around.

So you mean that saying "Love love love it!" was just you being phony?

You don't really like it?