The Friday Five are late, but clearly not because they were enjoying Guinness yesterday

[magnetic_pole]

1. Are you Irish? Possibly a bit. (I don't know that much about my ancestors. One side of the family immigrated relatively recently (early 20c) from Sweden; the other side's history is more nebulous and might include some Irish among the Germans and Scots.)

2. Do you like Guinness? No. Don't really drink at all, in fact.

3. Do you know what the symbol of Ireland is? The harp?

4. Have you ever watched Father Ted? I haven't even heard of Father Ted.

5. Do you believe in leprechauns? No. Wow, I'm really failing this Irish quiz, aren't I?

In other, non-Irish news, the last out-of-town guest of the spring break has now departed, and the regular work week is on the horizon. Big take-aways of this last visit? If you're mid-forties-ish and you've been keeping up with someone since college, you've actually known each other for longer than you hadn't known each other, and long enough to have forgotten entire episodes in your relationship. (Or maybe my memory's just getting worse very quickly, and folks are being polite with me.) Also, the Obamas are still the hottest ticket in town. We had to wait in line to see their portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.

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[ancientreader]

LOL!

When same-sex marriage was legalized in NYS, Spouse and I heard a radio commentator remark on how many people were now able to get married after having been together for decades, and we both said AWWWWWWWWWWW and then looked at each other in the shared realization of WAIT THAT'S US. Heh. Who knew we were that old? We're that old.

[magnetic_pole]

Exactly! Us, too. Well, not "decades," but quite a while! We were living in VT when it became legal there, and we got the paperwork done immediately because we both have hostile families. (Document, document, document.) When my partner pushed for some kind of celebration, I was adamant that we call it something else--no way was I starting over at year 0 when we'd already weathered more than a decade together. M.

[ancientreader]

Oh, yeah, we still date our relationship from when it actually began, not from the date of our formal marriage -- before that, we'd been domestic partners, anyway. So we could have any number of anniversaries, not that we can ever remember any of them.

[magnetic_pole]

Same here. I always get confused when online security questions ask for the year you were married, because we've had so many answers to that over the years. M.

[ancientreader]

The only correct answer to that question, obviously, is "1895."

[magnetic_pole]

:) :) :) M.