in sickness and in health

To be realistic, it's likely to be more the former than the latter. Regardless, A___ and I have decided to seek government sanction for our union. Yep, that's right. Marriage.

Pragmatics, finances, and other whatnot dictate that the actual event will be sooner than later. We've spent a good deal of time talking about this decision. It's held up to many discussions, recastings, and even some arguments. And so we come to now, today, when we sat down to print out the marriage license application and talk actual real details. Pending a bit more information from the government about what is required and when (etc.) the event will be possibly as soon as within the next two weeks - although we are both leaning more toward the weekend of September 13th so we can indulge a romantic whim or two. Oh and families. Brothers and sisters, since they all are local.

The September date unfortunately puts our anniversary quite up near my birthday. To counter the bunching that would otherwise occur, we've decided we will celebrate an actual anniversary in May, which is when we finally stopped talking about this decision in hypotheticals and started discussing it as a future reality. Cinco di Maio looks like a good candidate for celebrating as our anniversary because, well, why not?