Life in Rewind

I have wanted to write a personal LJ entry, but it seems the muses are in overdrive again. Between working on the birthday story for tarion_anarore and my Midhavens stuff and, now, returning to the daily drabble, there hasn't been time for much else, least of all, rambling about my life.

But...before I begin said rambling, my sister got some really good news.

Actually, not good news but great news: She has been approved for her visa to live in the UK! Which means that she can marry her girlfriend Kirsty, since our narrow-minded country won't allow it!

I'm sad that my sister will be moving overseas; I'm sad that my sister has to move overseas or not be able to marry the woman she loves, but this is trumped by happiness that my sister gets to marry the woman that she loves! I can't imagine myself in the same situation, my country telling me that the person I want to spend the rest of my life with is unacceptable because of someone else's bigoted ideals. Last week, I was a ball of worries, knowing that Sharon's application was in the process of being reviewed. But she called me Saturday to say that it has been approved, so it seems I'm getting another sister-in-law. Yay!

While I'm rambling about my sister, I want to pimp her a bit. (Now doesn't that sound like a Library of Moria badfic or what??) But the other day, she wrote a piece on "gay adoption" that I thought was really wonderful. And I think it deserves to be read by anyone who's concerned about the rights of same-sex couples...and perhaps most of all, by people who think that they don't deserve the same rights as "normal" couples do.

Now, to rambling about the weekend....

( Rambling about the weekend.... )

The Daily Drabble: "Aubade to Temperance"

( The Word of the Day for 21 March 2006--aubade )

As tempting as it was to write a self-insert--given the presence of my name in the definition--I resisted and instead undertook more dignified topics.

Namely: drinking.

As my Elves are not the most temperant lot in Felak!verse, an "Aubade to Temperance" seemed something that they could all use. Well, apparently, except Macalaurë.

I assumed that the speaker was Nelyo, although it could be any of the brothers, even Fëanaro. I'll leave that up to you.

( Aubade to Temperance )