Crazy Virgo

Does it feel different?

You know, I was going to do this big, huge post about getting married and the awesome honeymoon trip to Belize, but I'm not really sure anyone wants to hear about that. Apparently what everyone wants to hear about is "Do you feel different now that you're married?" How do I know that? Every person I run into, including the mailman and the woman helping my change my name at the social security office has butted their noses into my business by asking. Hmmm, let me think about that. If during the half hour between being Crazy Virgo then magically transforming into Mrs. Gentleman Lover I was sucked up by aliens, experimented on then sent back in time to ancient Egypt was pierced, tattooed, then dropped off back on Orcas Island, then the answer is Yes, in fact I do feel incredibly differently. I'm surprised that you even recognize me now that I've given up everything that I used to be just one month ago. Don't I look different?

DIfferent. Hmmm...I don't feel like I've been pricked with a needle, or like I just ran a marathon, or won the lottery or bungee jumped, or slept for 24 hours. No, much better than all that. Here's the question, what does different mean? Excited? Sure. Getting married was the most exciting day I'll ever have. Nervous? Nope. Not even a little, and that's no thanks to the Pepto Bismol tablets a certain writer/boss gave me a week prior to my wedding with warm wishes of "just in case."  Happy? Yeah, but that's no different. Gentleman Lover and I have been living in  sinful bliss for seven years.  We don't need books about how to communicate or read each other's body language or how to determine what planet we are from to be happy. We fell upon that stage long ago.

I guess, I feel....mature. We both signed on the dotted line and said YES to forever and ever, and 1/2 ownership of everything, and the times that we argue and don't have money and totally suck, and to the very good times that we'll take pictures of and frame, and to being each other's #1 fan, and GL even said he promised to let me watch "Pride & Prejudice" as many times as I want without budging in to remind me how many times I've already seen it.  So we both became right around 10% more mature by getting married. So, if that qualifies as different, then yes. Yes, fellow humans that are nosy and want to know about my feelings, I guess I feel different now that I am a Mrs. and have a new last name. But, why the hell do you want to know?

Oye! Bullocks!

Seriously, I know you're dying to hear every last detail of the 10 days I traded in water for rum punch and Belikin beer, BUT, I just unearthed something very interesting. Ladies, this may be especially hard for you to hear, but what I am about to say is 100% true. Alright, I'm just going to be out with it. Toni Collette - the fantastic actress from such films as Emma, About a Boy, Little Miss Sunshine, Muriel's Wedding, Clockwatchers, Velvet Goldmine (and my recent secret favorite In Her Shoes) - is AUSTRALIAN!!!!! Confirmed by IMDB, and wikipedia. All this time, I've been setting her on my polished pedestal of favorite British actresses, and all this time she's been a friend of Kylie? I thought she and Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson were having tea on the weekends and piddling around the Spitalfields Market. Now, I come to find out she's just listening to old Midnight Oil records with Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. Exhale ladies. We're going to have to accept it. She's a fantastic actress with a fanstastic sense of humor, and damnit does a great English and American accent. Damnit. Damnit. damnit. My world is crashing all around me.

I heart New Zealand

Ok, I swear I have a heavy duty, XXL blog coming about our 10 wonderful days spent in Belize for our honeymoon. But first, I have to ask:

IS ANYONE ELSE WATCHING AND LOVING "THE FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS?"

I missed them live because I was getting married and in honeymoon heaven, so I just caught up this weekend. Jermaine and Brett are so f*king adorable I can't stand it. And the nerd-based, humor derived from normality is genius. I remember hearing and interview with Terri Gross on Fresh Air while back with the two of them and laughing out loud in the car, but then forgot about it in the wake of wedding season.
Do yourself a favor, if you have HBO, tune in to "Flight of the Conchords" - its on directly after "Entourage." This may be a huge statement, but I believe it to be some of the funniest writing and improve on TV I've seen since "The Office" (BBC version, of course).