Marriage, Valentine's Day and other matters

Before anyone goes having any ideas - the title of this entry relates to totally separate issues. :-P

Marriage
We have just made it through 2 days of marathon sessions of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. By very narrow margins we have held at bay 3 different "follow-on" amendments to the constitutional amendment. These amendments sought to change the wording of the proposed amendment to make it more palatable to voters. They have the gall to call some of the proposed amendments "compromises". I'm sorry but I don't appreciate my rights being "compromised." We now wait until March 11th when they reconvene to finish the convention and to finally decide if the amendment will be passed. Write your reps and tell them not to write discrimination into the constitution.

Valentine's Day
Valentine's day was lovely. I went out the night before with Elliot, Jen and Andrew and Tim met us a little bit later. We had a good time and the gang didn't interrogate Tim too badly. ;)

I then went over to Tim's and he gave me a beautiful silver pictureframe with a photo of us from the semi. I got him a box of Godiva chocolates... yummy.

I have to say it was nice this year. This is the first time I wasn't single on Valentine's Day and I definately enjoyed it.

Other matters
I didn't actually get to spend the evening with Tim on V-day since I had a pre-existing arragement with several friends at work to go to the Freedom To Marry Coalition's "Love is in the Air" Valentine's Day Gala dinner. There was a silent auction as well as a live auction and they made a lot of money for the cause. I was proud to be there supporting it all by purchasing a ticket to the event. I'm happy to say that when I talk to my kids sitting next to my husband I can say "I was there".