Ok, so as I said Monday, this got too long for one post, so I chopped it up. If you can’t remember or don’t know what the heck is going on, all the details are available there. Enjoy!

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25 Random Things (continued)

13. If it were up to me, there’d be readily-accessible public transportation everywhere. This isn’t because I’m particularly green (altho I do love the planet, blah blah blah). It is because I hate driving.
I don’t hate driving as much, largely because I don’t have to do it as much. This is because I no longer work/have to commute, because I now live where my family lives and so no longer have to travel for holidays, and because The Fiancee loves to drive and drives my happy ass around most of the time. (teehee)

14. When I was a kid, I practiced my signature until it looked “grown-up” - my signature hasn’t changed one iota since then.
Funny story – so I’ve mentioned The Fiancee and you can figure out I’m getting married. Well, I’m going to change my name – something I never thought I’d do, by the way, but which I’m oddly not at all disturbed about now that the actual event is nearing. I was always rather of the “why should a woman change her name, what about the man?” or “my name is who I am, and why would I change that just because I got married?” But now that I’m actually going to get married (something I honestly thought I would probably not do, since it hadn’t happened/no prospects were on the horizon by my late thirties), I find that I don’t mind so much. In fact, I mind not at all. And yes, I’ve already started practicing my new signature. It too will look grown-up. And it will look surprisingly like my current signature – even though my new name will be much longer and comprised of many new/different letters. That’s largely because my signature now is a scrawl of three letters – first letter of my first and last names and last letter of my last. And my new last name ends in the same letter as my current last name. So I’m really only swapping out one letter. Or, in other words, new married me will be surprisingly similar to old un-married me – just with a twist in the middle…
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