To cap off my aunt's visit to CA - we took her with us to a "No on 8" rally in Long Beach. Her visit all weekend had been a pretty accurate "Day in the Life of the Flinns." We hung out and caught up on TV; took her to a party; went to the beach; saw Janeane Garofalo at the Improv; ate a lot of great food and drank a lot of great wine. So, adding a bit of political activity into her trip made it that much accurate.


I'm sure the majority of you have heard about it, either because you live in CA or because of the attention it's been getting on the national news. Or maybe you're a member of one of the LDS churches that's made it their mission to ensure my mother-in-law isn't treated like an equal citizen.

This is an important matter to me for several reasons: 1) my parents didn't raise an intolerant jack-hole. 2) it's personal - like I said earlier, it directly affects my mother-in-law. With the onslaught of media attention this item has been receiving, here's a more personal account - my husband wrote his feelings on the whole thing and he does it much more eloquently than I ever could. (I don't think he uses the word "jack-hole" once in his whole blog.)

Sean's blog

For those non-Californians, here is the wording of Prop 8 as it will appear on our ballots:

Proposition 8
ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

That's it. It's that simple. It's a constitutional amendment to take rights away from people.


I know that by the time most of you read this, it'll be Tuesday, and you'll probably have already voted. But, I thought I'd share a few more links with you:

Los Angeles Times

Newsweek: Can I vote on YOUR marriage?

Beach Visit

What do you do when your aunt from Wisconsin is in town visiting? You go to the beach, of course. Never mind that it was in the high 60s/low 70s and breezy. In Wisconsin it' s freezing and wintery - so coming to the beach so you can gloat to your co-workers (and kids) that you went to the beach for the weekend is a lot of fun.

Here are some random shots I took:
The waves were a lot larger than the pictures make them out to be.The clouds were pretty cool looking, too.
I hate seagulls. They're the rats of the sky. Whenever I see them, I picture the seagulls from "Finding Nemo."

Halloween

Friday night my friend S. invited us to a Halloween party thrown by some people at her office. This meant coming up with a 3rd Halloween costume (costume #2 consisted of a Black Angels tee and a guitar controller from 'Rock Band'). Our friends K. and C. lent us their AWESOME wigs and boots so we built our costumes around them.

This is S. and I book-ending my aunt, who's in town visiting for the weekend.
Technically, we were going as Cotton Candy and Black Licorice - but at some point in the evening we also thought we could pass as dolls...