I am to be made an aunt again

[attackfish]

My brother called my parents to announce his engagement.  This was no real surprise to us.  He and his intended are very much in love, and we had all been taking bets on when he was going to get the nerve to ask.  My parents took him out to dinner a few days later, and my mom asked to see the ring.  Well, that engagement ring wasn't alone.  She looked at his wife, and at him, and asked aghast. "Is that a wedding ring?"  Which is how we all learned that the two had eloped.  So then, my dad noticed that my brother's being extra attentive, and my sister went out with my new sister-in-law and noticed she stayed away from alcohol, so when they came over to dinner a few days later, my sister asked her the million dollar question.  Yep, she's pregnant.  She's due in the beginning of August.  So anyway, we just found out the baby's sex, and my brother and his new wife (who is a wonderful woman, and they're crazy about each other) are having a baby girl.  My first niece, I'm so excited!

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[ljlee.livejournal.com]

I guess Alabama has that big red X on its flag for a reason. I don't get how Southern states can somehow think their way is better when they do worse on just about every marker of life quality there is, from infant mortality (http://www.americashealthrankings.org/AL/IMR/2011) to literacy (https://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/StateEstimates.aspx) to health (http://www.americashealthrankings.org/rankings), life expectancy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy), even divorce (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/08/25/divorce.bible.belt/). (Obviously there's nothing wrong with people divorcing, it's just laughable for politicians and preachers to wrap themselves in the "family values" mantle and demonize the "East Coast liberals.") And they want the rest of the country to look like them? Ugh.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. I swear though, as soon as I can, it's off to Colorado, and I will never look back.

But in the mean time, I get to enjoy my siblings, nephews, and new niece. Silver linings and all that.