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Seven Reasons to Smile on a Rainy Friday Morning

1. It's the Long Weekend in mere hours from now. And I'm going to the lake from Saturday til Monday to do nothing but relax and maybe challenge my dad to a game of tennis.

2. My hair seems to be handling today's humidity pretty decently. Granted, it's in a ponytail. But even that has the potential to go horribly wrong when the weather's like this.

3. U.S. Congress cafeterias have now quietly changed 'freedom fries' back to 'french fries' on all their menus.

4. Kari-Ann is heading out to spend the weekend with her rich bitch cousins (aka Paris and Nicole). So I know I'll get LOTS of funny stories on Tuesday morning.

5. Random acts of thoughtfulness. Especially ones that result in Lindsay finally obtaining her desktop coup de grace: a Mr. Clean bobblehead-slash-business card holder.

6. Fish seems to be doing a little better. Though I'm aware he might just be showing a last burst of vitality before entering into the final throes of death. I'll keep a close eye on him today.

7. This story:

Displaced man and woman tie the knot in a refugee shelter in south Lebanon

Friday Aug 4 2006 (Winnipeg Free Press)

SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - Becoming war refugees did not stop Mohammed Ghazi Taleb and Rasha Mroue from doing what they had in mind for some time... The two tied the knot Friday in a simple ceremony at a girls high school that was converted into a shelter for residents forced to flee their homes across Lebanon's embattled south. The southern port city of Sidon has swelled with tens of thousands of refugees in 24 days of fighting.
About a million Lebanese - a quarter of the country's population - have been displaced, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora has said... A Shiite Muslim cleric scribbled the couple's marriage contract on a scrap of paper. Volunteers caring for those at the shelter served cake and threw a small reception inside the school's auditorium for the bride and groom, their parents and well-wishers from their village... Taleb knew the woman he would marry for some time, but the well-to-do Mroue family did not approve of their 22-year-old daughter marrying a 27-year-old taxi driver.
But the war changed the family's outlook. "Her family saw after they became displaced that what happened was greater than all those small issues. They saw how great the ordeal was and they changed their minds," he said.

posted by Lindsay @ 1:46 PM