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After pricing out the materials, it looks like Steampunk Time Traveler is
too expensive a Halloween costume this year. (Especially if I'm saving for a
wedding.) Instead, I'm considering Rainbow
Brite. Materials costs are significantly cheaper as long as I avoid
super shiny plastic fabrics. Then the most expensive individual piece is the
wig, but she has a simple hairstyle so that shouldn't be too bad.

And maybe this year I'll win the costume contest! *hopes*

Ultimate Space Wedding

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701070444.2kv8ptei&show_article=1&catnum=9

Fly me to the Moon: Japan firm offers weddings in space


A Japanese firm on Tuesday began accepting reservations for couples who
really want to make the big leap -- by blasting into space to exchange their
wedding vows.

Each happy couple will spend 240 million yen (2.3 million dollars) for the
ceremony in a small space vessel, which will shoot up 100 kilometres (60
miles) into the sky.

During the hour-long flight, the couple will spend several minutes in zero
gravity during which they will exchange their vows with up to three guests
present, said Taro Katsura, a spokesman for Japanese firm First Advantage.

The couple would perform most of the ceremony before takeoff "so that they
can say their vows and look out the window," Katsura said.

The firm is offering the space marriages in a tie-up with US-based Rocket
Plane, which will conduct the flights from a private airport in Oklahoma.

From the spaceship, the couple would probably be able to see the outline of
the Earth although they will not be far enough into space to allow complete
floating, Katsura said.

Despite launching the offer in Japan, the company said it expected most of
its customers to be from China or Arab Gulf nations. There are currently no
plans to start the space weddings in the United States, Katsura said.

Space tourism has been seeing a boom of sorts since 2001, when American
millionaire businessman Dennis Tito paid 20 million dollars to Russia's
space agency to become the first person to pay his own ticket into space.

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Another reason I like this job more than my old one:

Tomorrow we can leave at 2 to start the holiday weekend early! Yay!

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Nothing like an argument to make an already bad stomach ache feel worse.

I wish my emotions weren't so irrationally connected to my digestive track.

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Ben and I had a stupid fight but it is thankfully resolved. I really hate when we fight. Especially when it's over dumb misunderstandings.

Ben bought me rectangle pizzas, like what my grandma would make me during the summer. They are a comfort food for me.

Now we are watching star trek. This ep is about Abraham Lincoln.