The Basics

I am the feminine, if not femme, partner in a lesbian marriage. Earlier this year, my wife’s younger brother died.  A month later,  she decided we were moving down South to be closer to her family Before It Was Too Late.  I landed in her parent’s basement last month and got married 18 days ago. Today is August 18, 2009. My goals for the first year of marriage are to pay down credit card debt and get pregnant. When it comes to the “heavy lifting” of pregnancy, as an acquaintance so aptly put it, I will be doing it.

Currently,  I am unpregnant and 7,088 dollars in credit card debt, not counting my father’s funeral bill. I am 32, she is 30 – Libra/Gemini. We are a social worker and special education teacher, respectively. I work with families who are trying to figure out how to parent special needs children who are at risk of  being removed to foster care, detained in detention, or admitted to a psychiatric hospital. I think they call it family preservation. She works in a middle school. 5th grade.

UPDATE January 2010: Basement aborted. Our two bedroom one bath was born on January 4th. (Credit cards be damned.)

UPDATE May 2010: I want to move to Baltimore

UPDATE SEPT 2010: We moved to Asheville