Tag: family

Read this and earn a million dollars! No real effort required!

Just kidding.  We haven’t been hacked or anything, I just wanted to get your attention and make a point at the same time.  Friends and family, I have been meaning to do this for a while and just haven’t gotten around to it.  I have wanted to sit everyone down, so to speak, and have a little chat regarding safe behaviors on the Internet.   Some of you may need this more than others, to be frank.

And this is a long post, yes.  But if you are one of the people who ask me for computer advice, especially IT security advice, do me (and yourself) a favor and READ ALL OF THIS because the odds are good I will be sending you here to read this the next time you have a problem.

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A post in which I am furious

Ok, folks.  I know we’ve been been married for slightly more than a month and that some of you might find this slightly confusing, so let me lay it out for you.

Mrs. Geoffrey Michael doesn’t live here.  In fact, she doesn’t exist.

Mrs. Michael is Geoff’s mom.  Or possibly one of Geoff’s two sisters in law.  She is patently NOT me.

Mrs. Hopkins is my mother.

I am Ms. Kelly Hopkins.

I did not take Geoff’s last name.  I am not going to take Geoff’s last name.

Assuming that I did or that I am going to is ignorant, rude and, at best, old fashioned.  I am tired of having to explain over and over again to the same people that I am still, and shall remain, Ms. Kelly Hopkins. Interestingly, Geoff’s tired of it as well.  He’s also completely fine with the fact that I kept my name and we’re the only two people in the whole world to whom this should matter.  Hm.  Funny how that works.

For those of you who were at the wedding and were paying attention we were consistently announced as Geoff and Kelly.  At no point were we announced as Mr. & Mrs. Michael.  There was a reason for that. 

Furthermore:

From this point forward mail addressed to Mrs. Geoffrey Michael, Geoffrey & Kelly Michael, or Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Michael shall be returned to sender unopened.

I am offended that people so casually disregard my intent and my very identity.  This is who I am, who I choose to be, and who I shall remain.  If you have a problem with it, keep it to yourself.

Comments are not allowed on this post.  This is not open for discussion and this is not up for debate.

~Ms. Kelly Hopkins

Better living through chemistry

As my tolerance for Scratch’s shenanigans and general level of aggression was rapidly nearing an end, we took him to the vet last week.  Once we explained to her what was going on and my theory that, perhaps, he was actually a cryptorchid, he had a physical exam that included a check to see if he was, in fact, producing testosterone.  This physical exam is not unlike making him turn his head and cough, but in male cats it is a bit more invasive.

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Our wedding slideshow

Hi everyone,

Our fabulous entertainment people, Curtis and Anna from Curtis Knight Entertainment, emailed this to us.  It’s the slideshow they made from some of the photos they took at the wedding and reception.  Geoff and I LOVE it.  It’s amazing.  Many of you guest folks are in it.  Please give it a view.

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Portuguese cuisine is still my friend

but this little clip summarizes some of the problems with it rather well.   And my grandmother and step-great-grandmother both lived even longer than this guy’s mom – well over 90 in Nana’s case and well over 100 in Madrina’s.

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Geoff’s cat is a pervert

And other fun family secrets…

One of the joys of combining households is seeing how the animals react to each other.  We combined households back in December of 2008 when Geoff got a job up here in Boston and was finally able to move here.  Geoff had been adopted by Scratch shortly before that and we were able to get Scratch neutered right before the trip up here.

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Our wedding photo site

Hi everyone,

I have reason to believe that I am going to have a LOT of photographs coming my way.  Video as well, but a LOT of photos from this wedding and everything leading up to it.  Therefore, I have created a photo and video share site on Shutterfly.  If you have photos or videos to share please go ahead and upload them there.

The URL for the site is http://ourweddingnovember2011.shutterfly.com/ and you can upload directly to the site or you can email pictures to the site via the email address ourweddingnovember2011@sfly.com.  Please feel free to send things directly there rather than sending them to us, it will be easier for us to parse them that way and to decide what we want to do with them.

If you have anything of questionable content or a truly horrible photo of one of us (read: me) then feel free to ask first.  There is currently only one photo on the site, so feel free to send on over anything you have from the Bachelor party, the Bachelorette party, the decorating of the reception space, etc.

Thanks, everyone.

~Kelly

ETA: This is important!  I can make a folder for you and then you’ll get a personalized email address to which you can send your photos.  That way you don’t have to log in to shutterfly, create an account, or figure out how to upload without creating a login.  This is EXTREMELY easy for me to do so if you’d like me to do it PLEASE just let me know and I’ll set it right up.