But this is not the 15 minutes of fame that I wanted.
I was just checking with the World, and apparently, everyone knows our business now. Although there could be some folks in the Conga who are still clueless. But don't worry, I've Friended them on Facebook so they should know soon enough.
I'm serious, I'd rather not be known in history books for this. I can just see it now. "World famous Blogger and Civil Rights Pioneer, Mark Himes, died today at the age of 103. Doctors say it had nothing to do with the fact that he lost two Followers in one evening. In other news, burgundy and hunter green are back in fashion"! Honestly, why didn't I do Star Search when I had the chance? But no, I had to do life the hard way.
Don't let your guard down or Love will get you.
We have another crazy day before us. And once again, you'll find out shortly. But all I want is it to be 8:30PM, and the kids in bed so I can finally watch two weeks of Top Chef. I just see it there, in my DVR, teasing me. But nope, I'm too beat by the end of the day.
Smothered by Love
Once again, I want to thank you for the comments on this site, the emails and tweets. Yesterday was nuts with everyone and their brother forwarding around Wednesday's post on Facebook. I've seen folks, who I don't even know, saying things like, "although I don't believe in Gay Marriage(Marriage Equality), I can't see why the Government would want to rip this family apart....: Total strangers I'm telling you. It was so unreal. If I do live to be 103, I'll never be able to thank all of you and those people personally. I hope you all are reading now and know that everything you are doing for us is much appreciated.
Great Organization that we worked with for years and years and years...
Because you asked, here is how you can help. You can write to Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano. And if you live in Pennsylvania, you can write to Senator Casey's office. Both, on our behalf. You can let them know that you read the story on StopTheDeportations.com or that you know of our story from another source. If you do this, I would urge you to, as best you can, write it when you're in a good mood. No one likes a nasti-gram. In fact, Senator Casey's office already knows about our story and his staff has reached out to us. And Congressman Holden's office has been exceptionally helpful. I tend to think that people are generally good and want to help when and if they can. You read my post that I copied from StopTheDeportations.com. You know that we are asking for approval of our green-card application. Or at the very least, held in abeyance and not denied. I will leave the rest to you because I don't want it to sound like a form letter. And in fact, actual letters and phone calls are the best. Next week, I will post info about how to contact those offices. My mind right now, at 6a.m., doesn't have the will power to look it up.
Bloggy-Friends, I hope to be back to "normal" next week and start visiting you all again and telling mindless stories like how Fred removed clothes from the washer, dried, folded and put them away. Sounds great, right? But sadly, I didn't wash those clothes. I just had them sitting in the washing machine until there was enough to wash. So now, what's dirty, what's clean, who knows!
In the meantime, let me make you watch another video. This was from a French documentary filmed in 2008. It was on Gay life in America. Our part was about Immigration. I think they made a French and an English speaking version. Also, Fred is called Fabien in this clip. I forget why he wanted an Alias. But, it is what it is!
Your Friend, m.
p.s. Are you sick of me yet? Well, if you can stand to see more, please read our interview in the Philadelphia Enquirer that just hit this morning: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20120113_Gay__binational_couple_joins_fight_against_federal_antigay_law.html?page=1&c=y
fyi, I'm not the "facilities manager" as mentioned in this article. I'm in Facilties but certainly not the manager.
