Yes, cuz, the smile paired with narrowed eyes usually means "Don't go there."

Family weddings... love them AND hate them!

Tampa was great, and as seen in the Florida Tourism Industry advertisement I just wrote, it's definitely worth going back. Even seeing family was great, since that side of the family has people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, NYC (me), Tampa and Key West in Florida, Michigan, Massachusetts, California, and Washington State. Pretty much everyone but my elderly grandmother (who was too frail to make the trip south) and one relative living out west made it into Tampa for the wedding and at least part of the week.

It was good to see everyone in one place again. We usually see most of the family for Thanksgiving (the reason I'm never in town that day), but the ones who live farther away don't often come to the holiday get-together. It takes a family wedding to get the whole crew in one place. However, as no fewer than four different cousins reminded me, we're running out of cousins to get married!

*Note to all: if you attend a family wedding anytime soon, DO NOT ask The Question of your unmarried female family members or refer to it in any way. I'm in no hurry to get married anytime soon, but by the time the fourth person asked me, "So, when are YOU getting married?" I wanted to smack somebody!!!

I think I need to start developing some flip answers to The Question, such as these:

• "When you realize your question is utterly offensive to any modern, feminist, career-oriented woman."
  
• "When my psychic gives me the okay. She's recommended I delay getting married until the moon is in Saturn's house and Mars is in retrograde."

Any other ideas?