Justice of the Peace

[plumtreeblossom]

This morning I took my Oath of Office as a Justice of the Peace for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The application process took over a year. I can officiate at weddings anywhere in the state.

Can this translate into a full time job? No, or at least not for a long time. It's not like the old days where you could hang a shingle from your porch and wait for the shotgun couples to show up. But it's going to become a side gig eventually, and more importantly, my retirement career one day. In retirement I'm going to be the cute little old lady who marries people.

Also, surrealestate and I may have something up our sleeves.

I still have to work a normal job for the foreseeable future. For the rest of this week I will have no internet from my temp gig (right now I'm on lunch in Starbucks on my laptop), so if I don't respond to emails for a few days, I'm not ignoring you, just low internet access.

I now pronounce you finished reading this post. :-)

Comments

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Have you considered Notary Public or Constable?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

That is super awesome!

Also, surrealestate and I may have something up our sleeves.

That sounds even MORE awesome. >:-) If there's a Scheme afoot, keep me posted!

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

damn, man -- i wish we'd known this before we booked our officiant! i would totally rather have had you marry us!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I'm already a Notary Public. :-)

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Ok, didn't know that.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yep, a still-hazy business scheme we've talked about for a while. But I have some prep I have to do before I can commence to hitchin' folks. :-)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I would totally have loved to do it! If they back out, you know who to call!

[ron_newman]

Constable you might not want, since that's the guy who serves things like eviction and foreclosure orders.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

Congrats! If, in some far off time, I need some marryin' done, I'll know who to call. :)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

OMG that's so cool. If you ever get a website, let me know. ;-)

[minkrose]

Congrats! That sounds pretty awesome.

If we didn't have a family-friend officiant, it would have been great to hire you instead! We're trying to keep the wedding super-small and using friends for vendors as much as possible.

We'll actually have three UU ministers at our wedding - Andy's mom, and his mom's best friend Karen PLUS our officiant David, who has known Andy's family forever but lives locally (the first two do not). So, we have two back-up ministers if anything happens.

[kencf0618.livejournal.com]

Hold hands, you lovebirds!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Sitka

[heatherp8.livejournal.com]

Hey, M. How cool is that?!
Hey: quick question, oh, ye Boston resident.
Have you ever been to or heard of a bead store called Beadworks?
I picked up a copy of the Fodor's Boston book hoping to scope out some interesting things to do while visiting w/mia famiglia this coming wknd and Beadworks was in there.
If you don't know beans ... er beads about it, no worries.
H

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yep, Beadworks is right in Harvard Square (which you should visit anyway because it's awesome:

http://www.beadworksboston.com/stores/cambridge.htm

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yay!!

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's fantastic!

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he knows about it, but I've spent far too much money there. ;) It's a nice place, though I can find most of its selection online.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That is so awesome!

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations, O Agent of the State
(but for a good purpose).
So do we address you now as
Your Grace or Your Worship? ;-)
Anon, Don