Speech, House, and Reunion

I’ve been grooming my best man speech for Saturday. I’m trying to keep it short, but effective. I think I have a good thing with most of the written speech, but I do not like the end. It doesn’t seem appropriate…

"I’m Justin, and I’d like to thank BGem and BSco for letting me be a part of the wedding party, and thank them for letting all of us enjoy this day with them.
I’ve been friends with BGem since 1995. That’s 17 years. Those years started with Map Making, Lego cities in the Dog run, planning tunnels among other things. We moved on from that to things that really define friendship. We’ve always been able to communicate and compromise well to make things work for both of us. I’ve had many intellectual conversations with BGem. The most admirable thing about him is reliability; whenever I needed a friend growing up then also helped to support both Twin and I as we started building our life together.
Once Twin and I met BSco, I knew there was no better match for BGem than BSco. The adjectives I would use to describe BGem’s personality I think would also describe BSco’s.  BGem was never more smitten with someone, and hasn’t been happier. I hope to be around for a long time to watch them build a wonderful life together.
So, cheers to the BGem and BSco whose happiest memories start with today."
… the problem I have, and was trying to avoid throughout was placing words that dictate judgment. I’m sure they’ve had many happy days, but I don’t want to say the happiest are ahead (though they surely are). If its not that, "starting with today" is me struggling to bring the wedding into the context of their life together thus far.

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With the house, it sounds like we will be signing documents at the end of the week. We want to get the keys to our contractor right away, so we will probably forego camping this weekend to make sure that can happen. Started looking up information for combatting bindweek, which seems to be a species of Morning Glory. We also have some berry bushes to deal with. Lastly, there’s a mess of mulch and yard waste in some areas of the backyard that will be organized. Since we have a fireplace, we will probably save that for warming the house or summertime bon fires.

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Twins’ reunion went really well. There wasn’t many people there, but there were enough she hadn’t seen for awhile or had forgotten about to be thankful to go. There was some conversation that Twin prompted generational theory into. Then there was a hypnotist… and it seemed to work on Twin (who had 4 drinks up to that point). That was interesting; I figured it was a farce but she had a hard time consciously remembering things she did. Out of 8, she was the best at belly dancing, imitating Beyonce, and doing body-builder poses.