[femme gauche]

I am one of four girls and actually my only male cousin who shares my last name is adopted. My eldest sister changed her name. She would have liked to keep it but her husband is southern and that was something she just didn't feel the need to make a fuss about. I don't mind that people change it is just the assumption that it is going to happen, the assumption that a boy will have the same last name when he's 5 and when he's 85 regardless of his marital status, that really bothers me... *shrugs* But I mean it's not like I begrudge people for following their own wishes.

How do you even earn gold versus silver ribbons, anyway? Or is it just random? The progression is slow but not super slow considering I could buy a few of the items and I'm not all that active anyway.