Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 EDIT:(I guess everyone knows now, so I don't need the old thread title. Here it is anyway, below. Also, scroll down to find out about my new website! http://ados.ermarian.net/ ) For those who haven't noticed already, I have something to say. See if you can guess what. Hint 1 Hint 2 Hint 3: Click to reveal.. Look at her left hand. Click to reveal.. I am now betrothed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan inni Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 congatulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congrats, ADoS! I trust the event has been blessed by the requisite noodly appendages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 Yes. In fact, I think it was all because I had chicken parmigiana on spaghetti for lunch that she said yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Enraged Slith Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 You're my age, aren't you? Man, that's just surreal. I'm happy for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Man I feel young. Congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk The Knight Who Said Ni Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congrats and Ramen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Yay ADoS! Edit: Weird, because two of my cousins were just recently engaged as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Duck in a Top Hat Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulations, ADoS! —Alorael, who warns against spoilers in Hint 3.2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Ouroboros Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulations ADos! May His Noodly Appendage bless you with a happy life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Swimmin' Salmon Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Excalibur Weird, because two of my cousins were just recently engaged as well. First cousins? And, congrats Vin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Poached Salmon Originally Posted By: Excalibur Weird, because two of my cousins were just recently engaged as well. First cousins? ...they weren't engaged to each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulations! Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulations! Enjoy being engaged — it's a fun time. Part of the fun is that while you're engaged, it feels as though the whole world is congratulating you for this wonderful special state you're in. The funny part is that as soon as you actually get married, you suddenly stop being special. You'll have become just another married couple exactly like everyone else. But that's just the thing. When you're single, being married is NOT being 'just like everyone else'. When you're single, nobody else is married, either. Married people might as well be martians. You don't really know any of them. They're not part of your world, they don't count as real people, you hardly ever think about them. Once you've been married a few years, this will all have switched around. Somehow, between friends getting married too, making new married friends, and drifting away from single friends with whom it's now awkward to socialize as a couple, most people you know will be married. Marriage will be the default state. The meaningful issue will be whether or not you have kids. Single people might as well be martians. One reads about how societies need rituals to recognize life passages and blah blah blah. The point I never got until I experienced this is that it's not just a matter of everyone else recognizing that two people have changed their state and role. It's also that the marrying couple are making an enormous change in how they think about everyone else. It doesn't happen overnight; it takes a few years to be complete. But the biggest step is made over the engagement. You are now en route to Mars. When you get there, it will be Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Milla Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Wow! Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulaations ADoS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Artemis~ Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 **dances** CONGRAAAATS! Do you happen to be short of a virtual flower girl? ~Artemis and Marriage. I wish I were at my parent's wedding. I heard that it was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congrats! When the time comes don't feel abashed to tell people that you are on your honeymoon. I know that my wife and I got to the front of many lines and saved some money by telling people that. Best of wishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Xaiya Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congratulations, ADoS. May you two live a happy and fruitfull life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Congrats, ADoS! May the noodly appendage bless your union! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk llloyd Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 SoT, i must congratulte you on that typed speach, it gave me chills while watching quick draw mcgraw, which for anyone's information is a hard thing to do to me. that last part is going in my sig to remember that. oh yea and Doer of Stuff congrats to you also. i have a feeling for myself that i will never marry anybody, but as i am 14 and never had a girlfriend even that would be an impossible guess to be made accurately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Pfft. Old news. I knew she'd say yes. The real question is: How'd she like the speech? *congratulatory huggles for you and Maud* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 I have another piece of good news: http://ados.ermarian.net/ My website is finally up! It has all sorts of fancy stuff on it! Games, music, art, fanciness! *goes to update thread title* EDIT: Whoops, forgot about the question! Sorry, it's late and I'm tired and I should be in bed. I didn't actually give the speech. I showed it to Nicothodes after I showed you, and she liked it too, so I started to practice it. However, as I read it aloud I realized it sounded fake and forced. It wasn't something I would say, but it was something I would write. So we were at the Butterfly Garden at the Museum of Science in Boston, and we were talking to the attendants and looking at the butterflies, and as usual I was squealing with joy at the sight of the butterflies. We saw a butterfly fall on its back shortly after it had come out of its chrysalis, so we told the attendant and someone came and got it hanging on to something again, so we sort of saved its life. Then a guy came up to the attendant with two big brown butterflies sitting on his shoulder in mating. He asked how long he'd have to stay there, and the attendant said they'd be stuck to each other like that for hours, but that if he wanted to go he could pluck them off his shoulder, and he did and put them on a plant. Anyway, we looked at the butterflies some more, and had a good time. I said to her, "I love you." She said, "I love you too." I said "You make me so happy." and she said I made her happy too. I told her I wished I could find something to say that could express the way I feel about her and how much she means to me. She liked that, and then I mentioned how for our whole relationship, textual communication was very important, as we spend a lot of time talking on AIM, and how I sometimes express myself better in writing than in speech. She agreed, and so I said, "I wrote something a while back that I wanted to say to you here, but when I read it to myself it sounded fake and forced, like something I would write but not say. I actually printed it out. Could you read it?" She said yes, so I took the paper out of my wallet and handed it to her, telling her to read the whole thing without looking up, and then look up at me when she was finished. As she did that, I pulled the ring box out of my pocket, and held it in my hands so she couldn't see it. When she finished and looked up at me, I opened my hands, and her eyes lit up. I opened the box, showed her the ring, and asked her to marry me, and she said yes! She grabbed the ring out of the box and put it on, which is good because I couldn't remember which hand to put it on. Then the attendants took pictures for us, and we went on our way because it was hot and humid in there. EDIT 2: Oh, and she liked what I wrote, even though I handed it to her in printed form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Toby-Linn Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Awww, that's so cute! I said it to you on Facebook, but congratulations again! p.s. The links to the pictures in your first post don't seem to work anymore....I got a Not Found error when I clicked on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Originally Posted By: The Almighty Doer of Stuff I have another piece of good news:http://ados.ermarian.net/ My website is finally up! It has all sorts of fancy stuff on it! Games, music, art, fanciness! *goes to update thread title* POOH-POOH! I DEMAND THE RETURN OF THE OMBUDSMAN PAGE! Oh, and congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Quote: Once upon a time, A NOUN VERBED at AN ADJECTIVE NOUN. Some day, when you least expect it, Mr. Q will suddenly pummel your body with A NOUN. You will not DIE or SURVIVE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Whoops. There, the pictures are back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan inni Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Originally Posted By: The Almighty Doer of Stuff So we were at the Butterfly Garden at the Museum of Science in Boston, and we were talking to the attendants and looking at the butterflies, and as usual I was squealing with joy at the sight of the butterflies. We saw a butterfly fall on its back shortly after it had come out of its chrysalis, so we told the attendant and someone came and got it hanging on to something again, so we sort of saved its life. Then a guy came up to the attendant with two big brown butterflies sitting on his shoulder in mating. He asked how long he'd have to stay there, and the attendant said they'd be stuck to each other like that for hours, but that if he wanted to go he could pluck them off his shoulder, and he did and put them on a plant. Anyway, we looked at the butterflies some more, and had a good time. I said to her, "I love you." She said, "I love you too." I said "You make me so happy." and she said I made her happy too. I told her I wished I could find something to say that could express the way I feel about her and how much she means to me. She liked that, and then I mentioned how for our whole relationship, textual communication was very important, as we spend a lot of time talking on AIM, and how I sometimes express myself better in writing than in speech. She agreed, and so I said, "I wrote something a while back that I wanted to say to you here, but when I read it to myself it sounded fake and forced, like something I would write but not say. I actually printed it out. Could you read it?" She said yes, so I took the paper out of my wallet and handed it to her, telling her to read the whole thing without looking up, and then look up at me when she was finished. As she did that, I pulled the ring box out of my pocket, and held it in my hands so she couldn't see it. When she finished and looked up at me, I opened my hands, and her eyes lit up. I opened the box, showed her the ring, and asked her to marry me, and she said yes! She grabbed the ring out of the box and put it on, which is good because I couldn't remember which hand to put it on. Then the attendants took pictures for us, and we went on our way because it was hot and humid in there. aww thats so nice. good job on your website too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk llloyd Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Originally Posted By: Rowen Quote: Once upon a time, A NOUN VERBED at AN ADJECTIVE NOUN. Some day, when you least expect it, Mr. Q will suddenly pummel your body with A NOUN. You will not DIE or SURVIVE. I really wanted to ask..............HUH? and what's it taste like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Maybe if you explore my website, in this case the Mr. Q section, you'll find out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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