4001

Right, but sometimes it’s nice to hear the normal stories to balance the endless fancy extravaganzas.

4002

Here’s how I proposed to my wife while out for dinner at our favorite restaurant:

Me: I got you something. (slides ring box across table)
Her: (opens, then snaps box closed) Is this…?
Me: Yep.
Her: Does this mean…?
Me: Yep.
Her: You should still probably say it.
Me: Will you marry me?
Her: OK.

4003

Later, to her mom: “He said yes!”

4004

When I proposed, it went like this:

We talked about kids names, we talked about other long term stuff, and then I simply and unexpectedly (to either of us) said to my then-gf, “Marry me!”

She burst into tears hugged me, kissed me, and said, “Phrase it in the form of a question!”

4005

Congrats Hawkeye!

And for the record, Acid’s story is cute.

4006

Heh, I think there’s a whole thread in this.

4007

Is she a Jeopardy! aficionado, perchance?

4008

Not any more than any average viewer, Omniscia. She might watch it 4-5 times in a year.

To this day (we’ve been married 13 years), I joke with her that she answered my proposal with a quote from Alex Trebek. Then I whistle the Final Jeopardy waiting-for-contestants-to-answer theme. It’s usually good for a giggle.

And congrats, Hawkeye! Prepare for your life to change forever…hopefully for the better!

4009

For my proposal, I asked her best friend what her “favorite proposal would be”, and then implemented it–its a little different than the standard. So I whisked her away on a trip to hawaii, snuck some crayons into my luggage, as well as a ring pop. (How she didn’t notice these two things I dunno) While she was in the shower, I used the crayons to write her a note:

Will you marry me?

[] yes
[] no

Which I then presented to her while we were on a tour bus after a fun day of horseback riding and sightseeing. She then takes the crayon, and adds a ‘[] maybe’ before checking yes, and I then gave her the Ring Pop to wear. (She has never had a ring pop, so she always wanted one, she did get a real engagement ring later) No one else on the bus spoke english, so when she looked around all excited saying, “i’m engaged, i’m engaged” all she got back were stony glances, but its ok, she just went on a texting spree instead.

4010

“What is, Will you marry me?, Alex?”

4011

I’m not going to tell how my wife proposed to me…
Instead I’ll show you how well our yearly Christmas tradition turned out this year with help of the weather providing our first white christmas in 13 years:



It’s a ridiculous expensive tree, since the tree cost more than one from the store and we add the train, hot cocoa and driving to the right station to that. But who cares - it’s a lovely day out.

4012

I’ve had the laptop for a couple of weeks now. It’s a Dell Vostro 1000. Any ideas on what I can do to beef up this thing? I like it better than my previous laptop (better video card), but it is so sloooooow.

4013

My sister had a kid. 25% of the genes for <1% of the work! I AM THE FUTURE (if she has 3 more kids, at least…)

4014

Got in a car accident last night.

Woo.

4015

Are you injured?

4016

I was almost in a car accident Christmas morning. My brother was driving and he pulled right out in front of another car while looking the other way. Luckily the other driver was paying attention.

4017

I’m alive. No one hurt, just a little shaky and a tense back from the stress of the situation. Friend was driving down a straight away when a patch of ice came out of nowhere. He cranked it trying to save it but overcorrected, threw us into a 180 off the side of the road into a field through a wire fence. Took us about an hour to get out of the field.

Worst part was knowing that if he hadn’t overcorrected, i’d be dead. The opposite side of the road is a ditch and cliff face. We were doing a solid 55-60 mph, in a very very small car. I would’ve ended as a smear on that cliff face.

4018

I look fantastic! Viral Gastrointeritis over Christmas, I’ve had about 1000 calories over the last 3 days. 12 hours of vomiting, 36 of diarrhea, lots of water, no booze, lots of rest, I swear I look five years younger.

If only I had known . . .

H.

p.s. And yes, I went to the doctor.

4019

What’s the order you guys would have died in? And… pay attention to the signs.

4020

And the speed limit.