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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #825 on: March 30, 2011, 02:23:58 AM »
Quote from: Doombot on March 29, 2011, 07:32:56 AM
Built a treadmill desk. That's pretty cool. I can walk slowly and surf the net at the same time.

Have you tried launching a plane off of it yet?
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #826 on: March 30, 2011, 05:45:01 AM »
Quote from: Hoopy Frood on March 30, 2011, 02:23:58 AM
Quote from: Doombot on March 29, 2011, 07:32:56 AM
Built a treadmill desk. That's pretty cool. I can walk slowly and surf the net at the same time.

Have you tried launching a plane off of it yet?

Nah. I don't want it to crash into the wall... or would it?

Dun dun dun...
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #827 on: April 01, 2011, 04:21:35 PM »
Quote from: AcdQueen89 on March 21, 2011, 01:53:39 AM
got engaged yesterday.

i'm taking suggestions on how to tell the parents.
Congrats! *Huge Hugs* I'm so happy for you.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #828 on: April 06, 2011, 03:25:57 AM »
Quote from: AcdQueen89 on March 21, 2011, 01:53:39 AM
got engaged yesterday.

i'm taking suggestions on how to tell the parents.

Gratz!

If you want to be really nonchalant about it, just update your facebook relationship status as married after the fact. Or maybe go traditional and make your man ask for your hand in marriage. :)
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #829 on: April 06, 2011, 09:41:15 AM »
A very late congratulations, ACD! I suppose you have told them by now? If so, how did you do it?
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #830 on: April 07, 2011, 04:33:43 AM »
i got a speeding ticket the day before we got engaged, so i lumped the two together.
then monday i got into an accident (no one was hurt, my 16 year old car got the worst of it), so i saw my dad for the first time since mid january and told him about the plans we've sorta talked about.

morb - i was half expecting him to talk to my dad about it. since he didnt do it at christmas i was figuring he'd wait till he saw my parents at my graduation. apparently there's a family tradition of the men in his father's side to do the official ask thing.

bout ten minutes after i called my parents, everyone else found out on facebook. my parents know so little about my actual plans for life that i had to at least give them the courtesy of something vocal.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #831 on: April 07, 2011, 10:49:36 AM »
Congrats ACD!

I did the traditional thing and asked my father in law for his permission.  I asked to speak to him outside and he looked a little spooked; I'm over a foot taller than him, hairy and he can barely understand a word I say because of my accent.  I'd been quite nervous about it but I'm glad I did it properly looking back.

Just as a matter of interest; how do most people see getting engaged nowadays, is it just another step in the commitment trail or do people generally get engaed with the full intention of setting a date for marriage?
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #832 on: April 07, 2011, 06:02:15 PM »
Quote from: TK on April 07, 2011, 10:49:36 AM
I'm over a foot taller than him, hairy

So this is like an inter-species marriage??
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #833 on: April 08, 2011, 02:09:00 AM »
Quote from: TK on April 07, 2011, 10:49:36 AM
full intention of setting a date for marriage?

we've been talking about getting married and the "traditional" thing almost since the beginning. it's just strange now that we've set a date and everything.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #834 on: April 08, 2011, 02:49:36 AM »
Pretty much BC, Im Scottish and my wife is English, worlds apart.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #835 on: April 08, 2011, 05:49:35 PM »
Quote from: TK on April 08, 2011, 02:49:36 AM
Pretty much BC, Im Scottish and my wife is English, worlds apart.

Do you guys have to use a translator?
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"for the record, I'm not some kind of psychotic provincialist." - Than (ed: Cit. required)
"I lost my game of NT: Garry's fault. Global warming: Garry's fault. End-of-the-Universe: Garry's fault. See it always fits. Anyway, what is Garry up to? No good I bet." - Laszlo
"As for your French, it's probably better than the average English-speaking Frenchman's Finnish! (Or something.)" - wa
"I'm back at Thunderfalls now and every minute thinking of poking a bandit in the eye with a fishhook." - Preyveil
"and yet still nothing has made it to BC's signature!"-KMD

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #836 on: April 08, 2011, 10:18:12 PM »
No, she's pretty much gone native, ten years here have moulded her an d made her an outcast to her people.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #837 on: April 26, 2011, 08:45:51 PM »
Life update by Simon:

I am alive.
I did not move to brisbane.
I did however move to an apartment with my girlfriend. I am also studying again, although this has recently taken a bit of a self inflicted nose dive. I still needlessly sabotage my life, obsess over trivial details, and work myself into a state of crippling anxiety for no better reason than not wanting to "fail at life" like some lame Yossarian without the airplanes and whores.
Being a student still makes me poor, which still sucks.

And having read what I just wrote, I feel I should also mention that I am in fact far happier and way more in control of my faculties than I was some years ago. Improvement is good, but takes time.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #838 on: April 26, 2011, 09:03:58 PM »
Quote from: Ban on April 26, 2011, 08:45:51 PM
not wanting to "fail at life" like some lame Yossarian without the airplanes and whores.

This is right on the verge of signaturability...
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"I lost my game of NT: Garry's fault. Global warming: Garry's fault. End-of-the-Universe: Garry's fault. See it always fits. Anyway, what is Garry up to? No good I bet." - Laszlo
"As for your French, it's probably better than the average English-speaking Frenchman's Finnish! (Or something.)" - wa
"I'm back at Thunderfalls now and every minute thinking of poking a bandit in the eye with a fishhook." - Preyveil
"and yet still nothing has made it to BC's signature!"-KMD

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #839 on: May 03, 2011, 05:21:03 AM »
I just turned in my last paper of my undergraduate career.

With any luck there will never be another "Acd needs homework help" thread ever again.
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