STEPHEN FRY

michael said:but i'm not running up and down the hall, spreading the news, and even if i did, i doubt anyone is going to cry tears of joy and go "oh my god!!! oh my god!!!"

many many mixed feelings. most of them good!! i just kinda feel wierd that absolutely no one at work knows what's going on in my life. maybe i should just drop the bomb, lol. nah. i'll just run up and down the hall in my head...

That's ok, I ran up and down the hall with a comic strip balloon above my head

Tito said:
Our niece married recently. She is a working class girl, with a good job, but not immensely rich. The wedding cost £25,000.......
They took out a loan for part of it. Ridiculous.

It is ridiculous, especially when you consider that 25,000 could be a down payment on a house. We had a Justice of the Peace wedding in a field, whole thing came to about $6000, or £4000. If memory serves a good time was had by all

I thought silly debt was supposed to be stopped by the banks

TobiasMonk said:
That's ok, I ran up and down the hall with a comic strip balloon above my head

what was in the balloon??

it may be good i DON'T have a visible cartoon balloon above my head! lol!

today this coworker got her marriage lisence and another coworker said "wow it's serious now, it's a lot more than a pretty dress!"

which...uh... i get what she's saying... but... NO. it is not any more serious because there is a piece of paper attached to it.

meanwhile... i mean, simultaneously, in-the-same-room-ous-ly, i'm getting calls on my cell, from my partner, saying "ok, here's how things are going so far, here's the name of the guy in charge of partner hires" etc etc etc... and trying to figure out when my parents can meet my partner and they haven't even messaged me back, and trying to figure out quiet ways to ask for time off to go to a conference that my partner is going to, etc. etc. etc... telling people i'm getting rid of some stuff because of moving into a *new place*, AHEM.

and one coworker says to me "judith (the girl getting married...not her real name, i totally changed it) sure has a lot of changes going on in her life"

i'm eating lots of fritos and trying not to scream.

cause screaming with fritos in your mouth is bad.

just feels so so so crazy.

thanks for all the woots and good wishes, all

very good news, Michael, I'm so happy for you ... perhaps we could scream together (and you're right, a peace of paper doesn't make a difference. Either you're in love or not; actually I never wanted to get married but for us it was a question of money, if you're married you have more in your purse :roll:).
One, two, three:
aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
and best wishes for you and your partner!

and Maren, yeah, this situation for me is kinda like that! I feel we'd be partners eventually but this opportunity for her to help me get employment came up sooner than i "imagined" becoming partners (which is nothing official at all here, i don't think there's any official legal partnership stuff in this state...but the situation brings up commitment stuff) i don't know what amount of time i "imagined" passing before being more committed, lol!

it's kind of like how a friend of mine described her surprise pregnancy... she'd thought about having a kid off and on, but didn't plan on having a kid, and when it happened, in the midst of figuring out if she was or wasn't pregnant, she realized she DID want a kid and was totally as happy and ready for it as she'd ever be.

yap yap yapping now.... thanks

michael said:
what was in the balloon??

it may be good i DON'T have a visible cartoon balloon above my head! lol!

I can't tell you that here, hit me on FaceBook

lol! thanks!!!