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Apostle
10-22-2004, 12:00 AM
today's the big day. I'm gonna propose to my girlfriend of 5+ years. Wedding won't be for a couple of years though.
I'll probally be 27 then.

I'm curious as to how old you married folk were when you ended it all...erm i mean....entered the best years of your life?

wish me luck
PJ
killingpeople
10-22-2004, 01:06 AM
Good luck! .. sucker =p
neolith
10-22-2004, 01:07 AM
Good luck and all my best wishes!
JonMurphy
10-22-2004, 02:23 AM
I was 26 when I got married... but then again, I was still 26 when it all ended /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Still willing to do it all again, though.

Best of luck to you. Not that you need it. It will be a magical moment, I am sure.

Awwwwwwwwwwww
sal_manilla
10-22-2004, 02:31 AM
Wedding won't be for a couple of years
Good, there's no hurry..take your time....a lot of time...really. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
lkraan
10-22-2004, 04:09 AM
Good luck! Hope she says YES! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I was 27 when I got married ... 4 years later now and no regrets.
adam
10-22-2004, 05:35 AM
Hey man, thats awesome. Let us know how it goes and good luck.
Hollowmind
10-22-2004, 06:31 AM
I was 20 when I got married. I'm 27 now and waiting to get a divorce, hehe. Good luck! I'm not soured on marriage at all. I just got married too young and to the wrong woman.
jzero
10-22-2004, 09:01 AM
If you have doubts, now is the time to start clearing those out. Be realistic. Don't compromise. Think about long-term consequences and unexpected circumstances.

/jzero
Jeff Parrott
10-22-2004, 09:39 AM
25 when I got married, that was a year ago. We dated for 4 or so years.
AstroZombie
10-22-2004, 09:57 AM
Congratulations but, yea, listen to Sal. Take a LOT of time. Like the next 10-12 years.
sundance
10-22-2004, 01:51 PM
congrats, good luck
frosty
10-22-2004, 03:03 PM
Congratz! One bit of advice, some girls have great memories. So make sure you create some real good ones while your so young and do nice things once in while just for the hec of it. : )
brandy
10-22-2004, 03:39 PM
Married at 18, december will be 6 years. Don't regret a thing.

Good luck /images/graemlins/smile.gif treat her well.
moose
10-22-2004, 03:51 PM
whooohooo pauu joaahnnsoooon!

good luck!
Jes
10-22-2004, 03:53 PM
Good luck man.. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
Apostle
10-22-2004, 04:16 PM
I just did it about 30min ago. She said yes of coarse.
Plan A, B, and C failed.
I had suprised her by coming up to Bowling Green where she is gettting her master's degree. I got in her apt while she was out and decorated the place with tons and tons of candles and flower petals. Made her a Shrimp Alfredo dinner and I was going to bring the ring out on top of the desert.

but...
she followed me into the damned kitchen. I told her to sit down but she just kept squirting ready whip in my mouth.
/images/graemlins/frown.gif
So plan A is down the drain.

Plan B.
go for a walk with here and propose to her at the University Seal. There is a superstition that when a couple kiss's at the seal they will be married one day. (we did that years and years ago)
Her legs were sore from walking around all day with her mom. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Plan C.
Take here to the outdoor coffee shop where we had our first date many years ago.
She's not thirsty.
/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Plan D code name NIKE (just do it)
She was sitting on the couch. I said "Was dinner ok?"
she said "yes it was great"
I dropped down to my knee and said " then will you have dinner with me every day for the rest of our lives." as i opened the box.

She said yes.....

now silly me was expecting to get a piece........boy was I wrong. We have to show all her friends and call everyone. So, she's on the phone and I'm on Polycount.
OH yeah.


Thanks for all the kind words. I truly know I'm ready for this and were both taking our time with it.


well. see ya all ......she's off the phone /images/graemlins/smile.gif

pj
Jes
10-22-2004, 04:19 PM
Congratz, even though plans A, B and C failed... xD
PaK
10-22-2004, 06:14 PM
dude, right on /images/graemlins/smile.gif congrats. I admire your ...i dunno...something :P

I wanna be married too.

-R
The3DGuy
10-22-2004, 07:56 PM
[ QUOTE ]
now silly me was expecting to get a piece........boy was I wrong. We have to show all her friends and call everyone. So, she's on the phone and I'm on Polycount.
OH yeah.

[/ QUOTE ]

classic. congrats though
Illusions
10-22-2004, 09:40 PM
Congrats Apostle, may the best days of your life be ahead of you /images/graemlins/smile.gif
sundance
10-22-2004, 11:15 PM
YAY!
flaagan
10-23-2004, 12:27 AM
plans never work.... but hey, it allowed you to be spontaneous, and from the sound of things, that played out better than the 'classic setups' would have!
congrats!
Rick Stirling
10-23-2004, 02:00 AM
My plan was:

"can you take thursday off?"

"why?"

"we could go buy a big ring."

...it worked. Then when we got then she proposed to me.
swampbug
10-23-2004, 08:13 AM
YES!!!!!!! awesome paul. Majorly cool story about plans AB and C. I'm happy for you and they way you asked her.

Awesome man. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
moose
10-23-2004, 08:47 AM
fuck yeah!

gg dude /images/graemlins/smile.gif are you moving to BG now? (hehe im headed up that way in a couple of weeks)
Apostle
10-23-2004, 10:16 AM
thanks again guys

I'm not moving to BG because she is done in May.
Wherever she goes for her PHD i'll follow her.

Most likely it will be Washington DC

I might have a new job working downtown cincinnati designing webpages and doing some interactive stuff soon as well.
TomDunne
10-23-2004, 01:02 PM
Where the hell at?! I live in Cincinnati and earned both of my degrees here, but I'll be damned if I can find a decent job in this town. Looking more for 3d/interactive multimedia, but I'd love to hear what places you're looking into.
Apostle
10-23-2004, 02:38 PM
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Where the hell at?! I live in Cincinnati and earned both of my degrees here, but I'll be damned if I can find a decent job in this town. Looking more for 3d/interactive multimedia, but I'd love to hear what places you're looking into.


[/ QUOTE ]

It's called RPI graphical data solutions. THe only way I found out about them because the owner is my Aunt's neighbor.
I agree that Cincy blows for jobs in our field.
It's nice to know there is another polycounter in the Natty.
TomDunne
10-23-2004, 03:19 PM
Never heard of 'em, but glad you're finding work /images/graemlins/smile.gif We'll have to hook up some time when I have, you know, money and stuff...
Sidwell
10-23-2004, 06:55 PM
My parents told me that before you get married you have to take a long road trip together. If anything's wrong with the relationship it'll definitely show up when you spend a month in a car together.

They've been married for 27 years so it probably isn't bad advice.
Mojo2k
10-23-2004, 08:47 PM
cool if you come to dc i'll give you a tour of mythic.

i got married at 21, was married for almost 2 and a half years, some of the best times of my life. good luck
Thunderkor
10-24-2004, 11:05 AM
Congratulations! On my second marriage and totally loving it the second time around. Got married the first time at 21, divorced by 25, and married again at 30. In fact, i met my current wife the day my divorce from the first one was final. My wife lived together for almost 6 years before we actually got married.

Oh and we did the road trip thing a couple of times, I think that's good advice.

So congrats again! Hope you have many long happy years together.