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Neat changes in your life
Spudge
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It's funny how changes tend to come in the oddest fashion. My girlfriend and I were planning on moving to Fort Collins in a year or so to finish our degrees. Our lease was planned out, budgets made, everything going according to plan. Then about last week my company decided to close their Denver offices and move the whole operation to Greeley (just East of Fort Collins) without any real notice
So in the past week we've transferred enrollment and packed up our apartment. Nice part about this is we've had some serious leaky ceiling issues so they're letting us break our lease without any penalties (we were given this option before my company jumped the gun). My old friend in Fort Collins called last week randomly asking if my girlfriend has a job cause she's found a lot that were a good fit and I've orchestrated the entire IT move to the new building without a hitch
To top that, we bought a home last night and I've decided to propose. All of these things - falling so neatly in to place at just the right time to ensure this goes smoothly - in fact scare me. I'm not a fan of change unless its planned in great detail and executed precisely. But it feels, well, good. What should have sent me to mental breakdown has instead cemented my position in the company, increased our quality of life and made me feel so secure and trusting in my relationship I don't really know how to quantify
tl;dr: A lot of shit happens and now I have a house and a fiancée
What kind of changes have you guys had? Any potentially life-changing occurrences that happened without notice?
So in the past week we've transferred enrollment and packed up our apartment. Nice part about this is we've had some serious leaky ceiling issues so they're letting us break our lease without any penalties (we were given this option before my company jumped the gun). My old friend in Fort Collins called last week randomly asking if my girlfriend has a job cause she's found a lot that were a good fit and I've orchestrated the entire IT move to the new building without a hitch
To top that, we bought a home last night and I've decided to propose. All of these things - falling so neatly in to place at just the right time to ensure this goes smoothly - in fact scare me. I'm not a fan of change unless its planned in great detail and executed precisely. But it feels, well, good. What should have sent me to mental breakdown has instead cemented my position in the company, increased our quality of life and made me feel so secure and trusting in my relationship I don't really know how to quantify
tl;dr: A lot of shit happens and now I have a house and a fiancée
What kind of changes have you guys had? Any potentially life-changing occurrences that happened without notice?
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Good luck Spudge.
Satans..... hints.....
Then it's s done deal.
Satans..... hints.....
Her dad and I have a good relationship and she's told me how much it would mean to him if I asked for his blessing first so I'm working on doing that. But he already jokes around on the subject, asking when I'm going to make an honest woman out of his daughter and such so it's pretty much a done deal
I've been married before and I've never been as nervous and excited as I am right now. It's really an awesome feeling
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Satans..... hints.....
Technically you already have a fiance then.
Just an old bitter mean one.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
R.I.P.
I haven't decided how I'm going to propose yet but I know it's going to be awkward and out of left field. S'just how I do things. On the ring side, she's already shown me a few that she really likes so I have an idea, but I think we'll probably go pick one out together
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congratulations
Best of luck to you! That's how I ended up in Denver, everything I had in the back of my Mustang last year. Keep on keepin' on, things'll work out for sure
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You can get a stand-in to propose with if you want, something like a cheap sterling silver ring or something more silly. Proposing seems like a lot of fun, there are so many ways to do it!
I have an interview tomorrow for a job that I really really want in a place that I really really want to be, and I'm hovering somewhere between painfully excited and slightly anxious
Thanks dude. Congrats on life not sucking.
R.I.P.
There is that. Her family is deeply rooted in their Irish heritage so I got her a real fancy Claddagh a while back. That would probably work for now too. Also I don't care about the stigma; I think I'm gonna take her last name. McCloskey is a good name and mine is hard to spell and sounds like you're vomiting if you say it loud enough.
t Usagi: Hope it goes well!
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I moved into my own place two weekends back, paying a mortgage and everything. It's the first time I've lived without others in the house, and it's kinda nice not having to wear pants all the time. Though I'm still getting settled and need to buy a dresser, things are gong super! Kinda scary feeling like a grownup for reals
Gutter work
Trim replacement
A good deal of paint
Replacement disposal
little electrical things here and there
But I have a shed and a lawn and a god damn driveway for a change. Holy shit I can actually do things like maintain my cars without people bitching at me all the time
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That would definitely work now, just make sure to put it on the right way!
And yeah, it's good to know that she's at least mentioned it before and is going to say yes. Incidentally I think I was more nervous about the proposal than Mori (I really didn't particularly want one, and said keep it low-key), so much so that I can't even remember what he said.
Good luck Usagi!
It's certainly strange how things work out...I spent a couple of years after university just wandering aimlessly feeling as if I was never going to reach my goals and then bam! everything falls smack into place.
wait till you realize how much it sucks to mow that bitch every 5 days
i can't even imagine a surprise proposal
doubly-worse if it was in a public place!
Mori probably knew you wouldn't remember, so he said something like "can I put this ring on your finger so I can have sex and food for basically forever" and you were like OMG YESSSS
and now he's like "Yeah she totally said that she'd make me food forever"
Right now, it's because you don't have to wait for anyone else to fix up your kitchen that they tore apart because they can't maintain the goddamn water pipes in the goddamn apartment building the way they're supposed to, and now you have to sit around for a week with half your kitchen strewn across your apartment.
As a homeowner, you can just roll up your Manly Sleeves and Get Shit Done.
What do you think kids are for?
"Honey, he took his first steps!"
"Good, the front lawn looks an awful mess. Get to work, kiddo."
It has no insulation and it's wooden so it's a) either really hot or really cold and b) spiders, everywhere. I vacuum the ceiling at least once a week and the cobwebs just keep on coming.
Then of course all the stuff with our own first apartment and such. But such bliss doesn't last long, because it quickly turned out my Uni sucks, our apartment is badly built and we can't do shit during the weekends because the city is dead and we'd have to walk like an hour to get somewhere interesting.
That's life I guess.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
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Also when I proposed to my wife I hid the engagement ring under garbage and mouldy bread she'd left on the kitchen counter and asked her why she left so much gross garbage out on the sink and she got all embarrassed and started to clean up when she found it.
The response I got was "What the fuck is this?"
I used to maybe have to do it once a year in previous places
it's crazy, it looks like two things I have never done in our apartment are a) cleaned the bathroom and b) vacuumed the ceiling and I do both the whole damn time
You should bring in a natural predator of spiders.
i can not wait for the day my 2 kids take over all the manual labor in the house
That is the correct response to an engagement ring that has been left under garbage.
Then she would have to bring in a predator to take care of that. Which will ultimately lead to bringing in an alpha predator, and who wants to live with a grizzly bear or a great white shark hogging the bathroom.
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