Some days you're the free milk; other days you're the eloped cow
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away … The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legends. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. … In the days just preceding eternal September About twelve and a half years ago, I went to my first RASFWRJ social. Obviously, in those days, if you were meeting strange people from Usenet that you had never met before, they must be bomb-makers, stalkers, and perverts.
Well, I didn't meet any of those, but I did meet up with someone else that I'd known from before I'd wandered off to college. And as he (jokingly) fell under the pervert column, it was deemed that I needed protection from him. Hence, in my (oh, Elath, long-ago and much, much younger) youth I ran an application for Warders. I received many applicants; one stood head and shoulders above the rest.
I promised him a "Sword that is not a Sword" and a home-cooked meal if he was brave enough. He was, and just before the most recent (at the time) social of September 24, 1994, he joined me at my dorm for a home-cooked meal. We hung out for a while, went to the Social, and then hung out some more that night.
He's never gone away since! And while we've both had fun milking the cow for free, we decided to elope on our 12th anniversary.
If either BF or I were for big spectacles, many of you would have been there. However, we're not and we decided that marrying on our anniversary without fanfare was exactly what we needed to do. Hence why we ran away to Tahoe this past weekend. We were married on the California side of the border in our hiking clothes in a fairly quick ceremony. As should surprise very few of you, we went hiking afterwards, taking the gondolas up to the top of the Heavenly Ski Slopes and looking down on Lake Tahoe 3,000 feet below us.
We'll be leaving for Glacier/Waterton National Park & Yellowstone National Park on Saturday for our honeymoon.
As I've yet to convince BF to take my name, neither of us will be changing anything.
slothman, please let BF be the one to announce it at the office.
lbmango, feel free to spread through the family. I've told some, but not our mutual aunt (yet).
thetalkingmoose, same thing. BF's told his immediate family, but that's about it. Please let them know no names will be changed.
Well, I didn't meet any of those, but I did meet up with someone else that I'd known from before I'd wandered off to college. And as he (jokingly) fell under the pervert column, it was deemed that I needed protection from him. Hence, in my (oh, Elath, long-ago and much, much younger) youth I ran an application for Warders. I received many applicants; one stood head and shoulders above the rest.
I promised him a "Sword that is not a Sword" and a home-cooked meal if he was brave enough. He was, and just before the most recent (at the time) social of September 24, 1994, he joined me at my dorm for a home-cooked meal. We hung out for a while, went to the Social, and then hung out some more that night.
He's never gone away since! And while we've both had fun milking the cow for free, we decided to elope on our 12th anniversary.
If either BF or I were for big spectacles, many of you would have been there. However, we're not and we decided that marrying on our anniversary without fanfare was exactly what we needed to do. Hence why we ran away to Tahoe this past weekend. We were married on the California side of the border in our hiking clothes in a fairly quick ceremony. As should surprise very few of you, we went hiking afterwards, taking the gondolas up to the top of the Heavenly Ski Slopes and looking down on Lake Tahoe 3,000 feet below us.
We'll be leaving for Glacier/Waterton National Park & Yellowstone National Park on Saturday for our honeymoon.
As I've yet to convince BF to take my name, neither of us will be changing anything.
slothman, please let BF be the one to announce it at the office.
lbmango, feel free to spread through the family. I've told some, but not our mutual aunt (yet).
thetalkingmoose, same thing. BF's told his immediate family, but that's about it. Please let them know no names will be changed.