I decided not to take the two dogs from the friend of a friend. If my landlord is even slightly hesitant about it, I don't want to adopt them and then have that become an issue.

Sorry for killin the thread! ION, it's snowing! Like crazy!! I could hardly see coming home!!!

We got snow up here too. Made CJ drive in it. Seems to have stopped for now though. Not looking like tomorrow will be a snow day.

This is me, being the woman who doesn't constantly talk about being engaged:

I have to say this here, because if I say it anywhere else, people will get honked off. THANK YOU for no one responding to news of my engagement with "About time!" Because even if you stick an "LOL" on the end of it, you're still deciding what's acceptable for MY RELATIONSHIP, and that's not okay. Every single person who has responded that way has been thisclose to a hearty FUCK YOU.

(All that said, I admit that my OWN reaction to the proposal was "About time!" But you know what? It's MY relationship, and therefore *I* get to decide what's acceptable. Because that's how relationships work.)

I know that people who said it probably just thought they were being cute or funny, but it actually REALLY pisses me off.

(Also, my aunt is the most tactless person on the planet, and said on FB that my grandma had to wait *43 YEARS* to see her daughter get married, OMG! So I replied "You DO know I'll be 42 by the time we get married, right?" And she said, "Well, Grandma would just be thrilled to see you FINALLY get married." Seriously, she has zero tact. She has less than zero tact; she's a tact black hole.)

t edit Or am I just being a raging bitch and not being gracious about receiving congratulations?

You're being totally gracious; you're saving the venting for here.

And those people are acting like utter assholes.

And those people are acting like utter assholes.

I know they think they're being cute, or funny. (I assume. If they're being passive-aggressive twatwaffles, then fuck them harder.) But it's still shitty and inappropriate.

I should say that if someone with whom I had lamented Tim's EPIC slowpoke-ness made an "About time" comment, it would be more okay. But that's knowing your friends, and knowing who you can tease, and about what, etc.

Right after he proposed, we called all our family, and then his sister-in-law called her kids, and one of the nephews (the totally geeky one who I enjoy immensely) texted right away to say congratulations, and said "About f@&#ing time!" (I guess he decided actually saying "fucking" to his uncle was pushing it.) And then he texted back immediately, saying "I mean because I wanted you to do it for so long!" And THAT, I thought was sweet. Plus, he's family, and well aware of the family slowpoke-ness.

Teppy, definitely better to vent here. I'm sure if you called them out on it, they'd be baffled about what they did wrong, even though they are most definitely wrong.

JZ, if you're around can I just say how very bad you are for introducing me to the crack that is zulilly.com. I want to buy my niece all the things.

When Stephen and I told people we were getting married -- in December, and we decided in August, and I was 21 and he was 23 -- you would not believe how many people asked me to my face if I was pregnant. Uh, no.

And being really uncharitable to some of them, I explained very carefully how ill my mother was and that we wanted to be sure she could be at our wedding.

That was fun.

When Stephen and I told people we were getting married -- in December, and we decided in August, and I was 21 and he was 23 -- you would not believe how many people asked me to my face if I was pregnant. Uh, no.

OMFG, people.

When Stephen and I told people we were getting married -- in December, and we decided in August, and I was 21 and he was 23 -- you would not believe how many people asked me to my face if I was pregnant. Uh, no.

Wow. (I have had a few friends get married that quickly and that young, and I may have thought, "Hmm, wonder if she's pregnant," but I certainly knew better than to actually ask.)