Aims I'm glad you were bossed into accepting. You and Joe have been stuck in a hole for years, and have both sweated blood to try and climb out. And everytime you reached the rim and were about to pull yourselves out, something stomped on your hands and knocked you back into the pit. This time when it happened, this amazing community was able to bitch slap that foot out of the way and give you a helping hand. Don''t worry about accepting it. If you want (and only if you want) at some future date when you and your family are walking down a sunlit path shaded by tall trees you can pay it forward by helping someone else out of a pit. In the meantime, we will all be glad just to see you and Joe finally make it out of the damn pit. Y'all deserved to be out long ago.

Accept the Eskimos that God sent you. We are your Eskimos, and you are our Eskimo.

This makes me giggle. And in general, be very happy.

Also, what TB said.

I can't chip in at this point (due to a chipped tooth that required a crown ... which gets pricy). But I would like to say that this month I'm marking 10 years as a Buffista.

Toddson, part of the Magic of the Buffistas is that we all share a part in these things as much by spirit as by any material gift at any moment. It was Paul rather than Jesus this time, in one of his most sublime moments, but we are all one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

(I Cor 12:21-26, NIV)

Erm, heh. Whodda thunk? A rag-tag assemblage of cult-tv fans would form into a sacramental unit better than far too many Churches manage to do. Congratulations and thank you for being here for ten years, Toddson.

You will be a fantastic teacher. I have not one single doubt about that.

This.

Huh. I passed my tenth anniversary as a Buffista back in January.

Pssssssst, people, check yer spam filters, as I sent you email from my work account.

Damn I love watching this community gear up for battle on behalf of one of our own. javachik, I'll be in touch.

Toddson and Sean, happy tenth Buffyversaries!!

I'm still a newbie. I think I've only been here 7 or 8 years.

I am verklempt. (Which the autocorrect wants to make "overslept". Wha...)

My 11th anniversary was in .... June, I think?

Damn I love watching this community gear up for battle on behalf of one of our own. javachik, I'll be in touch.

This is what friends gear up for.