@melonscoop Congratulations. Getting married is the smartest thing I ever did. I’ve spent the last 23 years not believing how fortunate I am. I hope you feel the same in 2039.
My Dad had an excellent marriage with Mom and it broke his heart when she died. And then he had another excellent marriage.
One of my brothers is closing on 30 years of a very happy marriage. So are several of my cousins. This brother noted that all the close friends he and his wife made at the beginning of their marriage also all stayed married.
They had some kind of instinct, perhaps.
These are not religious conservatives. These are people who work hard, tell the truth, and solve problems.
It really helps is the partners are both realistically optimistic, emotionally stable, responsible, and trustworthy.
@f00l Met my husband at work (I had a second job helping a friend with paperwork), started dating in June, got engaged in October and married on New Year’s Eve; at my parents’ house, by an elderly black woman that I found in the classifieds, Reverend Ada King- 31 one years ago today.
What if I am an optimist and I believe there ain’t gonna be a 2017? Perhaps a grand space catastrophe puts us out of our cosmic misery of existence by then?
@Kidsandliz I keep optimistically hoping that whatever path to destruction humanity finally chooses, it won’t take wolves and tigers and whales an amoebas with it.
@moondrake I would really like to hope so too, but even I am not such an optimist. Whatever path the humanity chooses to its own doom (good ol’ nuclear war, chemical warfare, biological warfare, global contamination or, the most likely and the most damaging way, overpopulation and resource-draining) is likely to destroy the planet in the process. By now I’d say it’s irreversible - many species WILL die out, the matter is not IF, but WHEN.
All reason is dead. There’s no telling how 2017 will turn out. If they were check boxes instead of radio buttons I’d choose Awesome and Terrible. Because it will be both.
@2many2no My theory is that it’s because when you were 10, a year was 10% of your life. When you’re 50, a year is only 2% of your life. Perceptually, every year is smaller.
@2many2no tell me about it! Tempus Fugit. I turned 60 a week ago, and days are flying by. I’m an early riser, and go to bed after midnight, and it seems like not long after I get up, it’s bedtime again. We basically raised our two eldest grandsons, now 14 and 11, and I am stunned how fast time has gone by since they were born. We have 6 grandchildren now, with number 7 due in May.
2016 was a reminder that most things I treated as world-ending were really just mildly annoying.
I just got married two days ago. 2017 is going to rock.
@melonscoop Ummmmm…nevermind.
2019, on the other hand …
No, seriously, congrats.
@melonscoop Give it 18 months, tops.
Seriously though, congrats!
@melonscoop
Much happiness to you!
@melonscoop Congratulations. Getting married is the smartest thing I ever did. I’ve spent the last 23 years not believing how fortunate I am. I hope you feel the same in 2039.
@melonscoop
My Dad had an excellent marriage with Mom and it broke his heart when she died. And then he had another excellent marriage.
One of my brothers is closing on 30 years of a very happy marriage. So are several of my cousins. This brother noted that all the close friends he and his wife made at the beginning of their marriage also all stayed married.
They had some kind of instinct, perhaps.
These are not religious conservatives. These are people who work hard, tell the truth, and solve problems.
It really helps is the partners are both realistically optimistic, emotionally stable, responsible, and trustworthy.
Wishing you two many amazing years!
@f00l Met my husband at work (I had a second job helping a friend with paperwork), started dating in June, got engaged in October and married on New Year’s Eve; at my parents’ house, by an elderly black woman that I found in the classifieds, Reverend Ada King- 31 one years ago today.
@lisaviolet
@lisaviolet - Happy Anniversary!
@lisaviolet Happy Anniversary
@melonscoop I’m so sorry - - - I mean, conflagrations, wait, no - congratulations!
@thismyusername
See Baby New Year.
What if I am an optimist and I believe there ain’t gonna be a 2017? Perhaps a grand space catastrophe puts us out of our cosmic misery of existence by then?
@serpent What? Like an eruption of that super volcano that is waking up in Italy?
@Kidsandliz I keep optimistically hoping that whatever path to destruction humanity finally chooses, it won’t take wolves and tigers and whales an amoebas with it.
@moondrake I would really like to hope so too, but even I am not such an optimist. Whatever path the humanity chooses to its own doom (good ol’ nuclear war, chemical warfare, biological warfare, global contamination or, the most likely and the most damaging way, overpopulation and resource-draining) is likely to destroy the planet in the process. By now I’d say it’s irreversible - many species WILL die out, the matter is not IF, but WHEN.
@Kidsandliz One can always hope, right? For without hope - what are we?
All reason is dead. There’s no telling how 2017 will turn out. If they were check boxes instead of radio buttons I’d choose Awesome and Terrible. Because it will be both.
@SSteve Nuclear explosions aand supervolcanoes are indeed both.
It’s going to be meh.
I mean, is there any other answer?
@TheCO2 I was really disappointed the OK option wasn’t “Meh”.
@Kawa Meh.com mod fail.
I was talking to a friend the other day, and we both agreed it has been a long December, but we hope next year will be better than the last…
“May you live in interesting times. Cheers!”
2017 is a prime number. previous prime number years have been pretty good to me. so really, all i can say is,
fuck you composite numbers!!
We’ll see, won’t we?
It will be short.
Every year slips by faster than the one before.
@2many2no My theory is that it’s because when you were 10, a year was 10% of your life. When you’re 50, a year is only 2% of your life. Perceptually, every year is smaller.
@2many2no tell me about it! Tempus Fugit. I turned 60 a week ago, and days are flying by. I’m an early riser, and go to bed after midnight, and it seems like not long after I get up, it’s bedtime again. We basically raised our two eldest grandsons, now 14 and 11, and I am stunned how fast time has gone by since they were born. We have 6 grandchildren now, with number 7 due in May.
@Lurker
Good job taking on the Grandkids. Even tho you prob had no choice.
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