So, I'm engaged now

Congrats, and I guess that kinda explains the slacking off of the football anaylsis, now that your work is done, get those Senor Bowl and Combine reports out.

Congrats Legion! Another excellent postgame report. Now which football stadium are you planning to take your vows in?

Mixolyde wrote:

Ditto, I approve. Why is there an ECHL team in CA?

There are five. There's one right here in Fresno (Falcons), one in Long Beach (Ice Dogs), one in San Diego (Gulls), one in Bakersfield (Condors), and one in Stockton (Thunder).

The first four were all WCHL teams that became part of the league about 3 years ago when the ECHL gobbled up that league. The last is a new ECHL expansion team.

As for why there are California teams in a league called "East Coast Hockey League", well... in fact, the league isn't called that anymore. When the ECHL acquired the WCHL, the league was to undergo a name change. They were hoping to get a corporate sponsor to be part of it, but in the end, what they did was just call the league "ECHL", making it no longer an acronym for "East Coast Hockey League". Lame? Yes. The league, like the AHL, is completely nation-wide now. Not just in CA, but in Nevada, British Columbia, Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, etc... all over the West.

Very cool way to propose, you're a special guy Mr. Legion.

Thanks. I like to think so.

Copingsaw wrote:

Although you didn't say for sure, I'm guessing she knew what was going to happen at the end of the scavenger hunt?

Yes - she says she knew when she got to the very first stop and saw her dad waiting for her there, though she says it didn't really "hit her" until the end.

The plan was to just keep her in the dark until the day of. Because it's something she's been waiting for, it would be pretty much impossible to do something big and not have her figure out the end result on the way. She had mentioned before that she wanted her proposal to be something that gets peoples' attention, not just taking a knee during dinner or something, so surprise was traded for attention-getting.

Great idea Legion, and congradulation. Now you get to go make legions of legion's.

Congratulations, man.

Let me also just say that I am in awe of your ambition. There is no way I would have had the energy to propose to my wife in a similarly elaborate manner.

Druidpeak wrote:

Just get him back at the Bachelor party. ;)

I'm getting all of Showtime's Sleeper Cell uploaded to our media server that I can access via our modded Xbox. I will probably have him grab the rest of Spooks (BBC) as well.

From Mrs. Legion-to-be, there will be no complaining from her if/when I seduce any of her hot friends at the wedding.

I believe I will be coming out ahead on this one.

Tyrian wrote:

Congrats, man! GL with all the planning. My fiancee and I (200 days to go!) are doing it all ourselves, and getting stuff done early is The Way.

Congrats Legion

Tyrian speaks the truth. My fiancee and I are at T-Minus 25 days and counting and it's amazing how many real life things are popping up right now that are interferring with time we need to get wedding things done. Thankfully at this point we only have to finalize the music, create our programs and tie up a few loose ends.

My fiancee is getting rolling on planning already. Should also be able to get a lot of stuff done during the summer, when both of us are completely off of school/work.

I saw this in active forum topics and thought "Oh God, I sure hope this isn't Mex or Demos."

Congrats!

Spleen wrote:

I saw this in active forum topics and thought "Oh God, I sure hope this isn't Mex or Demos."

FTW.

Sorry I'm late to the game....Congratulations! Sounds like you had a blast setting this up. Best of luck to you and your woman. She's very cute.

*Legion* wrote:
Spleen wrote:

I saw this in active forum topics and thought "Oh God, I sure hope this isn't Mex or Demos."

FTW.

QFT

Congratulations- what an imaginative way to propose! And for the record, if your new fiancee were any cuter, she'd be a teeny-tiny little bunny...

that's what we call in the cynic community a "sh*t eatin' grin"

Elysia wrote:

And for the record, if your new fiancee were any cuter, she'd be a teeny-tiny little bunny... :)

Ain't it the truth? She hates to be called "pretty" or any of those words - she only wants to be referred to as "cute".

She has the kind of personality to match too. She's a kindergarden teacher.

And if anyone's looking at that, and looking at MY personality, and thinking it's a very strange pairing - yes, yes it is. She likes to call it "Beauty and the Beast".

He is a frakin' beast. I have the scars.

Well since you screened out the comment I posted on your blog, I have to offer my congratulations a second time. Cheers!

Grumpicus wrote:

Well since you screened out the comment I posted on your blog, I have to offer my congratulations a second time. Cheers! :drink:

Oops. I think I forgot to set my blog to send comments to my Gmail account, as I only check my economyofeffort.com account a couple of times per week. I'll rectify that now!

EDIT: Weird - no email, and no reference of a comment on Wordpress itself. Can you try to post a test comment and see if it works? I don't even have comment moderation on except for a very light blacklist (did you happen to mention Cialis in the comment? )

Congrats Legion. I have a good feeling about the union of your and your fiancee's soviet republics.

Da, Komrade! I buy round of Leninade for all! Good drink!

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The true moment of truth is, is she into donkey punches? Never mind, I got myself in trouble last time I mentioned that. Plus I know what it means now.

*Legion* wrote:

Can you try to post a test comment and see if it works? I don't even have comment moderation on except for a very light blacklist (did you happen to mention Cialis in the comment? )

Test post worked. No idea what happened the first time. I didn't mention it but some Cialis may come in handy on the betrothal night.

Hysterical! Congrats.

Awesome story Legion, and she's a real cutie! Congrats and best wishes!

Every person that has called her cute has won me brownie points with her. God bless you all.

Make sure you keep a running total for those GBD.

Edwin wrote:

Make sure you keep a running total for those GBD.

FTW!

congrats I just got maried (2 weddings in 2 different countries) and today we went to office of internal affairs and made it official in the population registry.