@matildagirl You most definitely have a point. These things aren't about the proposal or the love involved, they're about getting attention for the one doing the proposing. And I agree with the "backed into a corner" thing. Regardless of how they feel about each other, it's not fair to the person being proposed to, and I just cringe every time I run across one of these.
So yeah, Bah! Humbug! from me, too. ;-)
Thanks for sharing the surprise engagement.
It sounds as if they have been together for a very long time and know each other quite well. He new she would say yes, she has been waiting. If she loves Adele, well, how awesome for them both. This song is my all time favorite from Adele and she did a beautiful job. Yes, her voice is a bit different now but she has come back beautifully and her hard work has paid off. I am very happy for the coupe and for Adele. A great evening for a celebration!
I agree with both ideas- ambushing and lovely surprise.
(I am a Gemini)
I love this presentation that came out if the recent COP26. The Urban Sequoia. It would be a wonderful place for a rooftop lounge!
I would like to ask @unkp who created this rooftop revolving lounge, if we could remodel to include a carbon capture mechanism. I’m shopping for one now and I believe we could add a state of the art system. We might have to add some floors and a tower above the revolving lounge, but I would opt for sparing no expense. In the meantime I have taken the liberty to line the lounge and the entire high rise with plants.
I read A Wrinkle in Time earlier this week, which I had never read before. @tesseract @the-happy-medium I finally understand what your usernames mean. Now we need someone named Miss Whatsit or Aunt Beast to complete the ensemble.
I think Madeleine L'engle had some mystical experiences before she wrote the book. I was struck by how much the characters' experiences on the planets Uriel and Ixchel (sp?) resembled he NDE accounts I've come across.
There is a whole series of companion books she wrote with it. Also two movies, one from the seventies I think which played over a few nights on tv, and a remake with Oprah, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling.
Dannyboy here with your 10 second spoiler free review of Ghostbusters afterlife!
Are you a fan of the original movie? Did you like what you saw in the trailers for Afterlife? If you can answer both questions “yes” this is the sequel for you.
if you answered no to one or both of those questions continue to pretend that the franchise ended with Viggo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters 2 and go about your life.
I absolutely loved it! I got tickets to an advance imax screening tonight with three friends and the theater was only about 1/4 full. But I left with a big goofy smile on my face.
(I also “accidentally” logged into my absence management app on my phone and “butt dialed” the exact sequence that puts a “full day medical” into the system. And once entered it cannot be undone so I guess I have a mental health day on a Friday. Technology man! ?)
I know. I'll probably read the other Time Quintet books, especially when I want to balance out my heftier reading. Through I'm not big on movie adaptations, so I probably won't watch the films.
I somehow fell asleep last night while holding a full glass of ice water in my hand. Hilarity ensued.
@unk-p, LOL! That's sending some major shivers down my spine. I used to do something similar, repeatedly, with my nightly tea as I sat on the sofa. My husband always warned me to put my tea on the coffee table instead of holding it, because I was always nodding off. But did I listen? No. Even after I spilled it on myself a few times.
And then came that fateful night in 2015. I christened myself with the tea, freaked out and raced to get a towel to clean up the floor, slipped on the hardwood and fell straight down on my knee, fracturing my patella in 8 places. I woke up my dog, Gracie, who gave me a dirty look for disturbing her sleep. So at 11:30 pm, instead of being safely nestled in dreamland, I was in the ER where a jovial orthopedic doctor called me Humpty Dumpty and informed me that I had fractured my patella in 8 places. I needed surgery and was out of commission for a few months.
Let my sad tale be a lesson to you, cookie. ?