In case you don't read animecat's LJ, we finally have an answer to everybody's question, "When's the wedding?"! The date is now set:

OCTOBER 4, 2008Yes, that's next year... NOT nine days from now! That's a Saturday, with the ceremony hopefully in the afternoon. The church location remains TBD, but we know it will be here in Little Rock, and we're going ( Read more... )

quoting stauros:

Four minutes of your time will raise $2 toward curing ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Here's how:

Click on this link for a video by John Ondrasik, set to his (i.e. Five for Fighting's) "100 Years".

Two wealthy families have agreed to donate a buck each toward ALS research every time the video is viewed.

It's that simple.

animecat dug this up this morning: http://community.livejournal.com/mfm/24524.html - the very first direct contact between us. Who would have ever guessed two years ago what would come of such a simple beginning? As it turned out, I never did get a room or a ride from that post, and I missed the con that year... but I think I ultimately ended up with ( Read more... )

If you want to know how I asked her:
http://animecat.livejournal.com/169912.html

Got back safely from MFM last night, and despite it being a shortened con for me and returning home with con crud (*koff*), I can't imagine a weekend turning out any better. This of course because of the news that hopefully all of you have heard by now... animecat has photos of "the One Ring" posted over here for any interested ( Read more... )

I asked animecat a question last night.

She said yes.

We love you, Charlie.

There's no one in town I know ( Read more... )

More big news in my world. Life, she is never boring, no ( Read more... )

Some of you have noticed that my online presence has been greatly reduced over the last six weeks or so. This includes LJ, AIM, and elsewhere. Originally this reduction was largely due to increased busyness at work, but more and more it's been because I continue to spend less and less time at the computer as my relationship with animecat has grown. Hey, ( Read more... )

More announcements to follow, but this one is the biggest and deserving of special attention. Some of you have guessed this already, some of you were told, and it's not really been any secret for a while now, but...

Akela has a girlfriend.

The Lone Wolf of the Seeonee is lone no longer; I am truly, madly, deeply in love with animecat. I wasn't looking ( Read more... )