> > Well, time for the latest in a series of self-serving posts about what's going on in my life. And this one's a bit interesting, to my manner of thinking. Again, the usual disclaimer: if you don't want to listen to my pointless, self-serving banter and couldn't really care less what's going on in my life, you may feel free to ignore the rest of this message and if you're lucky I won't burn down your house and kill your family, though I may still staple your dog to a tree somewhere in the outskirts of Arkansas where rabid badgers will pester it all day long. Anyhow, on with the show.
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> > I'm afraid I have to resign my post as Lord-high loser. This may come as a shock to some people (read: this will come as a shock to everybody), but I actually got myself a girlfriend. Amazing, no? Here's the even neater part; remember my last self-serving rant? My best friend Amber who I was going on and on about fighting with? Well, she's the one. Which brings me to an interesting question...
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> > She has posted several times to the RinkForum, though she wouldn't be considered one of the irregular crowd. She posted here *long* before we were together, but I had met her beforehand. Are we still eligible for the bathmat?
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> > I guess the moral of my story is: don't ever give up. It took me seven months, but I finally won her over. And, frankly, if *I* can do it, anybody on this forum can. And that is my last public statement as Lord-high loser. I now officially resign my position.
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> See, I turn my back for a mere six weeks, and this is what happens. Sorry I missed your big announcement, O Darien-who-says-icky-icky-ic.... ah, Darien-who-'til-recently-was-Lord-high-loser. I'll have to see if I can't scare up a nice shrubbery to go along with your bathmat. (IF you actually receive said bathmat, of course.)
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> Are any other big-time Rinky-dinks out there suddenly contemplating wuv and/or mawwiage? What else have I missed?
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> Iss "hmmm.....a RinkWorks soap opera could be amusing....." achar

let's see if i can super condense everything else that has happened...

Byron spent several weeks agonizing over whether or not to call a certain girl he met more than a year ago. He never did.
I'm still deciding whether or not to invite my shy Handbell player (known as the SHP) to my winter formal... from the people i've asked if i should i've gotten too many yesses to count and only 3 no's
umm... that's all i can think of...

uni"but the nos were from my mom, my brother, and one of his good friends, which makes it more complicated..."peg