Probably HERE is where I should announce...

[calimary]

... that my daughter just got PROPOSED TO!!!!

OH MAN...

Gotta start stocking up on Kleenex - NOW!!!

[boston bean]

1. Did she say yes??

Congrats!

[calimary]

2. YES! Yes she did!

I am soooooooo excited!!!

We were hoping for something like this, eventually. We didn't dare push or even hint around. All we knew was that - IF he's "the one," then MAGNIFIQUE!!!!!!!! Seems to have turned out that he IS!

[boston bean]

3. Excellent! Happy for you and your family!

[calimary]

16. We are gleeful, for sure! So are his parents.

Really nice people. We feel very fortunate. Looks like everybody's gonna have a great time - and liking each other!

[Triana]

5. Cool! And you like him!

That's fabulous!

[calimary]

9. And fortunate as all-get-out!

I'm really relieved! She didn't pick a schmuck! But then again - knowing her, that would not have been possible.

Still, I worry for a living. I'm never NOT worried about my kids. Just on general principles.

[mnhtnbb]

4. OMG! A wedding!

Wow, too cool! We can't wait to hear all the details as the plans progress!

[calimary]

6. Shall keep you informed!

They don't have a date set. His older sister has her own wedding planned for this summer. So they want to wait til next year.

No ring yet, but he took her out for a walk, popped the question, and then they went strolling around to a neighborhood jewelry store and started designing one! She's HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY!

Dang! I need to find that song "Mother-in-Law"...

[roguevalley]

7. lovely, calimary. May life be good for all of you. :D

[calimary]

11. Thank you so much, roguevalley!

We're all just tickled! One of those times in which what was hoped for actually does come to pass. He even reached over and took my hand and said thank-you for making her. He's a real keeper for sure! I squeezed his hand and told him - "you got my first one! And I couldn't be happier!"

[sheshe2]

8. Congratulations to your daughter and to you calimary.

Big to you both.

[calimary]

12. I have no idea what she even wants to wear!

Don't care, either! Anything's fine! She'll be beautiful in a burlap bag forcryingoutloud!

My late mother finally admitted to me that she was unhappy with my wedding because my wedding wasn't what SHE wanted. Well, I didn't want to look like my cake! And I wanted everybody, especially the boys, to be COMFORTABLE all day. Besides, even if I did, she probably would have said it made me look fat (knowing her). Rest her soul...

[sheshe2]

17. Lol about your mom, rest her soul~

Have a blast calimary, I know my sister did when her eldest daughter got married. The day will be beautiful and full of sun.

[calimary]

18. Well, it just means Grandma can watch from a balcony seat.

I'm sure she'll like what she sees from Upstairs. Our baby girl could do no wrong in her eyes.

[femmocrat]

10. Congratulations and best wishes to the happy couple!

[calimary]

14. Thank you so much, femmocrat!

SO cool! She's really happy! And that's all I care about. But we're pretty doggone happy, too!

[Omaha Steve]

13. I thought you were buying us all a beer

[calimary]

15. Well, HERE!

I almost feel like dying my hair back to brown or something. My hair's gone totally white. I don't want to distract from the bride! Already wondering what to wear. With NO CLUE AT ALL how she wants to direct it! She's calling this one, 100%. She's got great style and taste, so I'm very much looking forward to what she decides. I just hope my photos don't turn out all blurry (as often happens, I'm afraid)! You should see what I can do to her brother's band's performances! Can't even tell who's who, a lot of the time, dammit!

[abelenkpe]

19. Congratulations! Nt

[calimary]

22. Thank you, abelenkpe!

[calimary]

20. Here was the special dessert his parents arranged!

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Is that cool or what?

[KMOD]

36. how sweet!

Congratulations.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. Great news

I remember when you were a disc jockey at the UC Irvine radio station in the early 70s. You were so young and that was such a long time ago. Time really flies. I wish your girl much happiness.

[calimary]

23. OMG - you remember that?

You must have been in the dorms? Or living right down the street! We used to joke about our fabulous big ol' ten sour-cream-fed watts! So that's about as far as KUCI's signal reached!

Time REALLY DOES fly, doesn't it!

Thanks, aint_no_life_nowhere! Lots of great and funny and downright silly memories (especially of THAT place)! We've all been on the radio in one form or other. My husband did, too - even before I got there. Our son's been on a lot, in many capacities, because of his band. And our daughter actually got herself a show on HER campus station. We visited her there on one Parents' Weekend. Heard her play "Parachute Woman" by the Stones. I was FLABBERGASTED! "OMG - you know THAT song? How cool is THAT???!?!?!" I tell ya, that girl has great style AND great taste!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. I walked up the stairs in the Commons building one day where you were doing your radio show.

I wanted to meet you as you had played my call in requests. Also, you had the same first and last name as a girl I was interested in at the time (your middle name was different). She had been a disc jockey too at UC San Diego. As I sat across from you chit-chatting during records, you asked me what I wanted to hear. I couldn't think of anything at the time. You asked me where I was from and I told you I was half French so you played a record that made mention of France (I wish I could remember the artist and title). Anyway, you were a blast to talk to and very young and cute, I might add.

I was living at the time in the unincorporated Newport Back Bay, just a stone's throw from the campus so I could pick up those 10 watts very well.

[calimary]

28. I LOVED playing requests!

Couldn't do it without 'em! Sometimes several of us who had shows would put on a long record and go out through the "prod stud" (production studio) to the outside balcony to listen to our shows reverberating back across campus from the dorms. Sometimes people there would be tuned into the station (because we played requests!) and would turn their dorm room speakers around so they were pointing outward. And we could hear it from where we were, up in the top floor of the Administration building.

Those were FUN days!

Sometimes we'd use all four turntables (two in the production room and two in the on-air booth) and put all four copies of "Layla" on them at the same time, turn BOTH studios on live, and let 'er rip! And Engineer Dave would be seated in one of the rooms, with a dust cloth in hand, just ever so slightly slowing one of the records by the edge. Result was - PHASE DISTORTION!!! The music would take on this hissing sound, up and down - SERIOUSLY trippy effect! You'd listen to it and felt like you were stoned off your ass, whether you'd just smoked or not!

[MarianJack]

24. Congrats to your lovely daughter, her fiance and both families!

PEACE!

[calimary]

25. Thank you, MarianJack!

I'm gonna be smiling for weeks! This will get me through the rest of the current Mercury Retrograde mercifully well!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. CONGRATULATIONS, my dear calimary!

I am thrilled for you, your daughter, her fiance, his family, your family...........hell, EVERYBODY involved!

And how good you all like each other. That is the positive icing on the cake!

You are in for a wonderful time. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as possible.

[calimary]

39. My dear Peggy! We're pretty doggone STOKED!!!

Thanks so much! I can't wait! Don't know what she wants or how she wants it - or even WHEN they want it (except for sometime next year, after his older sister's had HER wedding). But I still can't wait! I'm actually really interested in how she wants to do it, and the choices she'll make. She has terrific style AND taste! I'm just gonna follow along and try to keep up. And then try hard not to cry too loudly!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

29. Maybe you remember (or played)

this one, calimary. Best wishes to you all in such an exciting time.

.

[calimary]

40. Oh yeah! LOVE IT! They used to play this at the oldies station where I worked.

Invariably, somebody in the building would be boogying to this, and singing along to him/herself.

[pnwmom]

30. Congrats, calimary! Have fun!

[calimary]

41. Thanks, pnwmom!

We're all just so tickled! We had this combined family dinner the other night and his parents are just as excited! Probably gonna be a lot of fun on that day, considering the personalities of everybody involved. They started as fraternity/sorority buddies. So guess who-all will be invited!?! (Note: THESE fraternity guys all seemed to be respectful of women. Never saw or heard any bad stories about them - THANK GOODNESS!!!!)

[pnwmom]

46. We had so much fun at my daughter's wedding

and loved meeting many of their college friends -- who had to fly across the country to get here. It was a happy, happy day. Best party I've ever been to.

I wish the same for you!

[magical thyme]

31. congratulations calimary!

[calimary]

42. Thank you, magical thyme!

[oldandhappy]

32. joy joy joy !!!

The strawberry bride and groom are terrific--gotta remember that. Anyway, lots of happiness to all.

[calimary]

43. Weren't those cute?

Almost didn't want to see them eaten, but then I've gotta stop trying to save everything as a memento! There were plain dipped strawberries in white and dark chocolate for the rest of us and they were great, too! But the bride and groom strawberries were the greatest!

[raven mad]

33. WOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

How fun is this! Because it's your daughter, calimary, he is one fortunate son!! Here's your song:

[calimary]

44. Yes he IS, raven mad! And the way he behaves, it appears he knows it.

He kicked off this chapter by asking her dad for permission to marry her. Pretty classy young dude!

[Hekate]

34. Warm congrats to all, calimary

[calimary]

45. Thanks so much, Hekate!

This is going to be MIND-BLOWING! My best friend and I are babbling away about - "remember when they ... " because our daughters are friends, and they've known each other as long as they can remember. We remember when they were babies. Sheesh! Amazing what-all has happened!

[panader0]

35. Congrats! Will your son's band play the reception?

[calimary]

38. Well they certainly could, and they'd love to.

But it's up to her and her fiance. And I don't want to push that, either. They might have something entirely different in mind. She's been mighty supportive of her brother's band. I remember how, when they were both little, she used to refer to him, with disdain, as "my STUPID brother!" But later on, I saw this photo she posted on Facebook of the two of them posing together just after he and the band had finished performing at a local club. Big smiles, and her caption was "My little brother is so much cooler than yours!"

[Phentex]

37. Very exciting!

Congrats to all!

[calimary]

47. Thank you so much, Phentex!

It's starting to sink in. Lots of work ahead but they want to do it next year - so at least there's a lot of time!

We couldn't be more thrilled!

[riderinthestorm]

48. I see dancing, champagne, tears, laughter and lots of love heading your way!!! So exciting!!

I don't think my daughters are the marrying type so I love living the experience vicariously.

[calimary]

49. Oh, I'm CERTAIN of that. Especially the tears part.

I remember watching a "Star Trek" episode (forget if it was Next Gen or Deep Space) where Worf expressed great bewilderment over human matrimonial behavior - entirely different and utterly alien to what he was used to, at the standard Klingon ceremony. Something like "...characterized by a lot of dancing, and singing, and crying." Yep. I believe it. Especially considering ME. Sentimental old fool. I go to pieces over some TV commercials forcryingoutloud. My daughter's the same way. Her now-fiance mentioned something about "the waterworks" he had come to expect from her at various emotional times. Good luck, kid. Wait til I get there!!! They're probably gonna have to carry me outta there...