Comments on: This post was not supposed to be sad but I cried the entire time I was writing it. Until the funny parts. Then I was laughing. http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing No vagina was harmed in the making of this website. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Panni http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/comment-page-1/#comment-6667 Panni Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:01:27 +0000 http://www.shaunaglenn.com/?p=898#comment-6667 My grandfather passed away on 12th August 2001. I was the only grandchild that had the chance to say goodbye the night before he died. (Also felt that night I needed to see him). My grandfather passed away on 12th August 2001. I was the only grandchild that had the chance to say goodbye the night before he died. (Also felt that night I needed to see him).

]]> By: Canuck Mom http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/comment-page-1/#comment-6489 Canuck Mom Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:55:35 +0000 http://www.shaunaglenn.com/?p=898#comment-6489 I too have just come across this blog and have spent the last three hours going through a number of the posting laughing my ass off!! What hoot! Okay, this one may just top the cake on engagement horry stories. Let me see if I can remember the details as it is something that i have spent a number of years trying to forget. I had been dating this guy for a while and had moved in together. He had always taken me out for dinner at Denny's (used car salesman.... which shoulda been the first sign to run). Well, this one evening, he took me out for dinner to Tony Roma's... something strange about that though did not say anything. He was acting all funny too, though had dinner and left. We had to stop at Walmart on the way home to pick up something.... he took me to the toy section and told me to stay there and not to go anywhere as he walked away. A number of minutes later he came back and we left. Not too sure what was soo important that he couldn't take me on the shopping trip with him, we left! It was late by this time and I had to work in the morning so we just went home and went off to bed. Well, as we are lying in bed saying our goodnights, he rolls over and looks at me with this shit eating grin on his face and asks me if I would consider being his wife and making him the happiest man on earth and then proceeds to raise his knee from under the covers... the bloody idiot had put the ring on his toe before getting into bed. Bigger idiot I was, I said yes... though shortly thereafter woke up and said no! Whole other story follows that one, though the engagement was enough to send me over the edge. I later found the best man on the face of the planet and married him... the proper way (no toes involved!) We have since had a little girl who was conceived shortly after the passing of my grandfather. I love how his spirit lives on in her!! I too have just come across this blog and have spent the last three hours going through a number of the posting laughing my ass off!! What hoot!

Okay, this one may just top the cake on engagement horry stories. Let me see if I can remember the details as it is something that i have spent a number of years trying to forget. I had been dating this guy for a while and had moved in together. He had always taken me out for dinner at Denny’s (used car salesman…. which shoulda been the first sign to run). Well, this one evening, he took me out for dinner to Tony Roma’s… something strange about that though did not say anything. He was acting all funny too, though had dinner and left. We had to stop at Walmart on the way home to pick up something…. he took me to the toy section and told me to stay there and not to go anywhere as he walked away. A number of minutes later he came back and we left. Not too sure what was soo important that he couldn’t take me on the shopping trip with him, we left! It was late by this time and I had to work in the morning so we just went home and went off to bed. Well, as we are lying in bed saying our goodnights, he rolls over and looks at me with this shit eating grin on his face and asks me if I would consider being his wife and making him the happiest man on earth and then proceeds to raise his knee from under the covers… the bloody idiot had put the ring on his toe before getting into bed. Bigger idiot I was, I said yes… though shortly thereafter woke up and said no! Whole other story follows that one, though the engagement was enough to send me over the edge.
I later found the best man on the face of the planet and married him… the proper way (no toes involved!) We have since had a little girl who was conceived shortly after the passing of my grandfather. I love how his spirit lives on in her!!

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/comment-page-1/#comment-4691 Stephanie Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:27:15 +0000 http://www.shaunaglenn.com/?p=898#comment-4691 I just found your blog today, and reading through the "Best of" I came acrossed this one. It brought tears to my eyes and a a lump to my throat. My grandfather, Beepa, as I called him, died the day after your Dadaw. I was extremely close to him and it brought me to my knees when he died, I didn't know how to breathe in a world where he didn't live. I too became pregnant not long after, although it wasn't as soon. And I too had the same thought go through my mind when 911 happened. The two thoughts I remember most vividly were, Thank GOD he did not live to see this, and How am I going to bring a child into this crazy scary world? As for proposal stories... I know the contest is LONG over, but I just have to share. It was the day after Valentines 2001. My parents had taken our daughter for a night so that we could spend a night alone together before baby number two arrived. That's right, I was 7 and a half months pregnant with our son. So we got a hotel room, and everything was going wrong. My super sweet "baby-daddy" went in and ran me a bubble bath, lit candles and put on soft music. While I was in the bath, he was out in the room, TV blaring and just doing his thing. His thing? He was lighting even more candles and setting a romantic scene. I just thought he was trying to get some. I went out, dried off and laid naked in the bed, after all, that is kind of what we were there for. He pulls me into a sitting position and says he has something to tell me. So there we are, both naked as the day we were born, sitting facing each other criss cross applesauce style, and he pulls out the ring. He asked, I laughed, I looked at my HUGE belly and thought of the little one at my mom's and could only say one thing, YES!! We JUST got married this past August. That was after 8 years of being together and a four year engagement. Our children? They were the flower girl and ring bearer. LOL I just found your blog today, and reading through the “Best of” I came acrossed this one. It brought tears to my eyes and a a lump to my throat. My grandfather, Beepa, as I called him, died the day after your Dadaw. I was extremely close to him and it brought me to my knees when he died, I didn’t know how to breathe in a world where he didn’t live. I too became pregnant not long after, although it wasn’t as soon. And I too had the same thought go through my mind when 911 happened. The two thoughts I remember most vividly were, Thank GOD he did not live to see this, and How am I going to bring a child into this crazy scary world?

As for proposal stories… I know the contest is LONG over, but I just have to share.
It was the day after Valentines 2001. My parents had taken our daughter for a night so that we could spend a night alone together before baby number two arrived. That’s right, I was 7 and a half months pregnant with our son. So we got a hotel room, and everything was going wrong. My super sweet “baby-daddy” went in and ran me a bubble bath, lit candles and put on soft music. While I was in the bath, he was out in the room, TV blaring and just doing his thing. His thing? He was lighting even more candles and setting a romantic scene. I just thought he was trying to get some. I went out, dried off and laid naked in the bed, after all, that is kind of what we were there for. He pulls me into a sitting position and says he has something to tell me. So there we are, both naked as the day we were born, sitting facing each other criss cross applesauce style, and he pulls out the ring. He asked, I laughed, I looked at my HUGE belly and thought of the little one at my mom’s and could only say one thing, YES!!
We JUST got married this past August.
That was after 8 years of being together and a four year engagement.
Our children? They were the flower girl and ring bearer. LOL

]]> By: Tara http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/comment-page-1/#comment-4003 Tara Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:11:31 +0000 http://www.shaunaglenn.com/?p=898#comment-4003 Thank you for sharing your story, it had me in tears. My grandfather suffers from this illness as well and I have a hard time going to visit him because he is worse every time I see him. It breaks my heart, especially when he no longer knew who I was.<br /><br />As for proposals, how about a lack of proposal? I've lived with my boyfriend of 3 years for the past 2 years and we just had a baby together last month. Now he talks about going to Vegas in a year or two to get married. Should I just assume we're in engaged? There is no ring involved and something tells me there never will be an engagement ring. LOL. I laugh but deep on the inside I am just a bit sad too. Thank you for sharing your story, it had me in tears. My grandfather suffers from this illness as well and I have a hard time going to visit him because he is worse every time I see him. It breaks my heart, especially when he no longer knew who I was.

As for proposals, how about a lack of proposal? I've lived with my boyfriend of 3 years for the past 2 years and we just had a baby together last month. Now he talks about going to Vegas in a year or two to get married. Should I just assume we're in engaged? There is no ring involved and something tells me there never will be an engagement ring. LOL. I laugh but deep on the inside I am just a bit sad too.

]]> By: Genagee! http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/comment-page-1/#comment-3843 Genagee! Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:09:29 +0000 http://www.shaunaglenn.com/?p=898#comment-3843 I just stumbled across your blog and I love it!! It is so fun...<br />anyway my proposal story plays out much like my present life...riddled with profanity and sarcasm! So my then boyfriend and I had been living together for many months to our parents chagrin(I love that word--thanks Twilight series)Anyway we were planning on having a get together later that evening and were dividing up the cleaning tasks--I got pissed because somehow I got stuck cleaning toilets and not just any toilet but the toilet that my sweet angel of a boyfriend had decided to murder when he got food poisoning a few weeks before...bleck! You can't even imagine how gross it was. So as I set to work, gagging the whole way through he came in to check on me a few times which only served to aggravate me and mutter obscenities about his shitty ass ways(literally) under my breath. Well I had finally had it after like the 100th time and told him in no uncertain terms to eff off--he got kind of serious and said as nonchalantly as possible well I was going to tell you that this was the perfect practice for you since you would be cleaning up my shit for the rest of our lives together--marry me please?!!<br /><br />Ain't he a doll? I just stumbled across your blog and I love it!! It is so fun…
anyway my proposal story plays out much like my present life…riddled with profanity and sarcasm! So my then boyfriend and I had been living together for many months to our parents chagrin(I love that word–thanks Twilight series)Anyway we were planning on having a get together later that evening and were dividing up the cleaning tasks–I got pissed because somehow I got stuck cleaning toilets and not just any toilet but the toilet that my sweet angel of a boyfriend had decided to murder when he got food poisoning a few weeks before…bleck! You can't even imagine how gross it was. So as I set to work, gagging the whole way through he came in to check on me a few times which only served to aggravate me and mutter obscenities about his shitty ass ways(literally) under my breath. Well I had finally had it after like the 100th time and told him in no uncertain terms to eff off–he got kind of serious and said as nonchalantly as possible well I was going to tell you that this was the perfect practice for you since you would be cleaning up my shit for the rest of our lives together–marry me please?!!

Ain't he a doll?

]]> By: Cindermommy http://www.shaunaglenn.com/2009/09/this-post-was-not-supposed-to-be-sad-but-i-cried-the-entire-time-i-was-writing-it-until-the-funny-parts-then-i-was-laughing/comment-page-1/#comment-3838 Cindermommy Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:42:34 +0000 http://www.shaunaglenn.com/?p=898#comment-3838 My best friend in the world had been trying for 3 years to get pregnant, and ended up getting pregnant the month her father died from pancreatic cancer. We get to meet her little boy in 2 months!<br /><br />Proposal story:<br />I was 20. And I mean, just 20- that day, my birthday. My future husband had a banner night planned-we went gabling at an Indian Casino. Yippee! Then, when we came home, he had hired the college's accapella group to sing to me in the living room of his hall director apartment. Slightly awkward, slightly adorable! Then, he had done one of those boxes in a box in a box deals to gift me my ring. All very corny/cute.<br /><br />However, again, I was 20. So I am not sure what I was expecting when I called my dad to explain that I was engaged to that guy I had been dating for 4 months. After my shrieking excitement came a long pause, and my dad answered "Jessica, I am watching Ally McBeal. I am gonna have to call you back."<br /><br />In the 8 years and 2 kids since, he has warmed up to the idea. Ah, memories. My best friend in the world had been trying for 3 years to get pregnant, and ended up getting pregnant the month her father died from pancreatic cancer. We get to meet her little boy in 2 months!

Proposal story:
I was 20. And I mean, just 20- that day, my birthday. My future husband had a banner night planned-we went gabling at an Indian Casino. Yippee! Then, when we came home, he had hired the college's accapella group to sing to me in the living room of his hall director apartment. Slightly awkward, slightly adorable! Then, he had done one of those boxes in a box in a box deals to gift me my ring. All very corny/cute.

However, again, I was 20. So I am not sure what I was expecting when I called my dad to explain that I was engaged to that guy I had been dating for 4 months. After my shrieking excitement came a long pause, and my dad answered "Jessica, I am watching Ally McBeal. I am gonna have to call you back."

In the 8 years and 2 kids since, he has warmed up to the idea. Ah, memories.

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