here's ten dollars worth of chips. you may now kiss the bride

Congratulations to this guy:

And this gal:

Pat proposed to Jen and she said “yes”. Jen, you brave brave soul 😉 This all happened a few months ago, but neither have blogged about it. Jen was the first to announce it all Internet-like, several days after the fact. Pat let the Web know 73 days later. So I don’t feel bad posting bloggy felicitations many moons after the hitchin’ was proposed 🙂

Who would’ve thought that a nice young lady hailing from Fort McMurray, Alberta who has a rabid dislike for the misspelling of her first name with an extra ‘n’, would fall for a well-read yet forever-sniffling guy from Timmins? Not I, at first blush 🙂 But after witnessing their interaction over the past couple of years, it’s obviously meant-to-be. It takes a different kind of person to comprehend Pat von Patty-Patty-Pat de la Byck. There are a few of us dudes who do, but “null” couldn’t even begin to describe of the odds of a marriage between him and one of us happening. Ummm, maybe almost null. Jen, however, is also one of the world’s few to decipher Pat’s wavelengths….and she has girl parts! It’s no wonder that she nabbed him 🙂

At this point, somebody who’s already married usually gives the couple some advice about marriage that’s peppered with a smidgen of humour. In the case of the groom-to-be, it’s usually his father who imparts hard-won experience upon him. But since Dadoo (aka: Pat’s dad – aka: Paul Byck – aka: the guy who falsely claims that I drink all of his beer) doesn’t have a blog and I do, I’ll toss in my ignoble two cents on the Interweb 🙂

Marriage is like an avocado; tough exterior, tasty innards, toxic to some species, and is the key ingredient in guacamole. Take from that what you will. Everybody’s going to tell you something profound or enlightening about marriage that’s supposed to stick to your ribs so that you carry it with you for the rest of your life:

Nothing changes once you’re married.

Everything changes once you’re married.

Continue to change your underwear daily once you’re married.

That last one about the underwear is definitely one to remember. And keep up with the steady sexin’…you just gotsta do that 😀 Cheers!