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clouds posted yesterday on the perfume/cologne thread

also posts on the vaporwave thread iirc

good to hear!

lol clouds/perfume/vapor

reminds me of how I only post to that start a victory garden thread

heh

hello yes i'm alive

:D

i miss bill kt'epi

ows posted her ballot to the albums poll post-match thread iirc

Has Amateurist re-surfaced?

amateurist has been posting yes

Tep posts constantly on FB/tumblr with pics of cooking and shiz.

Ahh! I'm not on FB/Tumblr :/

I miss Tep dearly! Was thinking about his vinegar chicken recently. Don't think I've seen him on the boards in years unless he has posted under a different name?

Tuomas!?

he's been busy acting as an extra in Bordertown

I have?

I've been away, yeah, it's been a bit busy spring for me. Work's been stressful, and I'm facing some pretty major personal life rearrangements. My Costa Rican girlfriend was visiting me in March, and at the moment we're planning of her moving here. (Previously, we did consider the option of me moving there, but with Trump in power and CR being fairly dependent on US investments, employment opportunities there don't look very good + my Spanish is crappy.) But in order for her to get a residence permit in Finland, we need to be married. So we're gonna tie the knot in the summer when I travel to Costa Rica. Which should be great, and it is, but all the paperwork and bureaucracy involved in international marriage and immigration of a non-EU citizen to here is a bit stressing.

wow! sounds kind of stressful but otherwise great news

It is, and I'm happy that it's happening! I'm not a big believer in marriage as an institution, and TBH never expected to jump through that hoop myself, but it's pretty much the only option we have to make sure she gets to stay here. (The other option would be if we had kids together, so...) I guess you should anything for love, even get married, right?

I guess if it really comes to that! :)

Tuomas that is amazing and wonderful news! And the best reason to be dismissed from ilx tbh. Good to see you around again <3

I love this story

classic tuomas

only thing missing is rjg wandering into the wedding

^ the RJG/Tuomas encounter story is still one of my all-time fave ILX things

Tuomas and ENBB resurface simultaneously! This thread is working wonders.

Congrats on your news, Tuomas!

^ the RJG/Tuomas encounter story is still one of my all-time fave ILX things

same! it was so funny and amazing

congratulations tuomas:)

nice to see ENBB, I was just this morning walking around my house thinking 'blapmantis, blapmantis' for no good reason.

Good news T congrats

A curvy Costa Rican wife! (apologies if you don't get that reference, I'm not *actually* being grossly objectifying)

Congrats, Tuomas.

No prob, I actually wrote "my curvy Costa Rican girlfriend" on some thread here a while ago, and then I was afraid people might think *I'm* sexist if they don't get the reference.

Thanks for the congrats, everyone! On our way to Finland, we'll be staying with my gf's sister and her family in New Jersey for 6 days. So I was thinking, if I have the time, it would be nice to meet up with New York ilxors, since I failed to do that the last time I was there?

Yes pls

Where in NJ?

I will totally ride the NE regional to cross this off my bucket list

Rutherford.

Oh Tuomas I am very happy to wish you and yours much happiness!

rutherford, nj = world fap

congratulations Tuomas!!!

yes, congrats!!

Congrats, Tuomas!

I'm not a big believer in marriage as an institution

That's OK. Everything that's real about a marriage is just you and your spouse, figuring stuff out together. The institutional part can safely be ignored as long as you put your efforts into the getting along and helping each other part.

Tillykke Tuomas!

whats the the RJG/Tuomas encounter story?

congratulations Tuomas, i hope the immigration stuff goes as smoothly as possible

Niels:

which ilx poster has had the most transformative effect on your life?

haha, that's a nice story

that's just mindblowing, that story. it'd be like coming out of the water in Cancun and having someone yell at you "is you the guy that wanted hen fap?"

my conscience cannot rest until pandemic returns

please return

:(

sleep no more