“Hung up, strung up, married, or drowned – it’s all the same.”
-Frank J. Sr. (I’m the third)
Having found a girl crazy enough to put up with me, I decided I couldn’t wait any longer. Thus I proposed on Saturday evening (and she said yes!). Probably didn’t notice, but I had butterflies in my stomach all last week leading up to this.
My fiancee details the proposal and my sneaky deceptions pretty well here. Pictures of the ring here.
I feel like I should thank everyone in the blogosphere who helped me along. I started this blog to get my say out there, and never really thought I’d find a wife. I guess first thanks goes to Glenn Reynolds, the Blogfather, who I first started reading and inspired me to blog. He also was a judge in the t-shirt babe competition which was nice of him since I got everybody to call him the puppy blender.
Next thanks goes to Oceanguy of Somewhere on A1A for being the first to permalink me when I was about to give up blogging.
Then I have to thank Geeks with Guns and John Hawkins of RightWingNews for sending me my first real traffic. John Hawkins later asked for permission to put up my posts in full on his site which helped promote me and also was a judge in the t-shirt babe competition.
After that, thanks goes to Emperor Misha I (who has a t-shirt coming out and was another judge for the t-shirt babe competition) and Rachel Lucas – both of whom sent me lots of traffic that led to more regular readers. Rachel Lucas helped me move to my own URL and designed my original banner (part of which is still used). Since she is so hard to e-mail and thank personally, so everyone click on her link in this post (the others are outdated) so maybe she’ll notice the traffic and come here and e-mail me.
Big thanks to Doug of ThoseShirts.com for agreeing to do t-shirts with me and then encouraging my t-shirt babe competition (including adding in a prize). Thanks to all the participants in that competition including the other judges not mentioned thus far: Blackfive, Harvey, Bill Whittle, and No One of Consequence.
I guess I should thank RightWingDuck, a great blog friend, and well as Cadet Happy. Hell, I’ll thank the rest of the IMAO blog family as well, so thank you Scott and Aquaman.
Let’s see… am I forgetting anyone. Well, I guess I’ll thank Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy who I consider a partial blog father as his blog was one of the few I read before blogging myself. Little Green Footballs get thanks, because I got some of my first notice in the comments section. Doubly so for Bill Quick of Daily Pundit with his open comment style.
And I especially want to thank all you readers who have kept coming back and encouraging me to write. I never would have kept writing without all your kind words.
Sorry, wasn’t able to come up with an IMW today (something new please happen in the news!). I’ve thought I burnt myself out permanently a number of times and was always wrong, and I’ll be doing this ’till I croak halfway through a post, my head collapsing on the “Publish” button, if I have any say. Anyway, I’m jovial; more funny is to come.
God bless.
UPDATE: Oh yeah, and I should thank Life, Liberty, Etc., long time advertiser who gave me the idea for getting a t-shirt babe when they first advertised.
First … Congrats … Sean
Congrats ya big galoot.
My finacee details the proposal…
A freudian slip, this early in the game???
heh
Funny how a lot of people have to nearly give up on dating and relegate themselves to a life of solitude and bitterness. I was there too, and next thing I knew I was on one knee proposing. Congrats to the both of you! I hope you have many happy years together.
Good grief! I thought that sounded like a ‘goodbye’ letter or something. What a relief to read the last few sentences. Keep the funny going.
Congratulations on the pending nuptuals!!!! Are we all invited to the wedding? On what blogs are you registered for gifts? Inquiring minds want to know.
Shoot, Frank, this is the bestest IMW one could hope for. Congrats, guy!
Congratulatiions to you both. Great news.
from http://www.juggernuts.com
Top 10 Reasons for Handguns Over Marriage!
10 – YOU CAN TRADE IN AN OLD 44 FOR A NEW 22, NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
9 – YOU CAN KEEP ONE HANDGUN AT HOME, AND HAVE ANOTHER FOR WHEN YOU’RE ON THE ROAD.
8 – IF YOU ADMIRE A FRIEND’S HANDGUN AND TELL HIM SO, HE WILL PROBABLY LET YOU TRY IT OUT A FEW TIMES.
7 – YOUR PRIMARY HANDGUN DOESN’T MIND IF YOU KEEP ANOTHER HANDGUN FOR A BACK UP.
6 – YOUR HANDGUN WILL STAY WITH YOU EVEN IF YOU RUN OUT OF AMMO.
5 – A HANDGUN DOESN’T TAKE UP A LOT OF CLOSET SPACE.
4 – HANDGUNS FUNCTION NORMALLY EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH.
3 – A HANDGUN DOESN’T ASK, “DO THESE NEW GRIPS MAKE ME LOOK FAT?”
2 – A HANDGUN DOESN’T MIND IF YOU GO TO SLEEP AFTER YOU USE IT.
#1 – YOU CAN BUY A SILENCER FOR A HANDGUN!
congrats big guy
My congratulations to both you and the lovely Sarah K.
Congratulations Frankj and Sarahk. We need more little ronin running around.
krakatoa,
At least I remembered the two ‘e’s like she taught me.
Dude! Let me be (err… number 12) to give congrats! The only wedding reception I can think of where reception games include rapidfire marksmanship at ten meters for party favors…
Congrats Frank!
congratulations, Frank J.!
Good on the both of you! May you have many happy years together.
I already left a note on SarahK’s blog… but I wanted to tell you too, Frank… CONGRATULATIONS, may both of you be blissfully happy!!!
Oh, and somebody out there better live blog the wedding for the sake of those of us who cannot attend.
Congradulations to both of you. Enjoy.
The top 10 list was pretty good.
Frank, don’t admit to knowing how to use a vacuum cle…. Oh, too late, ok.
Congrats you crazy kids.
Now lets see a happy dance!!!
Congratulations, Frank. She’s a wonderful girl… but you knew that, or you wouldn’t be making her yours.
May God Bless you both with all you so richly deserve. (And if you have three boys, SarahK has my e-mail address for the sanity check… heh!)
Congratulations, you two!!! May God bless you both in your commitment to one another and to responsible gun ownership.
Somewhere Willow is breathing a sigh of relief…
I was over at Sarah’s reading her account of the evening… looks like you got everything right. grin Congratulations – I wish you two all the very best for the next hundred years or so… when it’s the right person – that time will go by in the blink of an eye. Much much happiness to you both!
Congrats FrankJ and SarahK! That’s incredible news. The world needs more Conservatives like you, so get to it.
does happy dance 🙂
Congrats, sucka 🙂
Congrats, Frank!
Yay!
(I already said congrats over at SarahK’s blog, but I just gotta say it again…)
Congradulations! May you two have many long & happy years together!
Congratualtions, Frank!!!! Have you guys decided on a date yet?
As we say back in Texas, (I’m sure you’ll agree with me here SarahK) “GIT ‘ER DONE!!!”
aww congrats Frank
but then again, i saw this coming way back when 🙂
anywho, good luck.
congrats Frank, I hope all my friends can meet women that are as suitable for them as Sarah is for you.
Tim
I am so happy for you both.
Congratulations! You have made the blogosphere very happy today.
Congrats!
Congratulations to both of you.
Well held. And congratulations!
Congratulations!! Mazal Tov!! Although I rarely if ever post comments, I check your site at least 3 times a day – and you and SarahK are a constant source of fun for me. So I guess that as long as I’m congratulating you on this great news, it would be a good time to say a big THANK YOU as well – keep it up!
Congratulations!
Now the burning question, as I commented on Sarah’s post once my eyes dried:
Are there others married directly on account of their blogs, besides me and Deb and now you two?
It’d be interesting to know.
Well, con-grat-u-lations, y’all.
I can see the headlines now:
“Deranged Blog Author Marries Hot T-Shirt Chick, Film at 11″…
Congratulations!
It seemed kind of inevitable when I met you two….
CONGRATS
Congratulations, you crazy kids!
Hope someone is going to live-blog the event! Errrr, up to the ‘wedding night’, that is…
Frank and Sara, I want to wish you continued happiness and health. Everybody can use some luck, so wishing you some luck too. Mike M
Congratulations, King J!!
You’re one lucky ronin!!!
Congratulations! And you did a great job with the planning & execution of the proposal. Kudos!
Congrats! (Like we all didn’t know it was going to happen.)
May the best of your past be the worst of your future together.
Impressive Frank. Marrying up is every man’s dream, but this has got to be a record! 😉 Congrats to you both.
Hoorah!
How about a blogger convention/wedding party in Florida?
Cangrats, Frank.
Of course, there are a few pressing questions that need to be answered.
Answer NOW!
nice work, congrats
Congratulations! But given who obviously wears the pants in this relationship (a cat? Please) shouldn’t that be “FrankJ to become FrankK”?
Har!
Do you have a mailing address to which we can send cards or something? Or is that on the website somewhere?
Congratulations, Frank J!
Mike,
We do have a P.O. Box (well, SarahK does). I’ll see about posting it.
Lil’ Frank is growing up. Snif. Sunrise Sunset.
Congratulations you two krazy kids. Soon you’ll be as misera…er…Happy as me and Mrs. Exile.
Outkicked your punt coverage with this one, dude. Mazel tov!
Congralutations!!! Awesome news!!!
You’re welcome!
Sincerely,
T-shirt babe contest loser (and it’s a good thing!)
I said it over at Sarahk’s site, so to repeat myself-Congrats!!
I’m going into the live blogging the wedding camp. Maybe with a webcam, to show off each of each of your happy dances (she must have a happy dance of her own she did after you asked her) 😉
Congratulations again, I hope you have many blessed and happy years together.
Congrats to you both. You are blessed, and both of your blogs (yours and Sarah K’s) are great.
Here’s to many years of happiness!
Congrats – I’ve been lurking on your site for some time now, and I’m truly glad to see that things are going so well for you. My best to you and Sarah!!!
Congratulations to you both!
Congrats Frank – I’m really excited for you.
You’ve also inspired me – if you can get a girl like SarahK, maybe there’s hope for me after all!
Does this mean you’ll be doing wedding planning blogging? I agree with whoever commented about live-blogging the wedding. That would totally rock.
Congratulations!
[Hopefully marriage won’t involve a real version of “the t-shirt babe winning picture”.]
I hope you & SarahK will be as happy as your mother & I have been……why the hell isn’t my lunch ready yet and why aren’t my guns clean!!! What have you been doing, honey??
I agree with jonag. It’s a good thing SarahK won that competition over me.
Grats my friends. May your lives be long and joyous.
Frank,
Mean old man.
Very very cool – well done. Has been hilarious following the romance from afar.
Grats to you!
And a hearty GOOD LUCK! to the woman you somehow entrapped.
Congrats Frank and Sarah!
Congrats, Frank! I am thrilled for both of you!
Congratulations!
It may be to early for child names, but how about Smith, if it’s a boy, and Wesson if it’s a boy?
Just a thought.
Congrats to you both! May all your days be happy.
This calls for a round of puppy smoothies 🙂
Will Aquaman be the Best Man?
Yeahyyyyyy
Took you long enough, I was getting worried she’d get tired of your dilly dallying and move on. Now the real fun begins, Bwahahahahahhah!
And congratulations. Ululuuualalaualauuau!
(Fires SKS at neihbors cat)
Congratulations, Frank and Sarah. I wish you both every happiness and a long life together.
Oh… Glenn Reynolds sent me over here to check up on you two. I do so enjoy a love story with a happy ending. Congrats kids and blessings on your union.
From a blogger who can’t even get a date much less win a t-shirt contest.
A Blessing (from our Native Americans):
Now you will feel no rain
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now each of you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness for you
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons
But there is one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
God Bless You Both!
Have to laugh…just showed my eldest the pictures of the ring. He said, “One ring to rule them all…”
LOL!! Poor Frank……
Congratulations Frank and Sarah! This is truly a happy and joyous day.After the Grand Canyon trip last year,I figured you had found your bashert,and I was right.
Mazel tov,and may G-d bless you both with long life,much happiness,and a whole buncha little Ronin rugrats runnin’ around the ‘Casa de J’. 🙂
like they say:
“A man is not complete until he is married….the he’s finished:-)”
/congrats
Now that you’ve given your soul to sarahk, have you thought about defrauding devil-Flanders out of a sacrilecious donut?
Congratulations on your engagement, both of you. Keys to a happy marriage:
sarahk: Like Superman, you’ve chosen to marry a mortal human. Have patience with him. If G-d had meant Frank to be perfect, He’d have made him a woman.
FrankJ: Wash the dishes (not a euphemism). It doesn’t make sense, but it’s amazing how many points dish washing is worth in the, largely inscrutable, Female System of Barter and Justice. Not even spider-killing is so disproportionately valuable.
Awesome rock for an awesome girl, good work my man. Being married is truly fantastic, and my wife’s not even watching me type this. Congratulations you two, I wonder how many of your readers predicted this during the early courtship?
Congratulations. I’m very happy for both of you.
Or is this just a new direction for In My World?
Congradulations!!!
(I predicted this a long time ago. ^_^)
-007
We’ve had our scandal in the past Frank, and I don’t come so often as I did before the group blog, but congratulations, she won’t have to worry about a lack of laughter in her life.
Your Home Slice
-Joey D
Mozzeltov!!!
Make sure you have someone live-blog the wedding 😉
Hey, I was married to my stalker blog fan before you even heard of SarahK.
I think she should go by SarahK-J, though.
YEAH!!! Yes, we have to have live blogging at the wedding! And we must have many pictures posted for us readers to see.
Congrats and best wishes!!!
Congratulations you two!
… and there was much rejoicing.
Congrats FrankJ and SarahK!!! I’ve been reading your blogs for a couple of years now and I visit at least once a day.
I can’t add any advice that already hasn’t been posted (especially about washing the dishes) so I’ll just end with…….
I saw this coming a long time ago! Actually, I thought it would happen during the canyon hiking trip.
Congratulations Frank! SarahK is one lucky girl!
This is good news. My congratulations to both of you! (Now that you’re a man, Frank, Kim du Toit won’t be able to hound you about whether you’re in school.)
One cant help but remember the Simpsons………
Congratulations, I’m so excited for you two!
Blessings and hope for a good life to the both of you.
Mike in Chicago
Hey Frank. Remember last year when we were supposed to make you rich? Instead you’re about to be hitched! You do know that hitched is the antithesis of rich, right? Of course they say that married men live longer. Others say it just seems longer…
Congratulations to you both! Hope you’re as happy as me and mine have been for the past 33 years.
Oh, I am so glad that you two decided to tie the knot!
….
Waitaminnit…. SarahK did say “Yes” -right?
Good!
If I may offer a blessing of sorts?
“May you love as long as you live, and laugh as long as you love!”
And, from personal experience, “Listen to each other before you speak for yourself, give 150% without expecting any return, and never permit the possibility of divorce!”
My hubby and I have been married for 20 years, and our attitude is “Us against the world!”
I pray that God richly blesses your marriage, that He gives you rest in each other, unity in trials, and that you remain each others’ best friend always!
“Whom God has joined, let no man separate!”
So, where’s the bridal registry?
Wonderful news!
Frank, you’ve made the best decision of your life. Make the most of it.
SarahK – you’re marrying one o’ them gun-totin’ wild Idaho mountain men. Speaking from personal experience (my wife is a liberal from Idaho – meaning she carries a 9mm instead of .45) they make for incredible spouses once you get used to a certain preoccupation with potatoes, salmon and wacky separatist politics.
Let me close with my Best Wishes to both of you and a quote from “The Guru” – Col. Jeff Cooper:
The purpose of man is to cherish woman. The purpose of woman is to civilize man. Let us hold to that thought.
congratulations, Frank J.
many happy years to come!
Three cheers for team building! Hip, hip – congratulations!
Romeocat – great thoughts. I find my marriage in the same light as you stated. Great thoughts.
On another note, I haven’t seen anyone state it, but, is it just me or is the entire blogosphere reacting to this news? I’ve seen the “puppy blender”, Michelle Malkin, ThoseShirts.com, etc, etc, etc, commenting and congratulating. I think on a small level this shows the emphasis and reach that IMAO, and MountaineerMusings, has. Basically, everyone knows about this!
I think FrankJ and SarahK should feel proud. Not only because of their coming senten…… uh……marriage but because of the effect they have on the blogosphere in general. If nothing else, this should justify FrankJ’s commitment to this site/blog.
Congrats again! May you each have many wonderful years together! I hope for only the best for each of you.
Leuthen
PS – This is going to be live-blogged yes? For those of us shlubs who aren’t able/lucky enough to attend? Please tell me there will be many pictures as well as many IMW’s relating to the wonderful event!
This is great news! Congratulations, Frank!
Congratulations Frank. You’ve achieved every real man’s dream. And you did it before me! DAMN YOU!
God bless, you schmucks.
have you picked out your matching 1911a1’s yet?
and congrats and best of luck to both of you.
Congratulations, Frank.
have you picked out your matching 1911a1’s yet?
and congrats and best of luck to both of you.
Congratulations. I was instructed by the Emperor to come over and give my “huzzahs!”. Hope I’m not to late to tell you good luck and many years of happiness.
AWESOME! Live blogging is DEFINITELY in order–but even better, a webcam for the wedding! ‘Cause we’re nosy, of course…but what would you expect?
Congratulations! 😀 😀 😀
Mazel tov, and God bless!
Congratulations and best wishes!!
Congratulations, Frank and Sarah. Treat each other with kindness, and it will last.
Elizabeth
Imperial Keeper
How sweet. Give each other the best that you can give and all will be well. I could go on and on that marriage isn’t just a bed of roses, but you guys seem to get that.
Have a long and happy marriage. God bless.
Congratulations. May you have very many happy years together.
And may a benevolent Providence (Jefferson’s “Nature’s God”) smile upon you and yours.
^_^
Wow! Congrats
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…my little girl is marrying her dream man…and I love him for making her so very very happy!…and because he is so funny…and I like your dad FrankJ…Pappy says “Get in the kitchen wench and cook me up some grub”…they will get along nicely!!! I loved Romeocat’s wisdom and Dixie Darlin’s blessing…great fans you and Sarahk have! Love you both! your Bikermommy
So, Will the Ninja costumes be for the bridesmaids or the Groomsmen?
Or perhaps for both?
Congrats Frank! That’s great news! I wish you and Sarah all the best!
Huzzah! Cracking news to hear, to be sure. Hearty congratulations to the both of you!
I already said this on SarahK’s blog and on mine, but I’ll say it here as well – I hope Rumsfeld shows up at the wedding with a big, hearty, congratulatory, “Rarrrrrrr!” Congratulations, and good luck!
Congratulations Frank J.
Congratulations to you both. Met my wife of almost seven years (of marriage, not her age you pervs!)now, on the net. That was back before blogs-we met in mIRC land. Now we blog. Best of love, long life, and happines to you both.
Congratulations!
Getting hitched was the smartest decision I ever made. (Last one too)
Congratulations to SarahK & FrankJ. You have brought us all much happiness: may your marriage bring you much happiness, adventures and stuff.
Congratulations both, and good luck! I can’t think of anything witty to say, so just good luck!
WOW! Congratulations Mr. J. and Best Wishes to the future Mrs. J.
I guess this means the arrangements of marriage between you and the Daughter Du Toit are off, huh? Guess that trunk full of guns will have to go to someone else.
It was never a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’. Congrats, you two!
Congrats….
Love is not putting up with your loved ones faults but looking at yours and trying to correct them for her.
(I try to live by this creed…happily married for 26 years and still madly in love with her)
Danjo