Umm.. it's time to buy a house. Oh wait we're doing the kid thing first. Shit, I'm all out of order.

I'll put the comment here that I wanted to put on the YouTube page. The commenter above me had said:

As a teenager, I will swear to never live like this and never buy in to cultural norms. But like everyone else before me, I will go to college, work the 9-5 and follow suit with the couple in this video.

To which I say: The life you get is the one you choose to make. If your life turns out like "everyone else's," don't lay the blame with "everyone else."

Yeah, we're totally messing it up. We didn't move in together before the wedding, we didn't go camping!!!, and nobody got down on a knee. MY MARRIAGE IS RUINED.

I had to get married 3 times before I got it right.

1. I was 29 when we met, he was 4 years older than me.
2. Our first date was a movie
3. We went camping
4. We put pictures of each other in our cubicle. Of camping. (Actually kayaking, but whatever)
5. We moved in together after about a year
6. We went to lots of barbeques & holidays at my parents' houses
7. After a year and a half of living together, he got down on one knee
8. We got married a year and four months after he proposed
9. It's been a year and eight months since the wedding. We're adopting a kid
10. Fuck it all, let's buy a sailboat and go around the world

OMG, that is hilarious. Sadly I can see myself in this video.


1. Engaged at 26. He got down on one knee. He proposed at the beach.
2. Moved into apartment together after engagement. Lived in apartment for exactly one year.
3. Built house.
4. Moved into new house 2 months before married.
5. Married at 27.
6. First baby at 28.
7. Second baby at 30.
8. I want the kids to be athletes AND creative. Husband is more secure with himself and allows them to just be. (They have decent musical and athletic ability). When my first son was five, I signed him up for "art camp" at a local gallery. He had no interest and didn't really want to go. He wasn't protesting but I knew. I cringe that I did that. I am relaxed in so many ways but was somewhat of an anxious parent. Or, maybe a guilty parent. Last night I brought both kids to see an orchestral band concert. I feel it is my duty as a parent to expose them to the arts. If not they will play video games sunup to sundown. I guess I could put limits on the TV but I really don't.
9. For our entire marriage we have used practicality as an excuse to not pull the trigger on anything that costs too much or anything that requires risk or bravado.
10. We didn't go camping when we were dating (we were too boring and practical for that) but we did have plenty of pedestrian vacations (Orlando, Las Vegas, Biloxi) and we live in a pedestrian place.

I still think my life is grand. :-)

I stopped watching around the time they finished camping and putting up pictures of camping in their cubicles and were headed for the inlaws for Memorial Day -- because I felt so sorry for these stick figures. They are doing the dance, but there's no music.

I did some of this (first minute activities) with my husband, years and years later than the appointed time in our lives as set in this cartoon, and have done a heck of a lot more since we married. I still feel incredibly lucky to have met him.

Poor stick figures.

They are doing the dance, but there's no music.
I thought that was kind of the point - that's what most people seem to do (on the surface at least).

That was great and sad. I loved the narrator's voice.

That was great and sad. I loved the narrator's voice.

My feeling as well.

Also - "Withering Pines" retirement home. I can't tell you how many similar names I saw on retirement homes on my road trip. I think "Sunset Acres" was the saddest.

I seem to have done everything wrong but I know a few people who are following that scenario to the letter. There are so many ways to live your life, sad that so many people are so trapped.

They are doing the dance, but there's no music.

Beautifully put.

This video isn't my dance. But I love my music.

I finally got to see this (it wouldn't play for me at work). Very funny; it reminds me a little bit of this song/video by Meryn Cadell, though Cadell's cynicism is a little more oblique.