Solved! ... after seven years.

Seven years ago, (as of March 27th) Sir sent me C-12. It was the twelfth code to be cracked by one of us, and it was also the last. Twenty minutes into the 8th year of having C-12 in my possession, I finally solved it! Two minutes later I started writing this post, and that gives you an idea of how long it's taken me to get back to this!

Let me take you back a few years where I can explain...

Way back even before our friendship transformed into a courtship, Sir and I e-mailed each other. One day I was feeling rather more mischievous than usual and wrote up a code that I included in my e-mail. Of course I would give no clues and poor Sir was in the middle of his college final exams. It took him four days to crack my code and to send an encoded reply. He also sent a code of his own and that was the beginning of the code wars. Sir's code was more complicated than mine had been, and once I'd solved it, I would reply and send an even harder one. Finally we had reached C-12. And I was just about stumped - well, I was stumped, but I never dreamed of admitting defeat and surrendering and Sir wasn't about to give me any clues.

I kept scratching away at solving C-12, but as time and our relationship progressed, code-cracking became much less of a priority. And in the whirl of romance, engagement, the wedding and newly married life, the codes were nearly forgotten. Well, they were forgotten until I decided it was time to go through the boxes of junk, keepsakes and miscellaneous collections, in hopes of making our storage shed more of a storage shed rather than an attic-like collection of nobody-knew-what.

Due to damp weather, much of the paper was ruined and before throwing it out I went through every little piece. The un-salvageable things were photographed first and the nonsense was just tossed, but the memories were incredible. When I got to a file of my codes and my attempts at solving Sir's codes I remembered C-12. Sure enough it was there - still unsolved. And in my curiosity, I stopped my sorting to research how long I'd had that last code. To my surprise I had one month and two days left before the 7th anniversary.

I asked Sir to re-send it to me two days later, and I spent what time I could spare during that last month, working on the solution. I wanted to solve it by the anniversary of when I'd first received it, and did I ever have to scramble! On the very last night, I spent about four hours working on it after the kids went to bed, and I missed my deadline by 20 minutes! Well, I had solved how it was encoded, but I was still trying to convert it into English and didn't finish that until 12:20, March 28th.

It was a brilliant code, but what do you expect when you have a genius for a husband? Here's the code, and to make it easier for anyone who wants to try cracking it, I'll even included it in English. Have fun!

C-12

Mwahahahahaha, J ydw phttuu iz lotmmts brat vz iyxx xx this is no
tpa rt oft heencod. Edmessa, gexx xx nhy raxzbp brat (h-hahaha).
Wmjr siy, ioi is brat gy eaul mtwqhf cpdo zvdcj-vlu brat. :P

2369,1-7-2-2-83-13-3-2-3-10-2-1-3-0-0-122.73,9-1-1-58-
4(90).10-7,7-2-10-3-15-63-15-86-3. :P

562,553-812,556-1090
1
564
5,666,970
255
36,979-542
35,457
220
47,799
73
53,724
1
96
1302
144
1323
45,082-1555
19,144-2152
54,197
181
1542
6,309,268
4923
1476-15,300
65-261
3563
2069
124
37,787
218
45,223
1,415,742
38,961
1662-652,083
10,529

C-12 in English

"Unfortunately, I was unable to compose this in time to give it to you at the wedding. Anyways, this is the latest code (c-twelve). Have fun, and be sure to take longer than forty-six days. :P"