a proposal with a familiar ring
I was having trouble thinking of things to write about this week. Then Kristine suggested some things, and I realized that all that crazy stuff actually happened in the past seven days!
It was my turn to propose to Kristine last month. I was a couple weeks late, but I did have the final ring this time. I had bought an inexpensive ring so I would have one to propose with and still allow Kristine to pick out the one she wanted. (Kristine really liked that plan, in case anyone reading this is thinking of proposing to someone and is looking for ideas.) So we went shopping together, and by a small miracle, we found one that Kristine adored in the first store. (Kristine's usually a little indecisive!) The store had to send it out for the stone to be set, and they said that it would be ready on Monday at 5pm. When Samuels called me at 2pm and told me it was ready, I was sitting in her CS lab, wondering how I could possibly surprise her with a ring she had helped pick out. Then she decided to go camp out near an office in the WILK for two hours to get some information on a biofeedback machine for her research.
I knew I had three hours to pick it up and propose before Kristine would be expecting it. I waited until she was gone and raced to the mall and back. I tried to call her to find out if she'd returned to the lab, but when I got there she had been lured away from her phone to learn how to connect some computers. I then managed to lure her out of her research lab on the pretext of having some chords in my head that "absolutely demanded" my attention. I serenaded her on the guitar with a song she liked, and then let it play on the computer while we danced. Apparently it was quite romantic; Kristine got caught up in it and didn't realize I was proposing until I brought out the ring.
(Some friends have requested pictures. Here are a couple:
There are more available at AdamAndKristine.com; click on "Courtship" and scroll down. It's a white gold ring with a princess-cut solitaire and three small diamonds on each side. I'll try to take some more soon; Kristine has developed a new-found respect for diamond photographers.)
Kristine was excited enough that no research got done for the rest of the day. Instead, she went around the Talmage building to show the ring off to her brother, her uncle, and a bunch of other people in the Computer Science Department. (In such a male dominated field, there aren't a whole lot of students who bounce around showing off new engagement rings. Kristine had fun trying to personally make up for the lack of chromosomally dictated demonstrations of engagement excitement.)
It was my turn to propose to Kristine last month. I was a couple weeks late, but I did have the final ring this time. I had bought an inexpensive ring so I would have one to propose with and still allow Kristine to pick out the one she wanted. (Kristine really liked that plan, in case anyone reading this is thinking of proposing to someone and is looking for ideas.) So we went shopping together, and by a small miracle, we found one that Kristine adored in the first store. (Kristine's usually a little indecisive!) The store had to send it out for the stone to be set, and they said that it would be ready on Monday at 5pm. When Samuels called me at 2pm and told me it was ready, I was sitting in her CS lab, wondering how I could possibly surprise her with a ring she had helped pick out. Then she decided to go camp out near an office in the WILK for two hours to get some information on a biofeedback machine for her research.
I knew I had three hours to pick it up and propose before Kristine would be expecting it. I waited until she was gone and raced to the mall and back. I tried to call her to find out if she'd returned to the lab, but when I got there she had been lured away from her phone to learn how to connect some computers. I then managed to lure her out of her research lab on the pretext of having some chords in my head that "absolutely demanded" my attention. I serenaded her on the guitar with a song she liked, and then let it play on the computer while we danced. Apparently it was quite romantic; Kristine got caught up in it and didn't realize I was proposing until I brought out the ring.
(Some friends have requested pictures. Here are a couple:
There are more available at AdamAndKristine.com; click on "Courtship" and scroll down. It's a white gold ring with a princess-cut solitaire and three small diamonds on each side. I'll try to take some more soon; Kristine has developed a new-found respect for diamond photographers.)
Kristine was excited enough that no research got done for the rest of the day. Instead, she went around the Talmage building to show the ring off to her brother, her uncle, and a bunch of other people in the Computer Science Department. (In such a male dominated field, there aren't a whole lot of students who bounce around showing off new engagement rings. Kristine had fun trying to personally make up for the lack of chromosomally dictated demonstrations of engagement excitement.)