When two Scapers come together beneath the Sign of the Monkey...
(...feel free to Mad Lib the rest of that sentence.)
But the news is...Rachael and I just got officially engaged. *vbg*
It's been in the works for a while...we'd talked it out in detail (as we do), we knew this would happen...we've even had a wedding date picked out for a couple of months now--
(August 1st, 2009, if you're wondering)
--but we finally found the ring Rachael wanted, and today we picked it up, and I put together the last touches I'd been planning for several weeks. I made her wait in the bedroom for a few minutes while I dressed Zongo the monkey in a tux (specially made and emboridered for the occassion) and inscribed a sonnet I'd written onto post-it notes that I placed atop the ring box...
(Why post-its? I'll let Rachael fill in that part of the story over at chickwithmonkey *g*)
And she said yes. My heart still did some astounding circus-like acrobatics, no matter how much I knew beforehand. It just feels good.
So yeah. That's today. I feel like I should have more words...just trust me, I'm grinning, and probably will be for the next three weeks at least without a pause.
But the news is...Rachael and I just got officially engaged. *vbg*
It's been in the works for a while...we'd talked it out in detail (as we do), we knew this would happen...we've even had a wedding date picked out for a couple of months now--
(August 1st, 2009, if you're wondering)
--but we finally found the ring Rachael wanted, and today we picked it up, and I put together the last touches I'd been planning for several weeks. I made her wait in the bedroom for a few minutes while I dressed Zongo the monkey in a tux (specially made and emboridered for the occassion) and inscribed a sonnet I'd written onto post-it notes that I placed atop the ring box...
(Why post-its? I'll let Rachael fill in that part of the story over at chickwithmonkey *g*)
And she said yes. My heart still did some astounding circus-like acrobatics, no matter how much I knew beforehand. It just feels good.
So yeah. That's today. I feel like I should have more words...just trust me, I'm grinning, and probably will be for the next three weeks at least without a pause.