Current mood:	chipper
Entry tags:	life

I really only update Facebook for events of this magnitude.

roguesylph and I got engaged yesterday. We were going to spend the day in Newport and then head over to WaterFire in the evening, but she got a flat tire last night, and then there were thunderstorms, so we just had dinner in the city instead.

We'd been planning it for a while. It's not really a decision I wanted to make unilaterally, so that would've made it hard enough for me to have surprised her, and then we decided that we should both have engagement rings (since blah blah something about equality, but the important part is, I like shiny things), so the surprise thing wouldn't really have worked out. I still managed to get somewhat of a drop on her though.

We'd decided that we were going to do it on Saturday (our anniversary is on Monday, but we wanted to do it on a weekend so that we could celebrate in style), so I was going to "pop the question" (which was a pretty slim formality at this point, but hey, it's still, y'know, "the question") at midnight. She decided to go get a glass of water at 23:59, conveniently. I palmed the jewelry box while she was up, and when she got back, after making sure that my water had been securely set down, I told her, "Oh, before you sit down..." Drop to knee, &c. I don't think we particularly managed to surprise any family, or really, any of y'all.

There are pictures of rings and other assorted schmoopiness at images.sachsfam.org (but note that zevils.com and its associated images.zevils.com remain the canonical websites for my personal stuff....) Liz's post is here.

The wedding is tentatively scheduled for Q4 2008, but for the sake of everyone's collective sanity, we're declaring a moratorium on any further planning until mid-September (2007 :p).

I love you, Liz.