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Don't Be Falling Over Backwards...
This entry was posted on 6/23/2007 1:27 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
I can't think of a witty way to introduce this, so I'll just blurt it out: Lee and I are engaged.
Yeah, I know! I can hear you all yelling, "SHUT UP!," but it's true.
We've been talking about it for a little while, and looking at rings online and stuff, and Lee has been teasing me about not being able to decide if he would buy one or not. Last night we went out to dinner, as a late birthday dinner for Lee, who turned 28 on Tuesday. After we were about finished eating, Lee started babbling about how he loves me because I don't care how much money he spends on bicycle stuff, and how he's spent a LOT on bicycle stuff lately, and how he really wanted to buy me something different, but he just couldn't afford it, and anyway I'm always saying I'd be happy with anything...and as he was babbling he pulled out this HUGE, gaudy, cubic zirconia ring with the $19.99 Wal*Mart price tag still on it. I started cracking up, and yelled "I LOVE IT!" and put it on...but then the fool got down on one knee and pulled out the *real* ring and said, "will you marry me?" and I said, "yes, now get up and stop embarassing me!"
After we stopped laughing and getting weird looks from our fellow diners, Lee told me that he had planned on proposing later that evening at Dunkin Donuts, where we were going after dinner to play Scrabble. He changed his mind when I started suggesting we go to a little coffee shop instead, because he thought the coffee shop would be too crowded, so he just went ahead and did the deed at dinner instead. Let me back up a bit. I'm sure you are all saying "Dunkin Donuts? WTF?" Our first date was at Dunkin Donuts, where we sat outside drinking coffee and playing Scrabble until 3:00 am, so it would have been fitting to get engaged there. Ok, so back to the story...Lee changed his mind about DDs, and proposed at dinner instead, but we still went to play Scrabble afterwards. As we were setting up the board, this squirrely looking dude walked in. He looked all nervous, possibly high, and we looked at each other like, "oh boy, crackhead season." Lee was sitting with his back to this guy, but I was facing him and could see him fidgeting in the corner. I was ok until he pulled out a pencil and started sharpening it with a huge knife. I'm talking maybe a 6-inch blade on this puppy. I said quietly to Lee, "Um, honey bunny, I think we should go...the crackhead has a knife." So we packed up our shizer and beat feet. I could just see the dude looking at my huge Wal*Mart ring, thinking it was real, and stabbing us for it. So, good thing Lee did the dirty deed at dinner instead of DDs, huh? And that's Albuquerque for you, heheheheh.
The "real" ring is super cool: platinum with a center sapphire flanked by two baby-blue diamonds. The diamonds are lab-synthesized diamonds; yes, they are real diamonds, it's just that no one died for them, and those lying, murderous bastards at DeBeers didn't get any money from us. Wired Magazine published an excellent article about the synthetic diamonds and the two companies who are behind the synthetic diamond revolution.
OK, I have to go stare at my ring some more. Hahahaha!
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