I'm engaged! On Saturday night I proposed to Virginia and she said yes! I was a jittery mess. I had this great proposal planned out but I barely managed to stammer out the question when it came time. If I had it to do again, I would've had a stiff drink first to settle the nerves. The ring itself is pretty cool. The diamond in it is from a pendant that belonged to her great grandmother, and the band itself was custom made. It's a concave ordeal that is really unique, and she loves it which is the most important thing. We don't have any definite plans yet, but we've been throwing around October 10th around a lot. We're also probably getting married in California, but fear not because there will be a reception back here in Nebraska. Like I said, nothing is set in stone. I'll update things as we go.
So, now I sort of know what it's like to be up on Everest. Wind chill dipped to -27F Monday morning when I took Dot out to pee. I don't think that it has hit double digits all week, and I don't think that it's supposed to. We're also supposed to get an ice storm on Thursday which will be absolutely awesome. And by awesome I mean terrible. I don't typically mind cold weather, but -27F is just God being a dick. Whatever we did, we're sorry. Give us +25F just one day.
I'm still reading the Greenspan book. I was doing a great job until Car and Driver arrived. Just as I was finishing it, Popular Science showed up. I've finished both of those and motored through another thirty odd pages to put me at 130 of the five hundred some-odd pages. Hopefully I'll finish it before the year is up.
I've exercised the past two nights. It hurts. I've been running stairs in my house. I've gone up twenty times each night and called it good. If I'm getting back in shape, I have to do it as if I were conditioning for a sport. Since Mother Nature is being a rag and trying to imitate the movie The Day After Tomorrow, I'm confined to my house so stairs it is. I took tonight off because I had to run back to work after I got home and so I didn't really get home until 8:30pm. After eating, giving sufficient time for digestion, and talking to Virginia, it's now 12:22am. I'll run them again tomorrow.
I started a stock portfolio experiment last night. I put an imaginary $1000 into several different stocks and I'm going to see how well I can do. I'm probably going to just make myself mad because if I make any money, I'll wonder why I can't just have $1000 to invest for real. Oh well, hopefully I'm as stock-savvy as I like to think that I am. Bed time.
4 comments:
Congrats on being engaged! That is good stuff. The ring sounds pretty cool, too. How did you get a hold of the diamond? And how do you get custom made bands? What is on the band? Is it a solid piece of something, or is there an intricate design of small "strings" of metal?
Yes, the windchill really gets you. I went running outside in the country the other day. It was all good when the wind was to my back, but then I started sweating, and then I had to turn into the wind. I had on a balaclava, but it is a cheap one(definitely not one that can be used when mountaineering), so it didn't wick away the moisture. Therefore, a bit of ice formed on the outside, and my face got really cold.
It is just you and me who still blog, of the people who started blogs in class. Katie hasn't blogged in forever. I think everyone else just quit. It is quite sad.
The ring looks like the link below, only it is all high polish white gold. Her dad brought the diamond when he came to visit back in November and I swiped it from Virginia's jewelry box. I just sent the picture from the link to the jewelry store, told them how wide I wanted it and what metal I wanted it made out of and they just did it. It's pretty cool because nobody else has anything like it.
Windchill sucks. So does ice pellets that rain from the sky like the opposite of the second coming of Christ. So do ice pellets that shoot lightning bolts.
I'm pretty sure that we're the only two soldiering on. Solidarity brother!
Helps if I add the link.
http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Item.aspx?sku=GRP01847&mcat=&cid=&search_params=s+1-p+1-c+-r+-x+-n+6-ri+-ni+0-t+1837+concave&search=1
Yes, that band is pretty sweet.
And Yes, I'm still alive. I'll blog something...soon.
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