Wow, look at all those comments. Thanks everyone. <3 This has got to be the most VR has ever seen. I guess such exciting news makes people want to comment. Well this is great. Thanks.

Well, I miss my ring. I wore it for a week cause I couldn’t part with it just yet, and then last weekend I took it in to get resized. Why? Cause I have baby hands. The ring originally came in a 7, my fiance resized it to a 6 before giving it to me, and that was still too large for my little ring finger (it fit ok on my middle finger though, and that’s where I wore it when I was out and about so it wouldn’t fall off). So we went to get my finger sized, and they said I’m a 4 and 3/4! HOLY CRAP that’s tiny. So now I won’t get it back until I go home on Friday. I miss it. My finger is lonely.

You know, I think it’s quite funny how the minute there’s this ring on my finger I’m able to say “I love you” but never before that. Yes, issues, I know. I’ve had someone declare their undying love for me and then break up with me a few months later. I guess that has always stuck with me and made me too cautious. So of course when my bf was telling me he loved me all the time, I didn’t really open up to it as much as I should have. I spent the last few years refusing to believe that I actually loved him. Liked him? Yes; a lot, in fact. But love was different and I didn’t want to accept that idea. But once he proposed… it’s like that wall just disappeared and all those feelings that were being hidden just came right out. And it wasn’t even that hard. I don’t know what I was afraid of all these years. I mean did I really believe that someone I was dating for over 5 years would up and leave me? No, deep down I didn’t; but my logical brain told me not to give into my heart, I suppose. I think that day was my first day of only letting my heart speak and shutting my brain off. As an enginerd, that’s hard to do. Weeee and I’m all all giddy just thinking about it. All these feelings though, they’re exhausting. And scary, and I still tremble just thinking about the proposal. But it’s also very exciting too. Before Feb 18, any talk of marriage freaked me out and I told people to stop talking. But now, now it’s totally different. It feels different. Not as scary, but exciting, and right. Can one day, one event, really change one’s outlook on things? Guess so, this is proof.

Do we have any plans yet? Well, no, not really. But I do know what I want. I want it to be on December 16, our anniversary. Year to be determined. And I want it in Hawaii. That’s right, my favorite vacation place. Every time I vacation there, I think about what an amazing and beautiful place it is. I’ve always thought my dream wedding is to be in Hawaii. I told my fiance this today over AIM, and this was what he thought: “I wish we could actually marry in Texas, but if you want it in Hawaii then that’s where I want it too. Weddings are the bride’s wishes. [When I asked him why TX] Just ’cause it’s where we’ll be beginning our marriage. But Hawaii is a paradise and that’s a good place to do it.” <3333!!! FYI, in case there’s some confusion, he’s planning to go to law school in Houston, and we plan on moving there when we get married. It’s the best compromise with him wanting to be back in the South and me wanting a lot of chemE job possibilities and a growing economy. In fact, Houston has more ChemE jobs than anywhere else. So it’s perfect.

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