The Engagement Deal

Oh em GEE! It FINALLY happened. Our engagement has become official as of August 23, 2010. A ring was placed on my finger on August 24, 2010… my birthday.

This has been a long busy year for the both of us. He works full-time as a VP for a successful hosting firm and I have been working overtime with my start-up, Twenty70 Hosting. We both work at least 10 hours a day (who knew working at home and for yourself would be harder than working on location for someone else?) and with other more important family matters going on throughout the year, the right time just hasn’t made itself available. We’d already decided that we would, eventually, marry but we still wanted to wait for that right moment to make it official and actually have time to plan for a wedding.

We are going to have a small ceremony for immediate family only on September 18, 2010 but sometime in February will have an actual wedding with all the bells and whistles. Why two ceremonies? Cuz we want to be married now darn it! LoL. In all seriousness though, we want to begin our journey to the end of eternity as soon as possible. We’ve been waiting unofficially for almost a year so having a ceremony in September might seem quick but it’s really not for us.

Now, I know everyone is dying to know the details but in all honestly, there really isn’t any juicy details. LoL. On the 23rd we were just sitting on the floor in his closet (yeah, I don’t know either, lol) and he (M)  pretty much said it’s time to make it official, set a date, and begin our life together not in sin anymore.

How I got the ring: As I mentioned previously, I got the ring the next day on my birthday. While about to leave to Tampa to have dinner with my sisters, M must have saw his chance to present me with said ring. I used to always wear this blue sapphire ring because I really liked it. The only problem with that ring was that it was given to me by an ex as a Valentine’s Day present. I know some people are probably thinking “why would you wear a ring that an EX gave you when you’re seeing someone else???!!”. My answer: I’m a mature adult, it was given as to me as a GIFT, and that relationship was long over by years by the time I met M. I know some people, or guys, would say “Well, if you’re wearing a ring he gave you then you must think about him a lot”.  My Answer: Are you really that insecure and paranoid? Sure, the ring reminds me of the ex when people ask me about the ring. I don’t look at the ring and daydream about the man for heaven’s sake.

Anyways, I’m going off point. He noticed I wasn’t wearing the ring and said something along the lines of replacing that ring with “this one” and shows me the ring.

Of course, my chin hit the floor when I saw this beauty. I was, for the first time ever in my life, rendered speechless.

The ring was a little big so today I finally got a chance to bring it to the jewelers to get it resized. I am actually currently awaiting it’s completion next door at Starbucks. Yes, I am blogging at Starbucks. Hooray for free wifi!

So, that is the deal with the engagement. It’s official and I’m happy.

P.S. He Went To Jared.