ENGAGED!!!!!

I have to admit that I am an extremely happy woman right now! *shows off bling* Look at it sparkle!!!!! *huggles hand that ring is on*

I have officially been engaged for almost 24 hours. O_O I know, it's quite hard to believe! For me I was still getting used to the fact that I had found a boyfriend, who is the best in the world mind you, let alone someone to propose to me! Rendiani is now my fiance and I am his fiancee! O_O I'm so excited!!! I'm still on cloud 9 here, so my writing may be more scattered than usual. :P

Let me start from the beginning. Ahhh, the beginning! It was Oct. 10, 1980. . . Nah, I'm kidding, I'll tell you the beginning of my engagement story. And I can bet you all $5 that all the women in the room are going to, "Awwww" this when you get done because the way he proposed was perfect and so romantic it just makes you melt. *giggles* And I'm such a lucky girl because I get to hear romantic comments all the time. :) ANYWAY! As you all know Thursday was Christmas Eve. Rendi and I had my parents over to my apartment and we made porketta, potatoes, carrots and garlic breadsticks. It was a simple, but delicious dinner. Apparently, I have no idea how he ninjaed this, but Rendi asked my parents for my hand in marriage while I left the apartment. I don't know when exactly. I know I was helping move things since they brought an extra chair to sit on. O_o That might be the time and I suspect it is. ^_^ My parental folk obviously said yes because they would be fools if they said otherwise.

Friday it was Christmas and Rendi was waiting for Saturday. An odd day to propose you ask? Absolutely not. You see, Saturday, Dec. 26 is an anniversary for us. This is the day that he decided to expand his search on Geek2Geek to about 200 miles. *laughs* Poor guy had no idea he would actually find someone THAT far. :P Well, he did when he winked at my unfinished profile with no picture. Kind of a risky move really, but I'm glad he did. You can imagine my surpise when I got a wink on a profile that I had been meaning to fix for about 6 months. I don't know why, but I had this urge to e-mail this man who made chainmail bras. :P He sounded like someone I could get along with and laugh with. ^_^ So I paid the $17.95 for the month and sent an e-mail. Right now I can tell you that money is best money I have spent in my entire life. And I have to admit that it was a steal!!! All this began something that is so wonderful and precious to both of us and he decided it was a good anniversary to celebrate. :) Last year I received a necklace due to this anniversary and Rendi wanted to keep with that tradition by giving me the ring.

Now on to the sweet details. Every week we plan on a night where we have a date over the net. We pretty much end up playing WoW, but it means so much more than just questing on a silly MMO. This is time where we have time to talk and do something alone with each other. We also take turns choosing which day to have our date night. Well, it was my turn this time and I chose Saturday, our anniversary. :) And this time we would actually be able to have a date in person! This was our second time having a date night in person and we were pretty pumped about it. I'm sure Rendi was a bit more pumped than me since he knew what he had planned. Originally, we were going to be down in the cities that night and we had plans of doing a double date with another couple. Unfortunately, snow prevented us from going anywhere and we stayed in my little place 200 miles away from our original plans. Rendi had recruited the other couple to help him with his sweet plan, but now he was on his own. So our plans for our date night consisted of: looking at old instant messages to each other when we first started talking and then looking at a box we had created to hold physical memories (tickets, photos, 4th of July flag, etc.). Before we started date night we had gone to my brother's to celebrate Christmas a day late and I forgot to put the jewelry on that Rendi had given me before. I don't know why, but I was sitting at the computer when I opened up the archived messages and said how I hadn't worn my jewelry. Rendi sweetly said that I could wear it then. *laughs* Without thinking I put it on happy as a lark. We laughed and talked about our old messages, which pretty much consisted of D&D and video/compy game talk. LOL It was a good time, however, I noticed Rendi feeling uncomfy on my bed as we read the old messages. *giggles* I know now that he was, because there was a ring box digging into his skin and it was a bit uncomfy. :P Then he asked if we wanted to look at the memory box next. ^_^ I happily scampered off to grab it. We looked through the contents, reminiced and finished. Rendi set the box down and said, "I've got another memory for you." I don't know how he does it, but Rendi is the only person who can make time stop, seriously. ^_^ Because this is the fourth time he's done so. *nods* He stepped back a little and I remember looking at the box of memories feeling that time had stopped, just for that small instant. I think I knew what was coming, but I was so stunned. I looked back at Rendi and he got down on one knee holding a little purple box. He then flipped the top of the box and asked me to marry him. I was still in my stunned state, but that of course didn't stop my tears. They came down instantly when everything clicked into place. I'm left handed and that is the hand I used to cover my mouth. I think it was to really holding my jaw in place because of my surprise. All I could do was nod vigorously at him. *nod nod NOD!!!!* Because I was holding my left hand up to my face Rendi got a little confused. LOL I finally patted my bed for him to sit next to me. We hugged and my left hand was finally free for him to slip the beautiful ring on my finger.

And here I am, engaged to the most wonderful man in the infiniverse! ^_^ *happily shows off ring* Now I get to plan a fun little event called a wedding. This will be an adventure and I can't wait to blog about it. :) I know it will be fun, frustrating, scary, nerve racking, but most of all beautiful and amazing. Rendi and I get to start a new journey and I'm proud to say I get to start it with him by my side!