I’m Engaged
So I’ve taken the plunge and am now engaged to my girlfriend (fiance now) Leslie.
It all started a couple of months ago when I decided, casually at first, to start poking around at what engagement rings went for. It didn’t take long for me to realize I was getting in way over my head. It took a couple of months, more knowledge about diamonds than I ever wanted, and some extreme coercion from a close friend to do it right, but I finally got a ring. Then was the simple matter of asking her father and then figuring out when and where to ask her…
I had a lot of time to plan these things, but with myself in Rochester and Leslie (and her father) in Mass., I had very little time to execute those plans. I earned a lot of new gray hairs over the past couple of weeks, but I manage to arrange lunch with her father on Friday and get her to hike Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH with me this Sunday. We got up to the top and I popped the question up there and she said yes, which was exciting. Unfortunately it was below freezing with the wind chill at the top of the mountain so we didn’t stay up there to enjoy it very long. Some pictures of the event are here:
Facebook Album
markpude.com Album
They’re the same thing originally posted on facebook, but I can’t help but be self referential… We spent the rest of the day running around to visit each of our families to spread the news and by the end of the day we were both exhausted but happy.
I’ll probably update as appropriate here as things progress…
