Marriage
Heather and I are getting married. I proposed to her a week ago today and we’ve spent the previous week trying to absorb the reality of this happening. In particular she is absorbing the reality since she wasn’t really expecting the engagement to happen RIGHT NOW. I’ve had the ring for over a month now, so I was a bit more prepared.
Heather has already written the proposal story in her diary, but all I will add is that it certainly did not go quite as I had imagined it in my head. I am a bit disappointed since I didn’t exactly get the look of joy from Heather that I was hoping for upon the proposal – primarily because she absolutely didn’t believe that I was being serious. I had assumed that the fact that I had an engagement ring in my hand would have helped to convince her of my seriousness, but I didn’t really account for Heather being completely blind without her glasses.
Anyway, Heather is into full wedding planning mode, which is fun if daunting. We’ve basically decided to have the wedding on my side of the country since it’d be cheaper than having it in California and also because Heather’s family will travel better than mine. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind having it in California, but it will be nice having it here since obviously I will have a lot more people on “my side” that way. And since Heather really has more family and friends if anything the sides will end up being much more “even” having it here.
But yes, I am getting married. Even after all of my entries about how Heather and I are temporary, about Heather dating other people, about me dating other people. We’ve come full circle and are making a commitment to never leave one another’s sides. It’s been a journey,
For those who don’t know, I met Heather on Open Diary, many years ago now. Our first notes to one another were in May of 2004. A pretty decent chronicle of our relationship could probably be gathered by searching my diary for “Heather.” It is a bit disappointing that, as our relationship has flourished over time, Open Diary has done rather the opposite. I still find the website tolerable, but I suppose it does have its share of sentimental value for me. There’s also the fact that I don’t write here that often these days, so maybe the constant problems just affect me less. How many of you are writing on Prosebox now?
Congratulations.
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Good luck! I’m on Prosebox, but I post in both places. Edits/updates are obnoxious though. ~I’ll be
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I am SO happy for both of you. Congratulations!!! 🙂 I am on prosebox, with this same username. I am still reading here because many of my faves haven’t left the boat yet, but I don’t feel like writing here anymore. It’s not only that it works really miserably, but also because of personal matters. Anyway, yaaaay for the wedding!!!!!!! 🙂
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Congratulations on your engagement. When is the wedding going to take place? I am not on Prosebox but I don’t write here either…too many issues, too many other things going on in life…too few of my readers have stayed etc. Maybe I’ll try Prosebox, seeing how writing helps de-stress me some.
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Congratulations!! <3 m
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yahoo!! how exciting. 🙂
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Congratulations, so very happy for you both! Cheers to a happily ever after. 😉 I’m over at prosebox (same name), though I’m desperately trying to stay with OD til the very end.
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Wow! Congratulations!
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!!! Congratulations! I haven’t migrated to prosebox, but I probably would if all my old OD friends did, which is you and like two other people.
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Whaaaaat!? This is AWESOME. I’m stoked for the two of you – how great! I don’t think I have access to Heather’s diary – can you do a carbon copy of the story here, or your own version of it? I’m on Prosebox, but only in case of emergency. I’ll be here until it dies, but I think PB is a good backup because that’s where basically everyone else will be. And after all, what’s the point without these same people?
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> I especially appreciate how my work purchases birthday cards for every person’s birthday which every employee then signs. It is essentially exactly the same for every person, every year. I worked at a place where we did something like that, passed cards around to sign for everybody. After signing each, we had to find someone who had not signed to pass it to next. As the place grew, we were passing around more and more cards every week, for people we barely knew. To reduce the situation to absurdity (which didn’t take much) we got a big pack of cards, wrote made-up names on the envelopes and gradually introduced more and more into the file folders we used for internal employee mail distribution. The point was made. Davo
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ryn: you are completely correct: I have no time to write whatsoever. Glad things are working out well for you both.
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This is so cute. And such a credit to what this place is. Have you informed the Diarymaster?
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This is so cute. And such a credit to what this place is. Have you informed the Diarymaster?
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