I thought I should start with the nice stuff before I do a little bit of ranting.
So here's the engagement story!
First things first. Jason and I met on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 at Ziggi's on Main St. We met online and had arranged this date a little earlier. He'd forgotten that this was also Easter until the night before. His brother was coming down for Easter to do the family thing and Jason didn't want to abandon the family just to meet up with some chick, but he didn't want to change plans on the chick either. I told him it was OK; we could just meet up for coffee that morning, have the date date another day, and he could go hang with his family. So we walked and talked and that was that. We went on our real date on the next Tuesday, to China Panda and G.I. Joe in 3D. I realized actually that I'd seen him around downtown before I ever met him, but at the time I certainly didn't think "gosh, I'll probably go see G.I. Joe with that guy with all the freakin' tattoos on his face."
The first time my mother saw Jason's picture she thought she'd also seen him at the Festival on Main, which perhaps she had, but she remembered "him" wearing a t-shirt that said something about eating babies....
I asked him if he had such a shirt, he did not, so we're not really sure who she saw. (Also upon seeing his picture someone asked "Is that your boyfriend??" I said, "not yet." and my mother said "you're grounded." Things are different now.)
Mom and Jason were fast friends. They met on her birthday when he joined us for lunch and roaming around downtown, and he brought her a sunflower.
Since then we've met most of each other's families and the integration is a pretty easy one. His parents have all but adopted me and my family has been on relatively good behavior so far!
So let's skip ahead to March 30, 2014. Anniversary eve at Flavor of India...because they are closed on Mondays but he wanted to take me to my favorite place for our anniversary dinner, and we were leaving for our Colorado Springs vacation Monday anyway.
I was banished from the house all day because he had "stuff" to do. I finally met up with him at the restaurant later that night. He was a little smiley and glowy but I just thought he'd had a few beers before I got there.
He had roses at our table and showed me a man-wrapped box (meaning it was a get-the-job-done wrapping) telling me it was chocolates. I didn't know why he was telling me this but whatever. So after eating I opened my giant card- on the front it said "I can no longer picture myself without you!"
Ah, so that's why I needed to know!
So here's the engagement story!
First things first. Jason and I met on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 at Ziggi's on Main St. We met online and had arranged this date a little earlier. He'd forgotten that this was also Easter until the night before. His brother was coming down for Easter to do the family thing and Jason didn't want to abandon the family just to meet up with some chick, but he didn't want to change plans on the chick either. I told him it was OK; we could just meet up for coffee that morning, have the date date another day, and he could go hang with his family. So we walked and talked and that was that. We went on our real date on the next Tuesday, to China Panda and G.I. Joe in 3D. I realized actually that I'd seen him around downtown before I ever met him, but at the time I certainly didn't think "gosh, I'll probably go see G.I. Joe with that guy with all the freakin' tattoos on his face."
The first time my mother saw Jason's picture she thought she'd also seen him at the Festival on Main, which perhaps she had, but she remembered "him" wearing a t-shirt that said something about eating babies....
I asked him if he had such a shirt, he did not, so we're not really sure who she saw. (Also upon seeing his picture someone asked "Is that your boyfriend??" I said, "not yet." and my mother said "you're grounded." Things are different now.)
Mom and Jason were fast friends. They met on her birthday when he joined us for lunch and roaming around downtown, and he brought her a sunflower.
Since then we've met most of each other's families and the integration is a pretty easy one. His parents have all but adopted me and my family has been on relatively good behavior so far!
So let's skip ahead to March 30, 2014. Anniversary eve at Flavor of India...because they are closed on Mondays but he wanted to take me to my favorite place for our anniversary dinner, and we were leaving for our Colorado Springs vacation Monday anyway.
I was banished from the house all day because he had "stuff" to do. I finally met up with him at the restaurant later that night. He was a little smiley and glowy but I just thought he'd had a few beers before I got there.
He had roses at our table and showed me a man-wrapped box (meaning it was a get-the-job-done wrapping) telling me it was chocolates. I didn't know why he was telling me this but whatever. So after eating I opened my giant card- on the front it said "I can no longer picture myself without you!"
Oh but there's a note....
Oh, chocolates! And a party...? I like parties...
THAT kind of party!
Surpriiiise, it's a dragooon! It's a set actually. They fit together. Like us. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment