Long backstory short: My girlfriend, Andrea, graduated this past May and is now working on her Masters at UNC. I'm finishing up my bachelor's degree at USC Upstate. Yesterday marked two years since we started dating.
We both had classes yesterday and were resigned to not seeing each other until the weekend. The engagement ring I picked out had been staring at me for almost two weeks at that point, though, and I couldn't wait any longer. I skipped my classes, got some stuff together, and drove up to NC yesterday afternoon. I ran into some heavy traffic, so Andrea's roommate was kind enough to stall her at the apartment long enough for me to get there.
It worked, and Andrea was surprised and happy to see me, which made my day already.
We exchanged gifts a while later. She got me a stuffed monkey wearing a Hawaiian shirt. (The description doesn't do it justice.) I went back to the car and got her gift. Now, she'd been expecting a PlayStation 2, since that's what she got me a year ago, and she'd been hinting that she wanted one. So I went in with a big, PS2-sized gift bag with a gift-wrapped DVD case sitting on top. She opened the small gift first and found a blue feather in a clear case. (She's a big Harvest Moon fan, and that's the cutesy way of proposing in that game.) After I admitted that the big bag was empty and babbled about love and stuff for a couple of minutes, I finally took out the ring and asked her to marry me.. and she said yes. It was awesome.
So yeah, it wasn't the smoothest or most well-planned proposal ever, but she DID go for the whole engagement thing. That's good enough for me!
Thanks to those of you who wished me well a while back! And to everyone, I hope the story was at least slightly amusing. I'm just very happy and have to blab about it.
We both had classes yesterday and were resigned to not seeing each other until the weekend. The engagement ring I picked out had been staring at me for almost two weeks at that point, though, and I couldn't wait any longer. I skipped my classes, got some stuff together, and drove up to NC yesterday afternoon. I ran into some heavy traffic, so Andrea's roommate was kind enough to stall her at the apartment long enough for me to get there.
It worked, and Andrea was surprised and happy to see me, which made my day already.
We exchanged gifts a while later. She got me a stuffed monkey wearing a Hawaiian shirt. (The description doesn't do it justice.) I went back to the car and got her gift. Now, she'd been expecting a PlayStation 2, since that's what she got me a year ago, and she'd been hinting that she wanted one. So I went in with a big, PS2-sized gift bag with a gift-wrapped DVD case sitting on top. She opened the small gift first and found a blue feather in a clear case. (She's a big Harvest Moon fan, and that's the cutesy way of proposing in that game.) After I admitted that the big bag was empty and babbled about love and stuff for a couple of minutes, I finally took out the ring and asked her to marry me.. and she said yes. It was awesome.
So yeah, it wasn't the smoothest or most well-planned proposal ever, but she DID go for the whole engagement thing. That's good enough for me!
Thanks to those of you who wished me well a while back! And to everyone, I hope the story was at least slightly amusing. I'm just very happy and have to blab about it.
