Another Year

Another year has come and gone. I always feel like New Years Resolutions are a bit silly as they are not really my new year. My new year comes with my birthday. And so it has passed. The best present in my life is the arrival of G. She is here. She arrived in Ohio on Friday. It's a great feeling to know that she is always going to be here. (When I say here I mean with me. Here is relative.) We spent so many months cramming in as much time together in short stints. And now our life together has a new beginning.

So, as new beginnings go, this is a great one. I'm so happy to be going on life's journey with her. She and I work perfectly together. We ran errands all day on Saturday, cleaned out closets, rearranged things. Sunday we had our engagement pictures taken. I'm looking forward to my new year!

Engaged

My Girlfriend and I knew pretty quickly that this relationship would be the one that sticks. We are very open about our feelings and what we want in our future.

So it happened:

I brought her home to meet my parents over Thanksgiving. Prior to this we had talked about being engaged before the end of the year, but not having the money in our savings for some lavish ring and all that. Fast forward to my parents house on Thanksgiving evening. My mom showed me my grandmother's engagement ring which I was not pleased with, but thought that it's not about the ring, it's about our love. So I broght it to the living room to show my girl. She looked at it for awhile and then pulled out the ring I have wanted since we started ring shopping. THE PERFECT RING!

I then asked her to marry me...