Unexpectedly

I’m engaged!!!!!!!!! I should probably have led up to that in some sort of sneaky fashion. But when I am so excited I’m out of bed at 6:45 in the morning I care nothing for sneaky and want to get straight to the heart of the matter.

Here’s the story: Yesterday morning Gilbert wrote me and told me that he woke up groggy and wished he had some more of the chai that my parents gave him for Christmas. At lunch time he e-mailed again and said that the only place he could find that had chai was the Indian market next to the restaurant where we met for our first date. See it coming? I didn’t!

I go to Lexington every Tuesday so we can watch LOST together and we were excited because yesterday it was nice enough to go for a walk before we ate supper. After some debate we decided to have Italian and after we ate we went to Target to run errands. I had a headache so I was looking forward to getting back to Gilbert’s place where I could close my eyes for a little bit before LOST started. He asked if I felt well enough to go get some chai. I said I was (although I really just wanted to stay in the car.) I did perk up a little as we drove into the parking lot because it always makes me happy to remember the first time I saw Gilbert. I reminded him of it as we pulled into the shopping center, “See that’s where I first saw you, leaning against that window.”

We went into the little Indian market and got the chai. I was looking forward to being able to sit down and rest my eyes but as we walked out to the car he said, “This is where I first saw you!” He stopped in the middle of a parking space. I stopped too and gave him a hug and kiss and then kept walking toward the car.

“And one other thing,” he said from behind me. I turned around and there he was on one knee with the ring box opened. I was so shocked! I was expecting it to happen sometime in the next couple of weeks but I really was not expecting it right then and there. I’m really ridiculously happy.

Preemptive answers:

The ring is beautiful and is being sized right now but Gilbert is going to bring it to me this afternoon. There will be pictures!

We haven’t discussed dates or anything specific yet but I will be posting here to keep you all updated.

Other questions? Let me know!