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So, for the half-dozen or so readers who haven’t heard yet, I got engaged over the weekend! :) I asked Amanda on Easter morning, and after a fair bit of prodding and prompting, I managed to get a “yes” out of her.

Since I’ve had a couple of people request it, here’s the abbreviated version of how I proposed:

Since it was Easter, I put together a little basket of goodies for her. There were two large eggs filled with Cadbury goodness, and one small gold egg in the center. The gold egg contained (you guessed it!) a piece of paper. On the paper was a note… something along the lines of “There’s one more gift.” I don’t quite remember the details, because I wrote it in quite a hurry. Once she’d read the note, I pulled the ring box out of my pocket, got down on one knee, and asked. Poke, poke, prod, prod, plead… affirmative.

This was a modified version of the original plan. The ring+box was supposed to be inside a large Easter egg, flanked by candy goodness. Unfortunately, none of the oversized eggs I bought were big enough for the box the ring came in, and I didn’t think the presentation was good enough without the box. Luckily, I’d bought the little gold eggs for just such an emergency, so they got used instead. Only now I have something like $10 worth of useless, opened and discarded Easter eggs in the trunk of my car. It looks like I robbed the Bunny or something.

I’d like to say a big “thanks” to Megan, for going ring shopping with me for many hours and trying on a good hundred or so rings so that I might judge them (and for being pretty good at keeping a big secret). And thanks to my boss, Brian, for letting my leave the ring locked up in his office for a couple of weeks while I figured out the best timeline for propos-ed-ness. Also, I should thank my parents, for giving me permission to marry Amanda (even though I didn’t exactly ask them for permission)… and thanks to Amanda’s parents for giving me permission when I did ask (even though they insisted that asking wasn’t necessary).

And because I know there are a few lady-readers, I’ll do my best to update within the next couple of days with some photos of the ring. :)

You know, for the record, I didn’t specify how much later. :) Patience is a virtue, children.

So! Yes. My blog is up and running again. I’m a little annoyed with my webhost over the ordeal. I got an email from them last week saying they’d randomly decided to move me to a newer, faster server. I was happy about this, until I noticed that my blog’s database did NOT come along for the ride. I emailed back and forth (and back and forth…) with their tech support about this for five. Stinking. Days. Before I solved the problem. Yeah. ~I~ solved it. Five days emailing their tech support and I ended up fixing it myself. Admittedly, I did need their help getting to the solution, but still. It kinda sucks that I had to fix it myself. Normally their tech support is great on the rare occasion I have to use it, so I’ll assume things’ll get better for now.

Alrighty. Big announcement time! Some of you already know, but here t’is just the same: Amanda Marie Wurzinger and I are a couple. :) We have been, in fact, since December 9th, meaning we celebrated our first monthiversary just last week. I waited to post about it because there were a few people I wanted to tell in person first. And then, once I’d spoken to them all, my blog broke. :p So goes life. You know now, and that’ll have to be good enough.

What have we being doing with ourselves? Good question. We keep busy. We went to the Nutcracker Ballet in Ames one weekend, although that might have been before we were an official couple. We’ve went to two Iowa Stars games since the big day (the Stars lost both games, but the last one was really close), which is fun and I hope to continue going. We watch a lot of movies, though we’ve not yet seen one in the theater together (we’re hoping to change that this weekend).

Last weekend, we painted my upstairs living room. T’was a chore! I’d been saying I was going to paint it for months, but hadn’t gotten around to it. On Saturday afternoon we made the spontaneous decision to paint the next day, so we ran to The Woodsmith Store for supplies. I heart my employee discount there. :) I got two gallons of paint in two different shades of pale blue-gray, four rolls of painter’s tape, roller covers, tray inserts, drop cloths, and so on. We, my friends, were going to try vertical stripes.

And try we did! And I think we did a pretty kick-butt job all around. It was close, though. I almost didn’t buy enough supplies. We were very literally scraping the bottom of the can for the base coat. We finished with maybe an ounce or two of useable paint left. And then, after the paint had dried, came the stripe-taping. It was wearing work, and we ~very~ nearly ran out of tape. I’d bought four rolls of the stuff, which is 240 yards (720 feet) of tape. When I taped off the last stripe, I pulled out the remaining tape to see how close we cut it. I had less than eight inches left.

Now my living room walls look awesome, but they are making my furniture look crappy by comparison. I’ve decided I need furniture covers in a rich, solid color of some sort. That’ll come some other weekend. I still haven’t gotten my living room put back together again yet. When I do, I’ll take pictures and post them to flickr.

That’s a good enough update for today. I get the feeling I’ll be posting again soon. If anything, we have a new guy starting in my department at work next week, so my work load should lessen somewhat.