The Rest of Your Life (v3.0)

Listening To: Clawfinger : Zeros & Heroes

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All immediate family members have now been duly informed, and much to the relief of Lisa & I there’s no danger of freakout. So I can now OFFICIALLY (because nothings ‘real’ until it’s on your blog … right kids ? hehehe) confirm the brief mentions that we’ve been spreading in all your comment fields for over a month now. Namely - sometime in the next year or two my wonderful partner and I are set to walk down the aisle and become The Imaginary Disappearing Boy & Girl ! Woooooo !!! :-D
Summer Bay barbies stick that in your hats and smoke it !
So how did all this come about ?, I hear you ask. Well … ever the unconventional one, it was actually IG who popped the question first, way back in late April after we had only been involved for a few months and she had come back from Spain. It was a very pleasant surprise, but also a bit of a shock at the same time. I definitely wasn’t ready for such a serious step at the time - so it was with some regret I had to tell her as much, and risk breaking her heart in the process. Very luckily for me she took this knockback in her stride, and I guess it was then that I really started to examine my own feelings and seriously ponder the prospect for the next few months.

By the time May rolled around I’d done some serious soul searching in my private moments, and realised that if I was ever going to marry anyone, Lisa was definitely “the one” I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Believe me, the decision wasn’t that hard ! So I put a deposit down on a ring, and started planning for my own romantic proposal. With one payslip left to go before the ring was mine towards the end of June however, my best friend’s partner Anton threw a small spanner in the works by weighing in with his own marriage proposal to the friend in question (Mellipop) .

Thus the small circle of blogs we all travel in suddenly exploded with talk of Mellipops nuptials, and further shocks followed as a number of IG’s friends also picked that week to propose to their significant others. Chaos gang, pure chaos ! Here I was trying to surprise my baby with a romantic dinner and a ring I’d been saving for quiet some time for, yet here she was feeling like the world’s last spinster because it seemed to her as if I was the only guy she knew who wasn’t thinking about marriage.

For a few days there I was paralysed by indecision - should I wait another fortnight till my next pay came through and I could follow through on my original plan of getting down on bended knee before IG in the restaurant she’d originally asked me to marry her complete with shiny new ring, or should I spare her the pain of feeling like Bridget Jones for a while longer and just pop the question now sans nuptial-bling ? In the end the latter won out, and I proposed to my wonderful fiancé in a park by the water at Blues Point, complete with the Harbour Bridge and Opera House as a backdrop. I had a moment of breathless anticipation wondering if perhaps she hadn’t changed her mind in the intervening months between her proposal and mine - and she drew it out a little bit with a joke “maybe I should say what you said to me when I asked you” …

Luckily though friends and fans - after a few moments of leaving me wondering whether I hadn’t perhaps fÇ”cked up by not jumping in with both feet first time round, the wonderful IG answered my question with a smile and a “yes” !
So yep … this gang, is where it REALLY begins … The Rest of Your (My) Life !!!

Rock on !