Let’s hope I can keep finding such great deals!

We left Costco, and he said “Where to next” and I told him Costco was the only place we had to go. So he said we can go to that mall by Democracy Blvd. (Montgomery Mall, an okay but not great mall). I asked what was there. He said they only store in the area besides JC Penney that carried Moissanite, and that we should go look. We’d been talking about Moissanite instead of diamonds for months, but nothing ever became of it, so I said “But I shouldn’t read anything into it.” He always says that when he wants information but doesn’t want me to get my hopes up. He said yeah. So we went to the mall, found the store, and looked at their meager (but beautiful) moissanite solitare collection. I immediately loved the first one I tried on, but tried on a couple of others just to see. Mike asked “Is this the one you want?” and I said “Well, yeah but…” He cut me off to tell the girl “We’ll take it.”

At this point I’m in shock and I said to him “Did we just…?” and he said “Yeah but you have to wait until Christmas.” So we had the girl box it up and he carried it out. I didn’t want to wait until Christmas, but I was willing to. I was so shocked. On the way home, Mike pointed out that we hadn’t eaten. Since we had some expensive items in the car we decided to go home and drop stuff off. So we got home and started charging the new camera and trying to figure out dinner. I was on my laptop and he was on his, sitting next to me on the sofa, and the TV was on in the background. Business as usual, you know? He turned to me and opened the ring box and said “Cathy, will you marry me?” And I said “Over and over” and made him put the ring on my finger (he was trying to give it to me put on). Then we took a couple of pictures and went to Hard Times Cafe for dinner and I made him call his mom when we got home because I really wanted her to be the first to know. Then we just started showing people the link to the pictures and letting people figure it out for themselves.

It was a perfect moment. So us, you know? I’m amused at myself. I managed to be surprised even though I picked out the ring!