How I asked the woman who I want to be my life partner if she would be my life partner.

Well, here is a post that is far overdue.  I got engaged!  Here’s some pictures about how it all went down on a rainy November Friday.  And note: there will be some sarcasm peppered in to keep you engaged in my mediocre story-telling skills.

Before my classes during the day, I snuck over to her apartment and dropped off some flowers and ingredients for dinner later on.  Went to class for a few hours to satisfy my voracious curiosity about about pharmacological therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  Of which I recalled only 5 min during my final exam, sigh.  Anyways, I then rushed home in the rain, hopped in my Jeep and picked up the lovely Kate Marie Harris.  Our first destination was Yellow Leaf in Belltown!  We sunk our teeth into butter cream topped cupcakes.  We sipped pumpkin tea.  I showed my vocabulary brilliance by beating her at bananagrams about a dozen times.

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Next, we traveled back along HWY99 to her apartment in Fremont for a home-cooked, candle-lit meal.  On the menu that night was miso-ginger salmon with steamed lemon-pepper broccoli and a brown rice/daikon seed medley.  And wine, of course, but I know next to nothing about wine, so I won’t try to describe it.

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Dinner was delicious.  If I do say so myself.  So, to celebrate this culinary achievement of mine, I slung a guitar over my shoulder and walked Kate down to the waterfront roughly underneath the Aurora bridge (it had been raining earlier in the day, so I figured the bridge would be protective).  And I also happened to have in my pocket something small and shiny (sort of).  It was there that I dialed up a coldplay song and asked her to marry me!

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To which she mumbled, “Well… yeah…” But don’t worry folks, she’s actually excited about it – we just have a lot of inside jokes that come up at the most inappropriate moments!  You might be thinking, “I don’t think I’ve seen a ring like that before.”  This is because…you have not seen a ring like that before.  It’s a raw, unpolished, conflict-free diamond from an independent jeweler in Michigan.  It’s set in a white gold, undulating bezel with a couple of accenting diamonds.

We trekked back up to her apartment and savored the moment (and I stalled for the next part of the night).  You see, earlier in the week, I had told Kate, “after we get engaged, it’d be great if we kept that private for at least a little while.. maybe the first 24 hours?  Just so we can really enjoy it fully on our own.”  I was fully aware that she wanted to spread the news as quickly and as widely as possible (not to brag), so she agreed with immense reluctance to my request (but props to her!).  In reality, she was going to get the chance to spread the news THAT NIGHT!  I secretly invited a bunch of our friends to my house in Montlake for drinks and desserts.  Thanks to Scott and Victor for helping to clean up the house beforehand.  Thanks to those who brought desserts and wine and vodka (for Kate’s favorite mixed drink, Vodka + lemonade).  Thanks to those who took photos.  Thanks to those who changed their plans that night to come out.  Thanks for a special karaoke performance!

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And finally, I showed a video filmed that morning:

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