special news report

i interrupt this blog's normal daily schedule with a very important announcement (audiolize (i'm still convinced that should be a real world) the sounds of the emergency broadcast beep)

in what we thought would be a very low-key, catch-up-on-jet-lagged-sleep weekend, three very important things ended up happening in the past few days:

1. we made about 12 tons of paella to see how it would size up to the authentic spain paella. why 12 tons, you ask? because it was a british recipe (ironic that we're making spanish food from british recipes...) and we don't understand british measurements

2. we rented a tandem bike for a day to run our errands around town. and then we decided to buy the heaviest things we could to put in our backpack... can of paint, a couple of books, some bricks...

3. the boy asked me to marry him! after our homepade paella, we went to his bench swing to enjoy the evening...er... night (it was about midnight on July 4th eve). then he got down on one knee...and i started laughing. i couldn't help it - that was just the emotion that came out. i, of course, said yes in a heartbeat and was thrilled to see the most beautiful ring ever - custom designed by the boy himself (i'm so proud). the accent diamonds are from his mother's engagement ring, which is my favorite part. my other favorite part is that my grandma tic toc was married on july 4 AND we discovered after the fact that the boy's parents got engaged on july 4 - crazy! so, i'm now a fiance. whoa

(i was talking on the phone with my family the entire time we took our "first pics as an engaged couple") feel important, people