Someone's in a typey mood tonight... that would be me :) My back is bugging me today so I'm kinda hanging out in bed right now and trying to avoid painkillers.

I've been meaning to share the beautiful night when Chris proposed... no, it wasn't completely out of left field. We'd talked about it a while back and agreed that we were completely certain that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together and saw no reason to wait any longer. But the night itself was so very unexpected :)

We went out for a special evening. He took me to a bookstore we'd been meaning to check out in San Francisco and had a blast flipping through their selection for a while. Then we pulled up to this stunning Moroccan restaurant called Aziza. My jaw dropped when I walked in. The ambience was absolutely incredible. We snuggled up in a booth and proceeded to have literally one of the best meals of our lives. After several small dishes and plates of mind-blowing appetizers, we shared a pot of beef stew. Ok, you might be thinking, what's so special about beef stew? Words cannot describe this stew. If you speared a piece of meat with your fork and lifted it up, half the chunk of meat would positively drip off the fork, it was so tender.

We followed up this transcendent meal with some simple fruits. I managed to squirt a grape's worth of cold juice directly into Chris's ear somehow. We were about to leave (I thought) when suddenly he pushed the table aside and it was all a blur from there :) He said the most amazingly beautiful and profound things that were all wrapped up in a swirl and lost their individual meanings as words. He presented me with a sapphire (my birthstone) and diamond ring that was my mother's. It's funny... I've seen this ring so many times in my drawer, but it seems to have taken on an entirely different appearance residing in that box and on my hand...

I squeaked "yes" and cried and hugged and next thing I knew, the waiter was discreetly handing us champagne. I hate champagne, but it was still sweet :P

This is where we were. I couldn't have crafted a more perfect evening myself...

*glows and sighs happily*