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Wende

2:22pm Tuesday 29 February 2000

(transcribed from my diary)

This morning, laying snuggly in bed with Wende, I asked her to marry me. Actually I sang a cute little made up song (as I often do in the morning for her)

Wende Wende I love you
I want you to say 'I do'
Wende Wende you're the best
ten eschelons above the rest!

Few weeks ago I had jokingly said, "Wende, marry me!" after she had said something cute or brought me Taco Bell or something. She asked me, "are you serious?" At that point I was not serious. I said, "if I ever really ask you to marry me, you'll know it's for real."
At that moment I had visions of limos, flowers, studded diamond ring, hotel, jaccuzzi, balloons -- everything.

But this morning the song just arrived.

Last night I-Group was great and afterward I called Wende. She agreed with my hunger and asked for Taco Bell at my house. I bought it, and as I was pulling into the driveway with 2 tostadas, chicken chalupa, dr pepper, and nachos with no meat, no onions and extra beans, I thought, "if she is here already, I'm going to ask her to marry me." She was there already.

And she came downstairs to help me carry all the goodies up and I just felt so loved!

So in my head I was all, ask her!. So I said, "Wende, um, how was your day?"
try again.
"Wende, I just want to say, um, that I love you."

I had visions of a movie scene with Michael Keaton as Batman trying to tell Vicki Vale who he is. I was flat scared to ask her.

In the large overview of our relationship, I think the big switch from "no plans to marry" to "you are the bestest greatest thing in the planet" happened when she experienced the Woman Within weekend. (That's the women's version of New Warrior, of which I am a part)

After that our communication and trust and love just flourished miles above what it had been before. So incredibly awesome.

I finally did not ask her last night, but told her, "I want to marry you."

- - - -

This morning we were thinking about a date. I said, "Leap Year 2004!"

She was all, "nah - too close to our birthdays."

I was all, "what about just celebrating our days old days instead of birthdays?"

"I like celebrating my birthday."

So we settled on probably my favorite day of the year, summer solstice.

"When is that?" she asks.

"June 21st, same as always. Everyone knows that."

"Oh, yeah, summer solstice!" she patronized, "I knew that."

We had already agreed that my mom will do the ceremony, and I asked if we can do it out by a lake. As long as we go out of the country for our honeymoon.

"Disneyworld in Florida is a different country!"

We talked about Australia or Costa Rica as possibilities.

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leap info

Leap Day 29 February 2000

Only the second leap day of its kind!!

From Astronomy Picture Of the Day:

... Julian Calendar system was used until the year 1582 when
Pope Gregory XIII added that leap days should not occur in years 
ending in "00" except if divisible by 400 ...

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