sherryberrypie Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Me too This is the faucet I got today for such a steal: link removed I just found the installation instructions so sometime this week, that baby is going in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh! I have to say I have never had an idea for a 'dream' faucet, but if I did, it would look like that, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Gonna make chores that much easier. I'm a dork. I love gazing at all the shiny new appliances Particularly love those coloured front-loading washer/dryer sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I think England only has front loading - I guess because of space? I really want a dual tea thingie - like one side L can be making the water for his tea and on the other side I can be making my coffee. Really want one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 or one of those fancy disc ones mmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Tuition has been raised again. Bastards. Maybe try providing me with the courses I actually need first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 It's my birthday tomorrow! Wish I didn't have to work. Pooey! At least I'm done both jobs by 6 Alex mentioned cake. Mmmm cake! I am inexplicably tuckered from today, so off to bed for me. 5 am comes extremely early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Happy early birthday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 We're engaged! It was the most wonderful, emotional moment of my life. Never going to forget this night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 We're engaged! It was the most wonderful, emotional moment of my life. Never going to forget this night Sherry, you can't do this to me! I want details woman!!!! And pictures! Or picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Metro Girl sends her congrats and big ol' hug for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Thanks beautiful! I will post a story and pictures later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 We're engaged! It was the most wonderful, emotional moment of my life. Never going to forget this night Awwwwwwwww I am so happy for you Sherry!!! Engaged and your birthday!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Getting engaged is a freaking whirlwind!! LOL. Okay that's enough attention for me now... I'm not the type that easily makes announcements and I certainly don't crave the spotlight. After last night we were both just exhausted! Alex chose to veg all day for his birthday, so I just went to work, and we still have our plans to go caving/beaching on the weekend. I wanted to go to the river, but we realized that we were both just too tired to hike to our beach, so we didn't go and I didn't play hooky. Two more workdays until the weekend! Wooohoo! Since I know OG is dying for details.. Quite a cute story, really. Apparently nothing went according to plan, but I think that's how it was supposed to be! I worked from 6-10 am on my birthday, came home and had lunch, prettied myself up, and then went to my other job until 6:30 pm. I was absolutely exhausted and want nothing more than to just get home and be with Alex. He thought that I was off work at 10, so when I got home, he was a bit flustered. I was starving and he hadn't made dinner yet because he thought he had hours to do everything. He was going to do candles and the whole works. I decided I wanted to have cake before dinner, so he humoured me and told me to go relax outside and he'd bring the cake out. He brought out a double chocolate cake lit with sparklers and I sat there and squeed over them while he ran inside the house to stop the smoke detector (LOL). We dug into our cake and then he disappeared and came back and held me from behind, arms around me. He handed me a card and oh my lord that thing made me cry. I was trying to hold it together but I was exhausted and all of the words, just so sweet. He later told me he spent a good hour and a half in the card aisle! Anyways, then he said "this is for you too" and handed me the little box. Completely unexpected! I unwrapped the box and the tears really started to flow! I said something like "shouldn't you be down on one knee?" and he replied that he was "exactly where he was supposed to be" (still holding me backwards) The next few minutes are a blur, but it was a lot of holding each other and complete sweetness, and tears and finally he got down on one knee and asked so quietly that I didn't hear him! He was like, "well, you didn't answer me! Will you?" I decided I wanted to hear the words, so I teased, saying "Will I what?" LOL Of course I said yes and we went back to the table and he put the poor neglected ring on my finger. It was so intimate and special. I love that NOTHING went according to plan, but neither of us cared! We ate our dinner on our patio surrounded by our garden, in the sunset and no fancy restaurant could have topped that! So special. And it is facebook official now, so it must be real! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 *does a little dance* Awwww, that was SO sweet Sherry!!! And I think it's made all the more special by the fact nothing went the way it was suppose. It's the unique proposals like that that are ubber sweet and how it really should be done. Congratulations!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 If you want, you can see pics on FB. I can't be bothered to resize and reformat photos Sherry Wota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I tried searching for you but no one comes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 I don't think it's fair that I have to come down off my cloud already But, I've got double shifts and deadlines. Really need to get this paper going, only have 5 days left. Problem is, I have cramps and my back hurts so I can't get comfy. However, my last day of working at the call centre is going to be September 2nd, so I only have 6 days left of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Phoned my mom and told her the news. NOW it's official. I couldn't get a hold of her all day yesterday so I felt so bad that other people knew first, but she understands. I can't get a hold of either person I need to interview right now. Ahhh stressed! My computer was being such a piece that I threatened to sell it. Tuneup is a horrible program. I deleted it because I couldn't even get online or get to my word docs. I think it's okay now... I completely spaced on my doctor's appointment today. For the second time! I think I'm stretching myself too thin. I rescheduled with a different doctor for Monday because I won't be able to get in to see my doctor until after my prescriptions run out. I'm supposed to do a follow up with him, but he's just too darn busy and I keeping screwing up. Closing the computer and going for tea with a friend. So anxious and tense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Just breath Sherry. Take one thing at a time and don't stretch yourself too thin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 27, 2011 Author Share Posted August 27, 2011 Felt much better. Had lunch at Tim Hortons before job #1. Job #1 has become fun and easy and the day flew. Hurried to job #2 and first thing out of my co-worker's mouth was "I was getting worried, Missy!" Apparently the clock in the break room is 5 mins slow. Co-worker was in a really bad mood, but after awhile my chipperness lifted her spirits and the night got better. It went pretty fast too, actually! I am too scared to wear my ring in the deli (lost my right hand ring there) so I keep it on my necklace with the pendant from our first anniversary. I like it there I miss Alex. Miss my fiance (hard to get used to that word) Since we've gotten engaged we've only had a couple of hours together. Sorry OG, I know it's been over a year for you. Don't mean to be insensitive, but I do miss him. I can't wait until Sunday when we can wake up together and go and spend the day spelunking So wish me luck tomorrow. It's my Friday and I work at 6 am, and then again until 10:30 pm. It's 11 pm now but I just got home from job #2 LOL. Gonna be a sleepy morning. I got an article sent to me that I wasn't expecting. It was like Christmas morning!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Having an FML moment. Now I know why people get engaged on vacation. You can actually relax and enjoy the time! There's supposed to be an afterflow, isn't there? Well, I worked a 50 hour week and all I wanted was to spend today with Alex. We were going to go caving and to the beach. Got 30 minutes out of town and he got called back to the worksite. Not only did he get called to the site, but he had to say on the phone with "Johnny Reiteration" for a good 45 minutes while we sat in the car on the highway. Now he is at work and I am bummed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firiel Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 That's so exciting! Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Having an FML moment. Now I know why people get engaged on vacation. You can actually relax and enjoy the time! There's supposed to be an afterflow, isn't there? Well, I worked a 50 hour week and all I wanted was to spend today with Alex. We were going to go caving and to the beach. Got 30 minutes out of town and he got called back to the worksite. Not only did he get called to the site, but he had to say on the phone with "Johnny Reiteration" for a good 45 minutes while we sat in the car on the highway. Now he is at work and I am bummed. lol, I know how that feels. L and I got engaged via email (in fact I was walking into work when he popped the question) so the whole rest of the day I was bouncing like crazy. It didn't help that we kept our engagment under wraps for a good month in order to tell the proper people first. Not THAT was hard as Heck for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryberrypie Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 I have been slowly telling people. I'm not the type of person to bounce into a room and announce news. A lot of people I am surrounded by these days are veyr new in my life (new team, new co-workers.) Those who do know demand to know a wedding date or to see the ring. I guess I never realized how PUBLIC your relationship becomes when you get engaged, and how much stock people put into the jewellery. I'm getting used to saying "fiance" and it feels much more natural to wear the ring now. For a bit there, I thought I might need to switch from the knife edge band to a comfort fit, but it's not uncomfortable anymore and I love the look of the knife-edge. I looked at wedding bands online and every time I see a ring similar to mine I realize what an amazing deal we got! Today wasn't as much of a bust as it could have been. Alex dropped me off and I cleaned up the house a bit. He made us some lunch (okay, popcorn and smokies...) and we watched a movie. Doesn't matter what we're doing, as long as we're together. We went to my mom's for dinner, which was really nice Unfortunately she didn't know he's allergic to seafood and marinated the meat in fish sauce. Ah! Poor guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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