Monday, January 30, 2006

It happened one Sunday

Freeman’s mom called him on Saturday.  She wanted him to come down and clean her gutters.  I secretly jumped for joy.  Almost a whole day to myself?  Whohoo!
I made plans to get laundry done, clean the apartment and work on the book.  Freeman left about 10 am and I got to work. I got all the laundry done, vacuumed the living room, cleaned up the kitchen (which wasn’t that dirty because Freeman had cleaned it the night before) and finally sat down to work on the book.  I’m happy to say that I was able to get an entire scene down, about 5 pages.  I’ve been blocked a little bit because I haven’t been able to really come up with anything new.  It was the whole pressure thing again. 
Freeman got home yesterday evening and I was happy to see him.  Though I really enjoy some time to myself, I don’t need more than a few hours.  After that I am ready for company again.  We were doing our normal thing, talking about dinner and I was picking up some change from the dresser.  I went to the bathroom to put it in the monkey bank when it happened.


He asked me to marry him.
I’m not kidding.
I’m getting married people!
I’m so excited, I could hardly sleep all night.  We haven’t set a date yet.  We haven’t done anything yet.  I’ve got some ideas, he’s got some ideas, and it’s all very exciting.
We went out to dinner after we called our mothers.  We had a funny moment of silence were both of us were feeling a little freaked out.  I’ve been having those moments off and on all day – but mostly I can’t stop smiling.  I’m engaged!