I am engaged!

And actually, I've been engaged for almost four weeks now . . . Anyway, some of you may remember that I announced about a year ago that I was seeing someone. That relationship has gradually blossomed into the best one I've ever known and it keeps getting better. So, I researched diamonds carefully for a couple of weeks and saved up some cash and presented her with the ring at the levee here on the bank of the Mississippi a few days before Christmas. And now we are in the midst of making wedding plans, which she is thankfully keeping pretty simple for me. We should be getting married in May, with the local Unitarian-Universalist (UU) minister officiating, though we're planning the ceremony to be held at the local university arboretum and not the UU church. Thankfully, my beautiful bride-to-be believes in Keeping It Simple, so I don't think I'm going to find this process to be much of a headache procedurally.

I'm terribly happy! :-D