Tag: engagement

The Big News

Over Labor Day Weekend, I traveled again to Memphis to visit my magical girl. After I arrived, I took her to the Overlook, which is a cozy but reasonably classy restaurant in the top floor of the Pyramid downtown.

The Overlook boasts glass-floored balconies overlooking the city. I managed to arrange things so that we were there at approximately sundown. We we were early enough that we could go out on the balcony and see the city light up before we went to our table.

While the sun was setting, I proposed on the balcony. So we’re now engaged. It was more crowded up there than I expected, so we got an applause. My magical girl was somewhat embarrassed, but overall pleased.

I don’t have any good photographs of the incident. This is the best I’ve got:

The next day, we hung out, went to Mass, ate a big brunch, watched Sailor Moon, and so forth.

The place we went to for brunch, Another Cracked Egg, served one of the best bloody Marys I’ve ever had, and I say that as someone with certain strong opinions about bloody Marys.

It is made with a pepper-infused vodka, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about the culinary arts to know how that differs from a bloody Mary to which pepper is added after the fact. I usually prefer my bloody Mary with gin instead of vodka, but this was very spicy and very good.

Altogether, it was a really fun weekend.

Whenever There is Lightning

A few days before my trip, we had a major lightning storm that fried my cable modem, so I was without internet. I purchased a new modem and tried to get it working on my return, only to find that my service provider was going through a bunch of updates that lasted days, during which they couldn’t make my new modem operable. The internet only came back on today.

Smash

Also, in keeping with my string of bad luck stemming from my trips to Memphis, I had to replace my windshield. While I was driving home, a rock hit the windshield, and the crack instantly ran, making it too large to repair.

I’ve been driving rather than flying to Memphis with the idea that it’s cheaper, but having had to replace first a whole car and then a windshield, I’m coming to realize that I would have saved more money if I bought plane tickets.

But I’m engaged, so I’m pretty much just laughing this all off anyway. Also, there was a two-hour delay on the freeway due to a semi-truck hanging over an overpass; I really can’t complain about anything, because almost nothing could make my drive as miserable as that guy’s. I hope he was okay; I heard little about the accident and only caught a glimpse of it as I drove onto the detour.

Books

On other fronts, I have no new information on either Dead to Rites or Rag & Muffin. Both are with my publisher, but my publisher was at Dragon Con at the same time I was plying my suit, so there is a reason my projects have been delayed. Now that Dragon Con is over, I hope to hear some updates soon.

In the meanwhile, I am continuing my work in Son of Hel. At present, I’m creating the world bible by giving myself a crash course on Santa Claus and fairy lore.

Reviews

On the matter of reviews, the magical girl and I were considering seeing the live-action Dora the Explorer this weekend, but then we ended up just loafing around instead. I’m still working my way through Sailor Moon Super S and will discuss it when I’m done, but I’ve been watching it slowly because been I’ve busy with work, often taking it home with me, which is why the blog has fallen into neglect.

In fact, when I’m done writing this, I’ll probably go back to one of my work projects.