we're official!

it's crazy but true... my prathap proposed to me on christmas morning 2008... i got a stocking from him and it was full of lotion, hair clips, chocolate and little trinkets, and at the very bottom was this box... i pulled it out and he grabbed it and said, "that's for me" then he took it and knelt down in front of me. he said, "i love you, will you marry me?" i totally started crying and hugging him saying yes yes yes... then he asked, "are you even going to look at the ring?!"

needless to say, it was a very happy morning and i am very excited to start our official life together. . . although we aren't planning on getting married for about a year. we need to have real jobs for a while first! ;)

Yard Sale

werd. totally had the most rockin yard sale. i had pretty low expectations... didn't sell it all, but made $100. sweet.

Prathap & i are now officially living together. We went to IKEA & spent too much money and got Costco memberships. whoa.

i am very happy to be sharing a home with him and moving on in building our lives together. it's cheesy but true. i am just crazy about him!

and kudos to Prathap for enduring a baker-filled weekend & a visit from mom! he made it through with flying colors! my family seems to adore him as much as i do, so i am very happy! ;)

<3

V.H.S.

Virtual Historical Sacrament...

so far, this is the most groundbreaking, incredible blog ever written.

i can only hope that future posts will be made quickly, because i need to know where this is all headed.

i praise the Goddess & God for blogger.com so we can preserve this for posterity!!!

VIRTUAL HISTORICAL SACRAMENT... go there if you haven't yet!!!!!!

QuALiFiERs

PRATHAP PASSED HIS QUALIFIERS... with a stunning 5 i might add!!!

I am so proud of all the hard work he's put into this! Months of preparation, a month of solid studying and writing and rewriting his now amazing paper!!! i am completely impressed with his skill & knowledge. Passing these qualifiers is a huge step for him towards getting his PhD done and getting any job he wants!!!

GO PRATHAP!!!!

remaking the blog

this is now a blog about our love and life. i'm giving it a facelift. i am excited to start to document in cyberland all the wonderful & amazing things that prathap & i share together... i may create a flashback blog from time to time, of something from the last year and a half of our lives together, but mostly i will be posting forward with our new adventures.

the new title of this blog comes from the Secret Language of Relationships book,by Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers, which describes us as:
The Chain of Miracles
strengths: believing, spellbinding, ecstatic
weaknesses: out of touch, uncontrolled, disillusioned
best: love
"Ecstatic peak experiences can emerge unpredictably here, dazzling both partners."
(p.614)

~~LOOOOOVE~~

i've been trying to think about one thing i loved and it was really really hard. i couldn't narrow it down... I love creativity - painting drawing writing building things, i love the way i feel after a really good workout, and the way i feel when i reach my workout goals, and saturday mornings when i can wake up and still lay in bed for a while in half-awake-half-asleep land, i love when i'm into a book so much that i can hardly tear myself away, i love seeing best friends that have moved away and finding that nothing has changed and we're still as good of friends as ever. i love camping and southern utah and anywhere where you can hear the heartbeat of the earth. i love struggle too, and hardship and lessons that are hard to learn because it's always worth it... i love life!

and i love my sweetheart prathap and so many more...