03-13-10

Today's photo is of the wonderful doggy portrait my ridiculously talented friend Karen painted for me of Frankie. She gave it to me at dinner before the proposal and I just love it! I knew she was making me one but I wasn't sure when I would get it. I was so excited to see his little face staring at me as I tore open the wrapping paper!

So,today was a Saturday. A rather rough starting Saturday actually. You see, after the show and proposal last night, we came home around 1:30 am or so. By 2 am Curtis was asleep (apparently he had hardly slept in the week leading up to the proposal and as Curtis said later "keeping a secret from you is absolutely exhausting!") but I was wide awake. I was still somewhat in shock about the proposal and also wired a bit from excitement but also, my cold was pissed off that I had gone out and stayed out late and so, my cough came back with a vengeance. I couldn't stop coughing. It was terrible.

So, I stayed up later posting the proposal photos on facebook and commenting back and forth about it on facebook. By 4 am I knew I HAD to try to sleep. My eyelids were finally heavy and I was supposed to go to an audition the next day at 10 am. So I went to bed. But no dice. Due to my cold and cough, sleep eluded me until the sun came up around 6 am.

When the alarm went off at 8:30 I was hoarse with almost no voice left and felt just awful. Curtis said I should go back to sleep and just miss the audition. "Sorry sweetie," he mumbled as he went back to sleep "I know how much you wanted to go". And yeah, I did. But he was right, I was in no condition to give a good reading at the audition. I was coughing too much and my voice was shot.

I got up around 10 am and was immediately on the phone and computer talking, posting and texting about the proposal. It was exciting but I still felt icky. So, eventually I tore myself away to go get some more cough medicine and some coffee.

When Curtis got home that afternoon we got a congratulatory call from my brother and sis in law and we decided to go have dinner with them and my nieces to celebrate the engagement with them since they couldn't be at the after midnight proposal.

We had a nice dinner and conversation with them. It was lovely despite my cough.

After that we went to Target to pick up some stuff and head home. Wow. We're already domesticated. ;-)